A fat man who was reborn from the dead? He transforms into a perfect male god in a week.

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In the library, Jiang Chen returned to his original seat.

There were still those three books in front of me.

But he wasn't in a hurry to look.

Instead, he opened the system panel, looked at the 280 points of amazement, and seemed to be deep in thought.

"College entrance examination, four-subject competitions, essay contests, sports competitions..."

"If this move goes well, the level of amazement will definitely skyrocket."

"Even though the era of short videos hasn't arrived yet, and the speed of dissemination isn't that fast, it will definitely make it into the news, be interviewed by the media, and amaze countless people..."

As Jiang Chen pondered this, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up.

When others are reborn, they either make money, fall in love, or seek revenge.

He, on the other hand, after successfully losing weight, focused on studying, sports, and competitions... and incidentally, showing off.

"But it's fine this way." Jiang Chen stretched. "After all, who wouldn't like to be an all-around academic genius, a perfect male god, and enjoy the adoration of thousands?"

He reopened the book.

The pen tip scratched across the paper, making a soft, rustling sound.

Outside the window, the setting sun cast its golden rays into the library, bathing him in a golden glow.

Teaching building.

Gao Daqiang carried a pile of medals and certificates, walked with a swagger, and smiled at everyone he met.

A female student whispered among herself, "Is that the sports representative from Class 4 of the third year? I heard their class won fourteen first places this time!"

"Yes, Jiang Shen took eleven by himself!"

"I really want to get to know Jiang Shen..."

"Don't even think about it. Jiang Shen is in the library. He doesn't care about anything except studying."

"Sigh...it seems male gods are only meant to be admired from afar..."

The murmurs gradually faded away.

In the library, Jiang Chen turned a page of a book and wrote a formula in the blank space.

That's the Schrödinger equation from quantum mechanics.

He made a slight modification, adding a non-linear term.

"Hmm... it should be more interesting to solve it this way."

He smiled and continued writing.

Outside the window, the sky was gradually darkening.

But Jiang Chen's eyes shone like stars.

……

The following day was Saturday.

It was five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still not fully light.

Jiang Chen opened his eyes right on time, leaped off the bed, and moved as lightly as a feather landing.

"50 points in constitution, that's really impressive."

He stretched his shoulders, feeling an explosive surge of power within his body.

Six-pack abs? That's standard.

Eight yuan? He has ten yuan now... Don't ask how he got them, they're from the system, guaranteed to be top quality.

After a quick wash, Jiang Chen changed into his sportswear and quietly left the dormitory.

The track and field stadium.

The morning mist hadn't dissipated yet, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of grass and trees.

Jiang Chen warmed up briefly before starting his training plan for the day:

I ran 10 kilometers in one go.

Do 1000 push-ups in one go.

1000 squats, all done in one go.

……

The workout ended at 6:00.

Jiang Chen didn't even break a sweat; his breathing was only slightly erratic.

"This physical ability is just too strong. I wonder if I can become a real-life One-Punch Man if my physique continues to improve to 80 or 100 points?"

"Oh wait, not One-Punch Man, I have hair now..."

He touched his incredibly handsome buzz cut, shook his head, went back to his dorm to change into his school uniform, and then walked quickly toward the library.

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The library, the old spot on the third floor.

Jiang Chen didn't rush to read the book. Instead, he took out a few sheets of manuscript paper and a pen from his bag.

"New Concept Writing..."

He stroked his chin. "I need to come up with a mind-blowing topic."

Last night, Pan Zhenhua sent him the competition requirements: no restrictions on subject matter or genre, no more than 5000 words, the only requirement is "new"... new thinking, new perspective, new expression.

To put it bluntly, it's about letting young people unleash their creativity and do whatever they want, however wildly imaginative they may be.

Jiang Chen thought for a moment and wrote the title on the first line of the manuscript:

Deconstructing Three-Dimensional Love in a Two-Dimensional World: On Emotional Collapse and Quantum Entanglement in the Cartesian Coordinate System

"Hmm, that's it." He nodded in satisfaction.

You have to start with a royal flush.

Jiang Chen picked up his pen and wrote:

"If love could be quantified, what would its unit be? Would it be heartbeats per minute, dopamine levels per milliliter, or the number of characters in a WeChat chat per day?"

"In the Cartesian coordinate system, I tried to build a function model for 'liking': y=kx+b, where x represents time, y represents the intensity of emotion, and k is the slope—that is, the so-called 'heart-fluttering acceleration'."

"But I soon discovered that this model is as fragile as a piece of paper in the face of reality, because when you truly fall in love with someone, your emotional curve does not rise smoothly, but rather... like a quantum leap."

"One second they're in the ground state (indifference), the next they jump directly to the excited state (frenzy), without any transition in between."

"This violates all the laws of classical mechanics, but perfectly conforms to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics: you never know which state your mind will collapse into in the next instant."

The opening 300 words directly pull love from metaphysics to science, and then from science back to the quantum superposition state of metaphysics.

Jiang Chen couldn't stop writing.

In the middle section, he started to ramble on with his knowledge:

"Using the 'repaying tears' argument between Baoyu and Daiyu in 'Dream of the Red Chamber,' let's reinterpret it using the second law of thermodynamics (the principle of entropy increase): tears are a product of entropy increase in the emotional system, and repaying tears is an attempt to reverse entropy increase, which is doomed to failure."

"Using Romeo and Juliet as a reference, and analyzing the feud between the two families using game theory: it's essentially a prisoner's dilemma, where both sides choose not to cooperate, ultimately leading to the Pareto worst solution... and both committing suicide for love."

"Using the analogy of Titanic, let's calculate Jack's probability of survival after falling into the water using fluid dynamics: In seawater at -2°C, the rate of human hypothermia is X, and Jack survived for Y minutes, so... he could actually have survived, but the plot required him to die."

These are not enough.

Jiang Chen started making jokes again:

"Modern love has entered the era of 'fast-food quantum entanglement.' You post a selfie on your WeChat Moments, and I like it below. Our quantum states become entangled, but this entanglement is extremely fragile... If we don't chat for three days, the wave function collapses, the entanglement is broken, and the relationship returns to zero."

"Therefore, when dating now, you have to follow Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: you can't be sure of a person's 'sincerity' and 'speed of response' at the same time."

"If you know he replies instantly, then his sincerity may be in a superposition state (it could be true or false)."

"If you're sure he's sincere, then his reply speed might be extremely slow (reading without replying is the norm)."

"The scariest thing is Schrödinger's confession: the other person's feelings are in a superposition of 'like' and 'dislike' until the moment you open the WeChat chat window."

"Once you send 'Are you there?', the wave function collapses, and the answer is revealed... most likely 'I don't like it.'"

Jiang Chen laughed as he wrote this.

This is hardly an essay.

This is simply a combination of internet slang, scientific meme king, and emotional master.

But it's not over yet.

He began to incorporate literary allusions:

"Using the 'Guan Guan Jujiu' (the ospreys cry) from the Book of Songs to demonstrate the biological basis of bird courtship behavior, and comparing it with the matching algorithms of modern dating websites."

"Using the love story of Darcy and Elizabeth in 'Pride and Prejudice,' we can analyze the emotional game under class differences: it is essentially a non-zero-sum game, which ultimately reaches a Nash equilibrium (marriage)."

"Using 'Love in the Time of Cholera' as an example, this article interprets 'love is a disease' from an epidemiological perspective: it is contagious, has an incubation period, a symptomatic period, and currently has no cure."

Finally, the ending must be uplifting.

Jiang Chen took a deep breath and wrote the last paragraph:

So, what exactly is love?

"It is an unknown that cannot be solved by mathematical formulas, a chaotic system that cannot be controlled by physical laws, and the most unstable intermediate in chemical reactions."

"But it is also the only 'high-dimensional projection' that we three-dimensional beings can perceive in the two-dimensional world... Although we can never understand its full picture, we are still willing to spend a lifetime chasing that fleeting glimpse of light and shadow."

"Perhaps this is the most romantic paradox of mankind: we use all our scientific knowledge to deconstruct love, only to find that the only answer to love lies precisely in its indeconstructibility."

Signed: Jiang Chen.

Word count: 4785 words.

Time: 1 hour 29 minutes.

Jiang Chen put down his pen and stretched his wrists.

"Done."

He read it through once and was amazed by his own work.

This essay, if submitted to the New Concept Writing Competition, would be worthy of first prize.

"System, how many 'wow points' is this essay worth?" he asked jokingly.

[Ding! Based on evaluation, if this essay is published, it is estimated to receive 3000+ "Amazing Points"!]

Jiang Chen: "...You actually did an evaluation?"

But 3000+? It seems... not impossible?

After all, the density of jokes and knowledge points crammed into this essay is ridiculously high; it would take a normal person half a day to digest it after reading it once.

"Alright, time to submit the manuscript."

Jiang Chen packed his things and headed straight for Pan Zhenhua's office.

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