Two days had passed since he returned from Shanghai.
At the villa in Zhongshan International.
Lu Zhou was sitting in his second-floor study, examining the equations on his scratch paper, when a video call request suddenly popped up in the bottom-right corner of his computer screen.
Seeing that the call was from Xiao Tong, Lu Zhou put down his pen, took hold of the mouse, and clicked accept.
The moment her lively, adorable face appeared on the screen, her excited voice came rushing through.
"Big brother, you're famous!"
Lu Zhou looked at his sister, whose eyes were sparkling, in some bewilderment. After a moment's hesitation, he asked,
"What did I... do this time?"
Xiao Tong said, "Remember that paper you gave me a few days ago? Professor Krugman took it to a conference to show off... oh, no, to present it! Now the entire economics community is studying your L-Z model! If you could get on Facebook, you'd see people discussing it in pretty much any macroeconomics group you followed!"
"L... Z?"
"Yep! Professor Joseph named it himself!" Xiao Tong said excitedly.
Lu Zhou was speechless.
For fuck's sake!
These economists were worse at naming things than the last.
And to think I actually got my hopes up...
With a light cough, Lu Zhou continued, "Is that all?"
"What do you mean, is that all? That's already incredible! Oh, and there's more!" At this point, Xiao Tong sat cross-legged on her chair and continued with a mysterious look, "Apparently... someone has already sent a letter of recommendation to the Nobel committee, nominating you for this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences!"
Seeing Xiao Tong looking so excited and proud that she might as well have won the prize herself, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head. "You should pay more