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Chapter 309: 309 Coincidence Chapter 309: 309 Coincidence Cai Weiyi’s first twenty or so years went as smoothly as sailing downwind–he got into the best high school in town and then easily entered a key university. It was just that his major was somewhat of a pitfall: polymer chemistry.

As university graduation approached, he found the job prospects for his major weren’t very promising, so he decided to sit for the graduate entrance examination.

After graduating with his master’s degree, he figured he might as well go for his doctorate.

In terms of academic achievements, he had already surpassed most people. With his educational background, finding a job wasn’t difficult. But he knew very well that although he had a talent for studying, he wasn’t that kind of genius.

During his doctoral studies, his performance could only be described as satisfactory–at least, before that, he had never considered a career in academia. That changed the day he met a man named Chen Xu, introduced to him by his advisor.

This man made a strong impression on him, not just because of the stunning woman by his side. There was also a particular quality about him that put Cai Weiyi under pressure.

When he heard the man offer him the responsibility of running a lab, he thought he’d encountered a scammer. How could such a pie-in-the-sky opportunity possibly be real?

He said he’d consider it, but in reality, he’d practically written the man off as a fraudster.

However, on the way back, he thought it over carefully and something didn’t add up–after all, this had been arranged by his advisor.

His advisor was well-known in the industry too, with academic standing and collaborations with many companies, and was quite wealthy. There was no need for him to dupe his own student, right?

Or could it be that his advisor had also been deceived?

Unable to restrain his curiosity, Cai Weiyi took the opportunity to ask and learned from his advisor that it was the executive of a major company in the field who had made the introduction.

The advisor also asked how the discussion went, but of course, he didn’t reveal the truth, saying simply that they were still in contact.

As for his relationship with his advisor, it was more like employer and employee than teacher and student. He couldn’t fully trust him.

After getting this answer from his advisor, he thought a lot and ultimately couldn’t resist the temptation of a meteoric rise and called Chen Xu.

Just be cautious, and there’s no need to worry about being duped.

……

Three days later, Cai Weiyi signed the employment contract, which was very strict. All achievements made in the lab belonged to the lab, and he also signed a confidentiality agreement, non-compete clauses, and so on. He felt like he’d signed away his life.

There was no helping it–the annual salary Chen Xu offered was too tempting to refuse. He could never achieve such a salary if he were to look for work on his own.

The reason for signing the contract so quickly was that he knew this lab had collaborated with his advisor’s lab before, and he’d visited a few times.

Just a few months earlier, the head of this laboratory had unexpectedly passed away. Unexpectedly, the lab had fallen into Chen Xu’s hands. There was a lot of equipment in the lab that, by conservative estimates, was worth tens of millions.

Now he knew that Chen Xu wasn’t a fraudster, but a rich, capricious second-generation heir who could play around with a lab worth tens of millions. What else could it be if not wealth and caprice?

Before signing the contract, Chen Xu had gone over the project he was to do and the experimental content–all were to be designed by him. Cai Weiyi just needed to carry them out.

The laboratory’s first project was lithium-air batteries. He had previously looked up information and had some understanding; currently, they were still rather immature laboratory products with many unsolved problems.

Theoretically, the energy density of lithium-air batteries is more than ten times that of the lithium-ion batteries currently available on the market.

If it could actually be made, it would be a big game-changer for the battery industry. Unfortunately, although the concept had been proposed decades ago, there were still no mature products.

Cai Weiyi had heard that his boss didn’t even have a graduate degree. With such a background, he didn’t believe the lab could amount to much.

Anyway, as long as the boss was happy.

With that thought, Cai Weiyi embarked on a new journey, first recruiting a few graduate students and, following the boss’s requirements, began various experiments.

The boss would come by every other day, typically staying for half a day to communicate with him.

Sometimes he would go back to school, borrowing school equipment for experiments. The lab didn’t have some of the larger instruments.

And so a month passed.

Cai Weiyi looked at the data in front of him, a bit stunned, and couldn’t help asking his assistant, “Are you sure that these data are real?”

Currently, the lab had only one project, and the experiments to be done were quite straightforward: just repeatedly charging and discharging batteries and then observing. He no longer did the work himself and had delegated it to his assistants.

The assistants–one male and one female–though their eyes were bloodshot, were so excited that their faces were flushed, “One hundred percent certain, we took turns overseeing it, there’s no mistake.”

Cai Weiyi swallowed nervously, somewhat uncertainly saying, “So that means, we’ve solved the problem of suppressing the formation of lithium dendrites?”

“Uh-huh.” The two assistants looked at him with bright eyes. As graduate students who studied relevant fields, they certainly understood the significance of solving the lithium dendrite issue. Being part of it would leave a significant mark on their CVs.

Cai Weiyi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and rushed into the laboratory.

Seeing this, the two assistants hurriedly followed and watched him personally start the experiment…

……

When he saw Chen Xu again, Cai Weiyi’s impression had completely changed. He now found his boss to be mysterious and impressive, towering in stature well beyond his advisor.

After all, whoever could solve a huge problem like lithium dendrites was undeniably a figure of great significance.

“Not bad.”

Chen Xu flipped through the experimental data, nodded, and said, “I’ll leave the paper to you. If this data isn’t authoritative enough, I can arrange for you to go somewhere with better equipment.”

Cai Weiyi nodded vigorously, “Alright.” Such a significant discovery naturally merits the most authoritative data for credibility.

Then, he added, “For the paper’s first author, I shall put down your name.”

“No,” Chen Xu shook his head, “the first author should be your name.”

“Ah?”

Cai Weiyi was dumbfounded. He could somewhat imagine the uproar this paper would cause in the industry. In reality, he hadn’t made any contribution; the electrolyte was brought by Chen Xu, and the content of the experiment was according to Chen Xu’s plan. He didn’t dare take credit for it.

Yet, Chen Xu insisted the first author should be him? This was even more unbelievable than a pie falling from the sky. Even after Chen Xu left, he still hadn’t come back to his senses.

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