A research fellow of the Two Academies—Zhang Ye!

In the auditorium.

Everyone was pointing at Zhang Ye while whispering.

"What's happening?"

"I don't know."

"Why are Elder Liu, Elder Han, and so many others avoiding him?"

"I suppose Zhang Ye has offended people again?"

"Then we oughta stay away from him as well."

"That's right, that's right."

No one dared to come within 10 meters of Zhang Ye.

Xin Ya asked in confusion, "Why do you know so many scientists?"

Zhang Ye smiled and said, "Am I not allowed to have a few friends?"

"Friends?" Xin Ya was floored. "Are you really so respectable now?"

Everyone is avoiding you!

Everyone is ignoring you!

And you can still say that they're your friends?

Zhang Ye waved to her. "I'll go and get seated."

"See ya." Xin Ya also went to the back to look for her seat. They weren't going the same way as she was in the sixteenth row, which was really far from Zhang Ye's first-row seat.