Chapter 387

The weather in early May was always gloomy, followed by several days of bright sun. By the 10th, it was still a sunny day. The water marks on the road passed by the street sweeper hadn't dried yet, and the sunlight fell brightly onto the damp asphalt road through the leaves.

At 8:50, Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao arrived at the entrance of the School of Economics.

People were coming and going on the road. Besides Song Yao, senior economics graduates would also be participating in the defense.

For the senior defense, there would also be students from other grades coming to audit.

Xu Qingzhou walked while holding Song Yao's hand, playing with it, secretly sighing at how such tender little hands could have so much strength to pinch people.

However, he did notice School Beauty Song's willow-leaf eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Seeing Song Yao bowing her head in thought, Xu Qingzhou hooked her palm with his index finger. "What are you thinking about?"

"The law thesis is outside, don't be so perverted."

The tingling sensation from her hand brought Song Yao back to her senses, and she pulled her hand away from Xu Qingzhou. This guy had been holding and pinching her hand the whole way.

Not only did he like feet, but he also liked hands.

Because it was a double degree, she also had to complete the law major's graduation thesis. The double degree defense for law was a bit later, on June 3rd. During this time, Song Yao had already completed nearly half of the content.

Xu Qingzhou still wanted to reach out his claws, but was slapped away by Song Yao.

"Can't even hold hands."

"Shut up!"

As the two were talking, they met Li Daiyue at the stairwell.

This professor, who was over fifty, was stern and humorless, and her gaze was so sharp that students would avoid her eyes wherever she went.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao greeted her.

Li Daiyue nodded, her eyebrows only relaxing when she looked at her precious disciple.

She used to worry about Song Yao being bullied, but now...

Li Daiyue had a strange expression. No matter how she looked at it, it was her student who was dominant. She was very puzzled about how the relationship between these two was maintained.

She shook her head in her heart and stopped thinking about it, as long as Song Yao didn't suffer. At the same time, she said: "After the defense is over, prepare your law thesis well. If you have any questions, go directly to Professor Zhang."

Professor Zhang Min from the Law School had been friends with Li Daiyue for decades.

Li Daiyue didn't ask about Song Yao's defense this time. In her view, if Song Yao couldn't pass, then the master's students in this major could all go back and study again.

Quite a few people had already arrived in the lecture hall.

After entering, Li Daiyue walked straight to the front row, looking at the materials, waiting for the defense to begin.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao walked straight toward Zhang Qiong and the others, who had already occupied seats by the window.

"God Xu." Teng Xiaojuan greeted them with a grin. Her personality was the same as before—extroverted and enthusiastic—it was just that her dressing style had changed quite a bit; she was dressed very plainly.

Xu Qingzhou nodded slightly as a greeting. He didn't have much of an impression of the other girl in Song Yao's dorm named "Zhong Ruotong," as they hadn't had much contact.

However, after three years of university, the relationship in this dorm was still so good, which was very precious.

Song Yao sat down, and Zhang Qiong asked with concern: "Xiao Yao, how is your preparation?"

"No problem."

Teng Xiaojuan rested her chin on her hand and sighed: "Straight-A students don't have the worry of failing their defense. Last year, a senior sister was scolded until she cried."

"Yeah, time passes so fast. It'll be our turn next year. Just thinking about thesis defenses and such makes me shudder."

Xu Qingzhou sat there, interjecting a few words from time to time, noticing that quite a few people were peeking in their direction, then looking excited, like aunties at the village entrance hearing gossip—taking a look, then whispering to each other.

There were more and more people in the lecture hall, so it became even livelier.

"I heard a junior sister in her third year is participating in the defense together?" asked a freshman who had come to gain some experience.

"That person is a super straight-A student. She finished all her undergraduate credits a year early. Not only did she master the undergraduate knowledge of our major, but she even pursued a second degree."

When the gap was too large, others felt more admiration and looking up to them, rather than jealousy.

The girl speaking looked at Song Yao in the corner, feeling both worship and envy. A genius girl, smart, good-looking, and the most critical thing was...

Their gazes turned to the boy beside Song Yao.

Handsome, with regular features, dressed simply in just a white T-shirt and black shorts, but giving off a refreshing feeling. This was the real God of Study.

Beautiful, good at studying, and had a super amazing boyfriend.

This was already reaching the pinnacle of life!

Being secretly observed, Zhang Qiong felt a bit uncomfortable and whispered: "I feel like everyone is looking at us."

"Standard operation, you'll get used to it."

Xu Qingzhou had a calm expression, revealing the look of a master beyond the world.

"Xiao Yao, your boyfriend is just as annoying as he is on Weibo." Teng Xiaojuan turned to look at Song Yao.

Song Yao nodded and said seriously: "I agree with that."

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At 9:00 AM, the defense officially began.

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Most defenses were the same. At the beginning, the teachers were full of energy, their words were pearls of wisdom, their tone was sharp, and the ones at the very front were often miserable.

The first one on stage was still okay and successfully stepped down.

By the second one, the teachers seemed to have entered their state, and as a result, the little girl on stage was asked until she was speechless and at a loss several times.

Consequently, the people waiting for their defense below became even more nervous.

Xu Qingzhou even noticed a guy whose face was pale, with cold sweat popping out on his forehead.

Song Yao was the third to go on stage.

Compared to the previous two, School Beauty Song was much calmer. She took her thesis manuscript and walked onto the stage with a cold expression, possessing a composed calmness.

She opened the PPT.

A cold, clear voice rang out in the classroom.

"This paper utilizes the implementation of the VAT credit refund reform in pilot industries abroad to construct a difference-in-differences model to evaluate the impact of the credit refund reform on the capital adequacy of small and micro enterprises and the development of small and micro enterprises."

Xu Qingzhou held up his phone to take photos, watching Song Yao and clicking his tongue.

Who would have thought that the cold girl on the podium was actually a violent girl who would threaten people with clenched fists if things didn't go her way?

"Constructing a difference-in-differences model and using the event study method to test the dynamic effects of the policy, the baseline regression model: yijkt=a+btreatj×postt+yxit+mi+okt+eijkt."

"In the selection of explanatory variables, this paper's entry point is cash flow adequacy, using both the ordered logit model and OLS econometric methods in the baseline regression."

Song Yao briefly explained her research content clearly.

Below the stage, the four defense teachers nodded slightly, admiration flowing in their eyes.

A girl looked at the content on the PPT and muttered to herself: "I suddenly feel like I've been attending a fake senior year."

"Junior sister, don't talk about you guys; even I feel like I've wasted my master's degree."

Next to her, a boy with somewhat sparse hair sighed. Was this content something an undergraduate could write? Even he, a third-year master's student, felt the pressure.

"Fortunately, I finished my defense before her."

The first boy to finish his defense secretly rejoiced. He glanced at his roommate and felt a bit of schadenfreude: "Good luck to you guys."

Just a moment ago, they were laughing at my bad luck for being first.

His roommate already had a look of despair.

With such a pearl before them, the pressure on those behind was immense.

After Song Yao finished speaking, the middle-aged man wearing glasses asked in a deep voice: "The credit refund policy has played a role in alleviating the capital pressure caused by the credit tax formed by 'low collection and high deduction.' Student Song Yao, please explain this part in detail."

"Here, you can look at Figure 7. From the data, it can be seen that the formation reason of the credit tax will ultimately be reflected in the scale of the credit tax..."

(End of chapter)