Actually, until today, Frank was in a good mood.
Ever since he ca up with a plan, the previous gloom shrouding his mind had been completely cleared away.
Every day, he pondered how to find a suitable excuse to visit Huaxia Yanbei University, then first et with Qiao Xi.
He had already learned through his own channels that Qiao Xi still hadn’t married. This provided a huge room for maneuver, and maybe Qiao Xi still had feelings for him.
Frank considered himself quite adept at handling won’s minds. As long as Qiao Xi spoke up for him, and persuaded Qiao Yu to acknowledge him as his father, his future would be secure.
Relying on his parents in the first half of his life, on his wife’s family in the middle, and on his son afterwards, he was a veritable winner in life.
Who could have anticipated that after he had everything planned, such a sudden change would occur.
No one likes unexpected situations, especially as Frank faintly felt that Qiao Yu’s decision might be related to him.
Otherwise, it was totally incomprehensible.
Including his colleagues, they couldn’t understand why Qiao Yu suddenly wanted to be at odds with the Berkeley Branch, and felt indignant about it, which directly made Frank anxious.
If Qiao Yuzhen was indeed targeting the Berkeley Branch because of him, it would an not only could he not stay at the Berkeley Branch, but even going to Huaxia might be challenging.
Just as Frank’s mind was sotis blank and sotis flooded with various thoughts, the phone suddenly rang.
Frank glanced at his phone, and instantly felt even worse, because the call was from Lucas Eisen.
He certainly knew Lucas Eisen was a mber of the University of California System’s board, and the board should be busy at this ti, but still took the ti to call him.
This made Frank very nervous.
The reason why big shots beco big shots is mostly due to their extrely ticulous minds. During the few limited interactions he had with Qiao Yu, Lucas Eisen was always there.
Frank wasn’t sure if Lucas had seen sothing or guessed sothing.
Especially at a ti when he was already confused and anxious, he really didn’t want to answer the call, but Lucas was obviously very patient this ti.
The phone continued to ring, and even after the first call tid out, another followed imdiately.
Eventually, Frank realized that he couldn’t avoid this call. After taking a couple of deep breaths and calming his mind, he picked up the phone.
"Hello..."
"Why didn’t you answer the phone?"
Before Frank could finish speaking, Lucas Eisen’s displeased voice ca through the handset, even carrying a hint of reprimand.
Never felt it before, but now Frank only felt fed up with this excessively controlling old man.
He was already a professor in his thirties, and still got scolded for answering a phone call a bit late, truly ridiculous.
However, when speaking, Frank suppressed his anger and explained: "I was in the adjacent office, and left my phone on the desk. I ca over when I heard it ring."
It couldn’t be helped; he was still living under others’ roof. But Frank secretly vowed in his heart that once he made it big, he would definitely let this annoying old man know what it ans not to insult a middle-aged man!
"Oh, what were you doing in the adjacent office at this ti?"
"Heard so news today. Everyone was discussing it, so I went over to chat a bit."
"Is it about Qiao Yu?"
"Yes. Nobody understands why Qiao Yu suddenly targeted the Berkeley Branch. We don’t think anyone at school has offended him."
"So what about you, Frank? We all know that if anyone at the Berkeley Branch has any interactions with Qiao Yu, it’s you. Your project with Danis would have had a brighter future if he hadn’t intervened."
"No, Grandpa, you know. This matter has long passed. I hold no resentnt and have never had any disputes with Qiao Yu over this, as you should know best."
"Yes, Frank, I know very well. But honestly, I’ve always found this matter quite strange. Yet couldn’t figure out where the problem lies.
Until now, I’ve suddenly understood why I felt strange. This isn’t your nature! Frank, I know you very well. You spend years researching, and then soone proves you wrong; you wouldn’t accept it so calmly.
Obviously, your attitude towards Qiao Yu is sowhat different. You seem to have accepted it calmly, without focusing on Qiao Yu’s research results.
From what I know about you, you would certainly spend a lot of ti finding loopholes in Qiao Yu’s research. Even if there are no issues this ti, you would continue to monitor Qiao Yu’s research for a long ti.
But you didn’t do that! This is completely out of character for you, don’t you think? So I am really curious about why, can you give an explanation?"
What does it an to be sly?
This is it.
If Lucas Eisen were standing right in front of him now, Frank swore he would grab the old man by the hair, make him repeat what he just said, and then ask him if he wants to listen to himself speak?
Getting him to find the flaws in the research of the youngest Fields winner in history? Does it an his ability is already stronger than Peter Schultz or Pierre Derini?
Even these people couldn’t find issues in Qiao Yu’s research, how could he possibly spot them?
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