After taking the advice, I became a top student.

Zhou Zhi had never imagined that someone could complete the proof of this problem using only high school knowledge. This shows that Chen Mo had thoroughly mastered the knowledge points learned in high school and had reached the point where he could use them as easily as his own arm.

Using the knowledge learned in high school as a tool to achieve one's goals—this level of understanding is on a completely different level from ordinary high school students who simply memorize question types and do practice problems.

Even among the math competition teams, only Bai Zhi could barely reach this level.

Zhou Zhi was overjoyed. He had been worried that the math competition team didn't have any truly outstanding talents, but he never expected that they would give him such a surprise right before the competition!

God helps me too!

The other students on the math competition team also quieted down. They had been feeling a bit resentful because Chen Mo had suddenly appeared and taken a spot.

But now, having witnessed Chen Mo's testimony in its entirety, they are completely convinced.

Zhou Hao sat to the side, looking somewhat dejected. He suddenly felt a little disheartened at the thought that he had worked hard for two years just to win the provincial first prize.

He started training for math competitions in the second year of junior high school, hoping to make a name for himself in high school. Unexpectedly, he was not as good as someone who had only been studying for a month.

Indeed, mathematics is a game for a select few geniuses.

Zhou Hao felt somewhat disheartened and wondered if he should focus on the college entrance examination instead.

Everyone was distracted during the class, and Zhou Zhi didn't force them to continue. Instead, he ended the get out of class early and told everyone to go home and study on their own.

However, Chen Mo was still called to the office.

"You know that a CMO gold medal can guarantee admission to Tsinghua or Peking University, right?"

Zhou Zhi got straight to the point, saying, "So you don't need to rush. Just follow my pace, and I guarantee you'll get into a good university. Plus, the school will give you a reward after you win an award. Last year, someone won first prize in the province, and the school awarded them 10,000 yuan. Have you heard of that?"

"When you encounter a slightly difficult problem in the future, you should think about it more and try it out. You might just be able to solve it."

"Winning the CMO gold medal isn't easy; you can't give up easily."

He had essentially appealed to their interests and reasoned with them, and his goal had quietly shifted from simply qualifying for the national competition to winning the CMO gold medal.

He knew that the chances of winning the CMO gold medal were slim, but he figured he could only aim high.

"I understand."

Chen Mo nodded, but wasn't going to listen any longer. Attributes were the key, and math problems weren't something you could figure out just by thinking about them for a while.

Zhou Zhi nodded in satisfaction, then took a stack of documents from his desk and handed them to Chen Mo. "These are competition materials that I specially prepared for you. Take them and study them carefully. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

He didn't ask Chen Mo if he had finished studying the materials from last time. The fact that Chen Mo could do that set of test questions to this extent already spoke volumes.

After studying for the past few days, Chen Mo had already finished learning the high school curriculum. He was originally thinking about what to do next, but after today's exam, he felt that if he wanted to do well in the competition, he had to learn some university-level knowledge.

It was past nine o'clock when I walked out of the office.

Holding the materials provided by Zhou Zhi, Chen Mo returned to the competition class classroom, took out his phone, and instead of starting a live stream immediately, he updated the questions again.

[Following everyone's advice, I've now joined the math competition team and will be participating in the provincial finals of the National High School Mathematics League in a few days. Any suggestions?]

By the way, I've now finished high school math. What should I do next? Any suggestions?

He updated the question, and incidentally asked a phishing question.

He knew that netizens would definitely suggest he study university-level mathematics. Since he was going to study it anyway, he could also reap another wave of suggestions. Chen Mo felt like a genius.

Of course, he didn't expect that netizens might be even more ridiculous than he anticipated.

After doing all that, Chen Mo started his live stream for the day.

……

Qingfeng Times City

Jiang Fan took out his phone and waited in the live broadcast room at 8:50.

"Old Jiang, you're in your fifties, why are you still glued to your phone all day? Can't you set a good example for your son?"

His wife, who was watching TV nearby, glared at Jiang Fan with annoyance and glanced at his phone. "You're not watching those girls dancing, are you?"

Jiang Fan was both amused and exasperated. "I'm already so old, I'm not going to say anything more. My son isn't home either, so what kind of role model am I supposed to be?"

"I'm not kidding. I saw a promising talent on Douyin. He's going to livestream himself learning physics today. I'm seeing if he's a good fit and maybe I can recruit him into the physics competition team."

"Starting live streaming at such a young age?"

His wife had some doubts, but seeing that it was indeed a live stream of a teenager studying on Jiang Fan's phone, she didn't say anything more.

"What era are we living in? Don't treat mobile phones and live streaming as monsters. If used properly, they can be helpful for our learning."

Jiang Fan shook his head and began to criticize his wife, "Learning itself is a boring thing, and often there is no feedback for a long time. But live streaming is different. Data is fed back in real time. So live streaming can turn boring learning into something with real-time feedback, which can improve one's learning enthusiasm. Why not do it?"

"Look at some content creators on Bilibili (a Chinese video-sharing website), they read dozens of books and study dozens of papers just to understand something. Isn't that also learning?"

"Why would they be willing to do something so tedious? Isn't it because there's positive feedback?"

"Fine, fine, you're right. You're the teacher, I can't argue with you."

My wife already agreed in her heart, but she still stubbornly objected, turned her head to watch TV, and sulked.

Jiang Fan understood his wife's temperament, so he stopped talking and started watching Chen Mo's live stream attentively.

……

Rongcheng No.1 Middle School, Girls' Dormitory

After completing her daily review of key knowledge points, Shen Qingyi took out her phone, opened the questions she was following, and found that the questions had been updated again.

[Already joined the math competition team...]

Having finished learning high school math...

Shen Qingyi's lips curled up slightly. For some reason, she felt like this guy was in Versailles.

But considering Chen Mo's recent behavior, she also believes that Chen Mo is not lying.

Soon, upon seeing the question at the bottom, Shen Qingyi was taken aback, "Live-streamed learning?"

He seems to be playing with something very new.

As if by some strange twist of fate, Shen Qingyi copied the password, downloaded Douyin (TikTok), and entered the live stream.

Shen Qingyi doesn't usually use Douyin at all, because Douyin's mechanism means that even the most self-disciplined person could easily become addicted to it. Compared to other platforms, such as Zhihu and Xiaohongshu, at least people need to actively click on them and have a choice.

TikTok's algorithm exploits human weaknesses, giving people no choice whatsoever.

So Shen Qingyi simply didn't give it that chance; if she didn't use it, she wouldn't be controlled by it.

"Qingyi, you've actually started using Douyin (TikTok)?"

Luo Yanan stared at Shen Qingyi with wide eyes, as if she had discovered a new continent.

But soon, she saw the boy on her phone screen.

"Chen Mo?"

"Is he livestreaming?"

Luo Yanan glanced at the boy on her phone screen, then at Shen Qingyi, and suddenly felt a sense of foreboding. It seemed that her roommate was in trouble.