Chapter 33 Tearing Up Your Notebook? I'm Saving Your Academic Future!
Saint Lan College, Central Library.
This is the quietest and most sacred place in the entire school. Sunlight shines through the huge stained glass windows, making the dust look like fine gold leaf.
Lu Shixuan stood at the door, looking at the solid wood plaque with the word "Quiet" written on it, a sneer of extreme arrogance on his lips.
Today he wore a pair of specially made thick-soled leather shoes, which made a grating "squeak, squeak" sound with every step he took on the polished marble floor.
System notification: Daily task - Openly provoke a "poor but academically gifted student" in the library, destroy his research results, and demonstrate extreme arrogance towards knowledge.
Mission Reward: God-level photographic memory, 10 million in cash.
Lu Shixuan was overjoyed.
It's a sure thing, this wave is rock solid!
If I can be exonerated in a place like Peking University, then surely I can be a complete villain in my own high school library?
Tearing up the notes written by a poor but academically gifted student who stayed up all night is practically a textbook example of villainous behavior.
This kind of behavior that ruins someone's future is something that even my older sister can't protect me from. I will definitely be condemned by the entire school and may even be attacked by public opinion!
Lu Shixuan, carrying an unopened limited-edition fountain pen upside down, strode towards a seat by the window with an air of indifference.
Sitting there was a boy wearing thick-rimmed glasses named Lin Ping. He was the only specially recruited student from a poor family at Saint Lan Academy and had consistently ranked first in his grade.
At this moment, Lin Ping was facing a thick stack of draft paper filled with formulas, scratching his head and looking at it with an almost insane obsession in his eyes.
"Smack!"
Lu Shixuan walked up to Lin Ping and, without saying a word, slammed his hand on Lin Ping's table.
The loud noise startled the students who were studying nearby, who all looked up and showed expressions of disgust.
"Hey, four-eyed guy."
Lu Shixuan glanced sideways, tapped Lin Ping's nose with his pen, and spoke with extreme arrogance.
"I've taken a liking to this place. Go to the toilet and do your homework."
Lin Ping raised his head, a hint of humiliation flashing in his bloodshot eyes, as he desperately protected the notes on the table.
"Young Master Lu... I'm submitting this paper to the 'National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition' tomorrow. This is my only chance for admission without examination, please..."
"The only chance?"
Lu Shixuan chuckled and suddenly reached out, snatching the thick stack of notes from Lin Ping before he could react.
"This kind of trash doesn't even deserve to be called an opportunity?"
In front of dozens of students in the class, Lu Shixuan pulled hard with both hands.
"Tear—!"
Paper scraps filled the air, like torn white butterflies.
Lin Ping was completely stunned. He let out a shrill scream, fell to the ground, and desperately tried to pick up the scraps of paper.
"No! My thesis! My three years of hard work!"
The surrounding students finally couldn't hold back any longer and stood up to criticize them.
"Lu Shixuan, you've gone too far!"
"That's someone's future, how dare you ruin it like this!"
"What else do you have besides money, you scumbag?"
Lu Shixuan felt incredibly happy listening to these curses.
Go ahead and curse!
The harsher the insults, the better!
The best thing to do is to call the principal over now and fire me!
However, just as he was about to continue his harsh words, his gaze swept over a pile of incomplete formulas on the ground.
At this moment, their god-like pharmacology and god-like business acumen went into overdrive.
Grass!
Lin Ping is a genius, but also a madman!
His article, "On the Extraction and Application of Novel Organophosphorus Phosphates," is entirely flawed in its core logic!
In pursuit of high output, he actually tried to use a strong oxidant to perform pyrolysis at room temperature?
How can this be considered technological innovation?
This is clearly the development of poison gas bombs!
If you follow his formula in the lab, just one drop of catalyst will blow up the entire lab building!
This silly kid not only won't get into university through the guaranteed admission program, but he'll also have to spend his whole life in jail for 'negligent explosion'!
Damn it, this isn't a thesis, it's a one-way ticket to hell!
Lu Shixuan's heart skipped a beat. Looking at Lin Ping, who was crying bitterly on the ground, a subtle and complex emotion flashed in his eyes.
He took a sudden step forward, stomping on the scraps of paper and even grinding them down.
"What are you crying for? You spineless coward!"
"I'm doing you a favor by tearing up your thesis!"
"This kind of illogical, nonsensical garbage is a disgrace to Saint Lan!"
While cursing, Lu Shixuan pulled an expensive Parker gold pen from his pocket.
He grabbed the only piece of white paper on Lin Ping's table that hadn't been torn up yet and quickly drew an extremely complex chemical structure diagram on it.
That was the new path he helped Lin Ping revise in a single second using god-level pharmacology.
"Look closely, this is real scientific research!"
Lu Shixuan threw the paper hard at Lin Ping's face.
"Don't mess around there anymore, it's embarrassing."
"Butler! Take this guy away and dump him in the Lu Group's lab. Make him a temporary worker washing test tubes."
"With this level of intelligence, she's only fit to be a menial worker for me."
After Lu Shixuan finished speaking, he put his hands in his pockets and turned away with a flourish.
Phew, all done.
The revised formula is a bit more difficult, but as long as he can understand it, getting a guaranteed admission to university is a piece of cake.
Throwing him into the Lu family's laboratory was actually to have the experts there keep an eye on him, so that the kid wouldn't do any more suicidal experiments.
My villain points should have been credited by this wave of 'humiliation and trampling', right?
Chu Yaoyao stood not far away, holding the iced cola she had just bought for Lu Shixuan.
She looked at the scraps of paper on the ground, and then at the structural diagram that Lu Shixuan had "casually" drawn in Lin Ping's hand.
Although she couldn't understand chemistry, she noticed Lin Ping's expression.
Lin Ping's desperate cries came to an abrupt halt.
He stared intently at the paper, his eyes almost bulging out, his body trembling violently.
"This...how is this possible?"
"This node... can actually form a closed loop like this?"
"My God! Young Master Lu... he saw through the dead end in my thesis at a glance?"
Lin Ping suddenly got up from the ground and bowed deeply to Lu Shixuan's departing figure.
"Thank you, Young Master Lu, for saving my life!"
The surrounding students were once again dumbfounded.
A life-saving grace?
I tore up three years' worth of your hard work, and you call this saving a life?
Just then, at the railing on the second floor of the library.
Lu Shuyao, the fourth sister of the Lu family, and Lu Anran, the sixth sister, were standing side by side.
Lu Shuyao held her phone and had recorded the entire scene.
"Big sister guessed right."
Lu Shuyao pushed up her glasses, her eyes gleaming with fervent light.
"Ah Xuan is indeed 'acting' again."
"He tore up the paper because it was an extremely dangerous plan for synthesizing poison gas."
Lu Anran's fingers flew across the notebook, displaying a complete backup of Lin Ping's paper.
"Second brother is amazing... He completed the correction in just 0.5 seconds."
"Big sister, I have submitted the revised plan to the State Patent Office. It is signed by Ah Xuan and Lin Ping."
"Now, Lin Ping will not only be able to get a guaranteed admission to university, but he will also receive a national-level science and technology medal."
Lu Anran smiled like a little devil.
"And Second Brother, you're going to be worried about being 'forced to perform meritorious service' again, aren't you?"
Lu Shixuan walked out of the library, bathed in the bright sunshine, ready to receive the system's reward.
bite!
The system detected that the host had completed the task of "bullying the poor academic elite".
Because the host successfully corrected a flawed research direction that could have caused a laboratory explosion, and discovered a top chemical engineering genius for the country.
The system determines that the host is not only a bully, but also an academic giant with 'prophetic vision'.
Reward: 10 million RMB in cash.
Reward: God-level photographic memory (Max level: Anything the host sees will form an indelible 3D model in the brain).
Villain Value: -15000 (System prompt: Host, your current reputation among top students is 'cold-faced mentor', please keep up the good work).
Lu Shixuan kicked the trash can next to him.
"An academic giant? A cold-faced mentor?"
"I just wanted him to go to the bathroom and do his homework!"
Just then, a commotion arose at the school gate.
Dozens of black sedans bearing license plates from research institutes were aggressively driving into the campus.
The one leading the group was the president of the Beijing Academy of Sciences.
"Excuse me, where is Professor Lu Shixuan? We have a fundamental question about 'new energy' that we'd like to ask him about..."
Lu Shixuan looked at the group of white-haired old men and his vision went black.
"Anran! Lu Anran! Did you hack my computer again?!"
"Help! I can't play the villain anymore!"