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The dormitory fell silent after Qiao Ze started reading the paper on his notebook seriously.
During this time, Gu Zhengliang asked Qiao Ze about two problems, which Qiao Ze did not explain, but instead picked up a pen and some draft paper and directly wrote down the general approach for him.
Gu Zhengliang was thoroughly convinced.
He found it very hard to understand, everyone had only one brain, yet while he couldn't make heads or tails of these problems, Qiao Ze could just glance at them and, in less than a minute, provide a solution that seemed obvious as soon as he saw it.
Actually, both Gu Zhengliang and Zhang Zhou's grades were not bad either, both consistently placing in the top five of their class.
It's just that the scores of the top two were so outstanding that they made them seem not as excellent.
But even so, before Qiao Ze appeared, those two had never made Gu Zhengliang feel a deep sense of helplessness from the bottom of his heart.
He always thought that if he worked hard like Chen Yiwen, his grades could probably improve.
After all, math just requires practice to get better.
But it only took Qiao Ze a few hours to dissolve that illusion.
After all, when he had a problem he couldn't solve before, he would ask Chen Yi, who would usually jot the problem down and need at least an hour or two, or perhaps a study session before coming back to explain it to him. He had never experienced an instant solution like today, which made him doubt whether the two problems were actually very simple.
So, Gu tossed the problems Qiao Ze had just taught him straight to Zhang Zhou, and after seeing Zhang Zhou drawing frustrated circles on his paper, Gu recovered a little bit of his confidence.
At least there was someone else in the dorm who was just as normal as he was.
What's even more infuriating is that Qiao Ze learned all this by himself - isn't that aggravating?!
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"Zhang Zhou, I'm starting to suspect that our new classmate is a robot. Damn, he solved those two problems with a quick glance, and I mean instantly! Didn't even need to think. He could point out solutions on the fly! I'm really starting to doubt whether my IQ is problematic. At least you don't know either!"
Gu Zhengliang, having found an excuse to buy drinks, managed to get Zhang Zhou out of the dormitory, and as soon as they stepped out of the door, he couldn't help but complain.
"Go away... Are you even human? You've been hit by Qiao Ze and now are scavenging confidence from me?" Zhang Zhou grumbled.
She was revisiting a classic old movie that had been remade in the United States, adapted from Agatha Christie's best-selling detective novel "And Then There Were None." She admired the sagacious old judge in the movie who arranged everything meticulously.
Well, from childhood, Su Mucheng's interests seemed a bit different from those of other girls.
For instance, while little girls enjoyed chasing celebrities, she liked "star-chasing" too, but her "star-chasing" was about intelligence, not looks.
Especially after once being dragged by her mother to watch a variety show where she discovered that the young heartthrob stars couldn't even solve a simple system of linear equations, she lost all interest in any celebrity variety shows from then on.
On a certain short video app, a young associate professor from the Yanbei University had shot to fame for a while.
To be honest, from the average person's perspective, the associate professor's looks were indeed a bit lacking. And he didn't seem particularly bright, but his resume was truly astonishing. Being directly admitted to Yanbei was basic, and as an undergraduate at the Yanbei Mathematics Institute, he swept every math competition with grand slams.
Because of this, Su Mucheng developed a crazy infatuation for mathematics.
During the summer vacation of her sophomore year in high school, she made a special trip to the Capital. She didn't visit the Great Wall or the Forbidden City but instead sneaked into the Yanbei University Campus for several days in a row. She had heard that the professors at the Yanbei International Mathematics Center usually didn't take summer vacations; they were all working on research.
So she wished for a serendipitous encounter with that professor she tremendously admired.
Regrettably, she didn't succeed.
In high school, as a delicate and pretty girl from Jiangnan with fairly good grades, she naturally didn't lack handsome young boys confessing their feelings to her as they came of age.
But Su Mucheng felt indifferent and happened to have a slight crush only on the top boy in the grade, even though he was a little chubby like Zhang Zhou. His face also had many red pimples.
All in all, it demonstrated one thing.
Su Mucheng was a typical sufferer of sapiosexual attraction.
But she didn't care and actually relished the feeling of admiring intelligence.
After all, looks rapidly depreciate with age, but what intelligence leaves behind might be eternal.
So at this moment, Su Mucheng was genuinely captivated by what Zhang Zhou and Gu Zhengliang had said on WeChat.
Was the new student who suddenly joined the class really that strong?
Driven by overflowing curiosity, Su Mucheng opened the private chat with Lu Zhou: "Class president, is the new student really as amazing as you guys said?"