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"Why are you glaring at me?!"

Feeling uneasy under Su Nianci's icy gaze, Qiao Li shouted defiantly but inwardly.

"I didn't push you on purpose! You're the one who's blind!"

"Jolie! How could you do this!"

Zhang Lan, who was standing to the side, could no longer bear to watch. She rushed forward and shielded Su Nianci behind her, glaring at Qiao Li like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

"You did it on purpose! I saw it! You deliberately tripped her!"

"You're making baseless accusations!" Qiao Li denied it outright. "Who saw it? Wang Jing, did you see it?"

She turned her anger towards Wang Jing, who had remained silent throughout.

Wang Jing pushed up her glasses, glanced at the two people who were on the verge of conflict, then at the broken thermos on the ground and Su Nianci's calm expression, and finally chose to protect herself.

She lowered her head and said softly, "I...I was reading a book just now, I...I didn't notice."

"Did you hear that?" Qiao Li laughed smugly. "Nobody saw anything! Zhang Lan, I advise you to mind your own business! Don't think that just because you're from the countryside, I won't dare to touch you!"

"You!" Zhang Lan was trembling with anger, but there was nothing she could do.

Her family was poor, and getting into university was the hope of the whole village; she didn't want to cause trouble.

The atmosphere in the dormitory suddenly became tense.

"It's okay."

Just then, a clear, cold voice rang out.

Su Nianci stepped out from behind Zhang Lan.

She first smiled gratefully at Zhang Lan, indicating that she didn't need to worry.

Then, she went to her bedside and took a small first-aid kit out of her suitcase.

She skillfully opened the first-aid kit, took out iodine and cotton swabs, and began to treat her wounds as if no one else was around.

Her movements were professional and calm, as if the bleeding wound wasn't on her own body.

His extraordinary calmness left everyone in the dormitory stunned.

After treating her wound, she picked up a broom and dustpan and carefully swept up the broken pieces of the thermos bottle on the ground before emptying them into the trash can.

Then, she picked up a rag and wiped the water stains off the floor little by little.

From beginning to end, she didn't cry, didn't make a scene, and didn't even glance at Qiao Li again.

It was as if everything that had just happened was just a trivial little accident.

Her forbearance and maturity made Zhang Lan feel both sorry for her and admire her, and also made Wang Jing feel a little guilty.

Qiao Li, on the other hand, felt as if she had thrown a punch with all her might but had hit cotton, leaving her feeling incredibly frustrated.

She had intended to provoke Su Nianci and see her make a fool of herself, but the other woman didn't take the bait at all!

This made her feel like a clown jumping around.

"Hmph, pretentious." She muttered under her breath, unwilling to give up, and lay back down on the bed to start eating sunflower seeds.

The dormitory fell silent once again.

Zhang Lan wanted to say a few words of comfort to Su Nianci, but she didn't know where to begin.

Just then, Wang Jing, who had been engrossed in her book, suddenly let out a frustrated sigh.

"Ugh, this question is way too hard!"

She was facing a brand-new textbook on advanced mathematics, her brow furrowed in worry.

"How exactly is L'Hôpital's rule used in the lecture notes? I've been looking at it for ages and still don't understand."

Qiao Li immediately perked up. She poked her head out of bed and said gleefully, "If you don't understand, then don't bother! This is university-level math, completely different from what we learned in high school! Let me tell you, even the top student in our class couldn't solve this problem!"

"Really?" Zhang Lan was somewhat skeptical.

"Of course it's true!" Qiao Li said proudly. "My cousin is in the math department at Peking University. He said this problem was given to freshmen by their professor, and anyone who can solve it is a genius among geniuses!"

Hearing her say that, Zhang Lan and Wang Jing both became curious about the question.

The two of them huddled around Wang Jing's desk and studied the complicated calculus problem for a long time, but they were still completely baffled.

"What...what are these symbols? They're like a cryptic script." Zhang Lan was dazzled by them.

"Yes, I have absolutely no clue." Wang Jing also looked distressed, having given up completely.

Just then, a clear, melodious voice came from behind them.

"This question is actually not difficult."

The three of them turned around and saw that Su Nianci had appeared behind them at some point.

"Tch, not difficult?" Qiao Li immediately scoffed. "You make it sound so easy! You little brat, do you even know how to understand it?"

Su Nianci ignored her.

She simply extended her delicate little finger, pointed to the title in the book, and said to Wang Jing:

"L'Hôpital's rule is applicable to indeterminate limits of the form '0/0' or '∞/∞'. This problem is of the form '1∞', so we need to perform invariant transformations first."

As she spoke, she casually picked up a pencil from the table and began to scribble on a piece of draft paper.

Her movements were fluid and fast, almost dazzling!

A series of complex mathematical symbols and formulas flowed from her pen, as if they were meant to be arranged and combined in this way!

"Look, first convert it to exponential form of e, then take the limit of the exponent. Here we can use L'Hôpital's rule. Differentiate the numerator and denominator simultaneously, and we get..."

In less than a minute!

She solved a problem that had stumped everyone else with ease!

On the scratch paper, the solution steps are clear and logical, a textbook-level perfect answer!

The entire dormitory fell into a deathly silence instantly!

Zhang Lan and Wang Jing were completely dumbfounded! Their mouths were agape, their jaws practically dropping to the floor!

They felt their brains weren't enough!

Qiao Li's expression was absolutely priceless!

She looked at the draft paper filled with "heavenly script," then at Su Nianci's calm face, her face turning red and white in turns, as if she had been slapped countless times!

She had just confidently declared that only a genius could solve this problem!

As a result, in the blink of an eye, she was utterly defeated by this "little brat" she looked down upon the most!

This...this is an utter disgrace!

Su Nianci put down her pen and pushed the draft paper in front of Wang Jing.

"Did you understand?"

"I understand... I understand..." Wang Jing seemed to wake up from a dream, looking at Su Nianci with eyes full of starry admiration!

"Niannian! You...you're amazing!"

"This isn't just a child prodigy! You're practically a god descended to earth!" Zhang Lan exclaimed in genuine amazement.

From then on, the "food chain" in dormitory 302 underwent a dramatic change.

Su Nianci is no longer the little sister who needs to be taken care of.

She became everyone's "little teacher" and "backbone" in the dormitory.

Whether it's a difficult problem in her studies or a trivial matter in her life, there's nothing that Su Nianci can't solve once she steps in.

Gradually, even Qiao Li, who had always been at odds with her, would awkwardly come over with her books to ask for help when she encountered a problem she couldn't solve.

Although she still wouldn't admit defeat verbally, her reluctant "Hey, kid, how do you do this problem?" said it all.

Su Nianci completely conquered the dormitory with her undeniable strength.

Late at night.

Zhang Lan climbed out of bed in the dark and quietly walked to Su Nianci's bedside.

She noticed that the thermos flask by Su Nianci's bedside was empty, and when she touched it, it was ice cold.

She felt a pang of sadness when she thought of the thermos she had broken earlier that day.

She quietly picked up Su Nianci's thermos, then grabbed her own, and tiptoed out of the dormitory.

She returned shortly afterward.

She gently placed the thermos filled with hot water on Su Nianci's bedside table.

Only after doing all this did she feel at ease climbing back into her own bed.

In the darkness, Su Nianci slowly opened her eyes.

She looked at the steaming thermos on the bedside table and felt a surge of warmth in her heart.

She knew that in this unfamiliar city, she had received her first simple yet sincere warmth from a friend.

She turned her head and saw that Qiao Li on the upper bunk had also turned over, seemingly still awake.

Su Nianci smiled meaningfully.

Conquering a dormitory is just the beginning.

The road ahead for her is still very long and far.