My "academic genius" persona is so convincing!

Chapter 57 Oh no, I ruined the vocabulary entry!

"The punishment result from Tsinghua University?" Xue Lin was slightly surprised.

Then he asked, "What do you mean?"

"The doctoral student involved will be placed on probation at the university, and his doctoral degree will be revoked for three years."

"Chen Jin will be disqualified from enrolling doctoral students within three years and transferred from his position as department head."

"Of course, that's the official figure. I estimate that Chen Jin will be back in six months at most."

Xue Lin nodded slightly. After all, in academia, academic misconduct may seem like the most serious thing, but for these big shots, it is the least serious and most common thing.

Moreover, it would be too frivolous to dismiss a department head simply because a paper failed the review process due to alleged fraud.

Even this paper wasn't fabricated by Chen Jinlai.

"Okay, I understand."

"Hmm." Chen Hui nodded, but quickly added, "But what I'm curious about is, how did you spot the academic fraud in this doctoral dissertation?"

"They just look at it with their eyes. Unless you don't read the paper carefully enough, those reviewers are probably like that. They just glance at the supervisor's name and approve it directly."

"In that case, your paper published in a top international journal is indeed of high quality."

Chen Hui suddenly sighed.

After all, Xue Lin's paper did not have anyone's name on it. Blind reviews usually have to consider other people's feelings. For example, the editor might tell them that the article is by a top academic.

Even reviewers have to be cautious and give them face, asking only a couple of questions before it's approved.

Xue Lin just smiled and quickly hung up the phone.

"Whose call was that?" Lin Qingning asked after hearing that it was Jinling University.

"What are you guys talking about? Is Xiao Lin going to Tsinghua University?"

"No, he's a dean from Jinling University, I suppose."

Xue Lin smiled and said, "The dean of the School of Architecture."

"The dean of the architecture school? Isn't that an academician?"

Lin Qingning, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but speak up.

"Not quite an academician yet, still a little short."

Xue Lin thought for a moment and then spoke.

"It's about academic misconduct by a PhD student at Tsinghua University, which has little to do with me."

"I see." Lin Qingning nodded. "Then I understand."

However, she was extremely alarmed.

The last time she went to attend a meeting of the Architectural Society, she even saw Xue Lin standing in front of those big shots, in the center position, right next to a professor who looked very impressive.

The professor then gently placed his hand on his shoulder, as if to support him.

All of this seems to prove that Xue Lin has already made a name for himself in the field of architecture!

How long has it been?

He's only in high school!

It's extremely rare for a high school student to achieve this level.

Both Nanjing University and Tsinghua University are among the top architecture programs in China.

These two universities even rank quite high in the national science and engineering rankings!

Xue Lin simply nodded, without giving it much thought.

Lin Qingning continued to explain the problems to him. Now, Xue Lin's error notebook was becoming more and more advanced, and the number of errors was also decreasing.

It's clear that Xue Lin no longer organizes his error notebook much; the errors he does organize are mostly for Chu Ming's benefit.

So she finished speaking very quickly.

She continued to set questions.

After all, once the wrong questions are explained, it's still necessary to give some practice questions to reinforce them.

"Xiao Lin, who was that girl you sang with?"

"What girl?"

Even with Xue Lin's multi-threaded response speed, it couldn't process the problem immediately.

However, he quickly came up with an idea.

"You mean Lin Yueyao? She's the prettiest girl in our class."

"That video was recorded at her birthday party. Maybe she thought I sang badly, so she insisted on coming over and singing a duet with me."

Xue Lin found it somewhat amusing; he hadn't expected Lin Qingning to suddenly ask that question.

"I see."

Lin Qingning nodded.

"Let's stop studying for now and go eat."

Xue Lin spoke up, and by then his mother had already prepared the meal.

"Xiao Lin, I came across your singing video."

My mother started talking as she set out the food.

"Why does that girl seem so affectionate towards you?"

The mother subtly noticed that Lin Qingning's eyes dimmed.

"Mom, are you misunderstanding something?" Xue Lin said helplessly. "What do you mean by 'giving a tender look'? Are you sure she wasn't just trying not to laugh?"

I think so too.

My mother smiled and nodded.

"So when are you planning to bring a daughter-in-law home for your mom?"

"Isn't it too early? I'm only a senior in high school. Shouldn't it be at least after college?"

Xue Lin spoke.

"Oh……"

My mother gave a meaningful "oh".

"Let's eat, let's eat."

Xue Lin looked at his mother with a puzzled expression. Didn't his mother already know his plans? Why was she asking on purpose?

However, when his gaze fell upon Lin Qingning, he paused slightly.

Is Mom implying something?

However, he didn't think much of it.

Continue to focus on your studies. Now is not the time to put your mind on this kind of thing. At least wait until after you graduate from high school.

After studying all day, he continued to browse through vocabulary entries.

He looked at today's entry.

[A renowned music critic, Li Yan, believes your musical talent is representatively poor. You can obtain the entry "Representatively Poor (Purple)": Your musical talent is extremely poor and representative, but its appeal to certain audience groups is increased by 300%.]

broken!

Does this entry directly categorize him as a special group?

Even though this entry is in purple, it's still terrible!

Moreover, if such a term really reaches orange, it may be impossible to reverse the situation.

"Forget it, let's at least synthesize one orange music entry first."

"At worst, we'll just stop combining music-related terms and start combining terms that have gone too far astray with other terms, like perseverance or focus."

"Let's synthesize an orange-level entry first!"

[Entry successfully created...]

You've received the "Listen to How Bad It Is (Orange)" rating. Your song is bad in a unique, distinctive, and recognizable way, forming its own genre. Most people will be curious and click to listen, increasing the listener's engagement by 1000%!

Xue Lin, "..."

This entry is absolutely amazing!

But that's not what he wanted!

He gently shook his head.

"Alright, this entry is fine for being quirky, but let's start by combining other basic music entries."

That means he essentially ruined this entire skill entry!

"However, if you were to create an account online, perhaps 'equipping' this entry would be a good idea?"

It's so bad, why would anyone click in to listen? Isn't this just for clicks?