Chapter 89

That evening, Chen Muye briefly told Zhao Xiangjun that he intended to attend the academic exchange. Naturally, Zhao Xiangjun disapproved. He Binyu was nothing if not ambitious; having failed to poach the geniuses from major universities, he had now set his sights on the top scorers of the college entrance exam. For Chen Muye to have accompanied him to that hotel last time was already a reckless gamble. To attend this academic exchange now would be like serving himself up on a silver platter. Ultimately, after Chen Muye gave his word repeatedly, Zhao Xiangjun finally relented. However, he insisted that Chen Muye sit beside him and forbade him from speaking to anyone in the delegation without his explicit permission. Zhao had seen He Binyu’s poaching tactics firsthand. In previous years, some students had been caught off guard by a slip of the tongue and ended up promising on the spot to join He Binyu in the United States for research. What appeared to be a standard academic exchange was, to someone like Zhao, fraught with hidden "lethal traps."