Dust-laden memories burst out of the ground like seeds, and scenes from decades ago slowly unfolded before my eyes.
Tang Yuanmao has an outstanding IQ since he was a child. He is considered a child prodigy by everyone. He can recite nearly a thousand ancient poems at the age of 2.
With his super high intelligence, he skipped grades all the way through school. At the age of 23, he completed his Ph.D. and entered the Zijin Research Institute to work.
He originally thought that he was already considered the best among geniuses, but until he met Sang Ning, he didn't know what it meant to be alone.
After entering the institute, he was assigned to work as an assistant to the honorary dean.
Tang Yuanmao thought that the honorary dean must be an older person, but when Sang Ning stretched out her hand to greet him politely and distantly, he was stunned.
"Hello Xiaotang, I am Sang Ning, the honorary president of the Zijin Research Institute." Sang Ning was wearing a large white lab coat and had neat, shoulder-length short hair.
Tang Yuanmao was petrified. He looked like he was only in his early 20s. He could be considered a junior schoolmate. How could he be the honorary dean?
After being stunned for a while, he stretched out his right hand and symbolically shook hands with Sang Ning.
But the moment he withdrew his hand, a trace of imperceptible disdain flashed in his eyes.
To be honest, he didn't believe that Sang Ning had such strength, and he even had an evil suspicion in his heart.
Did Sang Ning get the position of nominal dean by relying on her overly pretty face?
Soon, after working with Sang Ning for a period of time, he gave up the idea, and even felt a little guilty for unreasonably maliciously guessing Sang Ning.
Sang Ning is very capable and has led the institute to produce several scientific research projects that have shocked the world, making Zijin Research Institute rise from a little-known small institute to a top-ranked research institute for advanced studies in the world.
Tang Yuanmao was impressed by Sang Ning's professionalism and rigor. From being skeptical at the beginning, he followed her to do research with all his heart.
Although Sang Ning's work ability is excellent, her personality is very aloof. She has no friends with whom she can talk in the institute. In her eyes, the people in the institute are just colleagues.
Tang Yuanmao knew nothing about Sang Ning, and no one in the institute knew about her background. He only knew that she seemed to be very young, and he did not even know her specific age. Sang Ning was a very mysterious existence in the institute.
Tang Yuanmao knew that Sang Ning was difficult to get along with, but he really loved astronomical research. As long as he could learn from Sang Ning, he didn't care at all about the personality of his immediate boss.
It is said that people with high IQs are prone to mental illness. For a while, Tang Yuanmao became obsessed with his research and fell into an extremely paranoid state.
His personality was inherently introverted. When he first entered the institute, his colleagues labeled him a loner. During the time when he was going crazy, he was always murmuring about something.
Colleagues even felt that he was a monster and avoided him like a snake or a scorpion.
He felt uneasy until the doubts in his heart could not be answered, so he took the initiative to find someone to discuss the doubts in his mind.
But his mental state was so abnormal during that period that no one among his colleagues was willing to talk to him.
Tang Yuanmao panicked and even his colleagues refused to talk to him. Will his eccentric teacher be willing to talk to him?
Tang Yuanmao is going crazy. He would rather die if he cannot seek the truth.
On a starry night, he looked up at the stars alone on the astronomical observatory.
The ancient poem "Staying at the Mountain Temple at Night" suddenly popped into my mind, and I muttered it in my mouth.
The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands. You dare not speak loudly for fear of frightening the heavens.
As he walked forward, he raised his hands high and made a grasping motion, as if there was only a thin line between him and the stars in the sky.
At first he wanted to study the stars because he liked them, but now the stars made him so miserable that he no longer wanted to study them.
Under the temptation of the night, he had the idea of jumping from the observation platform to commit suicide. As long as his brain stops thinking, he should not be in pain anymore, right?
So he closed his eyes and walked slowly towards the edge of the observation platform, reciting the ancient poem "Staying at the Mountain Temple at Night" affectionately as he walked.
Jump down, jump down, jump away and there will be no pain!
The dark thoughts coming from deep inside his heart urged him to step closer to the edge. Just when his left foot was about to hang in the air, he heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.
"Xiaotang, what do you want to do?"
He opened his eyes and looked back. Under the night, Sang Ning's eyebrows were filled with anger.
Tang Yuanmao was stunned and immediately forgot about the idea of committing suicide. This was the first time he saw anything other than indifference on Sang Ning's face.
Before he could recover, he saw Sang Ning, like a heroine in a martial arts movie, tapping her toes on the ground and using Qing Kung Fu to leap toward him.
He had only two words in his mind at that time: Damn it!
Is their dean actually so skilled?
In just a few breaths, Sang Ning came to him, grabbed his hand, and pulled him back from the edge of the cliff.
Without a word of gentleness to soothe his soul, he threw him directly to the ground, folded his arms and looked at him impatiently, and even stretched out his foot to kick him hard, who was sitting on the ground weak and helpless.
"You want to die, do you want to report to me?" Sang Ning's furious voice was extremely fierce.
Tang Yuanmao thought that if his next answer was not what San Ning wanted, he would probably be kicked to death.
He was afraid, he was really afraid!
After being kicked like this by Sang Ning, he suddenly realized that truth is infinite and inexhaustible. Just enjoy the process of pursuing the truth. Why do you have to ask for a result?
He didn't dare to tell Sang Ning the truth. He swallowed and used the night to hide the guilt in his eyes. He said weakly: "I don't want to die. I just came to blow the night breeze."
Sang Ning narrowed her eyes slightly, obviously not believing what he said, but she did not continue to embarrass him.
After this incident, Tang Yuanmao finally let go of his hidden defense against Sang Ning. He was quite an interesting teacher and seemed not as unhuman as everyone thought.
In the days that followed, Tang Yuanmao followed Sang Ning to do research. The questions that had been bothering him before were answered from another angle under Sang Ning's guidance, and the remaining obsessions in his heart were slowly healed.
Later, Tang Yuanmao slowly found out that when he went crazy, Sang Ning had been paying attention to him. The reason why he didn't care about him at first was because he thought he could figure it out by himself. He didn't think that he was almost going to figure it out.
Thinking of committing suicide.
Even on the day he wanted to commit suicide, it was no accident that Sang Ning showed up at the astronomical observatory.
Since then, Sang Ning has become Tang Yuanmao's belief, and his title of Sang Ning has changed from a slightly alienated "dean" to a respectful "mentor".
But he didn't expect that his faith would disappear.
Sang Ning led the institute to win another international award. On the day she was about to fly abroad to receive the award, Sang Ning told him very seriously that she was leaving.
