After the review meeting, Lu Xifei's life returned to normal, not as busy as before, and lived a 9-to-5 life. One day, Lu Xifei passed by Zhao Rulan's office and came out of her office alone, he glanced at it, and always felt that this person was very familiar, but he didn't know where he had seen it.

Lu Xifei couldn't think of it for a while, so he didn't take it seriously.

Recently, there has been a lot of turmoil in the school, and the school leaders have a headache. First of all, a post on the Internet "Confucius and Mencius Scholars" opened more than 100 workstations in a year and a half" became popular on the Internet and attracted widespread attention. It was heavily reported by many well-known media outlets. The poster is the well-known "anti-counterfeiting hero" Yuan Chuan. Speaking of Yuan Chuan, it is the Discipline Inspection Commission of the academic community, and he has a high reputation on the Internet. Since 2000, he has published his own articles and published articles by netizens to expose academic corruption in China's scientific and educational circles, criticize untrue reports of the news, and criticize various social phenomena, including pseudo-science, pseudo-qigong, pseudo-traditional Chinese medicine, etc. Due to his sharp judgment, Yuan Chuan himself and his remarks caused great controversy in society, with some people supporting him and others questioning him, feeling that he was a commercial hype for personal gain. Regardless of whether everyone supports it or not, Yuan Chuan exposed many academic corruptions, pulled many well-known experts and scholars down from the altar, and indeed played a positive role in establishing a clean academic atmosphere. In the past, there was mutual plagiarism in academics, but under the deterrence of Yuan Chuan's academic crackdown, many experts and professors began to pay more attention to the problem of plagiarism and academic misconduct. Otherwise, once an expert or professor with a little fame is reported by Yuan Zhou for paper fraud, plagiarism and other problems, all his honors, fame and fortune will be in vain.

Lu Xifei also read this report carefully, and was shocked to find that the person who was reported this time was actually Wang Hongyan! This shocked him very much. The post reported in detail Wang Hongyan's resume, emphasizing that in the year and a half since she was elected as a "Confucius and Mencius Scholar", more than 100 workstations have been set up in 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. The post reported that only 35 days after she was elected as a "Confucius and Mencius Scholar", she completed the unveiling in a hospital in Changchun, Jilin Province, and then went non-stop to the north and south, north to Jilin, south to Guangdong, west to Gansu, east to Hangzhou, half a year to attend the unveiling ceremony of workstations around the country, a total of more than 100 workstations set up in about a year and a half. The post questioned Wang Hongyan's compliance and motives for setting up so many workstations, and questioned her impossibility of instructing all of them, apparently many of them were indiscriminate, and her motive was to use the title of "Confucius and Mencius Scholar" for personal gain. It is very clear within the industry that all localities attach great importance to the establishment of "Confucius and Mencius Scholars" workstations and give a large amount of financial subsidy support. For example, Shanxi will give a subsidy of 1 million yuan to the approved workstations to build stations, which will be subsidized in three years, and even special support will be given. Therefore, these workstations can receive tens of millions of yuan or even hundreds of millions of yuan in subsidies. In addition, for every sign (workstation or studio) hung by the "Confucian and Mencian scholars", the manufacturer promoted at least one set of equipment. The equipment that was originally open to bidding in accordance with the law was introduced into the hospital as a single-source procurement method, and the products originally set at 700,000 yuan were sold for 200~3 million yuan, and some were even sold for 4 million yuan. The illegal premium formed in the middle can be imagined, reaching a sky-high price, which is shocking. As soon as this post was published, major media outlets frantically reprinted it, causing quite a stir in the academic community.

The leaders of the school attached great importance to it and discussed countermeasures overnight. After several discussions and discussions, the school made a final decision on Wang Hongyan's punishment: ordering Wang Hongyan to withdraw the workstation as soon as possible, and announcing the dismissal of Wang Hongyan (in fact, retirement), so as to minimize the impact on the unit and herself. Seeing that the media and the public were constantly criticizing the "Confucius and Mencius Scholars" selection system, the relevant departments decided to remove Wang Hongyan's "Confucius and Mencius Scholars" from the list in order to eliminate the impact.

Wang Hongyan completely withdrew from academia.

Lu Xifei learned that Wang Hongyan had been dealt with, and remembered how it could be so coincidental Just after the review meeting, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and felt extremely frightened, the person he met outside Zhao Rulan's office that day was not Yuan Chuan?! No wonder it was so familiar! This matter must be related to Zhao Rulan, it must be that she deliberately found Yuan Chuan, and made a counterattack against Wang Hongyan!

There is one person who knows very well in her heart, that is Wang Hongyan herself, she knows that it will not be anyone else, it must be a fatal blow launched by Zhao Rulan against herself!

Wang Hongyan smiled bitterly, Zhao Rulan, don't be complacent, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, you had better bless yourself not to be rated as a "Confucian and Mencian Scholar", and when you are rated as a "Confucian and Mencian Scholar", it will be when you are ruined!

Not long after Wang Hongyan's incident, there was another turmoil in the school. This time it was Zhao Rulan's turn to have a headache, because her graduate student Ding Ruo committed suicide by jumping off the building and wrote a suicide note. After Ding Ruo's parents received the news of Ding Ruo's death, they rushed to the school overnight, and after seeing the suicide note and the WeChat conversation between Ding Ruo and Zhao Rulan on their mobile phones, they were filled with grief and hatred, found the school, and accused Ding Ruo of being forced to death by Zhao Rulan. The Tianyuan City Public Security Bureau also launched an investigation into Ding Ruo's death, and went to the office to record confessions from everyone to understand the relevant situation, and through comprehensive analysis of this information, the truth of Ding Ruo's death was finally restored.

Ding Ruo, born on December 22, 1994 in Mianyang, Sichuan, has two younger brothers and a younger sister at home. After that, Ding Ruo was admitted to the university, and his grades were among the best during the university, and he stood out in the competition for direct admission to master's degree without promotion, and further studied for a master's degree under the tutelage of Zhao Rulan. Zhao Rulan has a lot of work to do, and the graduate students she leads are very hard, and Ding Ruo is not the only one. But Ding Ruo is honest, down-to-earth, hard-working, and never refuses, so Zhao Rulan is very partial to Ding Ruo, and the tasks assigned to him are particularly heavy. By checking the WeChat content of Ding Ruo and Zhao Rulan, it was found that during the graduate school, Ding Ruo worked for Zhao Rulan almost 365 days a year, without holidays, endlessly and unpaid, but most of the work content had nothing to do with Ding Ruo's graduation project direction, just serving Zhao Rulan's fame and fortune, and most of the work content was to help Zhao Rulan apply for projects, fill in award materials and write papers for her. Ding Ruo once wanted to take the doctoral exam, but because he was busy with Zhao Rulan's topic, he delayed the exam, and finally had to give up the doctoral exam. He was supposed to graduate last year, but he didn't finish his graduation thesis because he was busy with Zhao Rulan's project. Zhao Rulan was also worried that after Ding Ruo graduated, no one would take over Ding Ruo's unfinished tasks, so she asked him to postpone his graduation for one year.

This year is the graduation season again, and I didn't expect it to be the last straw that broke the camel's back. There is still half a month to defend his thesis, but his thesis is still not completed. In the early stage, Zhao Rulan promised that after the project was over, he would let him concentrate on writing his graduation thesis. But after the project was completed, Zhao Rulan once again broke her promise and asked him to write a SCI paper, saying that the time was very urgent and that he must complete it within a week. Ding Ruo reminded Zhao Rulan that the school required that she must submit her graduation thesis next week, and begged her if she could let herself finish her graduation thesis before writing, otherwise she would postpone her graduation. Zhao Rulan did not agree, emphasizing that this paper is very important, if it is not completed quickly, in case Wang Hongyan uses this paper to make trouble again, the previous efforts will be wasted. If it's too late to graduate, postpone it for another year.

Ding Ruo heard a thunderbolt from the sky, knowing that the last hope had been shattered, and his heart finally collapsed. Only then did he realize that Zhao Rulan didn't plan to graduate at all, but just wanted to help her work, and he felt that he would never be able to escape Zhao Rulan's clutches. He is a Capricorn himself, paranoid, the more he thinks about it, the more depressed he feels, and finally loses the courage to live, jumping from the library and jumping to his death.

After knowing the truth, Ding Ruo's parents asked the school for justice, asked Zhao Rulan to take responsibility for Ding Ruo's death, and apologized to them, otherwise it would be posted on the Internet. The school continued to communicate and discuss with Ding Ruo's parents and Zhao Rulan, and finally reached an agreement. Considering Ding Ruo's difficult family conditions and the fact that his younger siblings still have to go to school, the school decided to compensate Ding Ruo's parents for a large amount of expenses, with the school contributing half and Zhao Rulan contributing half, and Ding Ruo's parents agreed under financial pressure. Zhao Rulan was also helpless, considering that she was about to apply for "Confucius and Mencius Scholars", once she attracted the attention of the media at this juncture, the consequences were unimaginable. The school doesn't want to lose a talent because of this, after all, Zhao Rulan's accident is also a very big loss to the school.

The matter was resolved satisfactorily. But Lu Xifei's mood was not easy. He remembered how similar Ding Ruo's background was to himself. Both of them are children of poor families, and it is not easy to be admitted to university and graduate school. Because they have no background and no relationship, they can only gain the favor of others by satisfying each other's needs. They feel that they can only get a chance if they please others. Therefore, he never knew how to refuse other people's requests, and he was completely reduced to a pleasing personality. Ding Ruo knew that Zhao Rulan's arrangements and requirements for his work were very unreasonable, and it would be impossible to complete it if he didn't continue to work every day, but he didn't dare to refuse, because he was afraid that Zhao Rulan would no longer trust him after refusing. So he is like an old cow, diligent, hardworking, and tirelessly working every day. But Zhao Rulan couldn't see his grievances and hard work at all, took his hard work for granted, kept squeezing him, and finally didn't let him go even at such an important moment as graduation. When I think that if I can't graduate, I can't go out to work, and if I don't go out to work, I can't reduce the financial burden on my parents. He was very anxious, but he didn't dare to tell Zhao Rulan. He couldn't see hope, thinking that Zhao Rulan would not let himself graduate easily, and he didn't know when he would graduate. The thought of not being able to graduate and not being able to repay his parents for raising him became more and more anxious, and finally forced himself into a state of paranoia and collapsed.

The burden on Ding Ruo's body was too heavy, and he couldn't breathe, and this was the real cause of his death!

Lu Xifei silently said to himself, don't live like Ding Ruo from now on, don't live like him, live for yourself, and dominate your own life!

After Ding Ruo's death, the SCI paper was not completed. Zhao Rulan had no choice but to hand it over to other graduate students to write, and finally handed it over to Lu Xifei within a week. Lu Xifei sent the paper to Chen Yuwei, and not long after, Chen Yuwei told him that he had already said hello to the editor-in-chief, and that he would be directly hired without expert review and published in the next issue.

Lu Xifei was completely shocked, it turned out that it was so simple to know Chen Yuwei to publish papers. In the past, I also submitted a lot of papers, but I either didn't hear from them for a long time, or they were rejected quickly.

It's true that there are doorways and unspoken rules for every line!