Chapter 58

After finishing his chat with Nansheng, Ji Ye Hao habitually looked at the graph showing the stock price fluctuations on the screen, lost in silent contemplation.

The continuous decline in Huaxin Technology's stock price was not a happy thing. Although he knew it would eventually rebound, the current situation clearly indicated that he still lacked a great deal of experience in choosing the right timing for entering the market.

Ji Ye Hao had used the funds under his control to purchase Huaxin Technology's stocks, hoping to make a profit through his own means, not to seek self-inflicted pain. The continuous decline in stock prices proved that he still had significant shortcomings in his investment behavior.

"Ah, I still have a long way to go in this field!" He shook his head. After all, he wasn't the protagonist in a story who could dominate everything. The stock market was risky, and one had to be cautious when entering. In the face of powerful monsters, his personal strength was so insignificant.

At this moment, Su Yuan turned off her computer and was about to go to bed. As she was about to get into bed, she inadvertently noticed Ji Ye Hao's worried expression and couldn't help but feel puzzled. She wandered over, waved her hand in front of him, and said, "Hey, what are you thinking about?"

"Here, take a look yourself!"

"You're studying Huaxin Technology's stock again?"

Su Yuan burst out laughing. Looking at the line on the screen, it was a complete plunge! The last time she asked him if he had bought it, he said yes. When she asked if it had risen or fallen, he said it had fallen. He had confidently said it would definitely rise next week, but now it was still falling!

Su Yuan thought this must have been a significant blow to Ye Hao, no wonder he looked so worried. She reached out and patted his head, "Good boy, failure is the mother of success! It will get better in the future."

Ji Ye Hao laughed and looked at her steadily, "It's 'failure is the mother of success,' not some weird saying like yours."

"They're the same, I'm just comforting you!" Su Yuan smiled, "Tell me how many shares you bought and how much you lost? Let me give you some advice." Her eyes twinkled, and a mischievous smile spread across her face.

"..."

Ji Ye Hao glared at her angrily, grabbed her arm, and forcefully turned her halfway. Then, with a "slap!" he grabbed her neck and pressed her face down on the table.

"Ye Hao, let me go!!" Su Yuan struggled but couldn't move. Her eyebrows furrowed, and she said fiercely.

Ji Ye Hao sneered, "Were you just laughing at me?"

"No! Where did I laugh at you? You're so petty!"

"You're so generous, laughing at my misfortune. What kind of friend are you?" Ji Ye Hao scratched her head in frustration, messing up her hair before letting her go.

"You... Fine, I won't argue with you since you're in a bad mood." Su Yuan fixed her hair, preparing to be magnanimous and let him off the hook.

She climbed into bed and lay there for a while, tossing and turning. A few minutes later, she got up and went to the bathroom to take care of her physiological needs. When she came back, she approached Ji Ye Hao, "Just tell me, how many shares did you buy?" This question was like ants biting her inside if she didn't get an answer.

Ji Ye Hao looked at her speechlessly. She really enjoyed digging into others' wounds.

He said irritably, "One thousand..."

Su Yuan nodded, "One thousand yuan for a stock that keeps falling, that's indeed frustrating." She patted Ji Ye Hao's shoulder, with a look that said, "I understand, I can sleep well now."

The question was answered, and she could sleep well. Just as she was about to climb back into bed, Ji Ye Hao muttered, "Not one thousand yuan, one thousand lots..."

One lot is 100 shares, and the stock price was 55 yuan when he bought it, which means 5.5 million yuan! This was all the funds Ji Ye Hao could control. Now, 800,000 yuan had evaporated, leaving only 4.7 million yuan. No wonder he was so distressed.

...

A good night's sleep.

Time slipped by quickly, and before they knew it, it was the afternoon of the next day. The dormitory basketball tournament had another match, and Room 330 won again, successfully making it to the top twenty. Reaching this point was a good achievement, no matter how you looked at it.

As usual, Su Yuan didn't play. Just like in the previous three matches, only Ji Ye Hao, Gao Jun, and Yang Xiaowei were on the court.

They could rest for a while, as the competition among the top twenty teams would resume after the National Day holiday.

In the evening, Su Yuan came to the biochemistry building. Walking to Room 203, she saw Xia Linfei, wearing a white lab coat, busy inside through the glass.

"Xia-ge, I'm here!"

She gently pushed the door open and called out. Thinking about the bad advice she had given Gao Jun the day before, she couldn't help but laugh. That advice was extremely harmful and unhelpful, and she wondered if Gao Jun had actually followed it.

"Su Yuan, you're here." Xia Linfei didn't turn around, writing something in her lab notebook with a pen.

"Ha, yeah." Circling around to Xia Linfei's back, Su Yuan smiled and tiptoed to look at her handwriting, which was elegant and flowing, a true expert's style.

She nodded repeatedly and said softly, "I heard Gao Jun wanted to confess to you yesterday. Did he come to see you today?"

Xia Linfei's body seemed to stiffen slightly, and Su Yuan's eyes lit up. "Did he really come to see you?"

Excitedly, she pulled over a lab chair and sat down, eager to hear more. "Tell me, how did he confess?"

Xia Linfei turned and glared at her, saying fiercely, "Tell me, was it you who taught him?"

"What?"

Su Yuan's face was full of confusion, but her heart sank. Could it be that Gao Jun had betrayed her? Oh no, no matter how she calculated, she didn't expect Gao Jun to be so weak! She thought Gao Jun would at most get a beating from Xia-ge, but at least their relationship would be out in the open, a good deed for both of them.

When Su Yuan told Gao Jun that he needed to use a domineering approach to win Xia Linfei, it wasn't entirely to tease him. In fact, it was based on her understanding of Xia Linfei, with some exaggeration. Theoretically, it was feasible, but the negative effect was that Xia Linfei would be furious and beat Gao Jun up.

Xia Linfei's suspicion of Su Yuan was not unfounded. She didn't believe that the Gao Jun she knew would come up with such a bold move on his own. Ji Ye Hao was also a gentle and refined person, so he could be ruled out. It was the mischievous Su Yuan who had the most ideas, and considering that she had joked with her yesterday about waiting for Gao Jun in the lab, she was the most likely suspect.

Xia Linfei looked at Su Yuan suspiciously, but seeing her genuinely confused expression, and thinking about Gao Jun's passionate kiss in the afternoon, her face turned red. She decided not to pursue the matter further.

"Never mind, let's not talk about it." She turned her head, pretending to be calm. "You're here to look at the chromosomes, right? Wait here, I'll get them for you."

Xia Linfei went to the adjacent cell culture room and returned shortly with a petri dish. After three days of cultivation, a large number of dividing cells had been obtained.

She took a bottle of reagent from the reagent stand and dripped it into the petri dish, explaining, "This is colchicine, a biological alkaloid that can disrupt the spindle fibers inside the cell, inhibiting mitosis and keeping the cell in the metaphase of division. This is when the chromosomes are most visible."

Su Yuan nodded, watching curiously.

Strictly speaking, eukaryotic chromosomes can only be seen during the metaphase of mitosis; otherwise, they remain hidden in the cell nucleus.

Xia Linfei smiled faintly and took a wash bottle to add a small amount of distilled water to the petri dish. "The low osmotic pressure causes the cells to swell, reducing the entanglement and overlap of chromosomes."

"The next step is the staining process. Chromosomes are called chromosomes because they can be stained dark by basic dyes."

She fixed the cells on a slide with methanol and glacial acetic acid and stained them with aceto-carmine. The entire process was complex, and just the pre-fixation and fixation steps took a long time.

"Alright, now we can observe."

Xia Linfei smiled and handed the prepared slide to Su Yuan.

There was an optical microscope nearby. Su Yuan took the slide and placed it under the microscope, switching to the oil immersion lens for observation.

"Hmm?" She furrowed her brow, searching for her cells and began counting the number of chromosomes... After a few minutes, she reluctantly moved her gaze away from the microscope.

After searching for so long, among the 46 chromosomes, she couldn't find a single trace of a "Y chromosome." What she saw were either X, V, or J.

"Could it be that I have no trace of male characteristics in my genetic makeup?"

She couldn't describe her feelings at that moment.

Seeing her lost expression, Xia Linfei asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

She shook her head silently, "Nothing."

"You look so serious. Didn't you find the cells?" Xia Linfei thought she might not know how to use the microscope, smiled faintly, and sat down to look herself.

"Yes, if the genes don't match, that would be a problem. But at least now, inside and out, I'm consistent, making it easier to face society." As if talking to herself, Su Yuan's furrowed brows relaxed, and she suddenly smiled brightly.

She didn't know whether her sex chromosomes had always been "X" since birth or had changed from "Y" to "X" later. If she had never had "Y" from the beginning, it meant she had been a tomboy for nearly twenty years. If it had changed later, then she had indeed been male for the first twenty years, but how could this be scientifically explained?

Without any awareness of the impending questioning from Xia Linfei, she felt unusually calm at that moment, sitting in the chair and swinging her legs...