Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 206: Chapter 172: This is Deliberate Suppression!

"Entertainment indeed, is an interesting thing.

The direction of public opinion often doesn’t change according to one’s will, instead, the unexpected might set a sensation.

Just like the personality report special on CCTV.

A feature report like that, even if it spotlights national celebrities, doesn’t garner much engagement.

Zhao Yi wasn’t an exception.

So when the personality feature report ended, it seemed everything was over. The segment didn’t garner high viewership or make any significant impact.

Several days later,

A search trend began heating up, even rushed to the third position on the trending list, with the topic "The ’Gambling God’ sitting behind Zhao Yi".

The trending content was somewhat baffling.

Any high school senior at 13 Central could guess that Wang Jian was behind Zhao Yi.

In Zhao Yi’s personality feature report, Wang Jian only appeared in two shots, both when the camera was just ’passing’ the classroom door.

What the camera captured was Zhao Yi’s serious learning scene. Wang Jian who sat behind him was easily overlooked, but when the camera is zoomed in and magnified, an amusing fact emerges. Wang Jian’s right hand is fumbling a coin, tossing it up continuously.

It isn’t an issue that Wang Jian is flipping a coin, the critical part lies in his facial expression and state.

In the first shot, while it seemed like Wang Jian was listening to the lecture, his eyes were closed the whole few seconds; the coin was tossed to ear height and it landed accurately in his palm.

In the second shot, Wang Jian was simply lying on the table, flicking the coin with his thumb and the coin would fly up and again land accurately in his palm.

He did this rapidly twice.

Though it doesn’t sound challenging, when many netizens tried it, they discovered it wasn’t easy to succeed twice in a row. If the force isn’t controlled, the coin would deviate and land somewhere else.

Especially considering...

He did this during class!

Some netizens analyzed, "He must be extremely skilled. The coin falling on the floor would make noise, disturbing the class and attracting the teacher’s attention."

"Also, the motion itself will attract the teacher’s attention. However, the teacher did not react to it, meaning he does similar things often."

"This is a real master hidden among ordinary folk!"

"A Gambling God indeed!"

When the interview section of the program was thoroughly scoured by netizens, in addition to the ’Gambling God’, many more highlights were discovered.

For instance, the beautiful high school girls.

Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin appeared on camera, Sun Jiali and Hu Tianyan showed their faces. The program even gave them special cutaways, leading netizens to believe that the overall attractiveness of Junior High 13’s female students was quite high.

And then there’re the teachers.

The appearance and demeanor of Niu Lianhua deeply resonated with netizens, making them reminisce their ’terrifying female teacher from high school’. This evoked strong empathy.

And so on...

This additional content dug up heated up the spotlight on 13 Central.

Quite a few nearby netizens and journalists gathered outside 13 Central to take photos. Some students were even interviewed, giving rise to more revelations.

Wang Chengmin was arguably the happiest, his wish to ’publicize 13 Central’ had been fulfilled.

Zhao Yi helped 13 Central earn a name for itself, but most people’s impression of Zhao Yi remained ’a high school student from Zhengyang’. Few cared about which high school he attended.

Now 13 Central had made it to the national TV and the internet.

Many parents of Zhengyang middle school students expressed interest in enrolling their children in the ’Internet Education Celebrity School’ called 13 Central.

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Because of the numerous unexpected ’highlights’ dug up from the show’s footage, the special, and consequently Zhao Yi, gained popularity. Only then did some realize that the protagonist of the feature was the genius high schooler who solved ’some mathematical conjecture’.

"The genius high schooler, Zhao Yi, who has been in numerous reports recently for solving the Collatz Conjecture!"

"Zhao Yi is even more renowned in the field of computer science. He recently published a book titled ’The Sieve Method’, which has been collected by the National Library."

"If you think Zhao Yi is just a mathematician, you’re wrong. In reality, he’s a computer wizard, and the Collatz Conjecture was mostly solved using computer methods."

"The Zhao Yi in this special report appears quite inspiring, just not sure if it’s fact or fiction... learning computing in internet cafes?"

"I only play games when I go to internet cafes!"

"Apart from this explanation, there’s none. High school doesn’t teach computing. Given his family’s not-so-good financial situation, he couldn’t possibly take long-term after-school classes. He must be self-taught, either at the internet café or by reading books!"

"..."

Zhao Yi was moved by the comments about him on the internet.

It couldn’t get more awkward.

CCTV aired a feature on him, but what grabbed attention were the background casts. He began suspecting that everyone around him were disguised actors who only exhibited their acting prowess when the camera was on them.

Fortunately...

The light of righteousness hadn’t been extinguished!

The buzz from the special feature lasted for several days.

There were always journalists outside the school gates, including some idlers hoping to bump into a ’celebrity from 13 Central’, enthusiastic to click a selfie.

Zhao Yi too, was bothered a few times. He didn’t mind it much, but a journalist’s question left him perplexed, "Zhao Yi, why did you refuse to attend the math conference held in Jinning?"