Chapter 34: The Tempted Top Student (8)

Professor Zheng's newly established laboratory was filled with doctoral students he had personally mentored, all of them top-tier talents renowned far and wide.

Each person specialized in a specific field and possessed countless honors and achievements.

Su Li's arrival was like dropping a piece of ice into boiling water.

Young, previously unheard of, she appeared as if from nowhere, a plain duckling among a group of swans.

If not for Professor Zheng personally escorting Su Li into the lab, the favored pupils might have dissected her alive out of sheer curiosity, wondering what incredible skills she possessed to be so valued by their mentor.

Although they all shared the same mentor, they were competitors in private, and fierce competitors at that.

Resources were limited, clearly visible right before their eyes.

If one person took more, others had to take less. The inner circle was small; if one person squeezed in, another was inevitably pushed out.