Top Student at Their Peak

However, Qiao Yu felt he could understand Senior Brother Chen; almost thirty years old and still never dated, probably rarely even held a girl's hand. It's only natural for spring emotions to stir suddenly.

After all, spring is indeed almost here...

Moreover, thinking it over carefully, the two might actually be quite suitable for each other. The age difference should be less than five years, and both are into mathematics. If they could be together, they could discuss problems anytime and anywhere. Qiao Yu thought that was quite romantic.

"My girlfriend is also coming tonight, and you can meet her. So many girls have pursued me; it wasn't easy for her to catch me. If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask her tonight."

Having said that, he intended to ignore Senior Brother and instead found Zhang Xiao's WeChat and sent a message.

"Today is my birthday; come to Class A Restaurant at six to have dinner together."

For Senior Brother Chen's lifelong happiness, Qiao Yu thought he should be attentive.

"Ah, happy birthday, young teacher! Sure, I'll definitely be there!"

Seeing how straightforward Zhang Xiao agreed, Qiao Yu couldn't help but ask: "By the way, Senior Brother Chen is also coming. What do you think about Senior Brother Chen?"

"Chen Zhuoyang?"

"Yeah!"

"We haven't met yet, just occasionally chat on WeChat, but I think he's quite humorous."

"You have a good eye, see you tonight!"

After replying to this, Qiao Yu couldn't help rolling his eyes...

Senior Brother Chen? Humorous?

Alright, Qiao Yu thought that evaluation itself was quite humorous. Hope Zhang Xiao can tolerate Senior Brother Chen's exceptional intelligence.

This way, there's interest to explore Senior Brother Chen's interesting soul.

...

Science and Technology Committee Building.

Yu Yanjiang had just walked into the office, brewed a strong cup of tea, and the secretary came in.

"Chief Engineer Yu, this is the report from the new computing group sent this morning. They had a result and insisted on notifying you immediately from your previous dealings."

"Oh? So quickly? Let me take a look." Yu Yangguang said in surprise.

After delegating this task, he wasn't in a rush for results. Most problems could be solved with existing models.

If they could give him a satisfactory result within two or three months, he would have already been quite satisfied.

Who'd have thought that results would come out in such short time?

Hadn't both sides finished their courses yet?

Thus, disregarding everything else, he took over the documents and began flipping through them carefully.

Since it contained previously verified data, he flipped through it quickly.

A few minutes later, after reading the last page, Yu Yangguang looked up and asked, "The analysis process?"

The secretary replied, "That's all the computing department sent over."

"Have them organize the processing process and send it over; never mind, tell the person in charge to come over this afternoon, around one o'clock. Let's not have lunch break today; bring all the materials over for a report."

"Okay, Chief Engineer Yu."

After explaining this, Yu Yanjiang thought for a moment, then picked up the phone and called Tian Yanzhen directly.

"Hello, Chief Engineer Yu, what's up now?"

"Haha, Brother Yan, that student of yours gave me a surprise! The team he's leading, their computing efficiency is astonishingly high! I just looked at the first batch of data, and the results are very good."

"Hehe, what's meant by the team led by Qiao Yu? This only shows that the computing department has truly taken Chief Engineer Yu's words to heart with your excellent leadership. As for Qiao Yu, at most, he just provided them with a method.

In any case, don't think about putting a feather in Qiao Yu's cap. I'll make sure to guide him properly. He's only sixteen; we can't rush his progress. Anyway, no matter what you say, I definitely won't give him anything too sensitive."

Yu Yanjiang sighed and said, "Ah, Brother Yan, how about this, I'll call over the people from the computing department at noon, and you give me some face and ask Qiao Yu to come too. Let's have a meeting together and do a review, how about it?"

"I'm really sorry, Chief Engineer Yu, it's not that I don't want to give you face. But it's Qiao Yu's birthday today; I gave him the day off early. His little girlfriend is also in Beijing now.

You can't possibly expect me to have him celebrate his birthday with us two old folks, right? If I really called him over, maybe he'd not want anything to do with you in the future."

Yu Yanjiang hurriedly said, "Qiao Yu's birthday today? You should've said so earlier, let's have dinner together tonight. No matter what, we should celebrate for him. Don't tell me you haven't prepared anything; if so, why not let me handle it? I guarantee to organize it perfectly."

"Then you have to call Elder Yuan. This birthday celebration is organized by Elder Yuan. I couldn't compete even if I wanted to, no way."

"So it must be at Class A Restaurant, right? You surely know the dining place and surely don't plan not to invite me, right? After all, the little guy called me Grandpa Yu once; I must attend the birthday and celebrate."

Yu Yanjiang immediately said.

"Chief Engineer Yu, shouldn't that be up to Qiao Yu to invite you?"

"Isn't it the same if the teacher invites? Let's do it, I'll pop over in the evening."

"..."

...

Qiao Yu had quite a happy day; he had someone to hang out with.

His mentor at Yanbei University took good care of him, and the professors were very tolerant. Plus, in Beijing, he had a grandpa doting on him, making his life quite perfect.

The only flaw, perhaps, was the lack of peers.

The talent class existed, but it was hard to connect with them. Of course, not all of it was Qiao Yu's problem; mainly, he didn't need to attend classes, so naturally, he had fewer common topics.

Occasionally visiting felt quite awkward. For instance, when visiting little friends in the group, seeing someone gaming in the dormitory, he wanted to join but was always met with various excuses not to play with him...

They even stopped playing because he was there and started studying and doing exercises instead.

This generational gap was even greater than that caused by age.

It's boring, really boring, and after a while, Qiao Yu stopped trying to seek out those little friends.

In comparison, Keke was still the best as she was willing to play with him regardless, and he remembered Qiao Xi saying that the longest-lasting feelings were companionship...