"I think that Fan Lei is also a highly talented individual, but it probably has nothing to do with mathematics. Maybe it's ..."
"It must be a joke made by Professor Qiu for everyone!"
In the end, Zhao Yi still attributed the reason to Qiu Chengwen, because the facts were indeed so.
Meanwhile.
Qiu Chengwen's mood wasn't very good. He had been paying close attention to domestic public opinion and found that everyone blamed him, even he himself thought it was his fault.
Of course, he also partly blamed Fan Lei and Zhou Li.
"Fan Lei is not a mathematical genius, not even a mathematician. Why not say it earlier? Then I wouldn't have misunderstood."
"And Professor Zhou Li, why didn't you remind me earlier?"
These were thoughts he could only keep to himself for the time being.
Now in domestic public opinion, many people took the matter as a joke. Some netizens even created memes with animated gifs of his interview, paired with the caption, "I think you are a mathematics genius!"