[Dear Professor Lu Zhou, I apologize for disturbing you amid your busy schedule!]
[I know that by the time you received this letter, you had surely already prepared your words of refusal, perhaps even begun writing them! But please, I sincerely ask you not to reject me so quickly.]
[For as long as Economics has existed, the rational allocation of social resources has been its eternal question. With the arrival of the twenty-first century, computers and Mathematics opened a new door for our research. Yet what troubled us was that focusing on one discipline often made it difficult to attend to other fields. Great scholars like Nash, willing to cast aside prejudice, were simply far too rare for us!]
[I once tried to study those obscure and incomprehensible numbers, but regrettably, at my age, many things were no longer within my control, no matter how much I wished otherwise.]
[As for me, I could guess that your face had already taken on an impatient expression. Listening to a miserable old man complain was indeed not very interesting. But I was still grateful that you had not tossed this letter into a shredder and had patiently read this far.]
[An international macroeconomics conference will be held in Shanghai two weeks from now, in your country. If you have the time, why not come?]
[I would like to speak with you face-to-face. At the same time, I hope you can see that your academic achievements are shining brilliantly on a brand-new stage that you do not yet fully understand.]
[I look forward to meeting you!]
He was starting to pester me relentlessly, huh...
That persistence was almost on par with an insurance telemarketer's.
Sitting in the lounge of the Great Hall, Lu Zhou had already changed into a suit. He crossed his