Drama Queen Reborn as a Top Student!-Chapter 990 - 494: A Genius’s Romantic Confession

The challenge order starts with those with the lowest points.

On this stage, those with the most points have the greatest advantage.

With the support of various rules, the strong become stronger, and the weak become weaker.

This proves that Shen You’an will have more time to prepare.

She found the program team, modified the venue’s laser projector, and used her holographic device as the boundary projection source. This time, squeezed out like water from a sponge, was utilized by her to the fullest.

While communicating professionally to debug the equipment, she was also tapping code on the computer. Her ability to multitask was showcased to perfection, but no one would think she wasn’t serious.

Time is passing by intensively.

In front of the stage, Jiang Yumo has completed the challenge.

The questioner is the economics expert Wei Hui. He slowly appeared and asked Jiang Yumo a few questions about her argument. Jiang Yumo responded fluently. Although not an extremely novel perspective, a high school student having such reaction and insight is indeed rare.

The expert nodded approvingly, giving high praise.

Finally, Wei Hui asked an off-topic question.

"Have you decided what major you want to pursue in college?"

Jiang Yumo paused. Previously, she thought it would be fine to enter the Physics Research Institute as a scientist.

But now, looking at Wei Hui’s eyes filled with eager expectation, she pursed her lips and gently shook her head.

Wei Hui smiled, "You can come find me at the university. You have a great future, I have high hopes for you."

Besides being a renowned economics expert, Wei Hui is also a professor in the economics department at a top university, having trained countless excellent students.

Jiang Yumo felt honored and quickly expressed her gratitude with excitement.

Next comes the scoring by one hundred member jury.

As the first contestant, Jiang Yumo would inevitably be at a disadvantage in scoring.

Ultimately, she scored sixty-nine points.

This score is neither high nor low.

Jiang Yumo let out a sigh of relief.

She knew she wasn’t championship material, and having such a large platform to provide her with an opportunity to gain experience was already a privilege.

The following to take the stage are Zhang Yan and Leng Yunyang.

Zhang Yan appeared slightly nervous but created a storm onstage, showcasing meticulous logical thinking, demonstrating the flair of a science and engineering woman.

Ultimately, she scored seventy-five points.

This score is actually quite good compared to Jiang Yumo’s, especially when neither appearance nor stage charisma was her strong suit, proving how strong her personal ability is. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Leng Yunyang typically indulges in smooth talking, but in this formal occasion, he managed to shine for once.

The questioner, Leng Cheng, a famous medical professor from a branch of the Leng family, naturally had an affection towards Leng Yunyang but couldn’t show it too openly in front of the cameras.

As the sole heir of the Leng family, Leng Yunyang’s medical aptitude is undoubtedly indisputable. He proposed a new way of linking computers and medicine, offering innovative perspectives that contradicted mainstream views, gaining support from most scholars present.

In the end, Leng Yunyang scored eighty-five.

The highest score so far.

But everyone knew the true star had yet to appear, and these were merely warm-up acts.

Next up is the star contestant with overwhelming popularity, Rong Xianning.

Top-tier is top-tier, his appearance was dazzling, and the applause from the jury and audience was thunderous.

Rong Xianning chose arts.

The questioner is the illustrious composer and musician Lin Xiaoqian, who has produced numerous hit songs, and also teaches at a top music university, mentoring countless famous students.

In fact, few people know that Lin Xiaoqian is the music consultant for Rong Xianning’s new album, and the two have collaborated for a period of time.

Lin Xiaoqian presented his argument—the essence of music, is it the inevitability of mathematics or the randomness of emotion.

This is a contest between the forms and emotions of music; is music a meticulously structured mathematical arrangement, or a pure vessel of emotion?

It truly is a sharp yet paradoxical, profound yet grand debate.

Without a certain depth of musical technique, density of emotion, and height of thought, it’s hard to answer.

Lin Xiaoqian chose this topic because he understands Rong Xianning.

This child usually seals himself off too tightly, only allowing music to be his sole outlet. He wants to take this chance to probe where this child’s musical boundaries lie.

Is he a fleeting mediocre talent or an eternally brilliant genius? He’s eager to find out.

The stage falls into darkness, a spotlight shines on the teenager in the center, dressed in white, invoking a line in one’s mind unwittingly.

Piles of stones like jade, rows of pine like emerald, unparalleled beauty.

A noble gentleman, as if carved and polished to perfection.

The teenager’s face is as fine as jade, his temperament is paradoxical—both as cold as snow and as warm as jade, his black eyes seem to harbor countless stories, yet in the moment of lowering them, all is restored to peace.

The direction the teenager faces becomes the permanent position of the spotlight, it’s the innate brilliance, wherever one looks becomes the focus.

"This is a topic that directly points to the heart of music, the inevitability of mathematics, or the chance of emotion? This is not a simple either/or choice, but a puzzle to unravel why music uniquely shakes the soul. Please allow me, as a lifelong explorer accompanied by notes, to attempt to resolve this enigma."

The teenager’s voice is as clear as a spring after rain, in an instant seemingly capable of clearing all the listeners’ fatigue and restlessness.

Coupled with the unhurried, gentle voice, it unknowingly draws the audience into his world.

Na Amo sits in the audience, silently gazing at the radiant teenager on stage, complex emotions flickering swiftly in her eyes behind the lens.

The teenager moves on stage, the spotlight always following him, inseparable.

He approaches a white grand piano, his fingers gently brush the keys, crisp piano notes flow out.

Under the lights, the teenager’s half profile facing the audience reveals endless tenderness.

"I remember the first time my fingers clumsily touched the piano keys, I was four years old, the discordant sound from my kindergarten teacher’s keyboard didn’t attract me with its invisible frequency ratios or vibration formulas, it was the sound itself—it was like a light, illuminating my naive emotional world. A simple C major chord could make me feel inexplicably warm and comfortable, a minor melody would sketch out a vague sorrow in my heart. At that moment, music to me was a pure emotional encounter by chance, a direct, unreasonable response from the soul to sound."

The teenager’s storytelling offers listeners infinite space for imagination; no one loses focus, wholly immersed in the musical world he weaves.

"However, when I began learning the language of music, the door of ’inevitability’ truly opened for me."

Next, Rong Xianning illustrates the understanding of "mathematical inevitability" with solid musical theory and historical knowledge, then expounds on the irreplaceability of "emotional chance" with his personal experience in composition and performance.

He sits at the piano, fingers on the keys, like a butterfly softly landing on a blooming flower, displaying incomparable dexterity and beauty.

A piece of impromptu music perfectly showcases the subtle differences of musical phrases between mathematically precise playing and emotionally driven playing.

The notes on the sheet music are fixed, but each performance is unique; the slightest difference in finger pressure, the subtle control of breath, the timing choice for a flexible tempo handling, even the silence of a pin dropping in the concert hall, all these accidental factors are absorbed and magnified by the performer’s current emotional state, ultimately shaping an irreproducible musical moment.

The teenager returns to the center stage, calmly arguing: "Inevitability is music’s bone and bloodline, chance is music’s soul and breath. Music is great because it perfectly combines these two seemingly contradictory traits, exploring the mysteries of universal harmony with mathematical rigor and depth, while expressing the loneliness, yearning, ecstasy, and compassion of the human soul with emotional freedom and openness. It is both our understanding and simulation of world order, and our most direct and pure inner expression."

"Therefore, the essence of music is neither purely mathematical inevitability nor isolated emotional chance; it is emotion elevated by mathematics, and mathematics illuminated by emotion. This is the immortal charm of music."

The teenager’s gaze stretches into the distance, as if looking at someone.

"Just as my heartbeat frequency follows the Fibonacci sequence, but the epicenter forever lies in the core of emotion."

The echoes of emotion are like an invisible earthquake, the world swirling, all things vibrating.

The teenager bows ninety degrees.

The audience in the seats reacts instantly with passionate applause, roaring and surging like waves, almost drowning the teenager on stage.

Lin Xiaoqian is unable to contain his shock but quickly smiles with relief.

Innate subtle emotion, paired with a vast reserve of knowledge, showcases Rong Xianning’s profound thinking ability beyond technical aspects, raising the essence of music to the level of understanding the universe and expressing humanity. It reflects this teenager’s grand artistic vision and ultimate reverence for music.

He truly is a genius.

Even if he doesn’t pursue music, no matter what field he enters in the future, such depth of thought destined him to forever be an unparalleled genius.

Especially the ending sentence, full of aftertaste, like a silent confession.

Genius but also romantic.