'Should I just tell him the research institute hasn't even broken ground yet?'
If he said that, the trust he had just built would instantly plummet to rock bottom.
After a moment of deliberation, Su Chen decided to tell him the truth, but he couldn't be too blunt about it.
"I only recently took charge of the campus myself, but the higher-ups have already assigned a professional construction team to the site. The research institute will be built and ready in a month at most."
This wasn't just an empty promise from Su Chen. The professional construction team had indeed moved onto the campus after the Lantern Festival; they were just currently busy surveying and drafting the relevant blueprints.
But to Professor Wu's ears, this meant something entirely different. 'The higher-ups? Who else could that be? It must be the people from the Imperial Capital.'
