The Glamorous Comeback of the Ousted Heiress-Chapter 626 - : 247 first prizes, you’ll get used to it_2

Chapter 626: 247 first prizes, you’ll get used to it_2

Chen Hong and Xu Wenyao quickly came over.

“Alian,” Xu Wenyao greeted Bai Lian.

“The junior girl and her classmates are really studious,” Chen Hong, who needed to refine the defense PPT presentation, had some issues to discuss with Bai Lian and Xu Wenyao. He greeted Bai Lian and whispered with Xu Wenyao.

He wasn’t nearly as conscientious as Bai Lian and the others during his freshman year. The university years are the best opportunity to break away from one’s family background and class barriers.

**

The three of them walked into the library together.

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Jiang University had many libraries, so there was no shortage of study spaces—public areas, small seminar rooms, and individual study booths.

The separated single study booths were perfect for group discussions.

Bai Lian went upstairs through the spiral staircase. The card reader outside the discussion room was off, indicating that there was already a small group inside.

The discussion room wasn’t large. There was a rectangular table; Tang Ming sat on the left side, Ning Xiao to his right, with Yang Lin a few seats away from Ning Xiao.

She pushed open the glass door, and Tang Ming, who was facing the computer, looked up and said in a low voice, “Sister Lian.”

His gaze moved past Bai Lian, noticing Xu Wenyao and Chen Hong, he greeted them both, “Senior Xu, Senior Chen.”

They had already met several times over the summer.

Hearing the sound, Yang Lin also briefly looked up and pushed her glasses up her nose.

She was reading molecular biology with a chemistry book by her side.

Both subjects were Bai Lian’s weak spots. She quietly pulled out a chair next to Yang Lin, took off her Bluetooth earbuds and set them aside, then pulled out her canvas bag.

Inside the bag were her laptop and some freshly printed documents.

“Which problem are you stuck on?” she asked Tang Ming in a soft voice.

Tang Ming directly slid the problem he was working on towards her. Bai Lian looked down and saw it was a mechanics problem involving parabolic motion, with two small masses fixed on a metal wire in the shape of a parabola.

There were three sub-questions, and Tang Ming had solved the first two.

Only the last sub-question remained: the time it took for a mouse to climb upwards. He had done most of it, just missing the final step.

Bai Lian had never done this problem before. She took out paper and a pen from her canvas bag and began to calculate step by step. After finishing, she explained to him, “You’re right to take D as the reference point, which makes their torque zero, allowing you to write the equilibrium condition for the rod.”

As she spoke, Bai Lian wrote a beautiful distance formula on the paper, and she worked through this formula while explaining.

“All the conditions derived earlier satisfy this one. Express the time it takes for it to climb as t—it turns out to be just a periodic function…”

Chen Hong, sitting opposite Bai Lian, was working and listened to her quiet explanation, feeling astonished.

Her clear explanation was even more lucid and understandable than the lectures by the professors at the time.

Chen Hong’s gaze shifted from his computer screen, looking toward Bai Lian curiously. Tang Ming, a freshman, was dealing with basic mechanics problems as well as the energy levels and wave functions of particles.

“…” What were these freshmen up to?

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**

Compared to the others present.

Chen Hong’s focus obviously fell a bit short; while he worked on the PPT, he kept an eye on the time on the bottom right corner of the computer screen.

10:58, he then stopped what he was doing.

He opened the Boyuan Base website, where the winners’ list would be posted at eleven o’clock.

At this point, the website was already lagging, with many people refreshing the page.

“Jiang University’s computer science department has so many people, how can both the academic affairs website and Boyuan website be this laggy?” Chen Hong started complaining again, “Even the railway website can handle millions of hits without being this slow.”

Xu Wenyao looked up from his book to the computer screen, “If you invest a few billion in the academic affairs website, someone will specifically develop it.”

Each year, when he raced to register for elective courses, Chen Hong complained about Jiang University’s system crashing due to high traffic.

“Old Xu,” his voice lowered with nervous tension, “do you think we can win first prize in the math modeling competition this time?”

If it were just him and Xu Wenyao, even a second prize might be tough to secure.

It was mainly because he was dragging them down, though Bai Lian was a freshman, her fundamentals were still decent.

“This year’s Problem A is tough,” Xu Wenyao pondered over the difficulty of this math modeling competition’s Problem A, noting that not many people would probably choose it. “We could have an advantage.”

As they were talking, Chen Hong refreshed the page again.

The system was a bit slow but finally refreshed to reveal a banner—

[Boyuan Base International Summer Camp Mathematical Modeling Application List]

Chen Hong clicked directly into it.

The first line listed the participating schools, competitors, advisors, and the awards applied for.

Chen Hong saw his own group’s name in the fourth line—

[Participating School: Jiangjing University

Competitors: Xu Wenyao, Chen Hong, Bai Lian

Advisory Teacher: He Wen

Applied Award: First Prize]

The Boyuan Base’s math modeling was highly valued, with even international students participating, aiming to better their chances of applying for postgraduate studies at Jiangjing University.

Chen Hong did think that they were certain to win at least a second prize.

But a first prize was a different story altogether; a first prize in Boyuan’s math modeling could add points to their postgraduate entrance exam.

“Old Xu,” Chen Hong tilted his head, “I think, trying out for the postgraduate entrance exam, doesn’t seem too bad for me?”

Looking at the first prize, Xu Wenyao also fell silent for a moment, then took out his phone to take a photo, and sent it to Bai Lian across from him, as well as to Dean Huang.

Chen Hong continued to scroll down, looking for the names of Qi Jun and a few others.

All the first prizes were on the first page.

Right after that were the second and third prizes.

He found Qi Jun’s name on the third page, “Second prize isn’t bad either, hehe, but it’s not as good as ours.”

Chen Hong was grinning.

If it weren’t for the fact that Ning Xiao, Yang Lin, and the others were seriously working on the problems, Chen Hong would have wanted to shout out loud.

**

By eleven-thirty, Chen Hong started packing up, ready to treat the juniors to a meal outside.

He and Xu Wenyao were happy, and Bai Lian didn’t dampen their spirits. She took her phone, put on her Bluetooth earbuds, and followed behind, texting Jiang Fulai, who asked where she was going for lunch.

In the afternoon, Bai Lian was going to help Pu Xiaohan shoot a video. Pu Xiaohan had only signed up yesterday, and since she would soon have military training in her freshman year, she wanted to film the video before that started.

Jiang Fulai was going with her.

While listening to English, Bai Lian replied leisurely: [Chen Hong is treating, I don’t know where]

Jiang Teacher: [Send me your location]

Bai Lian wasn’t very familiar with the stores around the school.

Chen Hong and Tang Ming walked at the front, Chen Hong draping his arm around Tang Ming’s shoulders, “You are not in the same major as the freshman, right? How is it, how many girls do you have in your class?”

“Three,” Tang Ming spotted his class group talking about this, “We really don’t have many women in engineering.”

“Right, but this year our department has a new girl, definitely a standout,” Chen Hong said. He then went on to talk to Tang Ming about treating them to a meal for the math modeling, mentioning how exceptional Bai Lian was this time, “She’s just a freshman, and on the A problem this time about astronomical telescopes, I didn’t even understand the question at first glance. You’re her classmate, do you know how she grew up to be such a freak?”

Tang Ming wasn’t surprised, though.

“Hey, you’ll get used to it at Jiang University too,” Tang Ming clicked his tongue, “You’re not from Xiangcheng, so you wouldn’t know. A year ago, Sister Lian was a liberal arts student before she transferred to our school to study the sciences. Do you understand the significance of switching from liberal arts to sciences, scoring zero in biology and chemistry, then becoming the first in our school, first in Beicheng, and finally scoring first in the country for the national college entrance exam?”

“During the senior year, the teachers from the liberal arts classes didn’t know how many times they had switched over to their class fifteen.”