Top Student at Their Peak

The Class A Restaurant was still bustling during the holiday.

If it weren't for Elder Yuan's influence, it would have been hard to reserve a private room. Well, actually, Qiao Yu was starting to gain some recognition himself, as evidenced by today's attendees.

Besides Qiao Yu's family and girlfriend, and Zhang Xiao who was still studying for a master's degree, the least impressive position among the others was an associate professor.

One could only say that Chen Zhuoyang's upward move had directly elevated the status of this birthday banquet by a notch.

There were as many as three academicians, as well as a chief commander of a major national project.

With this lineup in the academic world, you could practically walk freely. It was only because Chen Zhuoyang came from Jinzhou that Old Xue didn't have to serve tea to the big shots today.

However, Qiao Yu didn't mind these things, and he wasn't even that surprised that Yanjiang came to his birthday party.

During the meal, most of his attention was focused on Chen Zhuoyang.

It was apparent that Senior Brother Chen was quite satisfied with Junior Sister Zhang Xiao. A man's demeanor when he's interested in a woman is hard to hide.

As for whether Zhang Xiao was interested in Senior Brother Chen, Qiao Yu couldn't tell, but he planned to ask for Chen Senior Brother after the meal.

If Zhang Xiao didn't feel anything for Senior Brother Chen, he'd better quickly advise Chen Zhuoyang not to dwell on it.

Being a lovesick fool is bound to lower one's intelligence. Right now, he still needed Chen Zhuoyang's brains for a ton of matters.

Of course, while he was observing Senior Brother Chen, more people were also watching him and Xia Keke.

Well, if a young couple in their teens is in love, it's pretty much impossible to hide.

Especially Xia Keke, she didn't have Qiao Yu's habit of keeping her true thoughts to herself, whether she was happy or not was written all over her face.

This made Chen Zhuoyang quite envious...

Having a lesser talent in mathematics is one thing, but to even fall in love first. His life's victories seemed a bit over the top.

It's said that when God closes one door, He opens a window, right... well, there's no father...

So, when that door closed, did He just open all the windows?

From a mentor's perspective, he observed and noted it. People often care for someone associated with someone they care about.

Especially Elder Yuan, who hadn't really noticed the flirtatious glances between the two little guys when Xia Keke visited last time.

Now he also found Xia Keke quite adorable, like a finely carved jade. Unfortunately, her mathematical talent was a bit lacking, but her grades were actually quite good.

As long as she didn't choose mathematics, her future in other fields might still hold promise. He even started considering how he could help her in the future.

So during the meal, Yuan Zhengxin began showing interest in Xia Keke's grades.

Yu Yanjiang next to Elder Yuan clearly didn't know much about matters in the mathematics circle but became enthusiastic to chat with Qiao Xi after learning she was Qiao Yu's mother.

He praised Qiao Yu's talent on one hand, and on the other explained the significant importance of the lunar landing project in this era.

Perhaps only Tian Yanzhen was more worried...

Qiao Yu's interests were already diverse, and now he seemed to even be in a relationship. Should he talk to Qiao Yu about it?

This big shot mathematician of the academy was experiencing, for the first time, the worries of a high school headteacher...

Then it was time to make a wish and cut the cake.

Singing the birthday song, lighting candles, turning off the lights, making a wish, blowing out candles, turning on the lights, cutting the cake...

After the entire process was over, Yu Yanjiang jokingly asked while holding a piece of cake: "Qiao Yu, what wish did you just make, tell us. We aerospace people don't believe that saying your wish out loud makes it invalid."

Tian Yanzhen glanced at Yu Yanjiang and retorted, "Chief Engineer Yu, what aerospace people? Qiao Yu is still a student at our Mathematics Research Center, he has nothing to do with your aerospace work yet."

Yu Yanjiang, without hesitation, countered, "Brother Yan, that's not quite right. Mathematics students can't have great ambitions? Qiao Yu has also contributed to our aerospace projects."

"Heh..." Tian Yanzhen sneered.

But Qiao Yu curiously asked, "Chief Engineer Yu, I don't think I've made any contributions to the aerospace projects yet, have I?"

"Who said you haven't? The Computing Institute has already submitted the data calculated using your method. It has been a great help to us."

Yu Yanjiang said without batting an eye.

This time, it was Qiao Yu who was surprised, "They worked that fast? Didn't they say there was a lot of data?"

After saying this, Qiao Yu couldn't help but glance at Chen Zhuoyang and Zhang Xiao sitting together; previously, he thought their efficiency was quite high.

But compared to the Computing Institute, their efficiency couldn't really measure up! It had only been about a week, with more complex data that needed analyzing.

"That's why your approach was very useful. Otherwise, relying on that dozen-person team at the Computing Institute, how could they have produced results so quickly?"

Oh, so they assembled a team of more than ten people, Qiao Yu felt he misunderstood Senior Brother Chen and Junior Sister Zhang...

Indeed, analyzing this kind of data requires a lot of people; having each person handle a part saves a considerable amount of time.

Maybe later, he should urge Senior Brother Chen to quickly apply for a master's advisor qualification, bring out a batch of students, and ease the workload.

While Qiao Yu was thinking, Xia Keke next to him also curiously asked, "Qiao Yu, what wish did you make?"

Qiao Yu thought for a moment and suddenly felt it didn't matter if he voiced his long-held dreams now while he was still underage.

Especially at this moment, the focus of everyone's attention was on him.

"Hmm, I want to make a lot of money!" Qiao Yu earnestly said.

Except for Elder Yuan, Tian Yanzhen, Qiao Xi, and Xia Keke, who knew Qiao Yu well, the expressions of the other people in the private room were somewhat mixed. The room, which was bustling moments ago, fell into complete silence.