Jiang Fuyue applied to transfer into the Civil Engineering major (Highway Engineering direction), and to minor in Pavement Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Highway Survey and Design, Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Engineering Drawing, Computer Fundamentals, Reinforced Concrete, Hydraulics, and Bridge and Culvert Hydrology.
As soon as the news came out, the whole school was in an uproar.
“What?! Sister Yue is transferring to engineering?! I thought she’d study clinical medicine, or pure disciplines like physics or chemistry.”
“A big shot with a Lasker Award in hand is actually going to build bridges and roads? This world feels a bit surreal!”
“I counted three times, Sister Yue’s major plus minors add up to 11 fields. I was completely stunned!”
“Why though? She’s so strong in single disciplines, with outstanding academic results, why suddenly study this kind of practical, skill-oriented major?”
“As far as I know, those who study civil engineering, especially highway engineering, have to endure wind, sun, and rain, it’s extremely tough, so it’s almost all men, hardly any women. What is Sister Yue aiming for?”
“Sigh, why so many questions? I think Goddess Yue is just playing around!”
“Or maybe she’s tired of high-end stuff and wants to try something more down-to-earth.”
“Oh my god, is it necessary to crush us like this? I struggle with just one major, and she’s doing 11 at once… I’m instantly kneeling.”
“A god is a god, no ordinary human could pull this off!”
“I analyzed the majors she picked, if she masters all of them, she alone would basically be an entire engineering team! D*mn!”
“……”
When Xiao Shan saw the online application page, he was also stunned.
It took him a long while to recover. “…You’re going to study civil engineering?”
Jiang Fuyue nodded.
“No… why? You were doing so well in other disciplines, how did you suddenly…” lose your mind?
Jiang Fuyue: “I want to try something new.”
Xiao Shan: “There are many new things, why insist on building roads?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Human history and the experience of urban expansion tell us, if you want to get rich, build roads first.”
Xiao Shan: “?”
Aren’t you already rich enough?
Jiang Fuyue: “One person being rich isn’t real wealth; everyone being rich is real wealth.”
So red and so righteous!
Did he dare to refute?
This was the essential requirement of socialism, try refuting that? A wrong political stance could be fatal!
Did he still want to be principal?
Xiao Shan: “Leave!”
“Okay~” Jiang Fuyue happily took her leave.
……
As Ming University’s “living signboard,” the academic world’s “supernova,” and the future likely absolute authority “big boss” of the domestic research field, Jiang Fuyue’s every move always drew attention.
Sure enough, within two days, it spread throughout university and academic circles.
Everyone had the same question: what kind of stimulation had she received?
Xu Kaiqing and Old Peter came as representatives to check on her: “Has everything been going smoothly lately? Are you happy in life? Is your love sweet? Are your family and friends in good health? Have you fallen and hit your head? Did you wear protective gear during experiments? Didn’t inhale hallucinogenic gas, right? Or accidentally take psychotropic drugs?”
Jiang Fuyue expressionless: “Speak human language.”
Xu Kaiqing: “Oh. Why did you switch to engineering?”
Here we go again…
Jiang Fuyue smiled and repeated for the Nth time: “If you want to get rich, build roads first; if you want to get rich faster, build big roads; without roads in rural areas, getting rich is difficult.”
Xu Kaiqing: “……” I’m dead (awsl)!
Old Peter: “Yue, are you freestyling?”
Jiang Fuyue maintained her smile: “Do you need me to do another verse?”
Xu Kaiqing: Farewell!
The two fled awkwardly, running into Xiao Shan who was peeking outside. Xu Kaiqing: “Sorry, can’t persuade her, please find someone more capable!”
Old Peter nodded: Me too!
Xiao Shan: “……” Oh heavens! Who can control Jiang Fuyue?
Suddenly, he thought of her parents, maybe they could help.
……
Han family villa.
Xiao Shan took the hot tea from the servant and glanced at Jiang Da and Han Yunru sitting opposite.
The man was tall, sturdy, and honest-looking; the woman was gentle and elegant, still charming.
Jiang Fuyue got her height from her father, but her features were exactly like her mother.
Picking only the best traits!
Tsk, is this what they call “chosen by heaven”?
Xiao Shan thought sourly.
“Principal Xiao came personally, what’s the matter?” Han Yunru spoke gently.
“Do you know Jiang Fuyue has chosen a new major and direction?”
The couple exchanged a glance and shook their heads.
Han Yunru: “We never interfere with Yueyue’s studies, she makes her own decisions.”
Jiang Da added: “We can’t control it anyway.”
Xiao Shan: “……” Isn’t that a bit too honest?
Jiang Da responded with a simple, honest smile.
“I know Jiang Fuyue is very independent, but this direction she chose is outrageous! Do you know what she picked?”
The couple shook their heads again.
Xiao Shan: “Civil engineering, highway engineering direction, plus minors in pavement engineering, bridge engineering, highway survey and design…”
So many technical terms poured out that Jiang Da felt dizzy.
Han Yunru half understood, half didn’t.
Xiao Shan: “…To put it simply, it’s road construction.”
Jiang Da: “Building roads is good. If you want to get rich, build roads first.”
Han Yunru nodded: “Good roads mean good business.”
Xiao Shan: “?” Suddenly understood why they became a family.
“Do you know how high Jiang Fuyue’s talent is in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and medicine as individual disciplines?” He refused to give up, still trying.
Jiang Da: “Not really.”
Han Yunru: “I know a little.”
“……” These parents are something else!
Xiao Shan: “Let me put it this way, if Jiang Fuyue continues developing in those fields, within ten years she will sweep the domestic academic world, and become the second truly all-round scientist in human history after Leonardo da Vinci!”
The couple seemed shocked and exchanged a glance.
Xiao Shan thought: now you’ll surely persuade your willful daughter, right?
But reality…
Jiang Da: “If Yueyue studies road construction, can’t she still continue developing in those fields? Can’t she still sweep the academic world? Can’t she still become the second all-round scientist after Leonardo da Vinci? I don’t believe it.”
Han Yunru: “Since she’s ‘all-round,’ then knowing how to build roads and bridges should be included too, right?”
Xiao Shan: “?” Sorry, I shouldn’t have come today. That was reckless!
“Eh? Principal Xiao, why are you leaving? Stay for a meal, try my specialty dishes!”
“……” No, I’m afraid if I stay any longer, I’ll cough up blood before eating.
After running around everywhere with no results, Xiao Shan could only accept it in tears.
But at the same time, he gave Jiang Fuyue a problem.
“In view of Student Jiang’s new major differing greatly from her original one, and the large number of minors, the school, from a humane perspective and considering it may exceed the student’s actual capacity, will organize relevant examinations to assess her personal level…”
To put it simply…
An exam!
Jiang Fuyue: “Sure.”
Xiao Shan: “How about we forget it?”
The girl lifted her chin, looking at him arrogantly: “You can forget it, but what about the board of directors?”
Xiao Shan held his forehead, full of regret.
Originally, he had just been saying it casually, he didn’t actually intend to make Jiang Fuyue take an exam. But somehow, some jerk directly reported it to the board of directors.
Xiao Shan was now stuck in a dilemma, forced to bite the bullet and agree.
At the same time, he was worried about offending Jiang Fuyue.
Under double pressure, he was utterly tormented, losing dozens more strands of hair.
Jiang Fuyue let out a light snort. She didn’t look angry: “This tells us, being kind to others is being kind to yourself. If you pit others, you harm yourself.”
Xiao Shan: “……” Feels like I just got indirectly roasted again.
[big cry]
……
A week later, the exams began.
Jiang Fuyue had selected 11 majors, one exam paper per major, adding up to 11 papers.
Each paper was set personally by professors from the respective fields.
No matter how knowledgeable Jiang Fuyue was, it was impossible for her to understand all the knowledge across 11 majors, otherwise, what would she even need to study for? She’d already be invincible!
Yet the exam questions were written by professors, so it was obvious they would be closely related to professional knowledge.
“Isn’t this making things difficult for Sister Yue?”
“I heard the board of directors even told the professors not to make it too easy, after all, the person taking it is Jiang Fuyue.”
“D*mn, the board is so shameless! Deliberately stirring trouble?”
“It feels like those old guys are watching a show, the more trouble, the more twists in the plot.”
“Will Sister Yue mess up? This is a new major, jumping straight in must be confusing!”
“Relax, there’s no exam a genius girl can’t handle.”
“Right! You can always trust her!”
……
The school arranged three days for the exams, averaging three to four subjects per day.
“Too troublesome,” Jiang Fuyue sat in the empty exam hall. “Finish all subjects today.”
“…Huh?” The invigilator froze for ten seconds before letting out a soul-level “huh.”
Jiang Fuyue: “Not allowed?”
“…I’ll go get the other papers immediately!”
And so, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Jiang Fuyue finished all the exams at a pace of one paper every half hour.
Afterward, she even went to the cafeteria for a meal.
“This speed… I wouldn’t believe it even if a knife were at my throat!”
“Someone come kill me to celebrate Sister Yue.”
“I heard those old guys on the board are beating their chests in regret.”
“Forget the accuracy, this momentum alone is completely owned by Sister Yue!”
“Even though it’s impossible, I still want to ask: did she see the answers beforehand?”
“There’s nothing we can’t imagine, and nothing Sister Yue can’t do.”
……
The next day, the results came out.
All 11 papers, perfect scores on every single one.
The entire faculty fell silent.
The board of directors went mute.
Xiao Shan was completely dumbfounded.
Just one week? She finished learning the relevant knowledge of 11 majors?
Xiao Shan: “Are you possessed by an alien?!”
Jiang Fuyue raised an eyebrow: “Who told you you need to fully master everything before taking an exam?”
“Then what else?”
“Focus on key points, then do massive problem sets.”
“What problem sets?”
“Of course, all the final exam papers from these majors over the past few years.”
“How many sets did you do?”
“In total… about 172 sets.”
Xiao Shan: “!” Is she a demon?
“Oh right, and prediction before the exam.”
Whether others’ predictions were accurate, Jiang Fuyue didn’t know, but hers were about 95% accurate.
“So, Principal Xiao, can my transfer application be approved now?”
Xiao Shan: Did he dare not approve it?
From then on, Jiang Fuyue became a new junior-year student in Civil Engineering (Highway Engineering direction).
It was… quite surreal!
In the next two months, Jiang Fuyue attended classes on time, never absent.
As a result, the frequency of people seeing her on campus increased sharply.
Someone said: “Goddess Yue is either in class, or on the way to another class.”
11 majors, assuming each had 5 required courses, that made 55 different classes.
And Jiang Fuyue attended all of them!
If two classes overlapped, she would usually split time between them.
If three overlapped, she divided time equally among them, each getting a quarter, totaling three-quarters, with the remaining quarter used for moving between classrooms.
“Just… insanely strong!”
“Sister Yue must be Nezha, three heads and six arms!”
“Now we finally have a real-life model of a high-quality genius student.”
“From now on, anyone who hasn’t studied at least ten majors shouldn’t call themselves a ‘genius.’ A real genius can handle eleven.”
“Are geniuses also competing like crazy now?”
“I have a ‘cnmdnbsl’ (d*mn, that’s insanely awesome) stuck in my throat, should I say it or not?”
“……”
However, Jiang Fuyue didn’t maintain this class attendance pace forever.
After two weeks, once she figured out the teachers’ teaching patterns and predicted each major’s progress, she began adjusting and cutting down.
How did she cut?
First, Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Engineering Drawing, and Computer Fundamentals were all related to “computer-aided drawing.”
She could follow the textbooks and practice on the computer herself, and at more than ten times the speed of classroom teaching.
So she stopped attending those four.
Next, Bridge Engineering and Bridge & Culvert Hydrology had overlapping content. She chose to attend only one, Bridge & Culvert Hydrology.
Because it also included Hydraulics, covering a broader scope.
As a result, she no longer needed to attend Hydraulics classes either.
Finally, only Highway Survey & Design, Pavement Engineering, and Reinforced Concrete remained.
Even then, Jiang Fuyue only attended when there was on-site construction teaching.
She found that there was a big gap between theory and real-world practice. Sometimes, when facing unexpected situations, theory wasn’t enough, experience was key.
At times like this, the value of veteran workers became apparent.
Jiang Fuyue began visiting construction sites herself, interacting with experienced workers, learning while listening. In return, she treated them to lunch each time.
All the remaining time, she devoted entirely to self-study.
Her progress far surpassed classroom pace.
While professors were still explaining basic concepts in surveying, Jiang Fuyue had already begun hands-on use of levels, theodolites, total stations, and RTK systems.
Besides that, Jiang Fuyue also had one more important matter…
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