276: Chapter 276 A Rare Moment of Rest

"You're back?"

Zhao Yang had just used his fingerprint to open the apartment door when Li Yan's gentle voice drifted over. As she spoke, she had already walked over to his side.

She had no classes today and was wearing a soft beige loungewear set. Her hair was casually pinned back, with a few stray strands falling against her fair neck. She squatted down, naturally attending to Zhao Yang as he changed into his slippers.

"Mm."

Zhao Yang gave a brief response. He lowered his head, enjoying Li Yan's service. His gaze naturally drifted downward, taking in the shapely curves of her figure revealed by her squatting posture.

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Without any hesitation, Zhao Yang reached out and scooped her up by the waist.

"Oh!" Li Yan let out a short cry of surprise.

Zhao Yang strode forward, carrying Li Yan directly into the master bedroom. The door was kicked shut with a dull thud.

A unique and spectacular battle commenced.

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After the clouds dispersed and the rain ceased.

The air in the bedroom was thick with the scent of hormones.

Li Yan lay quietly in Zhao Yang's arms like a lazy cat. Her breathing was still a bit rapid, her face flushed, and fine beads of sweat hung on her forehead.

Zhao Yang leaned against the headboard, his large hand gently stroking Li Yan's smooth back, his entire body in a state of deep relaxation.

Li Yan looked up, her finger tracing circles on Zhao Yang's chest as she asked softly, "How did your seclusion go this time? Did you solve that problem that was holding you back?"

She knew that Zhao Yang had been grinding away at an extremely difficult theoretical model during this period.

"It's solved."

Zhao Yang glanced at Li Yan and spoke with a smile.

Li Yan smiled happily. She pressed her face against Zhao Yang's chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat. As long as she heard that he had successfully completed his goal, she felt satisfied.

The two embraced, whispering sweet nothings.

Suddenly, Zhao Yang stopped his movements, looked at Li Yan, and asked.

"Would you consider resigning from Yanlin University? Come work at Spark Technology."

"You can pick any idle position in the administrative or HR departments, and your salary will be at the highest level. You won't have to clock in every day, and you won't have to worry about what others think."

His current business empire was expanding frantically; supporting a woman was a negligible cost. He wanted to get her out of the tedious administrative system of higher education, and he could also conveniently place a piece of his own in his company.

But Li Yan hesitated for a moment and declined.

"No thanks. I think being a Counselor at Yanlin University is quite nice."

Li Yan shook her head, her tone firm: "Although the work at school is trivial, it's a stable and proper profession. Besides, if I really went to Spark Technology, given our hidden relationship, I would be extremely uncomfortable in the company. Those rumors wouldn't just affect me; they'd also have a negative impact on your image. I don't want that."

After hearing her analysis, Zhao Yang nodded. He wasn't someone who liked to control others' wills.

"As you wish." Zhao Yang didn't press the matter further. As long as her material needs were guaranteed, staying in a familiar environment was indeed better for her.

Over the next three days.

Zhao Yang gave himself a complete, long vacation. He didn't return to Peking University, staying entirely at Li Yan's place instead.

Since it happened to be the weekend, Li Yan had no work assignments either.

Besides eating and sleeping, Zhao Yang occasionally called Chen Haifeng to check on the progress of the basement renovation project for the top-tier villa he had just purchased.

"Boss, the construction team has already arrived. Foundation reinforcement and the industrial power line installation are being carried out simultaneously. It's expected to reach the standards for equipment installation within a month," Chen Haifeng reported over the phone.

"Hurry it up. At most half a year, everything must be finished according to my requirements!"

Zhao Yang hung up after giving the instructions.

The rest of the time.

He was resting—either closing his eyes to recover his energy or engaging in the most primal of exercises with Li Yan in the bedroom.

Until Monday afternoon.

Li Yan returned home after finishing some work with student files at the school.

While changing her shoes at the entrance, she suddenly turned to ask Zhao Yang, who was sitting on the sofa reading: "Oh, right. The leaders from the College Office specifically sought me out for questioning this morning. They wanted me to feel you out and ask when you plan to officially graduate from Yanlin University?"

Hearing this, Zhao Yang closed his book and was stunned for about two seconds.

Only then did he remember that, nominally, he was still an undergraduate student in the biological sciences major at Beijing Forestry University. And according to the timeline, he was currently a junior!

Previously, because of the twin prime conjecture and Goldbachs Conjecture, he had directly skipped levels at Peking University to obtain a PhD in Mathematics; he had even received an appointment letter for a full professorship by now.

But at Yanlin University, his undergraduate enrollment was still active. After all, he really hadn't done his graduation defense yet.

Zhao Yang thought about it for a moment.

"Then next June, I'll follow the normal graduation process along with this year's seniors from the School of Life Sciences. I'll submit my undergraduate thesis to the school then."

Li Yan nodded and looked at Zhao Yang with a smile: "Okay, then I'll reply to the college leaders tomorrow. They're treating you like Yanlin University's prize display right now, terrified that something might go wrong with your enrollment status."

Regarding this undergraduate thesis for Yanlin University, Zhao Yang didn't plan on producing some world-shaking Biology paper.

Firstly, it was too close to next June. Secondly, his current energy was mainly focused on leveling up and the hardware construction of his underground laboratory. To publish in top-tier journals, one had to invest a massive amount of energy into biological experiments.

He didn't need to steal the spotlight; writing a paper with solid data at a Q1 or even Q2 level would suffice. After all, it was just an undergraduate graduation.

That night.

After another frantic round with Li Yan.

On Tuesday morning, Li Yan went to work at the school.

Zhao Yang also packed his things, called his driver Wang Hai to pick him up, and returned to the faculty youth apartments at Peking University.

These few days of complete rest had restored his condition well.

Back at the apartment, Zhao Yang opened his computer and prepared to start working.

Since he had decided to graduate next June, he would first write that Biology paper to fulfill the requirement.

He didn't intend to go soak in a Biology lab either.

Because the paper he had in mind didn't really require experiments.

It was primarily a theoretical analysis paper on the 'structural modification of specific biological reagent molecules'.

Regarding the formulas and chemical reaction mechanisms of various biological reagents, Zhao Yang had already encountered them far too often while developing new drugs for Spark in that underground lights-out laboratory.

Zhao Yang had hundreds or even thousands of ready-made raw data sets on compound data and catalyst reaction curves stored in his system database and computer hard drive.