But Elena made a mistake.
The two words that scientific researchers hate the most and don't want to be associated with are - theft.
It was impossible for him to steal Ji Qing's achievements and become a thief who would be famous forever.
"You've got the wrong person." Master Cheng propped up the table and stood up, saying to Nie Mi beside him, "Let's go."
Nie Mi said nothing, looked at Elena deeply, turned around and followed.
Elena was still sitting in her seat, her fingertips touching the cup, but she was in no hurry to leave. She just sat there quietly, and no one knew how much time had passed.
She slowly stood up and called the waiter: "Pay the bill."
The clerk came over with a small notebook, flipped through it, and looked up at her with a smile: "Miss, your table has already paid the bill."
Seeing that Elena was distracted, she added, "It was the old gentleman in black who paid the bill."
Elena reacted immediately.
It’s Nie Mi!
She then realized it belatedly and looked at her phone on the table. Nie Mi had sent her a message not long ago - [Don't call me next time. ]
Elena slammed her phone on the table, and the expression she had maintained for the whole morning finally turned cold. She ignored the clerk who was talking to her, picked up her bag, and left.
The clerk didn't react for a while. He watched her leave and pushed the door open.
"Why is this person angry?"
…
Parking lot outside.
Nie Mi chased Master Cheng out, and seeing Master Cheng hailing a taxi on the side of the road, he quickly chased after him and blocked the other person's hand.
"Master Cheng, listen to me."
Master Cheng has to take a taxi again.
Nie Mi rubbed his swollen brows, with a helpless expression on his face, and stood in front of him again, withstanding the pressure from him, and explained: "I didn't know at first that she came for Nian Nian and the project you are researching."
Master Cheng really looked at him.
Nie Mi said quickly, "I met her at a concert overseas. At that time, a close friend of mine introduced her as someone from the island. She is also a doctor of engineering, and she likes music and studying classical instruments. I chatted with her and my first impression of her was okay. The day before yesterday, she found me and said she was coming to Beijing and asked me to meet her. I went out. We chatted for a while, and she brought up the topic of engineering. She implied that she wanted to meet a master in this field in China and wanted to fund domestic scientific research."
"I think the funding for the Ninth Institute is tight all year round, and many research projects are short of funds, so I introduced you to each other."
Nie Mi looked helpless: "Who knew she was here for Nian Nian. If I knew she was here for Nian Nian, I wouldn't have introduced you to each other."
Master Cheng was also angry for a moment, but he understood everything without Nie Mi explaining so much. He knew in his heart that Nie Mi was probably deceived and that was why he came to him.
He put down his hand to stop the car, looked at his friend and said, "Hey, you should have less contact with the people on the island. No one knows what they are thinking!"
Not many people in Jing City know about the hidden families, let alone the higher-level and more mysterious island.
Master Cheng didn't know what the island meant at first.
It was only after Nie Mi gave him some general information on the way here that Master Cheng had a basic understanding of the island, but he himself really didn't like the feeling the island and the people on it gave him.
In his opinion, these people on the island were too fake.
On the one hand, they live in seclusion and pretend to be in seclusion, but on the other hand, they are as ambitious and calculating as the girl who came to them today.
(End of this chapter)