Super God-Level Top Student

"The one the class leader mentioned in the group chat yesterday."

"Yeah."

"Is he really handsome?"

"Um..."

Su Mucheng paused, realizing she hadn't paid much attention to Qiao Ze's appearance yesterday, but she quickly responded, "If a man has to rely on his looks to attract people, that means his other aspects are definitely not dazzling enough. Qiao Ze is the type whose other strengths are so obvious that they even make you unconsciously overlook his appearance."

"Ah? Does he really have such long and big...Hahaha..."

The words blurted out by Lu Dandan left Su Mucheng stunned for a moment, but seeing her best friend and roommate bursting into laughter, she suddenly understood just how "dirty" that joke was.

"Ahhh! You're going to die! What are you saying! The strengths I'm talking about are intelligence, are agility. Where did your mind go?!"

"Hey, do you two have no public decency? It's early in the morning and you're so noisy!"

"What are you still sleeping for? Big news, our Chengzi has taken a liking to someone and is even planning to pursue him."

"Ah?"

The small dormitory of four suddenly became lively.

...

Li Jian Gao, who had almost not slept at all, was organizing some documents.

He planned to call Qiao Ze for lunch at noon to talk about life, academics, and career, and he also made some preparations.

If Qiao Ze still insisted on starting research in academics soon, Li Jian Gao was ready to give him his assistant professor's access rights. This way, Qiao Ze could easily check relevant literature and materials.

He was also thinking of ways to help this young guy get as many resources as possible.

But Li Jian Gao really didn't want to take advantage of Qiao Ze.

He could help with some auxiliary research, but the main credit should still go to the kid.

Because deep down, Li Jian Gao had some expectations too.

He truly wanted to see if Qiao Ze could solve the mass gap problem that had stumped many scientists for half a century.

After organizing everything that could help Qiao Ze into a folder, Li Jian Gao finally left the house, ready to go to work.

As he walked into the institute, he overheard two people ahead of him talking about him.

"Professor Zhao, have you heard? A few days ago Li Jian Gao went to a conference in Xingcheng and apparently dug up a promising youngster from some high school. It's said he is really impressive, scored full marks on the paper left by Luo in just half an hour."

"Oh, is that so? I hadn't heard about it, but the young people these days are indeed much more impressive than we were. Just yesterday, I received an email from a doctoral student from somewhere, discussing the paper I published last year. His points were quite sensible. Ah... I'm starting to wonder if we're getting old."

Li Jian Gao, silently following behind, didn't think much of their conversation and just quickened his pace to catch up with the two, to avoid an awkward situation when they turned around.

"Professor Zhao, Professor Zhou, good morning."

"Well, speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Just now, I was telling Professor Zhao about the promising student you found. I heard that yesterday you made Xu very happy. What's the situation with that student? How does the institute plan to arrange things?" Professor Zhou asked curiously.

Li Jian Gao smiled and answered, "Qiao Ze, that kid, how to put it..."

"Wait! What did you just say the kid's name was?"

No sooner had Li Jian Gao spoken than Zhao Guangyao, who had been smiling and listening to the conversation, interjected with a strange expression to interrupt Li Jian Gao's introduction.

"Qiao Ze? What about it?"

"Is it Qiao from 'Qiao Qian' and Ze from 'grace under heaven'?"

"Um... yes! Professor Zhao, do you know him?"

Not a PhD student, just a high school student?!

For a moment, Zhao Guangyao felt his brain was about to explode.

But in front of his two colleagues, he was too embarrassed to mention the letter he received last night. It would be one thing if it were a PhD student, but he was schooled by a high school student?!

So he immediately found an excuse, explaining somewhat frantically, "It's nothing, probably just a kid with the same name as a friend's. Just remembered my friend's kid is already in university, definitely not the one you're talking about."

"Oh!" Li Jian Gao suddenly nodded in understanding, although Qiao wasn't a very common surname, it wasn't rare either.

"So this kid is staying directly at school?" Zhao Guangyao asked, quite guilty.

"Yes, starting today he's attending classes with the 23rd foundational math class, and next semester he'll jump straight into second year." Li Jian Gao explained.

"Ah? How did that work out?" The other two professors were also taken aback upon hearing this.

After all, the new school year hadn't started yet, and in theory, students hadn't even been enrolled.

"It was Dean Xu's decision," Li Jian Gao explained simply.

"Huh... no wonder... Speaking of which, yesterday afternoon, Xu suddenly notified several lecturers and professors to have an impromptu meeting, suggesting that this year's foundational class exams should be made as difficult as possible. It wasn't for this kid, was it?"

"Possibly." Li Jian Gao nodded with resignation.

"Haha, really now? That is tough. The questions should be made as difficult as possible, but we also have to ensure the failure rate doesn't exceed 20%. I heard that this year the basic class's regular grades will be adjusted to 40%. Otherwise, we can't maintain the pass rate."

"Hehe." Li Jian Gao subconsciously wiped his forehead.

The students must never find out about this.

Otherwise, Li Jian Gao felt that it might be too harsh on the kids, they might even isolate Qiao Ze.

He was even beginning to doubt whether his wish for Qiao Ze to have a normal university life was right.

After all, the kid was too exceptional...

Sigh...

"Alright, I won't chat any more. I still have a meeting to attend today, need to get some stuff from the office before heading out. Introduce that kid to me later, I want to see for myself what kind of kid would make Xu so brazen," Professor Zhou said, patting Li Jian Gao on the shoulder.

"Yes, sure, Professor Zhou."

Watching Professor Zhou leave quickly, Li Jian Gao suddenly felt Professor Zhao looking at him with a very odd, unnatural expression.

"Professor Zhao, is there something you need?"

"Um... it's just that you often... with that Qiao Ze... sigh, never mind! I'll be heading out too, have a meeting with a student." After saying this, Zhao Guangyao also left quickly.

He ultimately didn't have the guts to tell Li Jian Gao that his paper was scorned by a high school student.

And he regretted even more that he replied to Qiao Ze's letter yesterday.

So embarrassing!

Just thinking about it was disheartening!

Li Jian Gao looked suspiciously at Zhao Guangyao's retreating back, but he didn't think too much about it.

He had plenty of things to deal with today, too.

Like going to see if Dean Xu had any insights, and if Qiao Ze really wanted to start a project, how much the institute could help.

He had thought about it all of last night, and using Group Theory to construct a self-supervised feature decoupling framework was truly promising.