Chapter 480

Back at the dormitory, Qin Tian was naturally greeted by the attentive gazes of his roommates.

On the way back to the dorm, he had already seen the chat history in the class group, so he naturally knew why they were looking at him with such hesitant expressions.

Qin Tian didn't intend to explain anything; he walked to his wardrobe, opened it to find a set of clean clothes, and then went to the bathroom to shower.

Hearing the bathroom door close, the three of Chen Zhuang began to communicate in low voices.

"Cao Zei, looking at Brother Tian like that, do you think he's in a good mood or a bad one?"

"How would I know?"

"A-Zhe, what do you think?"

The two cast their gazes toward Zhuang Zhe, who was leaning against his bed reading a book.

Zhuang Zhe raised his eyes to look at them and said with a blank expression: "I didn't notice!"

He hadn't cared about this matter at all; he had just glanced at Qin Tian and then lowered his head to continue reading.

"Fine, shouldn't have asked you, what a waste of effort!"

Chen Zhuang waved his hand, speechless.

"Indeed!"

Cao Mingliang nodded in agreement.

"You guys were telling people in the group not to be so gossipy, and now you want to ask yourselves—isn't this just having nothing better to do?"

Zhuang Zhe said with a flat expression.

Chen Zhuang and Cao Mingliang looked at each other, both momentarily speechless.

"Damn, you mute gourd, you'd better not speak in the future; why does it sound so annoying!"

"Agreed."

"You guys asked me."

Zhuang Zhe couldn't be bothered to deal with them anymore and lowered his head to continue reading.

Chen Zhuang and Cao Mingliang also lost interest in continuing the discussion; one went back to playing games, and the other began frantically typing on his phone to flirt with girls.

Before long, Qin Tian came out after showering.

"Brother Tian, done showering? Want to log on and play a couple of rounds?"

Chen Zhuang glanced at him and invited him with a smile.

The jab from the "mute gourd" Zhuang Zhe had hit the nail on the head, making him give up on satisfying his own curiosity.

"Alright, are you done with your game?"

Qin Tian nodded and agreed.

It was still early, and he didn't feel sleepy, so playing a couple of games didn't sound bad.

"Wait a second, right away. Damn, this marksman is too trashy, otherwise, the opponents would have surrendered long ago."

Chen Zhuang stared at the computer screen, blaming his teammates while focusing on his gameplay.

Qin Tian walked to his computer, sat down, turned it on, and logged into his account to wait for him to finish.

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The next day, news spread across campus.

A doctoral supervisor from Peking University in the Imperial Capital, a second-level researcher at a national-level research institute, would be giving a lecture at 3:30 PM in the tiered classroom on the fourth floor of the school's Eighth Teaching Building.

Originally, this news wouldn't have been very eye-catching.

After all, although Qin Hongwen had a high status in his professional field, he had always been the type to work silently; in terms of fame, he might not even compare to an eighteenth-tier minor celebrity.

After the lecture was announced in the morning, only a small number of students in relevant fields paid attention.

Not to mention the fame of the name Qin Hongwen, the titles of Peking University doctoral supervisor and national second-level researcher were still very significant.

You should know that researchers are divided into four levels, from high to low, first to fourth.

First-level researchers are generally only academicians of the National Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering, or scholars who have made major contributions to the country in the field of social sciences—they are all top-tier national talents.

As for second-level researchers, they are the leaders and pioneers in their professional fields, already existing as highly authoritative figures within their industry.

Jiang University is one of the top higher education institutions in the country, so there were many elites and big shots from various industries coming to the school to give lectures.

Therefore, everyone was already accustomed to such things, and except for lectures relevant to their own majors, they generally wouldn't pay much attention, nor would they bother to waste their time.

After the lecture news was announced by the counselor in each class group, it didn't cause much of a stir.

Except for Economics Class 1!

"Nuan Nuan, look at the group chat quickly, the counselor sent a notice. Is it the lecture by Qin Tian's father?"

Shen Siqi saw the notice in the group first and said to Xia Nuannuan with some excitement.

Her voice was a bit loud, and many students around heard it, immediately becoming confused.

After Xia Nuannuan took out her phone to look at the notice, she nodded with a sweet smile: "It's Uncle Qin, I just received a text message from him."

The surrounding students heard this and hurriedly took out their phones to check the notice in the group.

Connecting it to the discussion in the group yesterday, everyone was shocked.

"This is the Class Monitor's father?"

"My god, is the Class Monitor's father that amazing? Peking University doctoral supervisor, second-level researcher—my god, what kind of super academic genius is this!"

"No wonder, I said yesterday that the photo looked very refined. How could he not have a refined temperament?"

"What do you say, what do you say? Shall we go see this lecture together?"

"Need you ask? We definitely have to go!"

"..."

Like a stone thrown into a calm lake, the ripples spread out in circles, and the whole classroom soon boiled over.

Listening to those exclamations of "Class Monitor's father" and "Brother Tian's old man," Qin Tian felt his eyelid twitch slightly. After trying his best to block out these sounds, he rested his chin on one hand and lowered his head to read.

Xia Nuannuan tilted her head to look at him, then raised her right index finger to her lips, making a "shush" gesture to Zhang Lang, who was trying to ask something in front.

She could empathize with Qin Tian's feelings, but at the same time, she felt proud and honored for him.

With everyone carrying mobile phones these days, students from both classes knew about this, so the news naturally couldn't be kept secret.

By lunchtime, more than half of the students in the school knew that the Professor Qin giving the lecture today was Qin Tian's father.

Consequently, this lecture suddenly became the center of attention.

There was only one major class this afternoon.

After the instructor announced the end of the class, the classroom immediately became noisy.

Many students from the two Economics classes were calling out to their friends, preparing to go listen to the lecture together.

Naturally, girls were in the majority, and almost all the girls in both classes looked full of anticipation.

Qin Tian noticed the gazes falling on him one after another and felt very speechless; he was a bit reluctant to join in the excitement.

"Nuan Nuan, let's go quickly. We have to be fast; looking at this situation, if we're a bit slow, there won't be any seats left."

Cheng Meng urged with a smile.

"Mm-hmm!"

Xia Nuannuan nodded repeatedly, looked at Qin Tian with a smile, and said: "Brother, let's go!"

"How about you go with Cheng Meng and the others, I..."

"Brother!"

Before Qin Tian could finish, he was interrupted by Xia Nuannuan, who frowned.

She didn't care that many people around were watching and directly unleashed the "cute and coquettish" method she often used to deal with Old Xia and her mother.

She suddenly hugged one of Qin Tian's arms with both arms, shaking it gently while pouting and pleading:

"Just come with me, please, I beg you. Uncle Qin would definitely really want you to go."

The surrounding students were dumbfounded, and many boys felt their hearts melt.

Who could withstand this! Let alone going to listen to a lecture together, even if it were to go up a mountain of blades or down into a sea of fire, they would have to go!