Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“What?! He’s the transfer student who transferred into our major??!” Gu Nianzhi was in a state of shock. Her already big eyes darkened and became even more round. Had she been mistaken? This person appearing at that place at that time was merely a coincidence?
No matter what, Gu Nianzhi had not seen this youth on the CCTV at all. All the evidence was linked up solely by her assumptions. What if she was wrong? Gu Nianzhi knew the law like the back of her hands. She knew the importance of having evidence, and she was willing to give every single thing the benefit of the doubt initially. This meant that she should trust that the person did not do such a thing before valid evidence was presented. Gu Nianzhi stopped looking and turned to look at her notes.
After the lesson, Gu Nianzhi left the classroom with Ma Qiqi and headed to the library to study. Suddenly, that Ishihara Taro followed them and called out to them. “Where are you going, Qiqi?” His voice had the classic quality of a baritone. His words were clear but had an accent to them. The accent was Japanese.
Ma Qiqi turned around, surprised. With her brows furrowed, she asked, “Is anything the matter, classmate Ishihara?” She had only seen this Ishihara Taro once in class. What was he trying to do by calling out so intimately to her?!
Ishihara Taro put one hand in his mid-length coat and carried a file in the other hand. He was tall and lean, and attracted the eyes of many girls around. However, he only had Ma Qiqi in his eyes. “Qiqi, there were some things from the lecture that I didn’t understand. Would you be free to teach me for a while, please?” His tone was gentle and soothing to the ears, and he was well-mannered and good looking.
Ishihara Taro knew the effect his looks could have. Therefore, behaving like a peacock, he showcased his masculine good looks to Ma Qiqi relentlessly. Gu Nianzhi took out her phone silently and recorded this scene, especially focusing on Ishihara Taro. Gu Nianzhi had used the highest definition possible in her camera to capture him.
However, from Ishihara Taro’s point of view, Gu Nianzhi was merely using her phone while someone was talking. It was a form of poor manners in his culture, even though the angle at which she was playing with her phone was a little odd…
Using the corners of his eyes, Ishihara Taro observed Gu Nianzhi coldly but was exceptionally full of passion towards Ma Qiqi.
Ma Qiqi honestly could not take it anymore. The smile on her face even looked awkward. “Classmate Ishihara, I am very busy as well. It is almost time to take our exams. I honestly have no spare time. Why don’t I introduce you to a tutoring class, and you could go and have lessons with the tutor there?”
Gu Nianzhi burst out laughing. She toyed with her phone lazily, and her eyes sparkled, looking like the stars in the night sky. “Qiqi, is this the legendary Japanese student with a super high IQ? If this is considered super high, then your intelligence quotient must be over the moon, mustn’t it? Then mine would be over the galaxy.”
Ma Qiqi was tickled by this and laughed. Pushing Gu Nianzhi playfully, she said, “Stop spouting nonsense! I was being polite! Being polite! Do you know what that is?! Did you really think that I was being rude?!” When she said “being rude,” she glanced at Ishihara Taro.
Ishihara Taro had initially wanted to neglect Gu Nianzhi in order to get her attention. However, he did not expect that she would criticize his intelligence quotient—the thing that he took the most pride in! She had really offended him.
Ishihara Taro’s gaze turned immediately to Gu Nianzhi, and he said rather flatly, “Your intelligence quotient is able to go over the galaxy? Then wouldn’t my intelligence quotient be able to travel the entire universe?”
Did he want to quarrel? Gu Nianzhi felt that there was no need to take Ishihara Taro to heart. Therefore, she took out her phone and played with it for a while again and did not even look him in the eye. Then she said, “Yes, the level of your intelligence quotient could travel the entire universe. However, you could not even understand the content of the core module of the law faculty and had to ask for help from a girl whose intelligence quotient could only be over the moon. My dear Qiqi, did you feel how good it is to belittle someone else’s intelligence quotient?”
Intelligence quotient had always been the thing that had bothered Ishihara Taro the most with regards to Gu Nianzhi. Since he was a little boy, he had known that his father had lost to Gu Xiangwen. Therefore, it had since been his life’s ambition to supersede his daughter. Moreover, he had been planning this scene since many years ago.
Turning around to meet Gu Nianzhi, Ishihara Taro laughed coldly. “I already graduated from my master’s program at the age of 18. I am currently studying for my doctorate at Tokyo University. What about you? You’re already 19 years old, but you have not even graduated from your master’s program, and you dare to compare intelligence quotients with me?! Such atrocity!”
To his surprise, not only was Gu Nianzhi not angry, she was still smiling happily like she was doing it on purpose to upset him. Holding onto her phone, Gu Nianzhi pointed at Ishihara Taro. “Since you have already graduated from your master’s program, then why are you coming to our school to take the master’s program for first years? Could it be that the universities in Japan are not up to standard, and you have to relearn your knowledge?”
“I did not major in law for my master’s!” Ishihara Taro seemed to be unable to take any form of agitation. Moreover, Gu Nianzhi was the very person that he had been wanting to defeat since he was a little boy. Therefore, making use of the fact that he was only 18 years old, he asked matter of factly, “So why can’t I take the master’s program for law in year one?! You’re being unreasonable!”
Seeing that her reverse psychology was working, Gu Nianzhi made use of the situation and continued digging for information from Ishihara Taro. “Yes, I’m not talking about reasons. I’m talking about law, understand? Since you are unable to even understand the lecture of a core module, then let me give you some advice. Stop trying to pick up law. Return to where you came from. If you try to throw your weight around here, there will be people to teach you how to behave.” Gu Nianzhi stepped on Ishihara Taro’s pride with her words and suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.
It had been a long time since someone had voluntarily sent themselves to be Gu Nianzhi’s emotional punching bag, even though bullying younger kids with behavioral problems was nothing to be proud of. She hadn’t realized that she was only six months older than Ishihara Taro.
Ishihara Taro had grown up in the Ishihara Corporation since he was young and had received nothing but the best in his life, existing like a gem. Also, due to the fact that he had a way higher intelligence quotient compared to most other people, he had never experienced being put down so openly in public.
He had not experienced people talking back to him before. Although Ishihara Taro was mentally prepared, he was extremely agitated by this as well and lost all his cool and manners. He pointed at Gu Nianzhi and roared angrily, “My master’s and doctorate are all majors in the latest chaos mathematics! What made you think you’re so clever by only knowing about law?! Compete in chaos mathematics with me if you dare!”
Chaos mathematics?! Gu Nianzhi went pale. She had never expected that she would hear this terminology from this Japanese chap in front of her! She had still intended to give him the benefit of the doubt, but she would not have to anymore. He had already presented her with the evidence wrapped up in a bow.
Gu Nianzhi suppressed the agitation in her head and fiddled with the diamond ear studs on her ears casually before replying like she didn’t care about him, “I don’t major in chaos mathematics, so why should I compete in this silly thing with you? I really have no idea which connection you used to get into our faculty. Haha. The almighty law faculty in B University is unable to withstand gains from connections as well hahaha…”
Ma Qiqi was feeling extremely happy as she listened in from the side. This damned Ishihara Taro. How dare he attempt to break Gu Nianzhi and her up? Did he think that they could be broken up so easily?! Moreover, she was someone who was attached. Who would want to mingle around with this Japanese lad? She would be spoiling her own market value! To think she had even said that he was perfect in all aspects previously. How blind could she be!?
Ma Qiqi turned to Gu Nianzhi and pretended to poke both of her eyes. “Nianzhi, I was blinded. Let’s go now. We shall go back to the dorm to study and not to the library anymore.”
Gu Nianzhi smiled as she shook her head. “How can it be? I have obsessive compulsive disorder. I am already used to going to the library. I will feel uneasy if I don’t go. Let’s go now. If you don’t want to go, I am cool to go on my own.”
Ma Qiqi glanced at Ishihara Taro, who was fuming behind them, and mumbled, “Why is he so angry? He’s nothing but someone from a wealthy family. Who does he think should be boot licking him? How dramatic…”
Gu Nianzhi pulled her on her arm. “So, shall we go to the library?”
“Sure.” Ma Qiqi turned around with Gu Nianzhi and headed towards the library.
There was only Ishihara Taro left there, and his tea-colored irises turned a shade darker. When Gu Nianzhi and Ma Qiqi had gone, his bodyguard came out from a shadowed place and asked worriedly, “Young master, by saying that, will they be more wary of you?”
“That was exactly what I wanted,” Ishihara Taro replied proudly. “If she doesn’t know that I’m out to get her, how boring would this entire thing be?! I want to see her anger from knowing that I was behind everything, but there’s nothing she can do about it!” He firmly believed that his method was definitely outside the boundaries of the law. Even if they knew that he was behind everything, they could never sue him in any way. Just like what he had learned from the law lesson today. He knew what he had done was not able to be prosecuted, which meant that the court would never accept a lawsuit from the plaintiff.
What had he done? He had merely thrown a coin. Would the law stop people from throwing coins? Haha, the Ishihara Corporation was not a pushover. Even if they had known that he did it and wanted to punish him, if they dared to do anything illegal, would the elites in the intelligence department of Tokyo, Japan, not do a thing?! Let’s see who would dare to use those underhanded methods on a foreigner like him!
Ishihara Taro understood the cowardice of some of the cabinet ministers from the Hua Xia Empire. They were most afraid to offend foreigners. They would do everything to protect them, so how would they dare to use underhanded methods to harm them?! If they did so, they would be tarnishing their reputation internationally!
When Ishihara Taro dared to appear in front of Gu Nianzhi so openly, he had calculated that as well way beforehand.
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Gu Nianzhi and Ma Qiqi arrived at the library and found a more secluded corner where they could study. After that little incident just now, Gu Nianzhi could not focus. She looked at her notebook and text book, but her mind was revolving around the words that Ishihara Taro had said just now: “chaos mathematics.”
It was really this young chap. Why would he want to do that? Gu Nianzhi could not contain her curiosity any longer. Whipping out her phone, she changed an IP address and entered her hacker program before searching for the name “Ishihara Taro.”
There were only a couple of journal articles that were submitted by him on some highly accredited websites and magazines, but there was nothing else. Just like her father, Gu Xiangwen, other than academic things, there was nothing. It was as if anything else had been erased entirely.
