Chapter 30: Professor Xu’s Pupil

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the time that Tang Qianmiao got a drink for herself, her cell phone had gone off again. It was Black Chicken.
“Boss, were you sleeping?”
“Go on.”
“Oh, alright.”
Black Chicken hurriedly reported, “There’s been some development regarding the Lu family matter. It seems Lu Wanyu’s background is not simple at all. She’s actually Professor Xu’s pupil.”
As soon as she heard this, Tang Qianmiao set her cup down on the table with a serious expression.
“Are you certain?”
“I’ve never been so certain about anything. I know you still don’t trust the capability of those few people, but the information they’ve managed to obtain won’t be wrong. It turned out that we made a mistake in the person that we were supposed to investigate – that was why we’ve been unable to identify Professor Xu’s successor. Now that we’re starting our investigation of the Lu family, we’ve discovered that Lu Wanyu spent a few years with Professor Xu and learned from him.”
Tang Qianmiao had been calm for days, and now, hearing this seemed to stir her emotions somewhat, and she felt rather happy.
This Professor Xu was her late mother’s colleague in the past,
In the reorganization of the medical research team this time around, her mother and her had wanted to rope in the people from the original team. After all, everyone had put in much effort for so many years before, and they were the people who were most familiar with this drug.
If they were to bring in new team members, it would take a lot of time for them to develop an understanding of the drug alone, let alone all the other complexities surrounding it. It was because of this that she had been relentlessly seeking out the members from the original research team.
At the time when the project ended, the team members all went their separate ways and had not contacted each other for many years. So it was no surprise that it had taken a while to locate them.
To date, only one person had expressed a willingness to help her. As for the others, they had either given up the medical profession or couldn’t be contacted at all.
As for Professor Xu… Unfortunately, he had fallen ill and passed away many years ago. The only clue that could be found, was some information that he had taught his skills to an unknown pupil of his. Hence they had started investigating the relatives closest to him.
Unexpectedly, this pupil turned out to be Lu Wanyu, who had no blood relations with him.
This was getting very interesting.
“Have you investigated the cause of Lu Qintian’s death?”
“Not yet, but we’ve found some clues. We should have an answer in another couple of days.”
“Is there anything else?” she asked casually.
Black Chicken hesitated for a moment and then replied, “After Lu Corporation terminated their collaboration with us, they… went into a new collaboration with Yihuan Pharmaceutical.”
Tang Qianmiao’s expression deepened. Yihuan Pharmaceutical was one of the Tang family’s companies.
“Boss, actually Lu Corporation not only terminated their collaboration with us, but they also did that with a few other companies too. Especially where precious raw materials are concerned – they are getting them from Yihuan only. However, when Lu Qintian was alive, he had on numerous occasions declined to collaborate with Yihuan. Apparently, he had something personal against your father…”
“So this was Lu Xinqing’s personal decision?”
“It appears to be the case. They’re going to hold a celebration banquet tomorrow night for the official signing of the agreement,” Black Chicken revealed.
Tang Qianmiao chortled and remarked, “The fools.”
Black Chicken laughed too and added, “Exactly. Although Lu Corporation doesn’t stand out among the other players in the pharmaceutical industry, few companies can match the quality of the herbs that it grows. It has been relying on this advantage to compete with the others. Over the years, their profits in this area have been significant.
“Yihuan Pharmaceutical is different. Although it was the leading pharmaceutical company in the nation, where it was lacking was the quality of its raw materials. It’s no surprise that they’ve been eyeing a collaboration with Lu Corporation in recent years. To think that Lu Qintian had guarded against this for so many years, and now his daughter has betrayed him. How unexpected.”
Tang Qianmiao contemplated all of this in silence. After a few moments, she said, “I’d like for you to do something right now, and I want to know the outcome before sunrise.”
“What do you need, Boss?”