Cai Weiyi's first twenty or so years went as smoothly as sailing downwind—he got into the best high school in town and then easily entered a key university. It was just that his major was somewhat of a pitfall: polymer chemistry.
As university graduation approached, he found the job prospects for his major weren't very promising, so he decided to sit for the graduate entrance examination.
After graduating with his master's degree, he figured he might as well go for his doctorate.
In terms of academic achievements, he had already surpassed most people. With his educational background, finding a job wasn't difficult. But he knew very well that although he had a talent for studying, he wasn't that kind of genius.
During his doctoral studies, his performance could only be described as satisfactory—at least, before that, he had never considered a career in academia. That changed the day he met a man named Chen Xu, introduced to him by his advisor.
