"Leonard, what can you do?" Xiang Nan asked with a smile.

"You, you, you, are you still my good friends, and you have kept such a thing from me for so long?" He pointed at Xiang Nan, Howard, and Leslie angrily.

A few months ago, he noticed that Xiang Nan and Howard were hiding something from him. At that time, he asked out of curiosity, but Xiang Nan and Howard did not tell him the truth.

But I didn't expect that now the truth of the matter is revealed. Xiang Nan and Howard have been secretly developing the quantum navigation system without telling him. This is really too much.

It was understandable that he didn't tell Sheldon. After all, Xiang Nan and Sheldon had turned against each other. But he had always been good friends with them, and Xiang Nan also promised that their relationship would not change.

But now, it was obvious that he had been pushed out. How could he, who values ​​friendship, endure this?

"Moreover, you are looking for Leslie to cooperate and you are not looking for me. Am I worse than her?" Leonard continued angrily.

There is not much difference in level between him and Leslie. He can do almost everything Leslie can do. And he has a closer relationship with Xiang Nan and Howard. It stands to reason that Xiang Nan and Howard should also cooperate with him.

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"See, I told you before that I would invite Leonard to join the team." Faced with Leonard's accusation, Howard felt very guilty and couldn't help but look at Xiang Nandao.

When Leonard heard this, he knew that Xiang Nan had not allowed it, and immediately looked at him angrily.

"Leonard, don't be angry yet." Xiang Nan stood up and came to Leonard, pulled him into the office, and then closed the door.

"The reason why we kept it secret from you and didn't invite you to join the team is not because your professional level is not enough, nor is it because we don't regard you as a friend, but because you have Sheldon by your side." He immediately explained.

"What do you mean?!" Leonard asked confused.

He knew that Xiang Nan had a falling out with Sheldon, but what did that have to do with him?

"Leonard, if we tell you this, Sheldon will soon know about this project." Xiang Nan explained, "And with his arrogant and self-centered character, once he knows about this project, he will definitely

They will join in and take away the project, so we can't take any chances."

Howard and Leslie both nodded in agreement.

With Sheldon's character, he can indeed do these things.

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"Sheldon, that's not what you said." Leonard defended him.

"Leonard, Sheldon likes to take credit, and this is not the first time he has been in the limelight. You have been with him for so long, you should know him." Xiang Nan smiled, "When did he not put himself first?

When he cooperates with others, when will he be willing to be inferior to others?"

"Yeah, when you collaborated with him on the supersolid paper, didn't he still insist on putting his name first?" Howard spoke up to prove it.

Hearing what they said, Leonard's momentum suddenly became much weaker.

"Then why are you so sure? As long as you tell me, Sheldon will definitely know." He still said stubbornly.

"Leonard, let's face the reality. No one here knows that you are Sheldon's slave." Xiang Nan shook his head and said, "There is something you are not telling him."

"What?" Hearing what he said, Leonard was immediately ashamed and angry.

He didn't think he was Sheldon's slave. Xiang Nan actually said that, which really hurt his self-esteem.

But when he saw Howard and Leslie shaking their heads, he was stunned on the spot.

"Why, Howard, Leslie, do you all think so too?" he said in disbelief.

"Leonard, you are indeed too good to Sheldon, so good that you have no principles." Howard shook his head and said, "You have to be his driver, his servant, his assistant, even

You have to help him remember when he has a bowel movement. This is not what friends should do."

"Yes, you listened to Sheldon so much that you almost didn't resist him." Leslie also nodded, "You are his vassal, tied to him, and how dare we use you.

"

But they all said that about themselves, and Leonard couldn't accept it for a while.

"I'm not Sheldon's slave, I'm just a good person." He was stunned for a moment, then forcefully defended, "Besides, have you forgotten that he once saved my life and saved my life?"

career. Then I should be nice to him, shouldn’t I?”

Three years ago, when Leonard, Howard, and Rajesh first met, Leonard tried to make rocket fuel in his apartment. As a result, due to a calculation error, the fuel began to explode. Thanks to Sheldon's timely action, he threw the fuel barrel into the

In the elevator, he was saved from being killed on the spot.

In addition, Leonard was once deceived by spy Joyce King and almost told her the composition of rocket fuel. Fortunately, Sheldon blasted her away in time, saving him from going to military court.

"Leonard, stop lying to yourself, okay?" Xiang Nan shook his head and said regretfully, "Yes, Sheldon saved your life and your career.

But without your care in the past few years, Sheldon would have died of starvation and illness many times, let alone any scientific achievements."

"Yeah." Howard nodded in agreement.

Sheldon's ability to take care of himself is very poor. Thanks to Leonard's care over the years, he has been able to live a healthy life.

"In this regard, you really don't owe him." Xiang Nan looked at Leonard and said, "And the reason why you follow him so much is because Sheldon's behavior is the same as your mother's."

…

"What?!" Leonard was so shocked that his asthma relapsed.

He quickly took out the spray and sprayed it twice before he regained consciousness.

"Please, your mother Beverly Hofstadter wrote a book and published everything that happened to you from childhood to adulthood. How long do you think you can hide it?!" Xiang Nan curled his lips.

"Oh, God!" Leonard held his head and couldn't help but whine, "How did you know?"

"Dr. Beverly Hofstadter is your mother?" Howard said in surprise, "Wow, you never mentioned this."

Xiang Nan sighed.

Leonard grew up in a loveless home.

Since he was a child, his mother had treated him as a guinea pig, constantly conducting experiments on him to verify her latest theories in neurology and psychology.

His father didn't care about him either. Their only father-son activity was studying the two-thousand-year-old corpse of an Etruscan boy.

And his brothers and sisters are all better than him, which makes him have no status in the family. No one cares about him, no one loves him, which makes him feel quite lonely.

In order to give himself more warmth, at the age of ten, he made a homemade "hug machine" and hugged himself every day. Sadly, his father often borrowed it.

Because of such a cold upbringing, Leonard was particularly lacking in love and developed a please-pleaser personality. He blindly pleases others while ignoring his own feelings.
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