Super God-Level Top Student

When the school administration planned to seriously respond to the issue, their reaction was extremely swift.

That very day, the school's video channel was updated with a new video pinned to the top—remarkably simple, featuring a letter of request for the school and higher authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the School of Mathematics for any academic misconduct in recent years.

But the comments section was intense.

It compiled all the academic achievements of the Xilin University of Technology Mathematics Institute from the past three years, inviting experts from all walks of life to help find evidence of academic dishonesty.

You must admit, it required tremendous courage.

This almost resolute stance made many people start to have their doubts.

What the hell is this approach?

Of course, the prepared responses were not limited to just that.

Over ten short video accounts related to Xilin University of Technology became active that afternoon.

They updated with a bunch of videos in an instant.

Videos of the school's various beautiful sights, the library's quiet study rooms, the sunshine-soaked youths on the playground, lab technicians working earnestly and meticulously, teachers lecturing attentively in class, teachers encircled by a group of students after class, patiently clarifying doubts; scenes of various club activities; as well as the tidy and clean canteen, all kinds of delicious food, and the beautiful and elegant senior girls with handsome and sunny senior boys...

In short, the publicity departments did a good job grasping the heat of the moment. Now, if you just searched for Xilin University of Technology, and flipped through the small videos below, you would get a deep impression of this prestigious double first-class university.

Putting aside any issues of academic conduct, these videos at least showed that the academic atmosphere and the students' spirit at this school were without a doubt, impeccable.

Beyond these, students majoring in new media at the school also released several interview videos focusing on the students from the elite mathematics class.

Probably the most popular was the interview with Qiao Ze's roommates.

After all, Zhang Zhou and Gu Zhengliang, one plump and one slim, stood in front of the camera, creating a quite amusing and eye-catching image.

"...Speaking of Qiao Ze, we had quite a laugh over the comments online. Things like 'high school student fabricating results,' why don't these people think about it? A high school student, would the school not consider this? If he really falsified things, would we dare to release promotional videos like that? They really think we're all idiots, right?"

After Zhang Zhou finished this sentence, he looked at Gu Zhengliang and they exchanged a smile, almost as if relieved from a burden.

"So, what is your impression of Qiao Ze?" the background voice directly asked the key question.

Zhang Zhou took the lead and said, "Ah... speaking of Qiao Ze, he showed us his mettle from the very first day."

Gu Zhengliang immediately took over, "Yeah, yeah, that day Zhang Zhou invited him to dinner, but guess what Qiao Ze was doing? He was actually sitting at his desk, reading pure English mathematics articles. Oh right, Zhang Zhou, what did he say when you asked him to eat?"

"Cough cough..." Zhang Zhou cleared his throat and then began to imitate Qiao Ze's tone, "Before I came here, I heard that geometry was a strong subject at the Institute, so I wanted to see what level the professors were at. But from what I can tell, it's pretty average, nothing innovative."

"Right, right, not his exact words, but you get the gist. You have no idea how blown away we were when we heard Qiao Ze say that! Just like the netizens, we thought this guy was full of it! But guess what happened? Just because Zhang Zhou and I thought Qiao Ze was exaggerating, he actually wrote a letter to Professor Zhao Guangyao of our Institute, critiquing his paper thoroughly.

That very night, Professor Zhao replied, acknowledging his points humbly and even asking which geometry master Qiao Ze was the disciple of! Ha ha..."

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And so, the two went back and forth, recounting one memorable event after another that Qiao Ze had done since arriving at the dorm.

"...I'm telling you, we also have a Chen Yiwen in our dorm, he just got lucky and was pulled into a project by Qiao Ze, even ended up as third author! Actually, we could have done it too! They should be in the research group right now."

"And there's our class rep, a very pretty girl, who fell for Qiao Ze at first sight, you have no idea..."

"Gu, we really shouldn't gossip about this..."

"Oh, please cut this out, cut it out..."

Honestly, when they got excited in the interview, not only did they start gesturing wildly, but they even exuded an inexplicable sense of superiority, the kind that's hard for viewers to understand... These two kids must be a bit off their rocker, otherwise why would they get so worked up when praising someone else?

Of course, the interviews were not just about Qiao Ze's two roommates.

Compared to Zhang Zhou and Gu Zhengliang, other people were much more normal.

"Ah... can we not talk about Qiao Ze? I'm almost traumatized. I've never even been to college, and just because he showed up, the difficulty level of our basic mathematics class exams, I suspect, was on par with college student math competitions.

You might not believe it, but Qiao Ze could finish the test in less than half an hour, while the rest of us, even with open book exams, saw many students break down and cry! Like, actually crying... especially during the Mathematics Analysis 2 exam, there was a whole wave of tears in the exam room, right?"

"...Don't believe it? Ah, we happened to copy down the exam questions. Take a photo for everyone to see. Are these questions you'd normally expect on a final exam? I think the professors at the school are overthinking. They want to stump Qiao Ze, but they don't push hard enough, and instead, they're annihilating the rest of us!

Seriously, if the Institute hadn't said that starting next year Qiao Ze wouldn't be taking exams with us, I'd have to change my major, or I'd rather drop out. It's just too demoralizing. It's the first time in my life I've felt I might not be cut out for math."