Qiao Lingling lost her appetite and fiddled with her chopsticks without eating for a long time.
Qiao Ying could easily take out two thousand yuan, catching up to her mother's salary for a month, while she didn't even have that much for pocket money over a few months.
Qiao Lingling turned her head to look at Qiao Ying going back to her room, with name brand clothes from head to toe that she wanted to wear but couldn't afford. No matter how she thought about it, Qiao Lingling couldn't understand why Qiao Ying suddenly became neither stupid nor useless, and could earn a lot of money.
Qiao Ying used to not even be as good as her toes, shrinking her neck, hunching over, doing whatever she said, not even daring to look her in the eye, unable to talk back to her scolding.
Qiao Lingling couldn't accept the huge gap brought by Qiao Ying becoming excellent.
Moreover, she also discovered that after losing some weight, Qiao Ying's whole person had become more beautiful.
Just thinking that in the near future Qiao Ying would become thinner and more beautiful, Qiao Lingling felt extremely anxious and irritable.
Looking at the two plates of vegetables that she had no appetite for at all, Qiao Lingling threw down her chopsticks and went back to her room to start studying.
So what if Qiao Ying becomes thin and beautiful and can make money?
She could only test into a few points, not even enough for the worst university, while her grades were good enough for a key university.
By then, even if Qiao Ying had money to buy her way into a university, she still wouldn't be on the same level as her.
After graduating from university, she would have a decent job, and work in a high-end office building.
While Qiao Ying didn't even have a decent diploma, what use was it that she could earn some money?
Thinking this way, Qiao Lingling finally felt at ease.
After dinner, Li Lilian suddenly went to Qiao Yi’s room.
She happened to see Qiao Yi sitting at her desk fiddling with her computer.
"What are you using this computer for? Isn't a phone enough for studying? Let me tell you, ever since your aunt's son bought a computer, as soon as he gets home from school every day he just plays games. He used to be in the top few in grades, now he's at the bottom. He plays games until 1 or 2 am every night, and sleeps in class the next day. Your aunt gets called to school every day. He used to have a decent personality, now his temper is awful, he almost got into a fight with your uncle a few days ago."
Li Lilian felt strangely satisfied: "Humph, during New Year your aunt was bragging to us that her son was Peking University material. Now forget about Peking University, it would be good if any university wanted him."
"Little Yi, you have to save face for your mom, you can't be like him. You have to get into a top university, mom is relying on you in the future."
"Mom, I'm not playing games, I'm learning programming. After I learn it I can make money like sister, and I'm only studying it on weekends, it won't affect my studies." Qiao Yi explained helplessly.
Upon hearing she could make money, Li Lilian didn't say anything more.
"How much did your sister spend on this computer for you?"
Qiao Yi was silent for a moment, originally not wanting to say, but thinking of her mother and second sister's attitude towards her big sister, Qiao Yi felt proud for Qiao Ying and honestly said: "Twelve thousand."
"Twelve thousand?" Li Lilian almost bulged her eyeballs out of their sockets: "This wasteful thing, twelve thousand spent on this."
Li Lilian was so angry her voice was shaking, wishing she could rush to Qiao Ying's room right now and confiscate her money.
"I worked hard raising her all these years, working myself to death to feed and clothe her. She should be filial and give me money, right? Giving parents money to spend is righteous, are you stupid? It's not like I'm the only one spending the money, don't you need to eat and wear clothes too? Oh, our family lives so frugally, yet she alone dresses flashy and nice..."
Hearing the vicious words continuously spewing from her mother's mouth, Qiao Yi closed her eyes, interrupting: "Mom, if there's nothing else, I need to study."
Only then did Li Lilian stop talking: "Who said there's nothing."
When she heard her mother encouraging her to go ask Qiao Ying for money, Qiao Yi's expression darkened.
"Mom, that's money sister earned herself."
"What money she earned herself? I'm her mother, what's hers is mine. I raised her all these years, shouldn't she be filial to me? It's natural for children to give their parents money to spend, are you stupid? Taking that money won't just be me spending it, don't you need to eat and wear clothes too?"
Qiao Yi interrupted her mother again: "I'll get a summer job after the semester ends."
Seeing that Qiao Yi wouldn't budge, Li Lilian unleashed her superb tantrum skills again, saying she gave birth to ungrateful children who don't understand their parents' hardships, having money only thinking of spending it themselves.
The louder she yelled, deliberately wanting Qiao Ying in the other room to hear.
In the end it was Qiao's father who came to call Li Lilian away.
After being disturbed by her mother, Qiao Yi forgot about the online forum matter.
The next day, Monday.
Qiao Ying was a science student. She had a math exam today, the last big exam before the college entrance exam.
Qiao Yi: "Sister, you can get full marks right?"
Qiao Ying: "Want to see me get full marks?"
Qiao Yi: "Why not if you're able to? Why let those people mock you?"
Qiao Ying: "Then full marks it is."
Hearing this, Qiao Yi felt relieved. She gave Qiao Ying two boiled eggs for breakfast, and said: "Boiled eggs don't make you fat."
She had deliberately cooked them early in the morning.
All morning Qiao Yi was looking forward to Qiao Ying's exam results.
She finally remembered the online post.
After fermenting overnight, she didn't know what the situation was now.
During lunch break after morning classes, Qiao Yi hurriedly ate something at the cafeteria then took her phone to the tree at the edge of the school track field.
Based on the trend last night, Qiao Yi knew her post would definitely blow up, but she still underestimated the impact of this problem.
Not only countless math enthusiasts and Peking University students, this problem had received widespread attention in the entire math community.
The sensation it caused far exceeded Qiao Yi's imagination.
In just one night, the comments had already increased to over 30,000, with 10,000 reposts, and over 100,000 likes.
Among the comments, there were even accounts of professors Qiao Yi admired, pushed to the top by enthusiastic people waiting for her reply.
Originally everyone's attention was on the calculations and solution she exposed, but slowly, they all started looking for her.
So Qiao Yi became the "wanted criminal" of the entire forum.
Moreover, she discovered this matter had become a hot search on other platforms...
While browsing the comments, an ID named Xu Zhiyi sent her a private message.
Qiao Yi was surprised.
[Friend, I'm Xu Zhiyi, can you reply?]
Without any hesitation, Qiao Yi clicked to open and jumped to the chat with Xu Zhiyi, her heart already racing.
Looking in, she saw Xu Zhiyi had already sent her private messages last night.
[I'm Xu Zhiyi, did you solve this problem yourself? Can I chat with you about the thought process for solving this problem?]
[Can you give me a contact method?]
Qiao Yi didn't reply, so Xu Zhiyi continued sending private messages.
[Are you there? I'm Xu Zhiyi, can we chat?]
[If now is not convenient, can we set a time?]
[Waiting for your reply.]
Xu Zhiyi had always been Qiao Yi's idol. Qiao Yi didn't expect to have a day where her idol was chasing her for contact info.
Qiao Ying's exam was in the afternoon, lasting two periods.
When the test papers were handed out and everyone was still looking over the questions, Qiao Ying had already started writing. While other students had just solved two multiple choice questions, Qiao Ying was already on the second page...
The proctor had just gotten into it when he heard a student wanted to turn in their paper early, when it had only been half a period.
The proctor was furious, clearly trying to cause trouble.
