Super God-Level Top Student

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"I was wrong, boss! You know, I've always thought you and Qiao are a match made in heaven. Besides, even if that little junior has a crush, she'd give up the moment she saw you."

"You always talk too much. Fine. I'll ask Qiao later and let you know in the afternoon."

"Boss, you're awesome!"

After sending a exaggerated emoji, Chen Yiwen quickly disappeared.

Su Mucheng lifted her head, sneaking a glance at Qiao Ze opposite her. Then she realized Qiao Ze was also looking at her, obviously aware of her slacking off just now. A smile immediately appeared on her face, "Qiao, Chen Yiwen was saying he wants to treat us to dinner tonight."

"Okay, Third Canteen," Qiao Ze nodded.

Although he rarely, no, had never invited anyone out for a meal before, if someone around him insisted on treating him, Qiao Ze didn't mind.

There were no complicated thoughts about giving or losing face, simply because people need to eat.

As long as they didn't go too far away, it was fine.

"Alright, then I'll tell him that later. Oh right, he said there might be a few junior girls joining us."

"Oh."

"By the way, Qiao, there's another thing, I almost forgot. Yesterday Liu Chenfeng said that Xu wrote an article and was going to print it out for you to read, but I thought there was no need for that, so I just sent you the link directly. Do you want to take a look at it now?"

"Sure."

Su Mucheng picked up her phone and forwarded the link Liu Chenfeng sent her the day before to Qiao Ze.

Qiao Ze opened it and glanced through; more than five thousand words, read in two minutes.

Once again, it was confirmed, being a dean indeed meant an abundance of leisure time.

Recalling what Hanna mentioned last night, Qiao Ze said, "Invite Xu and Hanna to join us for dinner tonight."

"Uh, then I'll ask if Dean Xu is free."

"How could he possibly be busy?" Qiao Ze corrected her.

Hanna, who had been carefully studying a paper nearby, looked up in confusion—she thought she heard her name. "Did someone call me?" she asked.

Qiao Ze glanced at Hanna's confused expression and asked, "Have you finished reading the material?"

Hanna's eyes gradually cleared as she looked at Qiao Ze, then silently shook her head, "I need more time."

Qiao Ze had said Hanna would understand the paper, and clearly, this assessment was not wrong.

Since Hanna studied quantum computing, she was already working within the intersection of mathematics and quantum physics.

Moreover, she was reading these materials with the mindset of finding faults.

Yet so far, she couldn't pinpoint any obvious errors.

It's worth noting that what Qiao Ze gave her was not a paper, not even a first draft—these could at best be categorized as a thought process.

But even so, all these thoughts and drafts were very rigorous.

However, these weren't the most important aspects.
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What mattered was that she could feel the author's ambition from these thought processes.

Although it wasn't a very famous conjecture, if the paper could withstand scrutiny, it meant the author was attempting to build a new bridge.

This new bridge would make it easier for many to cross over and study the underlying logic of the most fundamental aspects of matter.

The Yang-Mills Equations had also served as such a bridge in the past, even if narrow and lacking known solutions in the mathematically strict sense.

But physicists still developed the Higgs Mechanism, Quantum Chromodynamics, and the electroweak unification theory through this set of equations.

It can be said that the modern standard model of elementary particles is built upon the foundation of the Yang-Mills Theory.

The Yang-Mills Theory also attempts to provide a geometrical approach.

The material Qiao Ze gave her to read let Hanna sense the real possibility of geometrizing the various particle issues.

The sophisticated geometrical structures like Lie groups and fiber bundles could not fully describe the fundamental forces.

The prospect that this guy, younger than her, was attempting to claim this prized gem so cherished by the Western academic community left her with mixed emotions, and as a result, she began to look at Qiao Ze differently.

Although a paper written solely from these ideas was far from claiming the laurels, there was one thing Hanna could affirm.

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This paper, once published, will undoubtedly cause an earthquake in the academic world.

Because it offers a new possibility, one that breaks away from String Theory, a new possibility for a unified field theory. Or rather, it suggests the possibility of considering Lie groups, String Theory, and unified field theory together.

Hanna looked at Qiao Ze, utterly unable to imagine that these ideas really came from this seemingly ordinary guy.

...

Qiao Ze said, "You can look as long as you want, I just want you to understand what the meaning of academic research is."

Hanna looked at Qiao Ze, not knowing how to respond to his words.

She certainly understood the meaning.

But does something being meaningful necessarily mean one must pursue it?

If Qiao Ze really could solve the problem she envisioned, he would leave a mark on human civilization and the history of science and technology as profound as Einstein, Newton, or even possibly more so.

But is this really a problem an ordinary person can solve?

The greater likelihood is one might devote themselves to this career and end up wasting their life with nothing to show for it.

No, that doesn't seem to apply to the overly young guy in front of her, since his achievements already seem quite high.

At the very least, she definitely couldn't compare her academic fame with that of this young man.

"It's just a mathematical proof." After a long silence, Hanna uttered a sentence she herself didn't know how to describe.

"Yes, it's just a mathematical proof, so are you interested?" Qiao Ze asked casually.

"Why me?" Hanna asked, puzzled.

Qiao Ze gave this woman a strange look and answered, "Because you might be of some use, perhaps helpful."

Hanna's expression stiffened, but before she could speak, Su Mucheng explained with a chuckle, "Haha, Hanna, what Qiao Ze actually means is that he has been observing you for a while and is quite optimistic about your previous accumulation and future development. It's like he admires you, you know? You get it, Qiao doesn't like to be long-winded, so he skipped a whole series of explanations."

Hanna looked towards Su Mucheng.

Alright, she realized Huaxia language was indeed profound and intricate.

If Su Mucheng had said these words first, she might have felt much better about them.

But after hearing Qiao Ze's previous remark, and then reflecting on Su Mucheng's words, it seemed to mean more or less the same thing.

Qiao Ze gave Su Mucheng a look and remained silent.

Hanna's mind was in turmoil.

If she really started to consider this problem, it meant giving up two years of effort to start over.

Of course, two years didn't really matter to her at this age; she was only twenty-three and had plenty of time.

The problem was that if she pursued what Qiao Ze considered meaningful, it would mean that a year's time was simply not enough, and it meant her mentor at the University of Innsbruck wouldn't be able to offer her any more help.

And she had been planning to go back.

At this moment, Hanna was lost.

The crossroads of her life suddenly lay before her.

"I need to think about it, I need some time," Hanna said seriously to Qiao Ze.

"Oh." Qiao Ze responded and didn't pay any more attention to this foreign woman.

He had extended the invitation; whether she accepted it or not was naturally none of his business.

It wasn't a crucial matter to him, after all.

Hanna's mental state began to shatter anew at Qiao Ze's attitude.

"Haha, Hanna, you should know you're the first person Qiao has taken the initiative to invite to research with," said the kind-hearted owner, hoping to make her half-sister feel better.

However, Qiao Ze corrected her, "No, the first person I actively invited was Chen Yiwen."

"That..." Su Mucheng blinked, glanced at Hanna whose face was turning ashen, and after thinking a bit, said, "Then... for the second... no, no, no, the reasons for the invitation are always different, right?"

Qiao Ze nodded and replied casually, "Yeah, I invited Chen Yiwen because he was very bored at the time, I invited Hanna because her thinking pattern and direction have referral value."

"See, Hanna, I told you that you were more valuable than that guy Chen Yiwen, right? Ah... never mind, Hanna, let's go out and talk..."