Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?!

Chonghui was surprised by the office's high presence rate at the moment.

Usually, at this hour, there would barely be two or three consultants left who didn't need to be on site.

Today, was it nearly a hundred percent presence?

However, with a glance around, Chonghui understood the reason after seeing everyone's body language and directions.

He smirked slightly, then quickly suppressed it.

Chonghui strode over to Nan Zhubin: "Done for today? You really did eight consultations?"

Nan Zhubin nodded: "Yes, it's done, eight consultations—by the way, didn't you say you were rushing a paper at school today, senior brother?"

Chonghui seriously scrutinized Nan Zhubin's complexion.

Back in Jiangdu, although he had collaborated with Nan Zhubin for a while in high school, because high school students had classes, there was no chance for Nan Zhubin to do consecutive consultations in a day.

It was Chonghui's first time witnessing Nan Zhubin so intense.

After confirming that the dazzling, handsome face didn't show any pale or weak tones, Chonghui smiled, his face showing anticipation and joy: "I'm here to take you for dinner!"

"Dinner?"

"Yes, dinner. Teacher and Chief Judge Meng seemed to have gone to the court and finalized future collaboration projects with the court this afternoon!"

Regardless of the varied reactions from those around after hearing this news,

Chonghui continued: "Teacher and Chief Judge Meng seemed to be chatting happily and have arranged a dinner; since it's a dinner party, teacher would definitely include us."

"I figured your last consultation should be over today, so I came to pick you up along the way."

Ah, mooching a meal.

Nan Zhubin understood.

It was time to rest anyway.

...

Nan Zhubin quickly packed up his things and, after a few words with Mo Kai, went downstairs with Chonghui.

In Bai Qinghua's car as usual, Chonghui was driving, and Shi Qianqian, also mooching a meal, sat in the passenger seat, while Nan Zhubin slumped in the back seat.

Mo Kai didn't come since those who could mooch such a dinner were all Bai Qinghua's "Direct Disciples", while Mo Kai was only a "prospective official disciple".

Mo Kai had a long way to go.

Shi Qianqian glanced at the exhausted Nan Zhubin through the rearview mirror, sighed with a regretful expression in her eyes.

She seemed to want to say something but always hesitated.

Chonghui, on the other hand, was unreserved. During a red light, he initiated the conversation: "Actually, both Qian Qian and I don't really need to go tonight, but you, junior brother, must go. After all, Chief Judge Meng is looking to cooperate more with you than us. We're just tagging along to benefit from you."

Nan Zhubin smiled, without making any excuses or explanations.

The relationship between him and Chonghui had reached a point where he didn't need to pay much attention to social etiquette.

Nan Zhubin merely murmured: "I wonder what projects we'll collaborate on next..."

"I know that." Shi Qianqian in the passenger seat suddenly spoke up.

Nan Zhubin immediately looked over.

"After Teacher and Meng Ting returned from the court this afternoon, Teacher took Meng Ting on a tour of our research group, including the equipment and databases."

"At that time… Zhuren was consulting; Dahui was in the lab analyzing data. So Teacher pulled me over as the guide, to make more of an appearance in front of Meng Ting."

Shi Qianqian softly said: "Then I overheard Meng Ting saying that this year's 'National Anti-Fraud Awareness Day' didn't achieve much, and recently there's been a surge in similar cases at the court, so they're planning to conduct a focused campaign, giving anti-fraud lectures at colleges."

"This way, by the time 'National Anti-Fraud Day' comes in the second half of the year, they'll have more material to report."

Shi Qianqian wrinkled her nose: "Meng Ting mentioned that recently, university students have been defrauded quite severely. The worst case seems to be a Ph.D. candidate who was scammed out of over 600,000."

Chonghui, who was doing a Ph.D., shrunk his neck in response.

Nan Zhubin blinked: "'National Anti-Fraud Awareness Day', when was that again?"

"At the end of last month, June 29th," Shi Qianqian replied, "'National Anti-Fraud Day' is on November 7th."

Chonghui couldn't help but glance at the passenger seat: "How do you know all this?"

Shi Qianqian lifted her head: "They mentioned it in the afternoon, I heard it, and remembered it."

Nan Zhubin praised: "Senior sister has an excellent memory."

Shi Qianqian couldn't help but raise her chin another 3 degrees.

After thinking for a while, Nan Zhubin asked: "So did Chief Judge Meng mention how we're supposed to support their work?"

Shi Qianqian responded quickly: "From what they planned, during the lectures, they want to share cases first, and then have our people—or rather, you—analyze the psychological principles behind the fraudsters' tactics. If possible, they even want you to simulate a confrontation between fraudsters and students."

That indeed required professionals.

However, Nan Zhubin frowned: "I've only come across one fraud-related case, and it's an ongoing one, which isn't very suitable for educational use."

Although there are exceptions allowing consultants to use cases for exchange, and even in public for educational purposes,

it's still rather taboo to use ongoing cases directly as educational material. Even if some privacy information is removed, there's still significant indicative risks.

Especially considering a campus tour, they might run right into Nan Zhihao, the visitor.

But Shi Qianqian simply laughed it off: "The court has plenty of cases. They don't have as strict confidentiality rules as we do—even if they do, it's just removing names."

"They also hope to have you go through their past cases thoroughly and organize your own study."

Nan Zhubin's eyes brightened up. Isn't this a case exchange?

For young consultants, this whole process is beneficial, no?

The court providing cases and files is essentially enriching the case database for consultants; analyzing on site or even simulating consultations is effectively gaining consulting hours.

One task, two wins.

Especially with simulated consultations, young consultants often can only get such opportunities in paid training courses, and now it's available for free.

That's actually winning thrice.

Wait, this is a court-contracted project, so there's also payment?

That's winning four times.

Shi Qianqian remarked: "The problem now is you have consultations, plus studying for graduate exams, so managing your free time is tricky. Although this project was given to our company, Meng Ting is essentially looking to work with you..."

Nan Zhubin considered it and said: "I'll think about it first."

Saying that, he nodded off and fell asleep.