The computer screen shows that the current time is eight o'clock in the evening.
Wen Qi fell into a state of suffocation.
Wen Qi's mentor is a native British. However, his wife is a professor in the field of "East Asian Studies" - she is fluent in Chinese and Japanese. She will definitely be able to understand this email.
The title of the email also included the name of the Indian senior.
In the body of the email, there were a few scattered English words such as supervisor, vicious witch, etc.
As long as the Indian senior student copied and pasted the content of the email into the Chinese-English translator on the Internet, she could roughly understand what Wen Qi wanted to express.
Wen Qi had never encountered such a situation.
His face was pale, and as soon as his fingers touched the keyboard, he knocked over the coffee cup, and the warm coffee splashed on his legs. His email notification sound rang again.
He took a quick glance and saw an email from his Indian senior.
The title of the email from the Indian senior was “we need talk”.
We need to talk.
Wen Qi did not reply to the senior.
His soul had left his body. His body remained in the dormitory, but his consciousness had been broken into countless pieces. He was no longer a complete, independent person, he was a broken rag doll.
It was a dark night with heavy rain pouring down. Wen Qi could neither go out to relax nor hide in the dormitory to smoke - every dormitory was equipped with a fire alarm, and the fire alarm would emit a shrill and terrifying scream when it detected a little smoke.
Wen Qi took out his phone and wanted to chat with his undergraduate classmates. He wanted to know how other students would deal with this matter. He started using a social software called "WeChat" last year, and he sent a message to an undergraduate classmate through WeChat: "Hello."
A prompt popped up on the phone screen: "The other party has turned on friend verification, and you are not his friend yet..."
Wen Qi was deleted from his classmates' friend list.
There are a total of seventeen contacts in his WeChat address book.
Now, there are only sixteen left.
He became more and more panicked and immediately pressed the power off button.
Outside the window, the rain was pouring down with noisy sound, and there was no sign of it abating.
The next day, Wen Qi did not come to the laboratory.
He turned off his phone and didn't reply to any messages, as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth.
Most of the students in the research group read Wen Qi's email with the help of the "Chinese-English translator". The atmosphere of today's morning meeting was a little awkward. No one took the initiative to mention what happened last night. Aishwarya made two mistakes in his report.
aishwarya's face looked unhappy.
She held a marker and wrote a line of formula on a whiteboard.
She turned her back to everyone and suddenly said, "What should I do if the students hate me or don't meet my expectations? I wish I had thought about how to solve this problem before being a supervisor."
Aishwarya's attitude was very sincere.
At this time, their mentor spoke up.
The instructor said that all students in the group will play important roles in their respective fields after graduation. He hopes that everyone can remain patient and he will be there to help everyone at any time.
In this way, their morning meeting ended in a harmonious and friendly atmosphere.
Senior Aishwarya stood up and left. Her figure was projected on a glass door, and the white light from the grille lamp poured down from above her head, making her back look particularly lonely.
Lin Zhixia quickly called her.
She and Lin Zhixia stood outside the conference room, and Lin Zhixia apologized to her very seriously.
Lin Zhixia said that the reason why Wen Qi sent the wrong email was because she asked Wen Qi why Aishwarya, who was such a good and smart person, was complained by undergraduates. Lin Zhixia was going to be a teaching assistant next semester and had never taught foreign students before, so she was particularly afraid of making mistakes.
After hearing what Lin Zhixia said, senior sister Aishwarya didn't seem to be angry with her at all.
Lin Zhixia felt relieved.
However, Aishwarya turned around and said that Wen Qi made her very disappointed.
disappointment
Is the senior sister still angry
It turns out that Aishwarya is not just angry.
Aishwarya and Lin Zhixia collaborated on a paper. In that paper, there was also some contribution from Wen Qi. Aishwarya simply deleted all of Wen Qi's work and replaced it with another experimental method.
Wen Qi has not appeared in public for a whole week.
Wen Qi sent an email to his supervisor, falsely claiming that he was not feeling well and needed to rest at home for a few days. He quietly stayed in his dormitory to read his thesis, getting up early and going to bed late, and his learning efficiency was still very high.
During this period, the only person who was willing to chat with him was a young girl he met at a dinner party. Her name was Miao Danyi, who spoke Chinese very well and was very knowledgeable about Chinese culture. Wen Qi could chat with Miao Danyi about ten sentences a day, which was a great improvement for Wen Qi - the content of his chats with his parents was usually just one sentence: "I am still alive and I am learning."
Wen Qi's parents do business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He has an older brother and an older sister. His parents don't pay much attention to him, and his older brother and sister rarely communicate with him except sending him money.
So, sooner or later, he was destined to get used to living alone.
His peaceful world was broken on Saturday noon.
At noon that day, he first received a WeChat message from Miao Danyi: "Where do you live?"
He didn't reply.
After a while, Miao Danyi said, "I asked someone and I'll go to your house as a guest."
He nearly went crazy.
At half past twelve, WeChat rang again.
This time, Lin Zhixia told him: "Wen Qi, you haven't been to the lab building for a week. Your instructor said you were sick and we are all a little worried about you. Are you okay? I promised other students to come and see you. Can I bring my boyfriend to visit you? I will bring you some food, I hope you don't mind (I want to bring you a clay pot rice, I remember you often eat clay pot rice at school)."
Wen Qi's eyes were focused on a line of words: Your tutor said you are sick and we are all a little worried about you.
He couldn't help feeling a little dazed.
He had been in the UK for so many years, and had he not endured every illness by himself? He took painkillers when he had a stomachache, and slept under the covers when he had a fever. He slept groggily, half asleep and half awake, and when he woke up, he had to face a cold stove.
The weather today is very sunny and Lin Zhixia is in a good mood.
Lin Zhixia held Jiang Yubai's hand and walked with him to Wen Qi's dormitory. Jiang Yubai asked her, "Wen Qi only replied with one word?"
"Yes," Lin Zhixia recounted truthfully, "He said, okay."
Jiang Yubai suggested: "Let's put the plastic bag at his doorstep, and you can just come home with me."
Lin Zhixia took Jiang Yubai's arm and said, "We should say hello to him."
Jiang Yubai held a plastic bag in his right hand. The bag contained a clay pot rice, a plate of chicken wings, a box of strawberries, and a bottle of orange juice that Lin Zhixia bought from the restaurant.
This afternoon, Lin Zhixia made a special trip to a restaurant and bought lunch for Wen Qi personally.
Jiang Yubai felt a sense of crisis. He knew that Lin Zhixia was kind and gentle. In elementary school, she was very nice to Ding Yan and Dong Sunqi, and even treated everyone to strawberry candy. The strawberry candy back then was the lunch today, and there was no difference between the two.
What's more, international students are away from home without any relatives or friends, just like a rootless duckweed. It is not easy for everyone. Taking care of each other can also embody the traditional virtues of "unity and friendship".
Just like that, within a few seconds, Jiang Yubai got rid of his jealousy and convinced himself. He said calmly, "Wen Qi sent the wrong email. No one in your group mentioned this matter again. It's almost over. If there is a chance, it would be best if he and the senior sister could talk about it."
"I thought so too." Lin Zhixia agreed.
Jiang Yubai added: "You will collaborate on a paper in the future..."
Jiang Yubai paused.
"What's wrong?" Lin Zhixia asked him.
Downstairs in the student dormitory, Jiang Yubai saw Miao Danyi.
This dormitory building is close to the street with a constant stream of pedestrians. Miao Danyi did not notice that Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai were nearby.
Wen Qi happened to be wearing a windbreaker and walked out of the main entrance of the building. Wen Qi and Miao Danyi seemed to be very familiar with each other. Miao Danyi jumped up and patted his shoulder, and also helped him to straighten his collar naturally.
He didn't struggle much and just obeyed reluctantly.
"Is that his girlfriend?" Lin Zhixia asked.
Jiang Yubai pondered for a moment and responded, "It's hard to say."
"What do you mean?" Lin Zhixia responded very quickly, "Do you know that girl?"
Jiang Yubai was very honest with Lin Zhixia: "She is the girlfriend of one of my classmates."
This was the first time Lin Zhixia had faced such a situation. She was used to thinking positively. So, Lin Zhixia said calmly, "Maybe she also knew Wen Qi, and was worried about his condition, so she came to see him."
Apart from this, Lin Zhixia did not make any other assumptions.