Shen Luxi took Lu Zheng to a friend's gathering for the first time, and he didn't speak the whole time. After the meeting, someone mentioned her father's old case, and her expression changed on the spot - but Lu Zheng didn't know yet that the core technology of that case was exactly what he had been exposed to on the first day he joined the company.
A poor boy from Zhazhating, she is the proud one in Beijing. He took a hard seat for 19 hours to come to Beijing, moved into her community with a "friendship price of 2,000 yuan", and tried his best to gain a foothold in the Aerospace Research Institute. She wanted to help him, but every time she said "for your own good", it hurt his self-esteem.
What really tore them apart was a case seven years ago.
When Lu Zheng was sorting through the files, he discovered that the patent applicant for the underlying algorithm of the flight control system was Shen Luxi's father, who had been in prison for five years. And he signed a confidentiality agreement.
On one side is the professional bottom line, on the other side is her expectant look. He chose silence.
She began to investigate on her own - and found a network covering research institutes, shell companies, and profit transfers. But he held something in his hand that could overturn the case, but he didn't dare to hand it over.
Two people who both want to know the truth have become the most silent wall in front of each other because of their respective positions.
It was not until two years later that a technical plan relisted their names in the same project team.
When the call was connected, he said: "Hello, I am Lu Zheng from the base technical team."
She held the receiver and said, "Okay, you tell me."
——The tone was as professional as two strangers working together for the first time.
