Recaps

Jiang Fan unlocked the Technology System with a perfect college entrance exam score, then used its controlled nuclear fusion research to draw the attention of Dragon Country’s leading scientists and officials. He left for the Capital to present his plan, ending the arc by asking Zhou Huaide for ten billion in funding and claiming he could achieve fusion within a year.

• After the scheduled exam was canceled, Jiang Fan took the college entrance exam, scored 300, and unlocked the Technology System, which gave him controlled nuclear fusion formulas.
• Jiang Fan emailed his research to Dragon University of Science and Technology, and Dean Li and other experts verified its calculations with Huaqing’s supercomputer.
• Jiang Fan spent time with Chu Ruoxi while officials arranged his admission and secured his research documents, then armed officers arrived to take him into government custody.
• At school, Jiang Fan protected Chu Ruoxi from Liu Zhi and explained his fusion research to Zhou Huaide, who invited him to join the national project.
• Jiang Fan said goodbye to his parents, accepted a one-million-yuan reward, and flew with Zhou Huaide to the Capital.
• Jiang Fan presented his controlled nuclear fusion theory and implementation plan to the experts, who questioned him about his projected timeline.
• Jiang Fan first estimated fusion would take five years, then told Zhou Huaide he needed only one year and requested ten billion in funding.

Jiang Fan helped Zhou Huaide’s team achieve controlled nuclear fusion lasting 118 seconds, earning major honors while the breakthrough was kept secret. He chose Dragon University of Science and Technology, reunited with Chu Ruoxi, and began his university life by astonishing everyone in the freshman math challenge.

• Chu Ruoxi learned that Jiang Fan had gone to the Capital and discovered that he had deliberately kept his exam scores at exactly 300, while Zhou Huaide fought to save his fusion project from being shut down.
• Qiao Yifei toured Huaqing University with Jiang Fan, who explained a new nanoscale optical interferometry technique that she and Qiao Shan successfully tested.
• At the Northern Controlled Nuclear Fusion Base, Jiang Fan became chief engineer and led eighteen researchers in rebuilding the tokamak despite doubts and shortages.
• Jiang Fan’s team completed the modifications, fixed a loose ignition wire, and achieved a fusion reaction that remained stable for 118 seconds as officials watched remotely.
• Dragon Country’s leaders kept the breakthrough secret and awarded Jiang Fan a professorship, second-class merit, five million in cash, lieutenant colonel rank, and Level One confidentiality protection.
• Mayor Deng presented Jiang Fan’s second-class merit at his home, and Jiang Fan chose Dragon University of Science and Technology before receiving the system’s mathematical knowledge reward.
• Jiang Fan reunited with Chu Ruoxi, learned she had been posing as Little Wildcat, and agreed to attend Dragon University of Science and Technology while she enrolled at Huaqing.
• At university, Jiang Fan accepted Elder Long as his teacher, chose space science, and joined a mecha project before entering the freshman math challenge.
• Jiang Fan solved the challenge’s opening problems with remarkable speed and completed the rare Death Question in 5 minutes and 21 seconds, stunning the students watching.