It wasn't an apple that hit Newton.

"Thank you, thank you..."

Louise looked at Newton's stiff smile and suddenly thought of the old witch in fairy tales. They all used this tone to lure children into their huts and then turned the children into strange potions.

This made her even more nervous.

If only I could hide somewhere safe... Thinking this, Louise looked uneasily at Li Cheng. His back was a place she had recently discovered that made her feel very safe; it seemed that hiding there meant she had nothing to fear.

Newton paid no attention to Louise's reaction. Feeling that she had completed her task, she turned around and left with a relaxed expression.

"I'm going back to read."

She casually said something to Li Cheng, then prepared to leave on her own.

"Wait a moment."

Li Cheng stopped her: "Have you forgotten something?"

In order to prove that Newton was harmless and to leave Louise with a good memory rather than a bad one, he planned to get the three of them to play Dou Dizhu (a card game), something he had already discussed with Newton.

Newton scoffed inwardly and said, "Alright."

So Li Cheng took out the playing cards he had prepared beforehand, and the three of them sat down at the table.

There are many theories about the invention of playing cards.

The French say that playing cards were invented by the French in 1392; the Belgians say that they were invented by the Belgians in 1379; the Italians say that they were invented by the Italians in 1376; and some even say that they were invented by Egypt, India, Korea and other countries.

In addition, some Westerners believe that Chinese playing cards were introduced to Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, and that China should be considered the first country to invent playing cards.

And one more thing.

Miss Newton, who was a small landlord, was very bothered by the name of the game "Dou Dizhu" (Fight the Landlord), but she couldn't think of a better idea and had to give up.

Playing games together is indeed the best way for children to foster friendship. After only half an hour, Li Cheng was surprised to find that Newton and Louise were already able to cooperate skillfully against him.

This is a good sign, but the only problem is... this alliance doesn't seem to be divided into many camps.

"Four twos".

Newton triumphantly threw out a huge bomb, wiping out Li Cheng from one to six, and this had happened more than once in the past half hour.

Are you kidding me?

Li Cheng finally lost his temper and angrily said, "We're in cahoots! Louise is the landlord!"

With Newton's intelligence, he could certainly understand the rules perfectly, so she simply wanted to blow up Li Cheng.

But it wasn't appropriate to say it directly, so Newton forced an excuse, saying, "Who told you to use the name of Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game)? I subconsciously felt that I was on the landlord's side, so I bombed you."

"How could you come up with such an excuse..." Li Cheng's lips twitched, and he was too lazy to get angry with Newton, who was deliberately picking a fight.

Furthermore, while Newton was openly confronting him, Louise was subtly throwing the game. Although it wasn't immediately apparent, Li Cheng deduced this from their dismal win rate...

Louise, oh Louise... Li Cheng looked at the little girl with red hair with mixed feelings.

After exchanging a quiet glance with Newton, the other person cautiously said, "Yes, but I can't afford it."

You can't even afford a 7?

Li Cheng stared at the table, speechless and choked with emotion.

Fortunately, his gaming experience wasn't sacrificed in vain. By cooperating against him, Newton and Louise's relationship did improve a lot... Hmm, could this be considered turning an internal conflict into an external one?

Later, when Li Cheng finally couldn't stand this purely masochistic behavior anymore and ended the game on his own initiative, Newton actually enthusiastically and proactively introduced Louise to her novel gadgets, some of which were toys that Li Cheng and she had made themselves, and others were experimental equipment.

Louise praised the parts she didn't understand, which pleased Newton greatly; as for the parts she could understand, she was very interested in playing with them with Newton, which also pleased Newton.

Li Cheng suddenly felt a sense of relief.

Actually, their situations are quite similar; both couldn't find friends their own age. Louise was always protected at home and had little contact with peers, while Newton's reason was more impressive—she skipped grades and went straight to university...

......

Unfortunately, this harmony only lasted until evening.

To show their friendship, girls often engage in intimate behaviors, such as going to the toilet together, showering together, or doing something trivial together.

To demonstrate the magnanimity of an elder, Newton offered to rub Louise's back.

Although Li Cheng didn't quite understand why girls liked to shower together, he thought it was a way for them to further their friendship. He didn't take it seriously; instead, he felt a sense of satisfaction that the relationship was already established.

However, the result was beyond his expectations; the ship of their friendship seemed to have suddenly capsized.

"How could this be? She's clearly younger than me, so why is she older than me...?"

Ever since she finished her bath, Newton had been sitting listlessly on the mahogany chair, hugging her knees and repeating words that Li Cheng couldn't understand.

However, Li Cheng still didn't think it was a big deal.

But when he was halfway through his shower, he suddenly heard Louise let out a piercing scream, her voice filled with terror and fear, like the scream of someone being forced to do something very perverse by a bad guy.

? !

Li Cheng suddenly remembered that Newton had just seen him off to take a shower, so he didn't care about anything else, hurriedly dried himself off with a towel, threw on a couple of clothes, and went to the master bedroom.

He followed the sound to the master bedroom, pushed open the door, and what he saw was an indescribable crime scene.

[Due to some unavoidable circumstances, please use your imagination for the following, or see the supplementary information next to it.]

Newton (pushed) → Louise → → Louise's clothes

bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed bed

[As shown in the image above]

Without any shade, Louise, in the state of a newborn baby, was afraid that the scorching sun would damage her delicate skin, so she could only pitifully try to shield herself with her hands.

"don't want......"

With tears in her eyes, she gazed at Newton, whose face was filled with intense curiosity. Her eyes revealed incomprehension and confusion, as if she couldn't understand why her new friend, with whom she had been having so much fun that afternoon, would treat her this way.

Chapter Seventy-Eight Hooker, Her

Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief as he left the master bedroom, which could be humanely destroyed by the review bacteria at any moment. He then began searching for Newton—not to concoct the non-existent amnesia potion, of course, but rather to teach Newton a lesson he would never forget.

He first went to Freya's room, but it was empty.

So he went to the back of the bathroom and found Freya, who was still working hard to boil water: "Have you seen where Newton went?"

Freya was still unaware of what had happened, and she honestly replied, "I just heard someone coming up the stairs, it might be Miss."

Thank you.

After Li Cheng finished speaking, he hurriedly went upstairs. Following the clues, he quickly caught the little golden bean hiding under the desk in the study on the second floor. This little bean often appeared in certain movies.

"Is there anything else you want to explain?"

Li Cheng first positioned her on his lap, then, considering there might be some hidden reason, decided to give her one last chance: "If you can convince me, I won't spank you."

"Let me go!"

Ignoring Li Cheng's words, Newton struggled on his own, shouting, "Do you know what you're doing? You're going to hit me for that little girl!"

"Do you know what you just did?"

Li Cheng felt like he had said those words not long ago: "You just tricked a naive 14-year-old girl into your room with a lie and forced her to do such a perverted thing. If Annie hadn't been perfectly fine and my reaction when I kissed you hadn't been normal, I might have started to suspect that you have a problem with your sexual orientation."

“If you were a man, based on your perverted behavior just now, you would be fine even if you were sent to court.”

He couldn't help but complain at the end: "Speaking of which, you had the nerve to doubt me before, saying that I would have perverted thoughts about much younger women. I think you were the one crying wolf!"

"Forehead....."

Newton choked for a moment, seemingly realizing that her behavior had been somewhat outrageous, but she still stubbornly insisted, "Who said that? I was doing it for scientific research, just wanting to explore biological knowledge!"

If I hadn't read history books, I almost would have believed your nonsense... Li Cheng's forehead veins bulged: "So, does our great biologist, Miss Isaac Newton, have any biological research results?"

After a moment of silence, Newton tentatively asked, "Does observing cells under a microscope count?"

“Wasn’t that Hook’s discovery?” Li Cheng revealed mercilessly.

"So you knew her?" Newton was startled, then deflated and tightly shut his mouth, tensing his body as if preparing to accept the punishment that fate would bring.

? !

However, Li Cheng suddenly froze, because he keenly caught a word.

Her?

Why use 'her' to represent Robert Hooker?

If this wasn't a slip of the tongue, does it mean that this equally famous scientist has followed in the footsteps of Miss Isaac Newton and become Miss Robert Hooke?

Li Cheng frowned, realizing that things were not so simple.

So he avoided using personal pronouns and asked casually, "I've only heard of him... By the way, how much do you know about Hooker?"

Newton didn't notice anything unusual about Li Cheng. She casually replied, "I've only read her 'Micrographia,' and her drawings are quite good. I heard she's not in good health, and that's all I know."

Her!

It's impossible for someone to make a slip of the tongue twice or three times in a row. Li Cheng had already confirmed the other person's gender—it was Miss Robert Hooker.

He straightened his dead fish eyes, looked up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle, and fell into a long silence.

...This world should just be destroyed.

He was too exhausted to even complain about how distorted history textbooks would become in this world, and too lazy to even guess whether physics department admissions offices in the 21st century would hang portraits of historical figures on their doors to lure nerdy guys into the hobby.

Hey, are you studying physics? Our department has lots of cute girls... What? You're curious about double-slit interference?

Ahem, well, it's not really convenient to talk about that in public. Here's what we'll do: once you get into our department, I'll find you a senior student to give you some private tutoring...

Hold on, let's get back to the main topic.

In fact, the conflict between Hooke and Newton in their past lives was sown by the law of universal gravitation, and the culprit seems to be Newton himself.

In 1679, Hooke wrote to Newton, arguing that the motion of celestial bodies was due to a central gravitational force, and that this force was inversely proportional to the square of the distance. Newton did not reply, but accepted Hooke's viewpoint and subsequently derived the law of universal gravitation mathematically.

However, when Newton sent the manuscript of Book I of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy to the Royal Society in 1686, Hooke hoped that Newton would "mention" his work in the preface, but Newton flatly refused, thus sowing the seeds of conflict between the two.

However, now that Newton has perfected universal gravitation ahead of time, the two probably won't have any further contact... Well, that should be considered a good thing?

After all, in his previous life, Hooke had only recently passed away when Newton became president of the Royal Society. Subsequently, all of Hooke's research findings, materials, and experimental equipment were dispersed or destroyed—a veritable "disco on his grave" scenario...

"Hey?!"

Perhaps Li Cheng had been in a daze for too long, because Newton couldn't help but shout out, as if urging him to give him a quick answer.