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Chapter 1234 Star Wish: The Sparkling Gu Yunxi

These words were like a thorn, making Gu Yunqian look away - he knew very well that the ups and downs between him and Su Xingya had, to some extent, become a psychological shadow for Gu Yunxi.

"Yunxi she..." Gu Yunqian's voice was hoarse when he spoke, and his eyes swept over the silver watch exposed from Qi Ruixiang's cuff. It was the gift Gu Yunxi gave him on his birthday last year.

He suddenly remembered that when his sister was a child, she always liked to hide behind him and look up at him with wet eyes.

But now, the stubborn girl showed Qi Ruixiang a vulnerability that he had never seen before.

Qi Ruixiang understood the unspoken warning. He took a deep breath and slowly pushed the file back into the drawer. The sound of the metal slide closing was particularly clear in the silence.

"Don't worry, Mr. Gu. I know my limits." His voice was low, but it was filled with unquestionable determination. "I am just like your sister. There are some truths that I must know, no matter how great the cost."

These words made Gu Yunqian's temples throb.

"Have you really thought it through?" Gu Yunqian's gaze was like a scalpel, cutting through Qi Ruixiang's relaxed appearance. "Every step of the investigation will involve more secrets. You and Yunxi..."

His voice suddenly choked, and the possible tragic endings flashed before his eyes.

Qi Ruixiang stood up and straightened his suit, his movements were slow and measured: "Some roads are destined to be walked alone." He buttoned the last button, his eyes met with Gu Yunqian's, "But don't worry, I won't cause any trouble to Yunxi before the truth comes out."

The office door slowly closed behind him. Gu Yunqian looked at the endless stream of cars outside the window and suddenly felt exhausted.

He reached for the wedding ring in his pocket, but the coolness of the metal could not dispel the cold sweat on his palm.

Perhaps he shouldn't have come at all, and shouldn't have used his identity as a brother to test this relationship, but his worry for his sister was like a vine that entwined his heart and made it impossible for him to stay out of it.

At the end of the corridor, Qi Ruixiang leaned against a fire hydrant and lit a cigarette.

In the smoke, he thought of Gu Yunxi's trembling face when he said "It's impossible for us" last night, and his nails dug deep into his palms...

Under the cold light of the sterile laboratory, Gu Yunxi pulled down his goggles, and his rubber gloves made a slight sound when they collided with the operating table.

The light blue liquid in the culture dish was boiling at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her wrist holding the pipette was as steady as a robotic arm as she accurately dripped in the third portion of catalyst.

The assistant behind him trotted over with a notebook in his hand: "Dr. Gu, the control group data showed abnormal fluctuations!"

"Project the temperature curve onto the holographic screen." Without raising her head, she picked up the translucent nanofilm with tweezers and adjusted the angle under the microscope.

When the data stream covered the entire wall, she suddenly pressed the pause button and her fingertips passed over a sudden drop in peak value:

"Here's the problem - the molecular arrangement of the graphene coating is disturbed by the magnetic field." After saying that, he turned and walked towards the laboratory cabinet, the hem of his white coat bringing up a gust of wind.

In the office next door, the director of the institute was smiling apologetically into the phone: "Professor Zhang, we will definitely cooperate this time..."

Before she finished speaking, Gu Yunxi pushed the door open and slapped the lab report on the table. She took off her goggles, and the ends of her hair were still stained with the indentation of the protective mask: "The stability test of the new energy storage material has passed, and the pilot test can be arranged in three days."

The director's eyes lit up instantly, and he hung up without caring about the other end's questions: "Xiao Gu! If your results are put into production, our institute can win three national awards this year!"

He rubbed his hands and looked embarrassed again. "But there is a tricky thing. The research team from MIT will come to exchange ideas tomorrow, and they specifically want to discuss quantum catalysis theory with you..."

"I'll get ready now." Gu Yunxi interrupted him and grabbed the electronic tablet from the pocket of his lab coat.

When she turned around, the silver watch flashed faintly in the cold light - it was the same couple's watch that Qi Ruixiang always wore, but at this moment it was like a red-hot iron, burning her heart so much that it contracted suddenly.

She quickly lowered her head, hugged the tablet to her chest to block her view, and walked quickly towards the data room.

The only sound in the laboratory late at night is the hum of instruments.

Gu Yunxi stared at the MIT team's research report on the computer screen, his coffee cup already cold.

When she finished annotating the last question next to a formula, the sky outside the window began to turn pale.

She took off her glasses and rubbed her sore eyes, when her cell phone suddenly vibrated - it was a message from her brother. The short words "pay attention to rest" made her throat tighten.

At the academic exchange meeting the next day, Gu Yunxi stood in front of the podium, with complex formulas flowing through the holographic projection behind him.

The chief expert of the MIT team kept interrupting and asking questions, but she remained calm: "Professor, the parameter error you mentioned can actually be corrected by adjusting the frequency of the laser interferometer."

As he called up the experimental data, his fingertips quickly slid across the virtual screen.

“Please look at this waveform…”

At the end of the meeting, foreign experts came around to exchange business cards. A white-haired professor gave me a thumbs-up: "Dr. Gu, your application of the quantum tunneling effect is a genius idea!"

She smiled politely, but her eyes inadvertently swept across the door of the conference room - Qi Ruixiang was leaning there, wearing a neat suit, holding the hairpin she had dropped on the terrace yesterday.

The moment their eyes met, Gu Yunxi felt his breathing stagnate.

She recalled that night in the laboratory, staring at the fluorescent liquid in the culture dish, and the tenderness in Qi Ruixiang's eyes when he said "I'm willing to wait". But now she could only turn around and answer another scholar's question in the most professional tone.

When the last visitor left, she found that Qi Ruixiang was nowhere to be seen.

The hairpin was placed on the desk, with a note next to it: "The academic lecture was great, I'll buy you coffee next time."

The handwriting was neat and powerful, with a crooked camellia drawn at the end.

She clutched the note and suddenly remembered that today was the day she had agreed to discuss an interview with him, but she had been working non-stop in the laboratory for thirty-six hours.

The alarm suddenly tore through the air!

An exclamation came from the experimental area: "Oh no! The pressure in reactor No. 3 has exceeded the limit!" Gu Yunxi immediately rushed to the emergency passage, his white coat fluttering behind him.

When she rushed into the laboratory filled with pungent odors and saw the crazy shaking dashboard, she calmly ordered: "Everyone evacuate! Start the liquid nitrogen cooling system!"

She stayed alone in the core area, typing rapidly on the operating panel with her hands.

Cold sweat ran down my back, but my mind was clearly calculating every parameter.

When the pressure value finally began to drop, she collapsed on the ground and heard a familiar voice coming from outside the door: "Yunxi!" Qi Ruixiang broke open the door and rushed in, his suit covered with dust, but when he saw that she was safe and sound, his eyes were red.

"Are you crazy? This kind of danger..." His voice trembled, and he reached out to hug her, but he pulled his hands back when he touched the white coat.

Gu Yun looked at his nervous look and suddenly remembered his calmness when analyzing data in the laboratory. At this moment, he couldn't even say a word of comfort.

The alarm was lifted when a sound was heard. She stood up and dusted herself off. “I still have some follow-up work to do.”

Qi Ruixiang watched her back as she turned and left, and clenched the camellia brooch in his pocket that he was going to give her.

At the end of the corridor, Gu Yunxi took off his foggy goggles. In his eyes behind the lenses, there were unshed tears and the firm light unique to scientific researchers.

Caught between rationality and sensibility, she is destined to walk a thorny road between the cold light of the laboratory and the warmth of love.