I See through Everything

"Yes." The young man nodded.

"What kind of dirt?"

"Recordings and videos of Du Bolun forcing a student to sign over a paper to him and his son, along with some other materials on his academic fraud. The other party is asking for 50,000 yuan."

"Fifty thousand? Have them send over a sample of the video and audio first so we can take a look."

"They already sent it. I’ve checked it over. It’s not AI-generated."

Wang Xiaojia made a snap decision. "Oh? Then buy it. Tell them not to sell it to any other media outlets. This is an exclusive."

"Got it."

Soon after, Wang Xiaojia, having received a large pile of materials, started reviewing it with a few of his news editors.

Xiaozhang, the reporter who had been in charge of the previous story, was among them. After looking for a moment, she said, "Chief Editor, I checked the list of papers they provided. It turns out these papers were all published under Du Bolun and Du Jinxuan’s names. This Du Jinxuan published three high-quality papers in a row in relatively well-known domestic and international journals while he was still in high school. And after just two years of university, he published another six."

"Good, good, good. Keep confirming everything. We need to be fast. Time is of the essence," Wang Xiaojia said, growing more and more excited.

"Yes, sir."

At the same time, Wang Xiaojia was already personally drafting several articles.

Titles included: "A Young Genius? Or Should We Call Him ’My Doctoral Advisor, Dad’?", "You Too Can Be an Academic Titan, As Long as You’re Shameless Enough", "Regarding Professor Du’s Vicious Acts, Is the Handong University Administration Truly Clueless?", and "Lin Shuya Was Just an Exception; Perhaps Luo Yulin Is the Norm"...

While the *Heart-stopping Report* worked overtime, churning out articles...

...back in Jiang City, another matter was unfolding that concerned Lin Shuya and Jiang Miao.

The leadership of Lion Mountain Agricultural University.

They had also quickly convened an internal meeting.

President Yan Bohu looked at everyone with a wide smile, then spoke slowly. "Regarding what student Lin Shuya has gone through, shouldn’t our university be doing something to help?"

"President, you mean...?" The vice president wasn’t quite sure what Yan Bohu was getting at.

Yan Bohu smiled and explained, "What I mean is, can we award honorary doctorates to our students Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya?"

"Oh? That’s worth considering."

"Jiang Miao has the new artificial eel breeding technology and is a rising star in the nation’s agricultural sector. His publication record is more than sufficient." The one who spoke was one of Jiang Miao’s professors.

Jiang Miao’s undergraduate papers were, admittedly, just a few filler articles. But starting last September, he had successively published five high-quality papers in top-tier agricultural journals both at home and abroad, and they have been cited a great number of times.

These five papers were: "New Directions in the Mechanisms of Eel Reproduction,"

"The Impact of Specific Genes on Reproduction and Growth,"

"The Enhancement Effect of Strawberry Gene Fragment CM-654 on Disease Resistance,"

"The Enhancement Effect of Strawberry Gene Fragment CM-3872 on Heat Tolerance,"

"And an Application Schema for a Transgenic Grafting Technology."

If an ordinary undergraduate student had submitted papers like these, the journal reviewers would have likely dismissed them out of hand.

But Jiang Miao’s work was backed by real-world, applicable results. As a result, his papers easily passed the review process for top agricultural journals and garnered a massive number of citations.

Professionals in related fields were all studying his research.

However, Jiang Miao had certainly not included the core technology in his papers, providing only a general direction and some non-essential research data.

Even so, his work provided many researchers with a wealth of new approaches and ideas.

But Jiang Miao knew full well that even with his papers as a guide, it would still be exceedingly difficult for others to replicate Hailufeng Company’s technology. The reason was that the core data had to be discovered through painstaking trial and error, which required a massive R&D budget.

Take the artificial eel breeding technology, for example. Pouring huge sums of money into researching a technology that is already being mass-produced would be a fool’s errand. Even if you eventually succeeded, you would likely face a situation where you couldn’t recoup your investment.

After all, three companies were already mass-producing eel fry. If you re-developed the technology from scratch, what would be the point once you finally succeeded? To crash the eel fry market?

With that kind of time and money, you’d be better off just buying the technology from Hailufeng Company directly, or even stealing it from one of the other three companies. That would be far more cost-effective.

The quantity and quality of Jiang Miao’s papers were sufficient, and his academic achievements also made him eligible.

Shanmei City and the Lingnan Agricultural Research Institute were already helping Jiang Miao apply for the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. The selection committee was currently in the review and evaluation phase. Jiang Miao had heard through the grapevine from Researcher Hu Fei that his artificial eel breeding technology was very likely to win a first-prize award.

Lion Mountain Agricultural University was also aware of this, as one of their alumni was on the selection committee.

"Student Jiang Miao is certainly qualified. And student Lin Shuya’s artificial White Truffle cultivation technology is also a valuable and impactful achievement. I believe she too can be recommended for an honorary doctorate from our university."

"I agree."

"I have no objection."

"Sounds good."

"Agreed."

Seeing that everyone was in favor, Yan Bohu nodded. "In that case, we will recommend Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya to be honorary doctors of our university."

"Why don’t we release this news and stir things up a bit?" one of the professors, who clearly enjoyed a bit of drama, suggested.

"Is that really a good idea?"

"What’s not good about it? We’re not doing anything shady. Recommending honorary doctorates is our university’s own business. It has nothing to do with other schools."