A genius student? Ha, they're nothing but ants at your feet!

The few days of holiday passed in the blink of an eye.

As the New Year's bells faded into the distance, this sprawling city, which had been at a standstill, began to run at high speed again, like a machine wound up to its full potential.

The restless atmosphere at the end of the year that makes people lose their focus on work dissipates like morning dew being dispersed by the sunlight.

As students gradually return to school.

The empty campus has once again returned to its usual tense state, filled with hurried pace and academic pressure.

For the MIT mathematics department, which is at the center of the storm...

Leisurely? Not at all.

As that day drew closer, the entire department was already short-staffed.

From the white-haired department head to the ordinary administrative staff, everyone was caught in a state of overload and non-stop work!

Because that was a report meeting on the Smail issue!

The fax machine in the mailroom was almost on the verge of spontaneously combusting due to overheating.

From Princeton to Cambridge, from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris to the Max Planck Institute.

Those top global academic institutions that usually disregard invitations are now like sharks smelling blood.

Countless "Confirmation of Attendance" receipts, stamped with bright red seals, flooded the MIT preparatory team like snowflakes and a raging tide!

........

Click.

Click.

The blinding flashlights were flashing wildly.

Su Hao was wearing a black suit that the conference organizers had somehow gotten from a rental shop, and it was a little too big for him.

At this moment, he was like a puppet with no will to live, awkwardly following the photographer with a ponytail in front of him, striking all sorts of ridiculously embarrassing and exaggerated poses.

"Very good! Hold the chalk! Yes, stand in front of the blackboard! Turn to the side! Turn your head at a 45-degree angle!"

Deepen your gaze! Imagine the door to truth lies before you!

Now, extend your right hand with style! Yes, yes, yes! That's the look! Hold it! And give me a smile!

Click!

With the photographer's scream, the shutter was pressed hard again.

Under the intense light, Su Hao maintained that shameful, childish pose.

His gaze was vacant as he stared at the camera, his face bearing an expression of utter despair, as if his soul had completely left his body.

Heaven can see it.

Even if Su Hao were dreaming, even if it were the ultimate nightmare of being chased and hacked to pieces by the Riemann Hypothesis...

He never imagined things would develop to this outrageous point!

He is a distinguished academic who has solved world-class mathematical problems and transcended vulgar interests.

At this moment, it has been humiliatingly relegated to the poster of this ridiculous academic conference.

Greeting models used to attract customers!

"Huh? What's going on?"

The scheduled 15-minute shooting time had long since passed.

But this damn filming schedule shows no signs of stopping; on the contrary, it continues to advance at a frantic pace.

Click!Click!

The shutter clicked incessantly, sounding like a heavy machine gun firing on a battlefield, as if it wanted to blow up the memory card!

The fill light directly in front of him was so bright that Su Hao couldn't open his eyes at all and had to blink frequently.

however!

Even Su Hao himself didn't expect that the more he showed this extremely impatient, slightly squinting, and lazy demeanor, the more likely he was to become impatient.

The photographer opposite him, holding a camera, became even more fervent in his gaze!

"Fantastic! That's the expression! So natural. It's like it was made by a natural person!"

Su Hao looked up at the sky speechlessly and let out a long sigh.

He came today thinking it would just be to take a simple personal profile photo for procedural purposes.

But has this photographer taken the wrong medicine?

Isn't this enthusiasm a bit excessive?!

Do you think this is a photo gallery from Milan Fashion Week?!

Feeling quite annoyed by the flashing lights, Su Hao subconsciously raised his hand and casually smoothed the slightly messy stray hairs on his forehead.

It's just such an ordinary little action!

The photographer on the other side reacted violently as if he had been electrocuted!

"Great! Don't move!! That's the right move!"

The photographer yelled.

"Please hold on, don't move!"

Click, click!

Another barrage of camera shutter clicks followed.

A few seconds later, the photographer stared intently at the screen for a while, then suddenly frowned.

"Oh... what a shame! This dull classroom background doesn't do justice to this level of photoshoot! It's such a waste!"

He suddenly raised his head, his eyes shining as he stared at Su Hao:

"Excuse me, could I take a little of your time to film outside?"

"what?"

In the initial notification email sent to him, wasn't the filming location set in a classroom?

Why do we suddenly have to film on location?!

"Trust me! Now is the best time for natural light."

The artificial lighting indoors doesn't match your current style!

The photographer was so excited that he danced with joy.

"I just snapped a few pictures, and I swear to God, in all my years in this industry, I've never seen anyone so photogenic!"

With your bone structure and your temperament, you're simply born to do this job!

I have a very strong feeling today that a truly amazing film is going to be made!

Excuse me! Please come this way with me for a moment!

The result was as expected.

Under the other party's unyielding and obsessive force, Su Hao was half-pushed and half-pulled out of the teaching building.

Pushing open the heavy glass door, the weather outside was surprisingly fine.

It's rare to see such a clear, cloudless blue sky in Boston's winter.

In the cool air, the warm and clear sunlight poured down on the vast MIT campus without reservation, as if gilding all the buildings with a layer of gold.

The photographer was like a fanatical formation master, using both hands and feet to design an excellent position and posture for Su Hao, even specifying the direction of his toes and the angle of his shoulders to the extreme.

"Great! Perfect! Just when the wind stops and the light hits the left side of your face."

Hold your breath, tuck your chin slightly, and keep it in place!

Click!

The photographer eagerly lowered his head, staring intently at the camera screen, and immediately exclaimed in amazement.

"Wow—! God! This is perfect!"

The photographer was so excited that he kissed the camera in his hand like crazy.

"The composition! The lighting! This is absolutely a shot that could be used as the cover of a top fashion magazine without any cuts!"

The photographer's exaggerated reaction immediately attracted the attention of those around him.

Several staff members nearby couldn't resist gathering around the camera out of curiosity.

I only glanced at it.

A burst of suppressed whispers immediately erupted from the crowd.

"Holy crap, this is amazing! The lighting and shadows are incredible."

"This quality is ridiculous! This doesn't look like an introduction to an academic conference."

It looks like a high-end fashion magazine photoshoot, shot by a top-notch team at great expense!

The location shooting finally ended amidst a burst of enthusiastic exclamations.

But for the photographer, his pursuit of perfection did not stop there.

"The foundation is too good..."

With just a few minor adjustments to the parameters, that sophisticated atmosphere can be fully realized…

As soon as he rushed into the office, he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water before quickly transferring the files to the computer and starting to edit the photos as fast as he could.

The mouse is quickly dragging the parameter slider.

Slightly increase the contrast in certain areas.

The contrast and saturation of the overall image are reduced in a restrained manner, stripping away any unnecessary color emotions.

These seemingly simple steps actually require a high level of skill.

The photo on the screen instantly acquired an extremely rich, cinematic quality.

Snapped!

The photographer slapped his thigh hard.

"Haha! That's exactly how it feels!"

He never dreamed of this.

To my surprise, I actually managed to produce an award-winning piece of work from an unexpected science student during what I thought would be a dull and tedious campus academic photography assignment!

no doubt.

Today, another flawless masterpiece has been added to his treasured personal photography collection!