Chapter 29: No Need to Give Fools Face

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It seemed like Zhang Yuan heard Ye Kaifu's thoughts and suddenly lifted his head, glancing around.

"Why do I feel like someone is calling me? Were you calling me?"

"No, I'm just reading," Ye Kaifu quickly replied.

Zhang Yuan lowered his head again, looked for a while, and then spoke suspiciously, "…Forget it. These papers don't seem worth reading. I've decided to go attend this public lecture to change my perspective. Are you coming?"

It was currently the time when various Olympic Training Camps were opening, and all kinds of public lectures at the university could be audited for free.

According to Zhang Yuan's plan, he would find something simple to pass the time.

Yes, just like that.

After reading papers for a long time, he also got tired, so a short break made his efforts more effective.

Hearing this, Ye Kaifu couldn't help but feel a surge of joy in his heart, as if a sweet spring had erupted in a dry desert.

"Haha, he's finally going out... he's slipping, he's just pretending after all!"

"What are you laughing about, so happy?"

Ye Kaifu drifted off into his own world and didn't answer.

"Hey! Are you coming or not?"

Ye Kaifu quickly snapped back to reality, pretending to be serious, "No, just got dust in my eyes. Did you finish that… thesis of yours?"

Zhang Yuan sighed, "Not even close, just finished reading the literature and organized my thoughts. Going out to hear a lecture is good; when I get back, I'll start writing in one go, which will probably take many days."

Damn it, really going to the lecture?

Well, attending a lecture is better than staying in the dorm.

Ye Kaifu said, "Alright, I also want to check it out… I haven't attended a class at Xisha University yet, don't know how good the professors are here, but I do know there are quite a few pretty girls."

"A lot of pretty girls?"

"Of course, since you make me bring you meals every day, you naturally wouldn't see them!"

Stepping out of the dormitory door brought a peculiar sense of returning to the living world.

Zhang Yuan took a few deep breaths.

The air was fresh, carrying a hint of salty sea breeze, and the distant cries of seagulls could be heard. These clever birds knew that where there were people, there was food.

Looking again, he realized he only had 12 days of vacation left, a subtle sense of urgency arose in his heart.

Time flew by so fast!

Writing a thesis was not only a mental task but also a physical one; trying to write down ideas exactly as they appeared in his mind was exhausting.

The first task was to organize one's thoughts and understand what needed to be done. This part was actually quite challenging, but fortunately, his father's guidance had already reduced much of the difficulty.

Secondly, he needed to read a lot of literature to see if there were articles on the same topic.

Like the topic Zhang Yuan was working on now—"robotics kinematics"—there were simply too many articles. Things like "forward kinematics," "inverse kinematics," and "vector methods," "quaternion methods," etc.

However, the passion for writing a thesis often inversely correlated with the number of articles read.

Why was that?

Sometimes, while reading, he would find that his ideas had already been done by others, losing their value.

At other times, he found that compared to others' ideas, his own seemed like garbage…

So, wanting to produce a valuable thesis was really difficult. It required coming up with something others hadn't thought of that was also practically valuable, which was extremely hard…

Luckily, after a week of reading, Zhang Yuan had basically confirmed that his father's idea hadn't been written about by others.

And its actual application value was likely more advanced than the mainstream algorithms!

As for how innovative this thesis was and in which journal it could be published, he wasn't quite sure, as he had never mixed in this circle.

Zhang Yuan only set one goal for himself, to completely finish it before getting on the spaceship!

Turning around the corner, they entered the cafeteria, quickly ate two buns, and hurried to the classroom.

Class time was about to start, and the classroom was full of people.

However, there was a strange phenomenon: the first three rows were empty.

Noticing no vacant seats, Zhang Yuan reluctantly sat in the farthest seat on the left in the front row.

Ye Kaifu had no choice but to sit next to Zhang Yuan, biting the bullet.

Based on past classroom experiences, courses where the first three rows were empty were either very trivial, so trivial that even the top students didn't bother attending, such as "Literature and Life," "Law, Religion, and Human Order," "World Famous History"…

Or they were incredibly difficult, to the point that even the Academic Gods couldn't understand them, so attending was as good as not attending, hence opting not to attend.

Or it could be that…the teacher was a bit of a freak!

Often making things difficult for students. Sitting in the front row posed the risk of answering questions, so everyone simply voted with their feet and sat at the back en masse.

Ye Kaifu frowned and said, "It shouldn't be like this; teachers care about face too… Doing this would make the instructors very unhappy."

Xisha University was considered a fairly good university, and this situation was indeed unusual.

Zhang Yuan said expressionlessly, "Don't worry about it; teachers are already used to teaching a bunch of fools. They don't need fools to give them face, just as long as they don't go too far."

"Makes sense."

At this moment, a sound of light footsteps running came from the corridor, and in came a young, beautiful female teacher.

"I'm sorry, it's my first time substituting, so my teaching experience may not be sufficient… My surname is Wang, and my name is Wang Lili. You can call me Mr. Wang."

Her voice was soft and cute.

"Hey, move up to the front, it's not nice to leave it empty…"

Beauty equaled justice, and soon there was excitement among the male species, voluntarily moving from the back to the first three rows, fully giving the beautiful teacher enough face.

Judging by her age, she should be a graduate student sister.

Helping the teacher substitute wasn't much, as it consolidated knowledge and brought funding. Naturally, the level of a graduate student wanting to teach undergraduates was somewhat lacking, and this senior student's level was definitely among the best.

Seeing a large number of male classmates moving their seats, Ye Kaifu felt smug again.

Haha, your post-event behavior is too blatant!

What's the point of coming over now?

The teacher's favorability was already maxed out by the two of us who sat in the front row from the start.

But seeing Zhang Yuan with his out-of-this-world focus and serious expression, Ye Kaifu quickly calmed his inner thoughts, no longer letting his mind wander.

A strong person was indeed strong, unaffected by a teacher's appearance.

"And of course, in the life of a strong person, there were only the words 'study,' unaffected by the appearance of beautiful females."

"Truly awesome!"

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