Chapter 539: Entangled by a Genius Girl

A surging crowd of heads stretched from the steps all the way to the tree-lined path dozens of meters away.

All of them were students who had come to attend the lecture.

Even the railings along the second-floor corridor of the teaching building were packed with students.

Originally, Lin Yuan's elective TCM course was assigned only a tiered classroom for a hundred people.

But now, the number of people gathered outside the teaching building... is probably more than ten times that.

The noisy voices carried on the wind, faintly audible were keywords like 'Lin Laoshi,' 'Academic God,' and 'acupuncture.'

Countless students waited outside the classroom, the human sea forming long lines, and even outside the teaching building the area was filled with people.

Today, at Zhijiang University, almost half of the students have come.

Students from every department are rushing to get in front of the teaching building.

Everyone wants to catch a glimpse of the Academic God, Lin Yuan's true appearance!

Lin Yuan frowned, feeling that something was off.

Lin Yuan sneaked out of the car, intending to take a detour and slip in through the side door of the teaching building...

As a result, just after he took a few steps, he was recognized by a sharp-eyed student in the crowd.

"Look! Lin Laoshi is here!"

An excited shout fell like a stone tossed onto the lake surface...

Instantly, the noisy crowd fell silent for a second...

The next second, the crowd erupted into an even more fervent commotion.

The previously loose crowd... immediately surged toward Lin Yuan's direction...

Several students holding notebooks rushed to the front, their faces full of excitement.

"Lin Laoshi! I'm from the School of Economics and Management—could I add a seat? I came especially to hear you lecture on TCM theory!"

"Lin Laoshi, I couldn't snag a ticket to the academic exchange yesterday—does your acupuncture technique really precisely kill cancer cells? Could you explain the principle to us?"

"Lin Laoshi, I'm from the Journalism School—I'd like to interview you so more people can know how amazing TCM is!"

A barrage of questions and requests came pouring in...

Lin Yuan was surrounded in the middle, with not even a gap to lift his foot.

Yesterday's news about the academic exchange... still couldn't be fully suppressed.

Although the online public opinion had been suppressed and deleted,

but the news of the Academic God Lin Yuan has already spread throughout Zhijiang University.

Those who came today are not only from our own college, but many more are from other colleges who came out of admiration.

His gaze swept over the crowd, and Lin Yuan's eyes suddenly froze...

In the front rows of the crowd stood several female students wearing different college uniforms...

Two of them were precisely the Art School's Su Qianqian, who has long dominated the campus beauty ranking on the school forum...

and the Foreign Language School's Chen Yuxin...

At this moment they were holding up their phones to record, their eyes looking at him full of admiration.

What surprised him even more was that, by the flower bed on the right side of the crowd, Chu Yuwei was standing there alone.

Huh?

Lin Yuan blinked in surprise?

This genius girl from Fudan University—how did she also come here?

Wasn't my rejection of her yesterday clear enough?

Chu Yuwei still wore a clean white sweater, but she had shed yesterday's sharpness and arrogance.

On her pretty face lay a hint of restraint.

She held a thick notebook in her hands, and when she felt Lin Yuan's gaze sweep over her...

Chu Yuwei instinctively clenched the notebook and lowered her head slightly.

She seemed still to feel ashamed about being refused as a disciple yesterday.

But she ultimately did not leave; obviously, she truly wanted to come listen to the lecture.

"Make way! Make way!" Just then, a familiar voice came from outside the crowd.

Dean Luo Renhai, accompanied by a few counselors from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, hurriedly pushed his way in,

Behind Luo Renhai followed the campus security team. The security quickly formed a safety circle around Lin Yuan, blocking the surging students outside.

Luo Renhai turned his head and shouted at the restless students, "Everyone be quiet! Lin Laoshi's elective course has limited seats, but the school has arranged a simultaneous live broadcast, which will be aired at the same time in the auditorium of the No. 3 Teaching Building and on the online platform, ensuring everyone can hear it! Please now disperse in an orderly manner and do not disrupt normal teaching order!"

"Dean Luo, how can a live broadcast compare to the feeling of attending in person!" Someone in the crowd immediately shouted, "We want to hear Lin Laoshi's acupuncture techniques up close and also ask questions!"

This remark instantly resonated, and students chimed in one after another; the crowd that had just quieted down began to stir again.

Lin Yuan looked at the enthusiastic students before him and, half-laughing, half-crying, said, "Fellow students, my original classroom only has a hundred seats; it truly cannot accommodate this many. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but we must still follow the teaching arrangements."

But the students refused to agree.

The students all said they wanted to attend the lecture in person.

This...

Lin Yuan felt helpless.

Dean Luo also felt a bit overwhelmed.

Dean Luo had never before faced such a situation where students were so eager to attend class.

You know, today is actually a weekend.

For weekend electives, students usually try to get out of them if they can.

After all, on weekends everyone is busy dating, falling in love, and playing games.

Who wants to have class on the weekend?

But today, Lin Yuan's weekend elective was explosively popular beyond imagination.

Luo Renhai thought for a moment and said, "If it can't be accommodated... how about... Lin Yuan, I'll change your classroom for you!"

Lin Yuan turned his head, looking at Luo Renhai in surprise.

Lin Yuan gave Luo Renhai a look, hinting, "Don't."

Lin Yuan really didn't want to teach so many people.

But Luo Renhai pretended not to notice and loudly said, "The school just decided to move Professor Lin's class to the thousand-person public classroom in Teaching Building No. 1! It can hold eight hundred people, guaranteeing everyone a seat!"

"Long live Dean Luo!" The students instantly burst into cheers~!

Lin Yuan was completely dazed.

So, Dean Luo basically sold him out.

Countless students swarmed around Lin Yuan, heading toward Teaching Building No. 1……

Lin Yuan looked at the excited crowd beside him, utterly speechless……

He originally just wanted to quietly attend an elective class, but he never expected it to turn into a school-wide sensation, an "open class."

Ten minutes later, when Lin Yuan entered the thousand-person public classroom in Teaching Building No. 1…… he was again stunned by the sight before him.

The large classroom that could originally hold eight hundred people now had every seat filled……

Even the aisles were packed with people.

Many students who arrived late simply brought small stools from their dorms, densely packed in the back rows and at the doorway……

Some students even sat directly on the steps beside the podium.

"This is too exaggerated." Lin Yuan whispered to Dean Luo beside him.

Luo Renhai spread his hands: "Who made you the school's 'top-tier Academic God' now?"

Luo Renhai pointed to the front row: "Look, the senior professors from the medical school have all come, and a few even came specially from the affiliated hospital."

Lin Yuan followed her pointed direction and indeed saw several white-haired old professors sitting in the first row……

These old professors held thick notebooks in their hands, their eyes full of anticipation.

And beside the old professors, Su Qianqian and Chen Yuxin from the Arts College, two campus belles, were carefully adjusting their camera angles, afraid to miss any detail of Lin Yuan's lecture.

Even more surprising to him, Chu Yuwei was sitting quietly by the window in the middle of the classroom, still holding that thick notebook.

Seeing Lin Yuan's gaze sweep over, she didn't avoid it, merely giving a slight nod, her eyes showing a bit of restraint and sincerity.

Lin Yuan froze for a moment?

Chu Yuwei, this little girl, how did she even get into the classroom.

However, Lin Yuan didn't drive her away either.

Forget it, let her audit the class.

There's no need to burn bridges.

As long as I don't take her as a student, it's fine.

Auditing, let her go. Lin Yuan also couldn't interfere with her freedom to audit.

"Professor Lin, hurry up and start class, we can't wait!" the front-row students urged excitedly.

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze and smiled helplessly.

Forget it, since it's come to this, let's just give this lecture properly.

He stepped onto the podium, just put down his lesson plan, and discovered that the outside of the classroom was again packed with people……

Many students who couldn't get a seat leaned on the windows…… tiptoeing to look inside%……

Some even held up their phones to record, muttering, "Just being able to hear the sound is fine."

Seeing this, Luo Renhai arranged for counselors to maintain order at the classroom door.

Then Luo Renhai had people bring over several projectors…… projecting the podium's image synchronously onto the walls outside the classroom, which eased the outside crowding.

This class will not only be held offline.

It will also be livestreamed on the online open class platform.

Staff had already set up the livestream equipment nearby.

At this moment, countless Zhijiang University students flooded into the livestream room.

In an instant, the number of people in Lin Yuan's class livestream had already exceeded a thousand!

His Traditional Chinese Medicine department is really explosively popular!

Inside the public classroom, Lin Yuan turned on the multimedia equipment.

He looked at the densely packed crowd below, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, today we will lecture on《Clinical Application of Acupuncture》."

The focus is the precise location and stimulation techniques of lung-cancer-related acupoints; we will also expand on the 'midday-midnight flow' theory mentioned in previous academic exchanges……

Lin Yuan's voice, transmitted through the microphone, filled the entire classroom.

The originally noisy crowd instantly fell silent……

Everyone took out their notebooks and focused intently on the podium.

Lin Yuan scanned the whole room, his gaze pausing on Chu Yuwei for a second……%

Seeing her lowering her head to take notes seriously.

In the end, Lin Yuan didn't say much more.

Since Chu Yuwei genuinely came to listen to the lecture, let her audit it.

What was originally an elective class thus officially began under the gaze of eight hundred students and countless auditors.

Lin Yuan's teaching style is profound yet accessible……

He didn't pile up obscure theory, but combined it with his years of clinical cases…… making the "localization of lung-cancer-related acupoints" vivid and easy to understand.

He picked up the human model, his fingertips precisely pointing to the acupoints "Lung Shu" and "Chest Center" etc...

Lin Yuan explained in detail the differences in stimulation depth and technique for different acupoints:

"Acupuncture isn't just simply 'needling'; for example, when stimulating the 'Fish Border' point, the thumb's pressing and kneading force should be controlled at 3-5 newtons to activate the Lung Meridian's qi and blood without damaging surrounding nerves......"

The students below listened especially attentively.

The students' pen tips flew quickly across their notebooks.

From time to time someone raised a hand to ask a question, and Lin Yuan patiently answered.

From the anatomical structure of acupoints to the logic of TCM pattern differentiation...

Each of his answers was clear and orderly, letting everyone present have a sudden enlightenment.

Even the elderly professors in the front row nodded frequently.

The occasional professional questions raised by the elderly professors were also handled calmly by Lin Yuan...

These interactions made the classroom atmosphere increasingly intense.

"Lin Laoshi!" a clear voice suddenly rang out, breaking the rhythm of the class.

Chu Yuwei raised her hand, her beautiful eyes focused as she said, "You just mentioned that 'acupuncture stimulation can regulate cancer cell metabolism,' but Western medical research believes cancer cell metabolic pathways are irreversible; could you please explain specifically through what mechanism acupuncture intervenes?"

The entire audience's gaze instantly focused on Chu Yuwei.

Many recognized… she was the Fudan student who had confronted Lin Yuan at yesterday's academic exchange.

Everyone wondered how Lin Yuan would respond.

However, Lin Yuan merely glanced at her.

Lin Yuan didn't bother with her, instead ignoring Chu Yuwei.

Lin Yuan's gaze didn't pause at all; he turned his head to another medical student who had raised a hand: "This classmate, what did you just want to ask?"

Chu Yuwei's jade hand, raised, froze in midair.

The color on her face...... instantly faded a bit.

She hadn't expected...... that Lin Yuan would directly ignore her.

The class continued...

When Lin Yuan explained the relationship between the midday‑night flow and lung cancer treatment timing...

Chu Yuwei raised her hand again, body temperature: "Lin Laoshi, I have conducted related animal experiments and found that the differences in acupuncture effects across time periods are not significant; does your proposed 'Zi hour treatment window' have concrete clinical data to support it?"

This time...... Lin Yuan didn't even spare her a glance.

Lin Yuan directly picked up the clinical data report on the desk and continued explaining the next part of the lesson.

Chu Yuwei, once again ignored.

Chu Yuwei's pretty face turned completely white...

A few whispers came from around, making her uneasy.

But she still didn't give up, raising her hand for a third time during Lin Yuan's demonstration of acupuncture techniques,

but Lin Yuan still turned a blind eye to her, even speeding up the lecture pace.

Lin Yuan was deliberately avoiding her.

Chu Yuwei tightly bit her lower lip, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

In the following lessons, Chu Yuwei didn't raise her hand again...... %

But her gaze toward Lin Yuan was full of grievance and incomprehension.

She couldn't understand; she had come sincerely to listen and ask questions, so why was she being completely ignored?

When the dismissal bell rang, Lin Yuan had finished packing up his lesson plans.

Lin Yuan only managed to finish answering the students' questions with difficulty, taking advantage of the moment when Luo Renhai stepped forward to help defuse the situation...

Lin Yuan quietly slipped out through the side door of the classroom, quickly walking toward his office.

He just wanted to quickly escape this lively scene, return to the office to organize the experimental data.

But as Lin Yuan had just reached the hallway downstairs of the office building, hurried footsteps sounded behind him.

"Lin Laoshi! Please wait!" Chu Yuwei hurriedly caught up and blocked his path.

Her chest was still slightly rising and falling, obviously from running after him.

Chu Yuwei lifted her head, her lovely eyes filled with red bloodshot lines.

"Why didn't you answer my question? I truly wanted to seek advice; those problems are the difficulties I encountered in my research, not intentional troublemaking!"

Lin Yuan stopped, turned around, and looked at her.

Lin Yuan's face showed no ripple; his tone was blunt, without a shred of sentiment: "I have nothing to answer."

"Why?" Chu Yuwei pressed on, her eye sockets instantly reddening, "Just because I questioned you before? I've already apologized, and I sincerely came to attend the lecture to learn; why won't you forgive me?"

Lin Yuan looked at her agitated expression and slightly furrowed his brow.

Lin Yuan said lightly, "It has nothing to do with forgiveness."

He paused, his gaze open and honest meeting hers, and said word by word, "I simply dislike you."