From child prodigy to chief scientist

Chapter 114 of the paper has been published!

"Xu Xiao was born in July 1993 and is a student in our Yucai Junior Department. She scored 142 in Chinese in this year's college entrance examination."

She achieved an excellent score of 742, including 150 in mathematics, 150 in English, and 300 in combined science.

"Because Xu Xiao had already secured a spot at Peking University with a perfect score in the math competition, she didn't have to apply for university after the college entrance exam."

"We previously had some omissions in our statistics of test takers' scores. Due to our oversight, we wasted some public resources. We will definitely continue to improve our work in the future."

Facing the camera, Tian Heng appeared apologetic, as if they had really made some major mistake.

But anyone could see that the focus of this interview was clearly on Xu Xiao's achievement of becoming the top scorer in the college entrance examination.

During the interview with Tian Heng, the professionally trained reporter tried hard to suppress his laughter, and almost couldn't hold it in on the spot.

After finishing the interview, Tian Heng returned to his office, finally able to stop putting on a serious face and reveal a bright smile.

"Isn't your provincial experimental school supposed to be amazing? In the end, the top scorer in the college entrance examination still came from our Yucai School."

As the two strongest high schools in Shengjing, Provincial Experimental High School and Yucai High School have always been competing openly and covertly.

In previous years, Yucai School had better competition results, while Provincial Experimental School had a better college entrance examination result.

This year, Yucai not only won two national championships in the competition, but also won the honor of being the top scorer in the college entrance examination.

Moreover, compared to Wang Zhou, who scored 710 points at the provincial experimental school, Xu Xiao's 742 points had an overwhelming advantage, a clear lead by a significant margin.

"Xu Xiao—you are truly a lucky charm for Yucai School!"

Tian Heng would be overjoyed to have produced a student like Xu Xiao.

On the other hand, Yu Cai also transferred the 100,000 yuan bonus to Xu Xiao as promised.

When Wang Ze asked for his bank card information, Xu Lang left Xu Xiao's card number without any hesitation.

After all, this was earned through Xu Xiao's own hard work, and even as guardians, they cannot simply embezzle the child's prize money.

Although Xu Xiao is still young, it would be reasonable for them to keep him safe for the time being, but Xu Lang has great faith in his son's abilities and feels that there is no need for that.

That evening, the video of Tian Heng's interview appeared on several television stations in the province.

Once the truth was revealed, people couldn't help but talk about it with great interest.

"So he was already recommended for admission without examination. No wonder he didn't apply for university."

"Born in July 1993? That means you're not even twelve years old yet?"

"What kind of genius is this? He got a perfect score in the math competition and was admitted to university without taking the entrance exam, and then he became the top scorer in the college entrance exam, scoring more than 30 points higher than the second-place student!"

Several top domestic universities, including Tsinghua University, Yenching University, and Fudan University, were also somewhat amused and bewildered by this result.

They were originally thinking that they might take advantage of this opportunity to recruit a genius who scored 742 points on the college entrance examination.

Unexpectedly, this was just a misunderstanding. The person had already secured admission through a guaranteed admission program, and taking the college entrance examination was simply a challenge for them.

Yenching University, on the other hand, wasn't too disappointed. After all, Xu Xiao was originally a student admitted by Yenching University, so after all the trouble, they didn't lose anything.

This is the first time in so many years that they have recruited a student who is both a champion in math competitions and a top scorer in the college entrance examination, giving them a wonderful "buy one get one free" feeling.

Shuimu University.

In the math competition training room, Xu Xiao was diligently participating in training.

These days, by using special methods to solve competition problems, Xu Xiao has been able to obtain at least ten fragments of inspiration every day.

At this rate, completing this entry task is only a matter of time.

Xu Xiao had also heard about the news reports about her becoming the top science student in Liaoning Province's college entrance examination.

To be honest, Xu Xiao was somewhat surprised that this matter had received such heated discussion from the outside world.

The reason for this may be that many people do not have a very clear concept of competition champions, but the shock of the top scorers in the college entrance examination is etched into their bones.

Compared to the time I got a perfect score on the CM0, this incident has generated significantly more buzz.

Some reporters even came to Tsinghua University specifically to interview Xu Xiao.

Fortunately, the team declined all interviews with Xu Xiao, citing his preparation for the IMO, thus sparing him from media harassment.

After lunch break, everyone returned to the training room to prepare for the afternoon's intensive training.

At that moment, someone came to the training room door and knocked.

"Hello, I'd like to look for Xu Xiao."

Fei Ran thought this person was a reporter who wanted to interview Xu Xiao, so she quickly went over and politely declined, saying, "Xu Xiao is currently participating in intensive training and will not be accepting any interviews."

"You've misunderstood. I'm not a TV reporter. I'm just here to deliver something to Xu Xiao."

At this moment, Xu Xiao also looked towards the door upon hearing the sound. Seeing that the person outside was Dong Yi, she immediately understood why he had come.

Yuan Jiyang had previously told Xu Xiao that he would send him a copy of the journal as soon as his paper was officially published.

Dong Yi must have come to deliver the journal to me. Anyway, the distance between Tsinghua University and Peking University is very close, so it's very convenient to send someone to deliver it directly.

"Professor Fei, I do know him."

Hearing Xu Xiao say this, Fei Ran no longer suspected anything and let Xu Xiao leave.

"Xu Xiao, you've got quite the attitude these days. I need your permission to even send you something."

"Senior brother is joking. Recently, some reporters have been coming to bother us, and the team has no other choice but to do so."

Dong Yi was just joking with Xu Xiao. Even someone like him who doesn't follow the news much had heard about it, which shows just how much attention Xu Xiao received for becoming the top scorer in the college entrance examination.

"Here you go, Xu Xiao. The latest issue of Acta Arithmetica has been published, and your paper has been officially published as well."

As he spoke, Dong Yi handed the journal to Xu Xiao.

Upon seeing the gold-embossed "Acta Arithmetica" lettering on the journal, Xu Xiao's heart began to race.

This is the first time in Xu Xiao's two lifetimes that a paper has been published in an academic journal.

He could even smell the ink on the paper as he opened the journal, indicating that it had been printed recently.

Following the table of contents, Xu Xiao quickly found her thesis.

"On the Upper Bounds of Hybrid Character Sums with Rational Function

Arguments, Xu Xiao.

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