Chapter 574 - Chapter 574: 226 He Wen is back, Lan Jie invited the great god_4

Chapter 574: 226 He Wen is back, Lan Jie invited the great god_4

Noticing the direction of Bai Shaoke’s gaze fixed on the screen.

Bai Shaoke was willing to spend money, and many instruments for Professor Jiang’s projects were sponsored by Bai Shaoke. Plus, he was smart, so Professor Jiang brought him along, “What is it?”

“This person,” Bai Shaoke said, pointing at the name “Bai Lian,” his eyelashes drooping, “seems to be a girl.”

Women have always faced prejudice in science.

When Professor Jiang heard the word “girl,” his brow furrowed, “I saw their team won awards in the last two competitions, how come there’s a girl? I’ll ask.”

As the competition’s advising teacher, if his team won an award, he might also be promoted.

But it required students to win a breakthrough award.

**

At night.

Bai Lian hadn’t returned to Shanhai Apartment yet; she had to choose a topic tomorrow afternoon. She just turned off the computer in the computer room when she received a call from Jiang Fulai.

“Haven’t come out yet?” His voice was unhurried.

“Just shut down the computer.” Bai Lian put away the books next to her, picked up the folding fan, and then stood up.

Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong were with her; Xu Wenyao was going back to the Xu Family today, and he would stay at Jiangjing University for the next four days.

The three had just taken a few steps when a teacher ahead of them came in, looking at Xu Wenyao and the others, “Is Bai Lian your member?”

Hearing her name, Bai Lian told Jiang Fulai and hung up the phone, “That’s me, teacher.”

The teacher glanced at her, nodded, and didn’t ask anything more.

Bai Lian’s senses were better than the average person’s; she heard him making a call, “Professor Jiang, it’s indeed a girl.”

It was dark, and the streetlights illuminated the campus.

Jiang Fulai stood under a streetlight, tall and graceful, with a hat perched on his head, the light casting his cool silhouette very long.

“Boyuan modeling competition?” Jiang Fulai looked at the lights in the teaching building and knew what she was up to.

“Yeah,” Bai Lian put her Bluetooth earphones in her ears, “picking the topic tomorrow.”

Jiang Fulai nodded, leading her to the side of a car.

Ming Dongheng drove a black car today, probably his own, very low-key.

Bai Lian’s phone vibrated, a three-person modeling group chat with Xu Wenyao and the others.

Xu Wenyao: [[Screenshot]]

Chen Hong: [Ah, do we not have an advising teacher now?]

Xu Wenyao: [Mutual]

He was concise, and Chen Hong understood: [So you’re saying Professor Jiang doesn’t want to choose us, right? Why so sudden?]

The Boyuan numerical modeling advising teacher could provide some ideas during the competition but was not supposed to be too involved.

Some teams had no advising teacher, so they just filled in anybody’s name.

Bai Lian read these messages slowly.

And scrolled down.

He Wen: [Didn’t get scolded much today]

So, she still got scolded.

Bai Lian: [.]

He Wen: [When will you read the paper?]

Bai Lian: [After the competition]

**

At 6 p.m. on July 10, the Boyuan numerical modeling competition topics were updated.

Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong were choosing topics in the computer room.

The website was lagging, and none of their computers managed to access it until 6:05 p.m.

There were three types of problems labeled A, B, and C, with C being the easiest and A the hardest. Few picked A, and both Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong went straight to C.

Problem C was about optimization design.

Bai Lian sat in front of her computer, didn’t flip further, and only looked at Problem A.

Problem A was more complex, with a four-page long description. It was about the optimization adjustment of an astronomical telescope, with an actively controlled concave spherical reflector. The modeling required solving three problems.

Bai Lian read through the problem line by line.

Xu Wenyao, seeing her focus solely on the last problem, couldn’t help but speak up, “Alian, Problem A is too difficult for us.”

Next to him, Chen Hong was also taken aback and said in a low voice, “Junior, let’s choose C. This time the A problem is too tough. I guess there are only a handful of groups in the entire school daring to pick it.”

“Choose A,” Bai Lian tapped her fingertips on the table, giving them just two words.

Xu Wenyao turned his computer screen to Problem A and saw the astronomical telescope. A vein throbbed on his forehead. He was confident in choosing C, “I can’t be sure about Problem A.”

He shook his head.

“I didn’t ask you to do it,” Bai Lian said, already having an idea as she pondered the problem.

“Junior, calm down,” Chen Hong discussed with her calmly, “We mainly don’t have a mentor this time…”

Bai Lian picked up a bottle of mineral water next to her, twisted it open with one hand, took a sip, waited for him to finish speaking, and then looked at Chen Hong with a lazy tone, “Who says we don’t have a mentor?”

“Huh?” Chen Hong was surprised. Had Bai Lian found a mentor at a time like this?

Bai Lian lifted her chin and pointed to his phone, “I invited him to the group.”

Chen Hong and Xu Wenyao picked up their phones—

[Bai Lian invited “Stand Straight When Scolded” to the group]

Stand Straight When Scolded: [Location]

Without a word, he sent a succinct location tag.

Bai Lian: [1]

After copying down the modeling problem, she propped herself up from the table, stood up, and looked at Chen Hong and Xu Wenyao, “Let’s go, he’s waiting for us.”

Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong shut down their computers, followed Bai Lian, and exchanged glances. They tapped on the location; it was the Losun café on campus.

This café—

Was located under the doctoral dormitory building Number One at Jiangjing University.

Building Number One.

This was where the brainpower ceiling of Jiang University resided. The doctoral students living in Building One had mentors who might well be academicians. These residents were almost mythical figures, with most conducting research under renowned academicians. Moreover…

Half of the distinguished alumni came from this place.

Building One was quite far; they took the campus shuttle and walked for another ten minutes through a path before reaching the café.

Bai Lian walked in through the door without hesitating.

Chen Hong stood beside Xu Wenyao, “Wenyao, which big shot did our junior find?”

As he spoke, Bai Lian had already come to a halt.

The young man was seated by the floor-to-ceiling windows, dressed in a short T-shirt with a silver laptop in front and one leg casually draped over the other. He was typing with one hand and sipping coffee from a cup held in the other.

Upon noticing Bai Lian, he set down his cup and stood up, “You were right. I haven’t been scolded in the past couple of days.”

Bai Lian pulled out a chair and sat down, “Not bad.”

The young man handed her a milk tea from beside him, “The school doesn’t have cherry flavor, so strawberry will have to do,” his gaze shifted to the two still standing there, “These are your two teammates?”

He turned his head slightly, allowing Chen Hong and Xu Wenyao to finally see his face clearly.

On the stone plaque behind the celebrity statue on campus, his ID photo was posted.

He Wen.