The Most Powerful Overlord

Chapter 23: Sorry, Teacher, I Stole Your Job

"If I solve it, everyone has to sit down!"

Ye Qingtian said with a serious face.

"Alright, as long as you solve it, everyone can sit down!"

The old scholar didn’t believe Ye Qingtian could solve it at all.

The class was almost over, and his habit was to present a difficult problem at the end of the class, one that wasn’t in any exercise book, one he made up himself.

No more than three people in the room could solve this problem, maybe not even one.

"Okay!"

Ye Qingtian stood up from his seat and walked to the podium.

"Is he crazy? How could someone who got in through connections, who scored hundreds less in the entrance exam, solve this kind of problem?"

"Haha, this is truly hilarious. A university bum trying to solve this kind of problem!"

"Does he think he’s Hou Tianlei, Qin Lingyue, or Song Xuefei?"

...

Various disdainful voices came from all around.

Even his roommates like Fatty didn’t think much of him; after all, they saw him as just another university bum like themselves.

"Tianlei, did you find a solution to this problem yet?"

Song Xuefei asked, she was still a bit behind and needed another four or five minutes.

Hou Tianlei nodded: "Yes, I solved it. But it’s a tough one, comparable to the problems we faced in math competitions."

"Yes, exactly. This problem is very difficult and it has a little trick, if you’re not careful, you’ll get it wrong."

Qin Lingyue’s voice sounded.

"That’s right, I also noticed that little trick."

Hou Tianlei said surprised.

They were all in the first row, whispering among themselves.

In this class, only Qin Lingyue and Hou Tianlei managed to completely solve this problem.

Song Xuefei and Lu Lianlong were still a bit off...

"I want to see how he’s going to fake it?"

Hou Tianlei snorted coldly.

During military training, he lost face and secretly vowed to get it back, now was the perfect time.

He already planned to solve the problem after Ye Qingtian embarrassed himself later.

And he would do it in two different ways!

Ye Qingtian glanced at the blackboard a few times, then slowly turned around and looked at the old scholar.

"What’s the matter?"

The old scholar asked with a sneer.

"I can’t do it!"

Ye Qingtian said casually.

His words startled everyone, the whole room burst into laughter.

"Hahaha... after all that effort, that’s all you have to say?"

"Dude, you should pursue a career in comedy! I’m rooting for you!"

"Why did you go up there if you can’t do it? Are you nearsighted?"

...

Almost all 150 people were laughing hysterically.

"Attention-seeking clown, how can you compare to me?"

Hou Tianlei snorted coldly with a face full of disdain.

Song Xuefei also looked upset, glaring at Ye Qingtian.

"What a disgrace! Luckily, people don’t know he’s my fiancé, otherwise I, Qin Lingyue, would have no place at Jin City University!"

Qin Lingyue lowered her head, utterly embarrassed.

The old scholar’s gaze slowly fell on Ye Qingtian: "You can’t do it?"

"Yes."

Ye Qingtian nodded candidly.

"Absolutely hopeless!"

The crowd exclaimed.

"Why?"

The old scholar asked.

"Hahaha..."

Laughter erupted once again in the classroom, after saying he couldn’t do it, he was still being questioned why.

The old scholar was deliberately making things difficult for Ye Qingtian.

"Because there’s a mistake in your question, it’s unsolvable!"

Ye Qingtian stated calmly.

"Impossible!"

The voices of Hou Tianlei and Qin Lingyue echoed simultaneously in the room, they both solved it, how could it be wrong?

"Haha, obviously he can’t do it himself, yet he says the problem is wrong. Dude, you really are a piece of work!"

Over a hundred pairs of eyes looked at Ye Qingtian as if he were an idiot.

The old scholar showed a sinister smile: "Oh? So there’s a mistake in the problem? Why don’t you tell us where it is?"

This problem was his own creation, double-checked, there’s no mistake!

"Alright!"

Ye Qingtian nodded.

"I want to see what he comes up with?"

Hou Tianlei chuckled coldly.

"Anyone who’s able to solve this problem should have noticed the small trick..."

Ye Qingtian began by mentioning the small trick.

The expressions of Hou Tianlei and Qin Lingyue changed, he actually knew about it.

"But the issue is precisely with this small trick, let’s look at the initial set range... isn’t it true that this problem is unsolvable?"

Ye Qingtian quickly finished explaining, looking at everyone.

"That’s right! This problem is unsolvable!"

Song Xuefei asserted confidently.

"Yeah!"

Lu Lianlong agreed.

As for others—

Hou Tianlei was dumbfounded.

Qin Lingyue was dumbfounded.

The old scholar was even more dumbfounded.

The mistake in the problem was that once you knew how to solve it, the answer was easily 1, but due to its smoothness, the old scholar overlooked the conflict between the set range and the small trick.

So the problem was indeed written incorrectly!

"If you swap the range, the problem becomes solvable, it’s actually very clever if done this way. Let’s then discuss the second method..."

Before everyone could react, Ye Qingtian began explaining the second method.

Everyone was dumbfounded, their faces read disbelief, eyes almost popping out.

"Now, onto the third..."

"Pfft!"

"Third method?"

Qin Lingyue and Hou Tianlei were shocked, after correcting the problem, they only knew two methods.

Ye Qingtian actually knew a third?

Others were nearly going insane, almost spitting blood!

Ye Qingtian began explaining the third method, his voice was loud and magnetic, his thought process clear, even those who were half-versed in the problem could understand.

"Now, let’s move on to the fourth..."

Ye Qingtian wiped the blackboard and began the fourth method.

"Ye Qingtian!"

Hou Tianlei had a dark expression, shouting angrily in his mind, his fists clenched tightly, fingernails digging into his palms drawing blood without him noticing.

In the midst of the dumbfounded academic elites, Ye Qingtian explained the fourth method.

"Come on, sit down, the fifth one... Ding ding ding..."

Just as Ye Qingtian was about to explain the fifth method, the bell rang for the end of class.

"Oh, class is over. I’ll explain more next time!"

Ye Qingtian walked off the podium and noticed the petrified old scholar: "Sorry teacher, didn’t mean to steal your thunder, my apologies!"

The old scholar stood like an ancient statue, neither his expression nor his body moved a bit.

This seemingly unlearned student not only pointed out the error in the problem but also explained four methods.

If class hadn’t ended, there would have been a fifth, sixth...

And his explanations were easy to understand, logically clear, making them easy to grasp.

A student had explained it better than him!

The old scholar trembled, almost spitting blood in frustration.

Looking at Ye Qingtian’s retreating back, Qin Lingyue was full of disbelief, it was as if everything was flipping her worldview upside down.

The useless person in her eyes, actually knowing four or five ways to solve it, more skilled than her?

Was it a fluke? Absolutely impossible!

Did he know the answers in advance? Even less possible, this was a problem the old scholar himself made, no solutions existed online.

To think she and Hou Tianlei said the problem was fine, only to be proven wrong on the spot!