But when it came to reading papers on the Geometric Langlands Conjecture, he didn't think about resting at all...
This change in attitude is a bit too quick and drastic, isn't it?
But then again, Tian Yan Zhen proactively started finding excuses for Qiao Yu...
Maybe he was attracted by the quality of the papers? He's a math genius, after all, which is quite normal.
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After telling his fib, Qiao Yu returned to his room, didn't rest, but instead, following Tian Yan Zhen's instructions, checked the list of experts attending the seminar on the official website, and then continued to work on the papers.
After all, fooling a mentor is a skillful task.
Moreover, whether it was really fooling or not often depends on the result.
For instance, even if he gave a reason that seemed far-fetched, if he could actually use these ideas to build the model, it wouldn't be fooling, but that he genuinely thought so at the time.
The same logic applies to blowing bullshit.
