Peh!

In the golden October, Jinling was at its most beautiful.

It felt as though only yesterday, blazing summer sunlight had filtered through gaps in the leaves and danced across the ground. In the blink of an eye, the autumn leaves blanketing the mountains had turned golden, and after just one rain, they had scattered across the ground. Stepping on the golden ginkgo leaves, a young group chatted and laughed as they walked along the mountain road, seemingly no different from the other tourists passing by.

"I'm exhausted."

"Who told you to wear high heels?"

"I thought the minibus would take us straight to the hotel entrance. Who knew we'd still have to walk there... Ow, it hurts so much."

"Look, there are quite a few handsome guys from the School of Mathematics."

"Wow, look, look, Professor Lu is here too..."

"..."

Lu Zhou did not know whether it was just his imagination, but as he walked alongside the main group, he kept feeling people staring at him from behind.

And it was more than one pair of eyes.

Walking beside Lu Zhou, Wang Peng let his gaze wander over both sides of the road and suddenly remarked, "I've been in Jinling for almost two years, yet this is my first time coming here."

Luo Wenxuan said lazily, "Heh, forget two years. I spent four years here for undergrad and two for my master's, and I never came here once."

"Two years for a master's?" Wang Peng looked at him in surprise.

"Yeah. I got an offer from Princeton in my second year, so I went straight there."

This was the one thing Senior Brother Luo was still quite proud of.

Even at Jinling University, where talent was everywhere, receiving a PhD offer from Princeton—and from the renowned Professor Edward Witten,