Chapter 97 - 71: The School Takes Action
Chen Lin chuckled.
The title was questionable, but it summed things up pretty well.
He glanced at the video information. The uploader was an unknown, with only a few videos on their homepage and a pitifully small number of followers.
And yet, in less than twelve hours, the view count for the video this account had posted had already quietly passed the ten-thousand mark. When Chen Lin clicked on it, over a hundred people were currently watching, and the bullet comments and comment count were still climbing.
The video was already showing signs of going viral.
The recording started a few seconds after Shen Yan took the stage. The person filming seemed to be sitting quite a bit closer to the front than the Yannan University team, and their phone’s camera resolution was impressive. Even without deliberately zooming in, Shen Yan’s stunningly beautiful face was clearly visible.
At the very beginning of the video, the bullet comments were a peaceful sea of fawning.
[Math doesn’t lie, and neither does beauty!]
[I hereby declare her my new goddess! Who agrees? Who objects?]
[She could clearly make a living with her looks, but she has to go and use her talent. Is she trying to make us normal people feel bad?]
[Is this a novel heroine walking into real life or what...]
[Yannan University! I bow to the master! Her beauty and IQ are both on a level I can never hope to reach!]
[Miss, I passed my math class! Can I be your tea-fetcher?]
Then, the video cut to the judges’ panel, where Academician Liang Tianshi began his questioning. The tone of the bullet comments changed instantly, shifting from admiration for the beautiful woman to reverence for the academic titan.
[HOLY SHIT, Academician Liang Tianshi! Now that’s a *real* master!]
[Academician, former vice president of Huaqing University, and even a leader at the National Academy of Sciences... His resume is so bright it’s blinding!]
[A true national treasure!]
Soon, the video reached the part where Yang Han raised her hand to cause trouble. The bullet comments immediately fractured into several different camps, and a heated debate began.
[Here it comes, the classic mean girl moment.]
[She’s not jealous of Goddess Shen Yan, is she? Look at that glint in her eye, tsk tsk.]
[Jiangcheng University is a pretty good top-tier university, right? With this move, they’ve definitely made an enemy of Yannan University, lololol.]
[To be fair, I don’t think what she said is wrong. Verifying it would be fairer.]
[To the person above, did you not see her face? She has a classic VI! LLA! IN! OUS! FACE!]
[LMAO, so you start attacking her looks when you can’t refute the point, is that it?]
[To the person before, so telling the truth is an attack now?]
Just as the bullet comments were at their most chaotic, Chen Lin’s voice was heard in the video. Then, Chen Lin himself appeared on screen, walking briskly to the lectern.
In that instant, the entire screen first filled with question marks, followed by an even more ferocious explosion of comments.
[HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT! How is this guy so handsome too?!]
[Yannan University’s admission standards must include bonus points for good looks!]
[You guys, look at the way the guy and girl on stage are looking at each other! There’s definitely something going on! I’m shipping this couple, period!]
[Sob sob sob, they must be the male and female leads from a novel. Even the plot is just like a novel...]
[NO! I object to this union! My goddess! Am I going to lose her on the very first day I found her?]
[To the pathetic guy above, you never even had her, so how could you lose her?]
[I agree with the person above. They’re a talented man and a beautiful woman, a match made in heaven. What right does a monster like you have to object?]
Watching these comments, Chen Lin was secretly thrilled.
He wasn’t interested in his own problem-solving process, so he dragged the progress bar straight to the end.
By this point, the dense wall of bullet comments had completely transformed into a tide of worship and awe directed at him.
[??? I haven’t even figured out what the problem means, and the master already finished the proof?]
[What the heck is this Sylvester’s Theorem? Why can’t I understand a single word of it?]
[Hey, how come the god just writes and doesn’t explain? Let us mortals feel a little involved!]
[Even if he explained it, you wouldn’t understand. It’s enough that the academician understands.]
[It’s not just the commenters, there must have been a lot of math students in the audience, right? But they were all completely outshone by the god-tier student.]
[I’m numb. We’re all math students, but I just finished understanding the question, and he knew the solution at a glance.]
[I once heard that within a math department, the gap between people can be bigger than the gap between a person and a dog. Today, I believe it.]
The video ended abruptly there.
Not quite satisfied, Chen Lin scrolled down to the comment section below the video.
The top comment, with over a thousand likes, was clearly from someone who had been in the audience.
[The uploader didn’t record the whole thing! I was there, and they missed the most explosive part! After the god-tier student solved the problem, the whole place erupted in thunderous applause. Then he picked up the mic, called out that Yang Han from Jiangcheng University by name, and righteously demanded that she apologize to Goddess Shen Yan and Yannan University! The whole scene was epic!]
Reading this comment, Chen Lin couldn’t help but let the corners of his mouth lift again.
And in the replies below this comment, a massive thread had formed.
[That’s right, that’s right! I was there too! That Yang Han was stunned on the spot. Her face was pale, her eyes were blank, like her soul had left her body! It was so satisfying to watch!]
[Uhh, but still... Isn’t it a bit too harsh to humiliate a girl like that in front of so many people? Seems kind of malicious, no?]
[The bleeding heart above needs to tone it down. When Yang Han was baselessly slandering Shen Yan in public, why didn’t she think about whether she was humiliating Shen Yan? Is this a double standard or what?]
[Seconded! Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you. If you start a fight, you have to be ready to take the consequences!]
[Guessed the gender of the second commenter in 0.1 seconds.]
When Chen Lin saw that last reply, he almost laughed out loud.