Super Rich: Rebirth of the Top-Tier Rich Second Generation

If the panic in the international academic community is the ebb tide before a tsunami.

So when the news of the paper's official publication reached China, it was like a magnitude 10 earthquake that shattered the entire new energy industry!

The initial sparks of this domestic unrest were, as it was, within academic circles.

2:30 a.m.

At the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician nearing eighty years old, a leading figure in the fields of new energy and materials physics, carefully read the entire 47-page manuscript.

This elderly gentleman, who had rarely used social media in his life, logged into his real-name Weibo account for the first time ever.

There are no lengthy technical analyses, and no flowery praise.

He directly forwarded the cover image from NE's official website and added a short five-word caption above it.

Tonight, I will be sleepless.

These five simple words reveal the spirit of a senior scientific researcher in the People's Republic of China.

The sheer joy and sleepless nights of seeing the technological barriers that had plagued the country for decades completely shattered were palpable.

Immediately afterwards, the servers of Tsinghua University's official website were also nearly overwhelmed.

At 3 a.m., the publicity department of Tsinghua University started working overnight and hung a huge red banner announcing the good news in the most prominent position on the school's official website:

Warmest congratulations to the research team of Jiang Yan (first author and corresponding author) and Shen Qinglan (second author), undergraduate students from the Department of Physics, Class of 2016, for having their article featured on the cover of the top journal *Nature Energy*!

Inside the Physics Department building at Tsinghua University, freshmen were stunned by the scene in the lobby on the first floor when they groggily went to their early morning classes the next day.

Professor Wang Chaoran, the department head, was personally taking tape and carefully pasting the full manuscript of the paper, which had been printed overnight in high definition in both Chinese and English, in the center of the Physics Department's bulletin board.

Anyone who dares to get close and touch him will be met with Wang Chaoran's glare and curses:

"Look, but don't touch! Every single data point on these is a national treasure of our Chinese Physics Department!"

And in the laboratory building of the School of Life Sciences.

Liang Zhengze sat in his office, wearing reading glasses, staring at the two words "Yan Jiang" clearly printed in the first author column of the paper on the computer screen.

He stared at it for a very long time.

As he watched, the old professor, who had been strict his whole life, suddenly leaned back in his chair, looked up, and his eyes gradually reddened.

He once tested Jiang Yan on five of his most famous books in his office.

They made an exception and allowed a freshman to directly enter the research group without basic training.

He knew Jiang Yan was a rare gem, but he never dreamed that the brilliance emanating from this gem could blind the entire world.

Liang Zhengze took off his glasses and wiped his eyes, then picked up his phone and sent a WeChat message to Zhou Ming, his star student who was leading an experiment.

There's only one sentence: "Zhou Ming, that freakish junior brother you trained back then, he's about to rewrite the entire industry."

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Ming, who was operating the centrifuge, stared at the message for five seconds, then suddenly laughed and cursed:

"Damn! Monster!" Then he turned around and shouted at all the doctoral students in the lab:

"No work today! My treat tonight! A toast to our junior brother who's really caused a huge uproar!"

……

The academic community's uproar was somewhat expected.

Then, the official intervention of the national team's official media at nine o'clock the next morning directly elevated the scope of this matter to an immeasurable strategic dimension!

The Chinese community released the first press release on multiple online platforms:

An 18-year-old Chinese student was featured as the first author and corresponding author on the cover of Nature Energy, marking a breakthrough for mainland Chinese scholars on this journal's cover!

The press release was full of praise, clearly stating that the birth of this nanocomposite solid-state battery technology marks China's leading position in the next generation of high-energy storage batteries.

Not only did they achieve a breakthrough by overtaking on a curve, but they also established their own technological barriers on the straightaways.

An hour later.

The Daily News published a major article written by a special commentator as the headline of its opinion section.

The title is menacing and resounding:

"Pry open the hand that's holding you by the neck, one by one!"

The article starts with this groundbreaking paper, without dry praise of data, but instead focuses on Jiang Yan's speech at the opening ceremony last September.

His resolute decision to choose a double major in physics and life sciences forms a thrilling and complete narrative of his family and country.

"...A student once declared at the opening ceremony that he would be a tough nut to crack and change the rules."

"Now, he has used a 47-page paper that has shocked the world to prove that the passion of youth is not just a slogan, but a sharp weapon to cut through technological blockades."

"This courage and strength to integrate across disciplines is precisely the core backbone that our era needs most..."

The national team's decision to set the tone represents absolute authority and recognition.

It was noon.

The entire Chinese internet was completely ignited by the name "Jiang Yan"!

On Weibo's trending topics list, three dark red topics with the word "hot" suddenly appeared in the top ten, creating a terrifying trend of dominating the list!

#JiangYanSolidStateBattery# (3.5 million views)

#China's First NE Cover# (4.1 million views)

#18-year-old top scorer achieves legendary status again# (2.8 million views)

The cumulative readership surpassed an astonishing one billion in just three hours. The entire internet went wild.

Thanks to the in-depth investigation by numerous marketing accounts and the archaeological work of netizens.

Soon, someone dug up a photo from last year's Tsinghua University opening ceremony, showing him standing on the podium, facing five thousand bright students, calmly and publicly criticizing academic unspoken rules.

The video calls on everyone to stay and be the "hard nut to crack for changing the rules".

This video, which had been dormant, has experienced a terrifying second surge in popularity.

This speech went viral on Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou, and other major platforms.

The number of views exceeded 100 million in one day!

In this fast-paced era, people have become accustomed to watching internet celebrities put on a show, watching so-called second-generation rich flaunt their wealth, and watching "experts" who shout empty slogans get their faces slapped in the face.

But the top comment under that video, a mere four characters, garnered a staggering 20 million likes, both piercing and igniting a chord with everyone:

He kept his word.

These four words are more powerful than any flowery praise.

This is the perfect illustration of how wish-fulfillment novels come to life.

Previously, those influential bloggers and marketing accounts that mocked Jiang Yan for "playboy hyping up an academic persona" because he drove a Lafayette to school and his wealthy family background was exposed were now being criticized.

Faced with this overwhelming evidence and official media coverage, they were so frightened that they deleted all related Weibo posts overnight and quietly pretended to be dead.

In a highly-rated answer on Zhihu titled "How to evaluate Jiang Yan's consecutive Nature Energy cover appearances at the age of 18?",

An anonymous contributor wrote a passage that silenced countless people:

"The scariest thing is that someone smarter than you works harder than you."

"Instead, some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, possessing resources that you could never reach even if you worked your whole life."

"But he worked harder than anyone else, immersing himself in the most tedious laboratories, and with his hard skills, he overturned the table of Western capital in the most core technology fields."

"This is the real dragon, this is a true dimensional reduction attack."

Jiang Yan himself was at the absolute center of this media storm.

But at this moment, it was eerily quiet.

His personal Weibo account and all his social media accounts remained completely silent.

The latest update was a casual post from three months ago about reading the original French version of "The Stranger".

There were no celebrations, no Versailles, and not even an interview with any media outlet.

This near-extreme restraint and silence did not quell the controversy.

Instead, it shrouded Jiang Yan in an air of unfathomable mystery, pushing the online discussion and admiration to an even more frenzied climax.

The true God never makes a fuss in the mire.