Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 176 - 99 Departure, Heading to Yanbei University! (10,000-word - )_5

Obviously, a clearly fake story won’t move Yu Wei.

"Haha, is it possible that someone is only good at math and sucks at everything else, so they didn’t even pass the regular high school entrance cutoff?"

The debate finally entered the situation Qiao Yu was best at. Without further ado, Qiao Yu, who still had the screenshot of his exam results from the public account on his phone, directly sent it to the group.

"So, are you questioning that a top student who scored full marks in six cultural subjects in the high school entrance exam and only got nine points each in biology and geology isn’t qualified to go to the best high school in the city? Hey, Yu Wei, let me just ask you softly, did you also get full marks in both Chinese and English in the entrance exam?

Aren’t you best at gossiping about scores? Why don’t you come to Star City to find out if the principal of our top high school begged me in tears to go to their school after the entrance exam? But to not leave her with any unrealistic hope, I resolutely chose Railway First Middle School, understand?!"

Just after typing this, the enthusiastic Little Fatty, who had been silent, suddenly jumped in when the talk turned to youthful love.

"Damn, dude, it’s bad enough that you’re good at grades, but you can’t also be a love saint! How are we supposed to play with you then!"

Qiao Yu ignored Little Fatty, kept his fighting spirit alive, and waited for a few more minutes, but Yu Wei remained completely silent this time.

So Qiao Yu could finally close his phone with satisfaction and return to doing exercises.

Creating this group back then was really a stroke of genius. Every time he felt mentally exhausted or tired, he could recharge here and feel motivated again. In a sense, Yu Wei was practically the gas station for his foray into mathematics.

Of course, Qiao Yu couldn’t have foreseen at this moment that many historically rumored anecdotes were born this way!

The protagonist simply made some boastful remarks in their youth, but who could have predicted that once they’d become famous, those boastful words would be recorded by others?

Just like Qiao Yu never intended to create any high and mighty persona for himself, he simply wanted to keep showing off in front of Yu Wei.

But alas, there were three people in the group!

Life is unpredictable...

Sigh...

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There’s really not much to say about the daily independent study life.

After returning from the winter camp, Qiao Yu resumed his regular life.

Going to bed at ten every night, getting up punctually at 6:30 in the morning, washing up, having breakfast, and making sure to clock in at school before 7:20 with the first-year students.

Although Principal Zhang said it was fine if Qiao Yu came a little later, as he wouldn’t disrupt the school’s normal teaching activities anyway,

Qiao Yu felt there was no need to show off privileges in these trivial matters that might invite criticism, especially since he didn’t struggle to get up early in the morning.

Compared to the earnest high school students who finish night self-study at 10:30, have to continue homework if it’s not done at home, reach school at 7:00 in the morning, and officially start morning reading at 7:10...

His sleep time wasn’t just sufficient, it was abundant.

With good sleep, his mental state improved, and naturally, his efficiency increased, ensuring daily progress.

He also maintained contact with Old Xue.

On an appropriate occasion, Qiao Yu informed Old Xue that he had decided to go to Yanbei University and had chosen his mentor. Qiao Yu could sense Old Xue’s relief over the phone.

Before the winter break, Old Xue also brought him good news.

His paper had passed the reviewers’ scrutiny.

The journal editors found him four reviewers in total, three of whom gave high evaluations and recommended direct publication.

The fourth reviewer gave a somewhat positive review but raised a few questions.

After Qiao Yu responded to the questions, they also agreed on approval.

So now the paper was ready for scheduling.

In fact, generally speaking, the more reviewers a journal editor finds, the less confident they are in the submission, or the more innovative it is, making it hard for the editor to gauge.

Qiao Yu was probably neither of these, with the main issue being that he was a pure academic newcomer, the kind whose graduation thesis couldn’t even be found, making the editor more cautious.

But the outcome was good, except the timeline stretched out a bit longer.

A paper not too lengthy, reviewed from National Day all the way past New Year’s, nearly reaching the winter break when the review concluded, wasn’t exactly high efficiency.

However, Old Xue’s words made Qiao Yu realize this was probably the norm.

"...Actually, your paper’s review wasn’t that slow. You must know that most reviewers are volunteering their work for the journal, and some professors have quirks where they take review tasks and set them aside even when they’re free.

It’s not due to any conflict with the submitter or intentional difficulties. They just feel that doing reviews quickly makes them seem like they don’t have projects and are too idle. In short, you’ll likely encounter various peculiar situations in reviewing, but just keep a calm mindset.

Of course, there is an exception. If you write a paper that drives mathematicians worldwide crazy, then probably no one would delay your papers anymore, even with journal editors proactively begging for your latest papers.

But achieving that level of being a great mathematician is as rare as a national treasure. No, I should say even more so than Huaxia’s pandas. You might not know this, but a great British mathematician once claimed to have solved the Riemann Conjecture in his later years, driving countless mathematicians mad.