As a member of the quantum computing laboratory, Lin Zhixia took the initiative to take on the reception work. When she saw Wei Ruoxing, she immediately ran over and introduced herself: "Hello, senior sister, my name is Lin Zhixia, I am a graduate of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, and I am now a sophomore."
Wei Ruoxing smiled at her: "Hello, junior high school girl."
Lin Zhixia responded happily: "Senior."
Wei Ruoxing specializes in the field of "quantum algorithms". She completed a double degree in mathematics and computer science during her undergraduate studies. After graduating from undergraduate studies, Wei Ruoxing worked at IBM for a year before returning to academia and becoming a student of the famous professor Jeff Canny.
Lin Zhixia has read all of Jeff Canny's papers and published books. She is familiar with Wei Ruoxing's research. After she discussed with Wei Ruoxing for a few sentences, Wei Ruoxing looked at her with new eyes: "Are you really a sophomore?"
Lin Zhixia nodded: "I am fifteen years old this year, and I skipped a grade."
Wei Ruoxing said in surprise: "Xiaoxuemei is so smart."
The school arranged a welcome dinner for Professor Jeff Canny and his team. Many teachers and students from the School of Physics attended the dinner. Jeff Canny sat next to Gu Likai, and the two of them had a great conversation.
The spacious restaurant is brightly lit and has a harmonious atmosphere.
In such a formal occasion, all male teachers and students were dressed in suits and ties, and Tan Qianche was no exception.
Tonight, Tan Qianche wore a black suit with a white shirt underneath. He fastened the top button and tied his tie tightly, which gave him a refined and abstinent look.
Tan Qianche seemed to have become a different person. He frowned slightly, spoke little, and looked at Wei Ruoxing from time to time, but the other party didn't even give him a glance.
Yang Shuwen watched for a while and said with emotion: "Don't look at her bitterly. Don't you just want to talk to her? Listen to me, go and ask Lin Zhixia. Lin Zhixia and Wei Ruoxing get along well. Look how happy Wei Ruoxing is smiling."
Tan Qianche sighed heavily: "Why does Lin Zhixia stick to the female doctor all day long?"
Yang Shuwen tried to analyze it: "Hey, Lin Zhixia is really good at calling people "senior sister" and "senior sister" short. Don't be depressed, she has a good relationship with Wei Ruoxing and will say a few good words for you..."
Tan Qianche said nothing. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip of red wine.
The wine spilled from the rim of the glass and splashed onto his suit pants.
This suit was bought not long ago and cost more than ten thousand yuan, so Tan Qianche felt a little distressed.
He held the napkin tightly and slowly wiped the stains on his legs. In a trance, he remembered that when he was sixteen years old, he and Wei Ruoxing were both studying in the competition class of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School. That evening, the sky gradually darkened. He tutored her in the classroom and she put her hand on his leg. She smiled beautifully, the sunset knew it, the sunset glow knew it, and he knew it too.
But he was powerless to change reality.
In his senior year of high school, Wei Ruoxing decided to go abroad.
She called him to school and wanted to break up with him. He was young at that time, only 18 years old, arrogant and proud, not only did he not show any reluctance, but also said harsh words to her.
He said that Wei Ruoxing's gold medal in the competition was earned by his tutoring. He sincerely hoped that Wei Ruoxing could keep up with the course progress in the foreign school, and there would never be another boy willing to help her with all his strength like he did.
Thinking back to those words now, Tan Qianche felt so embarrassed that his scalp tingled.
Who can be blamed
He can only blame himself.
He was still a virgin at the time, had a bad temper, little experience, and did not know how to communicate.
Tan Qianche was reflecting while tasting the red wine. His eyes fell on Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia is discussing quantum algorithms with Wei Ruoxing.
Wei Ruoxing's latest paper involves "Shor's large number decomposition". Lin Zhixia held a chopstick and wrote a function on the tablecloth. According to the steps of "Shor's large number decomposition", she calculated the period of the modular function. She said: "I wrote the QFT circuit in Python and made it into an open source package. Senior sister, take a look at the open source package I made, there is more than one algorithm."
The so-called "open source package" refers to the public functional code.
Wei Ruoxing agreed: "Okay, where should I go to see it?"
"Look now?" Lin Zhixia thought seriously, "You can come back to the dormitory with me, or go to the computer room, and we can find a place with a computer."
Wei Ruoxing glanced at Tan Qianche.
Tan Qianche's wine glass was empty. He held the glass with two fingers. The edges of his silver-framed glasses were slightly shining, and his wandering gaze just met hers.
She really wanted to escape from the party tonight, so she simply said, "Okay, let's go, Lin Zhixia."
Lin Zhixia thought that the senior was very interested in her code.
Very good!
Her ideas were affirmed by her senior!
She wants to simulate a quantum programming language and make it open source on the Internet for everyone to use. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and the more scholars who study quantum algorithms, the faster the field will develop.
Lin Zhixia said hello to her mentor, took Wei Ruoxing's hand, and walked out of the banquet hall in broad daylight.
Just like that, Lin Zhixia seduced the senior schoolmate she met for the first time.
Senior Sister Wei wore a camel-colored dress, a long windbreaker, and a Burberry plaid scarf around her neck. She had fair skin, simple makeup, bright and beautiful facial features, and exuded a quiet and noble temperament from the inside out.
Wei Ruoxing's demeanor is somewhat similar to Luo Ying's, but their personalities are quite different. Luo Ying is soft on the outside but strong on the inside, and Wei Ruoxing is soft on the outside but gentle on the inside, and consistent on the inside and outside.
Lin Zhixia admired in her heart that the senior students from the Provincial No. 1 High School all had their own strengths.
The sky was dark, and people were swaying under the street lights. A cold north wind blew in her face, and Wei Ruoxing shivered. She held Lin Zhixia's arm tightly, and Lin Zhixia said righteously, "Senior sister, are you cold? I'll take off my coat for you."
Wei Ruoxing smiled and shook her head. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt a warmth on her back. Someone put a suit jacket on her. The jacket was pure black, made of fine flannel. She knew who the owner of the jacket was without turning around.
She stood there like a stone statue.
She heard Tan Qianche's voice: "You have been abroad for the past few years. Are you doing well?"
Wei Ruoxing turned around and said to him, "I'm having a great time, how about you?"
Tan Qianche was wearing a white shirt and black suit pants. His cuffs had been unbuttoned, revealing half of his strong and sturdy arms. He had used these hands to hold her waist, but that was all. They had never kissed, let alone slept together. It was just an innocent and pure early love.
Yesterday's dream passed by like flowing water, and Tan Qianche replied calmly: "I'm fine too."
He put his hands in his trouser pockets, showed no intention of leaving, and didn't even look at her.
Lin Zhixia immediately became alert. She knew Tan Qianche's chaotic lifestyle very well. Tan Qianche couldn't even remember the names of those girls. In order to avoid confusion, he used "baby" as a nickname. The actual number of "baby" was a mystery.
But he didn't mention his private life at all, and asked with a smile: "Is your current boyfriend a student of your mentor?"
"No, you read it wrong. I don't have a boyfriend." Wei Ruoxing replied.
Tan Qianche strangely restrained the smile on his face, and his tone was flat and serious, as if he was doing business: "Gu Likai leads a large quantum computing group. The large group is divided into several small groups. I am in the quantum bit circuit group and have worked on quantum algorithms. We may have a chance to collaborate on a paper."
Wei Ruoxing glanced at Lin Zhixia and asked, "Are you in the quantum bit team?"
Lin Zhixia said a little shyly: "I shuttled through the entire quantum computing group and learned everything."
Wei Ruoxing smiled at her and said, "If there is a chance, let's collaborate on a paper."
"Okay, senior sister!" Lin Zhixia agreed readily.
Tan Qianche's mouth twitched. He looked down at the gap between the bricks and stones on the sidewalk, and Wei Ruoxing returned the suit jacket to him: "You don't need this. I'm not cold anymore..."
He suddenly said, "I'm sorry."
Wei Ruoxing's wrist froze in mid-air: "Are you going to apologize to me?"
"When I was young, I was too arrogant," Tan Qianche took the suit and put it on his left arm, "I thought I was a genius, and I thought everyone was stupid and foolish. I like you but I look down on you. Did I hurt your heart?"
Wei Ruoxing bit her lip. She tightened her windbreaker, her expression determined, and all she could say was reduced to two words: "Forget it."
She turned and left.
Tan Qianche grabbed her sleeve and said, "Let me take another look at you and tell me if you are doing well..." He meant it sincerely. He had been silent for too long and suddenly burst out with his fingertips trembling violently, like someone in the late stage of Parkinson's syndrome.
Wei Ruoxing shook off his hand. She turned her back to him and said, "I will graduate with a Ph.D. in September this year. After graduation, I will return to China and work in Shanghai. I have found a teaching position... This time I came to your school, I want to..."
She thought about it for a long time but couldn't express what she wanted.
Tan Qianche was very close to her, and if she took a step back she would bump into his chest. But she walked forward without looking back: "This morning, I heard someone say that you have a lot of girls around you. Forget it, take care of yourself."
Lin Zhixia quickly caught up with her: "Senior sister!"
The senior student said, "I'm sorry, Lin Zhixia, I feel a little uncomfortable. I'm going back to the hotel first. I'll go and see the code you wrote another day."
"Senior, I'll take you back to the hotel. Do you want to eat anything? I'll buy it for you." Lin Zhixia took the initiative to offer.
The senior student waved at her: "I know the way, I want to be alone for a while."
Lin Zhixia stood there, watching her leave. Her figure became farther and farther away under the streetlight, gradually blending into the deep and boundless night.
The night was as cold as water, and the wind was biting. Tan Qianche, wearing a pair of expensive suit pants, sat on a dusty stone brick by the road. He bent his knees and hunched his back, his whole face buried in the shadows, looking decadent and depressed, like a dog that had lost its home.
Lin Zhixia took two steps at a time and ran to him, shouting, "Senior."
He didn't look up.
Lin Zhixia has known him for more than a year and has never seen him like this. He is always carefree and confident, flirting with girls everywhere, or being flirted with by girls. He is an assistant professor in the School of Physics. In order to prevent the involvement of assistant professors and students, he does not respond to all girls in the School of Physics. As for the beauties from other colleges and other schools, he basically accepts all of them.
This behavior is so strange, just like "Love in the Time of Cholera".
In the book Love in the Time of Cholera, the hero cannot get the love of the heroine, so he indulges himself to relieve the loneliness and solitude in his life. The hero's list includes a long list of women, each of whom he had a one-night stand with.
Lin Zhixia recalled the description in the book, sighed, and said calmly: "Senior, I called Yang Shuwen and asked him to pick you up. Senior, please put on your coat and don't catch a cold. We are going to have an academic exchange meeting tomorrow. You are the main speaker on quantum bit circuits, you can't fall down."
Tan Qianche ignored her.
She ran further away: "I'm leaving. Bye."
Lin Zhixia quickly returned to the dormitory and turned on the computer. She was eager to talk about her inner confusion, but Jiang Yubai's QQ status was offline.
She clicked the notepad on her computer and typed out a long paragraph in a hurry: "We have discussed love before, and today I have a new observation. One of my seniors has many girlfriends... His girlfriend also has her own boyfriend, and they maintain an open relationship. Russian scholar Yuri Sherbatkh analyzed 'open relationships' in his book. Yuri Sherbatkh believes that men and women in primitive tribes have more freedom because primitive tribes support true group open relationships... That senior chose this lifestyle, so why did he act so depressed when he saw his first love tonight?"
Having written this, Lin Zhixia's heart was shocked.
She recorded Tan Qianche's reactions and recalled the books she had read, all from an academic research perspective. She thought she could easily see through a person, but it turned out that she knew too little and did not understand people's hearts.
Lin Zhixia fell into thought. She copied the words in the notepad, pasted them into the QQ dialog box, and pressed send...
At this moment, Lin Zhixia suddenly realized that the chat box she opened was not Jiang Yubai's, but Lin Zeqiu's!
Lin Zeqiu and Jiang Yubai both used QQ's default system avatar.
The most terrifying thing was that just after Lin Zhixia sent the message, Lin Zeqiu suddenly came online, and a line of words "The other party is typing..." appeared on the computer screen.
Lin Zhixia was so scared that she turned off the power, closed her laptop, grabbed the soft quilt, and curled up on the small bed in the dormitory.