Wang Yun, a top student at Haicheng High School.
Under normal circumstances, she should have been competing in the world's most renowned AAPT PhysicsBowl competition across the ocean on March 30 next year.
Then she would have smoothly received a guaranteed admission to a nationally prestigious university, or gone abroad to join the Ivy League.
If not for wanting to be closer to Liu Dezhu, she should have transferred schools to become a science-track student.
Yet now, in order to get close to Nan Gengchen and Qing Chen, Wang Yun had deliberately picked an easy geometric sequence problem, only to be mistaken for a poor student at the bottom of the class.
Her pride simply could not get past this!
Just as Wang Yun wanted to argue with Nan Gengchen, Bai Wan'er promptly grabbed her and whispered, "A small intolerance ruins great plans. Did you forget what Xiaoniu said? Hold it in!"
"Hold it in," Wang Yun said, taking a deep breath as she returned to her seat.
Meanwhile, Nan Gengchen was still muttering beside Qing Chen, "Do you think she asked me to explain a problem because she likes me?"
Qing Chen had no intention of responding to that. Instead, he suddenly asked, "Did you get involved with the hacking industry in the Inner World? Otherwise, why are you always buried in programming books?"
"No," Nan Gengchen said guiltily. "It's just a hobby. I'm learning it for fun."
At that moment, Qing Chen suddenly realized that he ought to learn something too.
Although the Inner World's technology far surpassed that of the Outer World, that did not mean knowledge was completely useless in the Outer World.
For instance, chess had been his foot in the door at Prison No. 18.
Wait. Qing Chen suddenly knew what he needed to