What Ye Xunzhi did not know was that, not far behind her, Shi Dashang had quietly stepped back and begun observing her in secret.
He, Shi Dashang, was twenty-eight this year. Beneath his rugged, six-foot-three exterior lay a gentle, sensitive heart.
While his peers were still agonizing over geometry proofs, he had already pulled far ahead, teaching himself Fourier series.
But did you think his goal was graduate school? No, his heart held the stars and the sea!
Ever since childhood, Shi Dashang had aspired to become a diligent gardener in his motherland's flower beds, raising these little brats into talented people who would serve their country in the future.
Today, Gardener Shi was making his usual rounds of his flower beds when he discovered a Ye Xunzhi slacking off...
She was wearing a sleep mask printed with big Carslan eyes, sleeping soundly, trying to get away with it by looking cute.
How could he stand for this?
She had even put on a sleep mask. Clearly, this had been planned, leaving Shi Dashang no chance to find an excuse for her. What happened to yearning to swim in the ocean of knowledge?!
He strode forward with an arrogant, splay-footed gait, an eight-hundred-word lecture instantly forming in his mind. Just as it was about to come pouring out, Ye Xunzhi woke up.
But instead of the grogginess he had expected from someone who had just woken, Ye Xunzhi glanced at the Biology Teacher as though she had yet to register what was happening, then lowered her head and began reading a question with a look of sheer terror.
What was going on? A guess suddenly surfaced in Shi Dashang's mind. Could this child have been... searching for truth in her dreams?!
It was an outrageous guess, but she was a