Zhou Cheng leaned back in his comfortable leather chair, flipping through a thick stack of documents. There were two computer monitors, a pen, and a large ashtray on his spacious desk. Other than that, there was nothing else. Behind the desk was a floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, through which he could see the magnificent night view of the city and …

Liu Chaowen hesitated for a moment. “Well, yes and no,” he said. “When I try to understand the deep-seated mechanisms of a principle, it requires extensive thinking and a certain amount of external learning. Through that, I can roughly grasp the entire process of how this mechanism operates, from the quantum state to the macroscopic level, including the underlying laws.” …

The teacher placed a stack of test papers on the table and casually handed them to the people nearby. Then he glanced at the A4 paper in his hand. “The previous exam was conducted under the supervision of several subject teachers and surveillance. Suo Wen, without taking a break, completed the papers for six subjects: Chinese, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, …

Zhou Cheng and his two colleagues walked leisurely through the tree-lined high school campus accompanied by the principal. The afternoon sun filtered through the lush tree canopy, casting scattered beams of light onto the ground. Pointing towards a small building ahead made of red bricks, Zhou Cheng enthusiastically said to his colleagues, “This used to be our physics laboratory. It’s …