Chapter 63: Troublesome

On the first day, the teacher took everyone to their own room to rest. Told them to have a good meal in the evening, and gave everyone the rest of the time to familiarize themselves with the environment.

It was naturally impossible for Yao Yi and Qin Li to room together. Since there were fewer girls originally, the living environment for them was better than that of boys.

Yao Yi lived in a two-person room, and her roommate worked even harder than her. She immediately sat back down to solve problems after eating. She didn’t look happy at all though, and sat there looking like she was about to cry.

Yao Yi looked at the girl in doubt, wondering, wasn’t it fun to do math problems?

Yao Yi thought of this, but she didn’t say anything. After cleaning up, she sat cross-legged on the bed and replied to Fu Chuan’s text message very seriously.

[I arrived, everyone here looks like they hate each other deeply, and they don’t look happy.]

Fu Chuan replied quickly: [Mhm, them taking so many exams will naturally not be easy. 】

Not everyone is like you, only interested in solving math problems and nothing else.

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[Aren’t we always doing problems here?]

To be honest, Yao Yi was a bit disappointed. She really thought she could solve problems here all day long.

[But you can meet a lot of great mathematicians, if you can enter IMO.]

Fu Chuan checked before Yao Yi left, and the champions from the past two years were not the best. It really was a great shame, since they had been the IMO champions for so many years. So this year the higher authorities were paying special attention.

What Fu Chuan said always cheered Yao Yi up. Sure enough, when she saw the message, she immediately swayed on the bed twice, her eyes curled up with a smile.

The girl who lived with Yao Yi was from another province, and they were not familiar with each other. She had no intention of getting on good terms with Yao Yi, so she continued solving math problems until twelve o’clock before going to bed.

During this period, Yao Yi kept chatting with Fu Chuan. They were chatting so happily that Yao Yi started a video call with him directly.

Yao Yi had already made up her mind, even if she came to the capital, she couldn’t miss the progress of dating. Thus, a video call was necessary to strengthen the connection between the two.

Fu Chuan also seemed to have just taken a shower, and his hair was still wet. Yao Yi had a sharp eye, and even saw drops of water slipping down from his hair and dripping into his neckline.

“Aren’t you… not cold?” Yao Yi hesitated, she felt cold just looking at him.

“What?” Fu Chuan fixed the phone on the table, sat on the chair, and quietly looked at the person in the video.

Yao Yi pointed to the neckline: “Water drops, if you don’t wipe them off, you will get sick.”

Fu Chuan turned his head and looked down to see that the collar of his pajamas was wet. He whispered with a coquettish tone that could not be ignored: “I don’t want to wipe it.”

“No, wipe it off quickly.” Yao Yi said with a serious face, after thinking about it for a second, she added, “I will feel bad.”

Thousands of instructions were not as good as a word of love——”The Book of Love”

Yao Yi wore earphones. Although the girl in the same room could not hear Fu Chuan’s words, Yao Yi could still hear clearly what he said.

The girl couldn’t help but cast her peripheral vision to Yao Yi who was still talking about ‘love talk’. How could someone who has come this far be dating? A girl even.

The girl was also a sophomore. According to her own experience, the average girl’s IQ would drop sharply after dating, and her grades would also deteriorate.

It seemed that this temporary roommate was not her opponent at all. She had been playing with her phone since the moment she entered the room, and hadn’t even picked up a book once. It was likely that she came in by luck, being the last place person to be able to attend.

Yao Yi didn’t know what the girl was thinking, she was almost going bald coming up with romantic words now.

How could Fu Chuan fail to see Yao Yi’s reluctance? Even so, he couldn’t help but tremble when he heard her say such words.

Finally, Fu Chuan went to wipe his hair with a dry towel, while Yao Yi was still thinking about her next love sentence.

It was because she found that although it was difficult for her to utter such words, Fu Chuan was obviously very happy.

Sure enough, the book was a book, it seemed that she still underestimated this book.

…

There was no exam the next morning. The teacher led everyone to a lecture about mathematics. A mathematician gave a speech to motivate the students.

Qin Li’s eyes were filled with tears when he was listening to it, and his back was straightened. He loved mathematics, but he had to think about his family. To outsiders, mathematics majors seemed to be synonymous with poverty.

“It’s not that you won’t earn any money in mathematics, it’s that you don’t learn well enough.” The scholar on the stage adjusted his glasses, “As long as you stand at the top of the pyramid in any industry, you will not have to worry about money. I know my words are a bit vulgar, but it’s accurate for you guys. Isn’t everyone working hard all day in competition problems just to get into a good university? Then choose a popular major, and finally get into society with a high salary every month.”

This speech probably surprised the teachers in the audience, and they froze in their seats.

“I said this to tell you that you can learn mathematics boldly. Don’t be afraid of the future, as long as you have the ability.” Wang Li was wearing a pair of canvas shoes and had nothing valuable on his body. He looked just like a farmer but his aura was still proud, “Of course, if you have no talent in mathematics, don’t come here. The kind of people who only rely on standard tactics will not go far in the field of mathematics.”

Wang Li’s speech was heartbreaking, but due to his status and reputation, no one dared to refute it.

The students below were also hit by a wave of blows, and they were silent for a long time below. Their mood that was originally high-spirited instantly withered.

Qin Li also clenched his fists, with an ugly expression on his face. Who could come here without a little talent in mathematics? And the standard tactics…Qin Li could not deny that it was their favorite routine.

Yao Yi still kept her head up. She only heard Wang Li talking like a gun, and she didn’t feel the charm of mathematics.

“It’s different from what I thought.” Yao Yi turned to Qin Li and said.

Fu Chuan told her last night that there will be mathematicians telling stories about mathematics to encourage everyone to learn mathematics and develop into the field of mathematics.

Yao Yi couldn’t fall asleep much at night. She was just excited and wanted to hear what the inspiring mathematician had to say, but the result was… like this?

“Teacher, you are so scary, who will come to learn mathematics then?” Zhou Cheng gloated when he saw Wang Li coming over from the audience seats.

“Whether you love to come or not, if the people who come are like you, it’s better for them to not to come.” Wang Li talked a lot, and ignored his apprentice.

In order to appease the hurt students below, Zhou Cheng went up and gave a short speech, reviving the heavy atmosphere made by his teacher.

When these students saw the elite who were completely inconsistent with mathematics come out, they were immediately attracted.

“Isn’t that the one who scolded your mother last time?” One person from No. 1 High School said to the boy next to Qin Li.

Qin Li also looked up. The person on the stage was dressed in a suit and leather shoes. The gold eye frames were even colder under the lights on the stage. He looked more like a full-fledged businessman than a math guy.

However, Zhou Cheng did vigorously talk about mathematics on stage, which cheered up the students again.

Yao Yi couldn’t listen intently, she only cared about whether there were any difficult math problems to solve.

The exam was in the afternoon, and there were not a large number of problems. However, the difficulty was much higher compared to high school level math.

Yao Yi started to fall into a daze after finishing in the examination room. She thought that it was not that difficult, not as evil as it was rumored on the Internet.

With her chin resting on the table, Yao Yi stretched out one hand to turn the pen. She hadn’t seen Fu Chuan for ten hours, and she also hasn’t sent a single message. She was very flustered.

Yao Yi decided to say some romantic lines to Fu Chuan tonight, she had already thought about it. Something like, I want to ask for a way, the way to your heart. I had a dream with you in it. When I woke up, I found that the dream was not in vain.

The allotted exam time was four and a half hours, and the number of problems was only a few. However many students were still stuck on the first question.

Yao Yi’s leisurely appearance was quite conspicuous.

In fact, Yao Yi was not like this before. She would sit up straight after finishing the test papers and start to take out the questions that she hadn’t done before in her mind, and directly calculate them in her mind.

Now… All she could think about was how to date Fu Chuan.

When the exam time was up, the teacher was collecting the test papers, when suddenly a student in the classroom cried out. It was very tragic.

Yao Yi looked around the classroom in a daze, and found that besides the crying boy, there were others sitting on their seats wiping tears.

Unable to figure it out, Yao Yi stopped thinking about it and walked out of the examination room to find Qin Li.

“How did you do?” Qin Li was still calm, “I only got to calculate half of the last question, I didn’t have time for the rest of it.”

“It’s okay.” Fu Chuan had given her the previous year’s questions over the years before, and Yao Yi felt no pressure at all after getting familiar with the question types.

Almost everyone came out, and there were quite a few students who lowered their heads and wiped their tears. Some of them almost handed in blank papers.

In the past few years, there has been a popular saying about mathematics competitions: It was not difficult to win medals at IMO, but it was rare to stand out in the training teams.

However, there was a boy who stood out in most of the crowd. Many students surrounded him, and it seemed that he was discussing the test paper just now.

Qin Li glanced at him casually and didn’t rush over to join in the fun. If he wanted to ask, he could ask Yao Yi. It would be the same. Anyway, with Yao Yi’s strength, it was impossible for her to not know.

“I’m hungry, let’s go eat.” Qin Li patted his empty stomach.

“Mhm.” Yao Yi lowered her head and finished fiddling with her phone, then followed Qin Li.

Fu Chuan, who was still in class at Yan City No. 1 High School, heard the vibrating sound of his phone, stopped writing and took out his phone. A text message on it appeared in front of his eyes: If it’s not too troublesome, can I trouble you to date me?

Fu Chuan leaned on the chair, looked at the empty seat next to him, tore off a piece of clean white paper, wrote a word, folded it in half gently, and put it in Yao Yi’s essay composition book.

Yao Yi would take out this book to memorize every morning, and she would definitely see this note when she came back.

After putting the book back to its original place, Fu Chuan smiled, took out his phone and replied to Yao Yi.

Yao Yi’s phone vibrated in her pocket far away in the capital. She looked up at Qin Li, who was opposite of her, devoting himself to eating, and quietly took out her phone.

There was only one word on the reply: [Troublesome.]