Chapter 1215 - 814: Who Is the Child’s Father? (2)

"No, I came to find you. Just went to your office, Professor Chi said you were here helping him with his class, so I came over. When I arrived... I saw there were quite a few empty seats, so I just found a random spot to sit down. Actually, I wanted to hear your lecture too."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng suddenly felt regretful. Why did she agree to substitute for Chi Lun, letting Pu Wei see that all her students left during her class... It was incredibly embarrassing!

"Did you come to see me about the paper?"

Pu Wei nodded.

Su Xiaomeng looked at the woman in front of her, genuinely feeling that she was quite nice. Coming from a family of professors, with an excellent educational background from a young age, she appeared graceful, poised, and well-educated.

Really, if Su Xiaomeng wasn’t certain that the paper was hers, with someone like this standing in front of her, she might also believe that Pu Wei was a victim of plagiarism.

"Professor Pu, even if you hadn’t come to see me, I likely would have visited you in a couple of days."

Pu Wei smiled slightly, revealing a hint of awkwardness in her expression.

"Regarding that paper, who the real plagiarist is, Professor Pu knows better than anyone else. How you got my draft and the evidence, I’m genuinely curious and want to—"

Su Xiaomeng hadn’t finished speaking when Pu Wei raised her hand to stop her,

"Teacher Su, shall we talk outside?"

"..." Su Xiaomeng initially wanted to refuse, but... she responded, "Alright, there’s a nice café outside the school, with private rooms."

"That’s perfect."

Xiao Meng didn’t return to the office, she simply carried her course materials and left the school gate with Pu Wei. On the way, Pu Wei let her hair down, and none of the passing students recognized this well-known translation professor from Beijing University.

Pu Wei carried a subtle fragrance, mature and with charm, befitting her personal aura.

Su Xiaomeng thought to herself, this must be a woman who knows what suits her.

"Teacher Su, don’t scrutinize me like that, there’s nothing special about me." Perhaps due to Su Xiaomeng’s invasive gaze, Pu Wei chuckled softly, speaking lightly in a tone that balanced humor with proper etiquette.

Even if Xiao Meng wanted to retort sharply, she feared she might lose her composure.

"I’m just meeting Professor Pu for the first time, I’m a bit curious about you."

"If it hadn’t been for the plagiarism issue, I doubt this old woman who nobody wants would have piqued the curiosity of the Yin Family’s Young Madam, right?"

Pu Wei maintained a teasing tone, yet Xiao Meng could sense a prickling undertone in her words.

"I only found out yesterday about your past with my husband."

After Su Xiaomeng spoke, Pu Wei showed no signs of surprise, simply smiling until they entered the café’s private room, where she spoke again,

"Mrs. Yin..."

Her form of address had changed.

Xiao Meng was already seated on the couch while Pu Wei hadn’t sat down yet. After calling her ’Mrs. Yin’, she bent her knees and knelt straight before her...

This gesture really startled Su Xiaomeng.

She hurriedly stood up, "Professor Pu, what are you doing?"

"Mrs. Yin, please don’t be alarmed. I have my reasons for kneeling before you..."

"No matter your reasons, you are older than me, and suddenly kneeling is just absurd..."

Su Xiaomeng was embarrassed; in this life, she genuinely feared being knelt before, bowed to, or treated like a deity.

"Mrs. Yin... I truly didn’t expect things to be this coincidental."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng moved forward to pull her up, but Pu Wei’s knees seemed glued to the floor, no matter how Xiao Meng tried, she couldn’t get her up, so she simply stopped trying.

Xiao Meng sat back down in her chair, frowned, waiting for her to continue.

"First coincidence, your paper was indeed plagiarized by me. I saw your paper on your thesis advisor’s computer, and I visited Bath once in August. But back then, I was focused on the paper, not targeting you."

Su Xiaomeng widened her eyes in shock, looking at Pu Wei in disbelief, "You’re a professor, taking a master’s thesis to plagiarize? Where’s your professional ethics?"

"Mrs. Yin, if I hadn’t encountered some things, I wouldn’t have done something so outrageous. Last April, I was in a car accident, bedridden for three whole months, and before the accident, I suffered from severe depression, which others didn’t know about."