Tomorrow We'll Be Leaving for Faraway Places-Let's Drink to That

The host was speechless. Shen Qi, what you said was pointless!

However, the director did not pause filming again. The usual phrases, such as "listen to the teacher, accumulate knowledge and do more practice questions," took on a different meaning when spoken by Shen Qi.

Shen Qi continued, "I think summarizing and generalizing the knowledge we've learned is also very important. This requires the students watching on TV to organize it themselves. The teacher mainly focuses on directional content and provides guidance. Actually, I got a perfect score of 750 this time. There might have been some luck involved in Chinese and English, but for me, not getting a perfect score in the four science subjects would have been a failure."

"Why am I so strong in Science and Engineering, and biology? Because I frequently summarize and write reflections, constantly organizing my knowledge structure to avoid the meaningless accumulation of large amounts of information."

"Take mathematics as an example. I could write a whole book about my experiences. Whether it's competitions or the college entrance exam, I've never gotten a score other than perfect in math. That's the importance of self-reflection and summarization."

The provincial TV station's interview with Shen Qi aired the following evening, attracting widespread attention from the public.

At Shen Qi's home.

Shen Zhishan kept answering and hanging up the phone. His primary identity was Shen Qi's father, his secondary identity was Boss Shen in the company, and his third identity was Shen Qi's part-time agent.

"Hello, who are you from? XX channel, XX program team? This is a variety show, right?"

"My son doesn't want to go on entertainment programs; it's not in line with his status."

"He could consider science education and discovery programs."

"Hello Manager He, that book by Shen Qi? Oh, you can offer 100,000 yuan to buy it out."

"Sorry, Shen Qi doesn't want to sell the books anymore. Goodbye."

"Mr. Shang, hello, hello, long time no see. Oh, you want to publish and sell Shen Qi's book on math insights, with revenue sharing based on sales? That's negotiable, very negotiable."

Shen Zhishan was very busy, as he had a lot of complicated business to handle for Shen Qi.

The top scorer in the college entrance examination appeared on television and was broadcast nationwide, bringing Shen Qi's fame to the peak of his eighteen-year life. His previously written, yet unpublished, Math Secret Manual saw its value skyrocket.

"New achievement! Congratulations, host, on publishing a book, further enhancing your social reputation. You are hereby awarded 30,000 Academic Points. You have 94,607 Academic Points remaining. Please confirm."

At the end of July, Shen Qi's book, "The <Olympic Math Champion Shen Qi's Math Techniques>," finally went into printing and will be available for sale in August.

The publisher changed, Shen Qi signed his name as the second party in the contract, which made the contract legally binding.

The publisher that signed the contract offered Shen Qi favorable business terms. After the book, "The <Olympic Math Champion Shen Qi's Math Techniques>," was published, the sales revenue would be split between the publisher and publisher according to a certain percentage based on the sales volume.

Unknown writers often don't enjoy this kind of revenue sharing; it's normal for publishers to give them tens of thousands or at most a hundred thousand yuan for a buyout.

Shen Qi is not a famous writer; he can't even be considered a writer.

The halo of a perfect scorer in the college entrance examination shines brightly, and the titles of champion in the Olympic Math champion and the Physics Competition champion are like wings to a tiger.

Shen Qi, a relatively unknown author who was only 18 years old, published a book during his summer vacation before his senior year of high school, aiming to help high school students improve their math scores.

Looking back on his three years of high school, Shen Qi realized he hadn't accomplished much. He had won a few subject competitions, been the top scorer in the Gaokao Top Scholar, and published a book—that was about it.

Years later, the trivialities of high school life may be completely forgotten, but what will be remembered are probably these few champions, one top scorer, and one book.

With university just around the corner, it's time to get back into the swing of things. Shen Qi is focusing his attention back on math. With only a month left, he can put biology and chemistry aside for now, but he needs to work on physics as well.

Having advanced to level 7 in mathematics, Shen Qi's deductive reasoning, insight, and judgment in the field of mathematics have significantly improved. Looking back at his previous paper, "Some New Solution Methods for Second-Order Linear Non-homogeneous Differential Equation with Constant Coefficients," he thought, "It's too superficial, too low-level. How could I have written such a shallow and unsophisticated paper?"

Second-order linear nonhomogeneous differential Differential Equation with constant coefficients are a topic that is typically studied by undergraduate students and is not considered particularly advanced.

These past few days, Shen Qi has been conducting in-depth research on the multiplicity relation of eigenvalues of higher-order Ordinary Differential Equations operators, namely the Strom-Liouville problem.

The standard Sturm-Liouville problem is a classic problem. By leveraging the geometric structure of the boundary condition space, we can perform in-depth analysis of the analytic multiplicity of the eigenvalues of self-adjoint higher-order Ordinary Differential Equations operators.

Shen Qi has made some progress on the Sturm-Liuwell issue, but there are also obstacles.

Shen Qi tries to use geometric methods for algebraic problems that can be solved using geometric analysis, and he tries to incorporate algebra into geometric problems that can be solved using algebra. In fact, in contemporary mathematics, algebra and geometry are becoming increasingly inseparable. Pure algebra and pure geometry can also achieve results, but it is becoming increasingly difficult.

Shen Qi will never forget that speech at Peking University: number theory plus Algebraic Geometry is the direction for mathematics to achieve Grand Unification.

He knew he still had a lot to learn and a lot to do.

Regardless, although the paper "Some New Solutions to Second-Order Linear Non-homogeneous Differential Equation with Constant Coefficients" is quite low-quality, Shen Qi has still published papers before, and even a paper in a regular journal is still a paper.

This is academic capital. Even though this little bit of capital is almost negligible, and the goal of reaching top-tier or second-tier status is still a long way off, it's better to have it than nothing.

Before heading to the capital, Shen Qi treated a few of his high school friends to a meal.

"Come on, we're all adults now, please raise your glasses and drink this." Shen Qi picked up his beer glass, fulfilling his duty as host. He was treating everyone today, after all, he was about to publish a book and start earning money.

"Cheers!" Xu Rui said without hesitation, tilting his head back and downing a glass of beer.

"Then... then I'll drink it too?" Chen Xiaoting took a small sip of wine.

"Chen Xiaoting, stop keeping goldfish! We're not leaving until we're drunk!" Xu Rui urged, his tone intimidating.

"I can't drink alcohol!" Chen Xiaoting only took a small sip and refused to drink a second one, no matter what.

"Shen Qi invited you to drink and you refused? How can you do this? Doesn't your conscience hurt?" Xu Rui rebuked him three times in a very serious manner.

"I..." Chen Xiaoting hesitated greatly, and it was clear that she was afraid of alcohol.

Xu Rui sighed with particular emotion, "I'm so pitiful, all alone, without anyone like me. Teacher Zhang has never assigned me a deskmate, not even a male one. Chen Xiaoting, you and Shen Qi have been deskmates for so many years, shouldn't you have a lot of respect for Shen Qi? Don't you know whether he's good to you or not? Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore, we're all old classmates, it's too hurtful to talk about it."

"I..." Chen Xiaoting glanced at Shen Qi furtively, then quickly raised her glass. "Shen Qi, thank you. Without your help and guidance, I wouldn't have been able to get into the University of Media. I'll drink this, you can drink as you like!"

Glug glug.

Let's get started.

Chen Xiaoting downed a glass of beer; it was draft beer, and a glass of it was quite a large portion.

"Hey, is this too much of a show of bravado?" Shen Qi asked Chen Xiaoting. Ha, women, they're such irrational creatures, drinking heavily at the drop of a hat.

"It's... it's a small problem!" Chen Xiaoting blushed, patting her not-so-large chest to indicate that she was calm.

After finishing, Chen Xiaoting poured herself another glass of draft beer and incoherently shouted, "Come on, drink... this one... there are three more..."

"She went crazy after just one drink?" Xu Rui had finally witnessed Chen Xiaoting's drinking capacity firsthand; was she the legendary "one-drink wonder"?