If the influences of the people around Qiao Ze were to be ranked,
Lu Xiuxiu, Li Jiangao, and Su Mucheng could all probably be placed in the first tier now.
The main impact of the first tier was that, as long as their suggestions weren't too outrageous, Qiao Ze was willing to give them a try first.
However, after Qiao Ze successfully entered college, apart from some personal issues, Lu Xiuxiu no longer loved to offer him any advice.
No one knows a son better than his mother.
Lu Xiuxiu's faith in Qiao Ze even exceeded his own.
Lu Xiuxiu had a clear understanding of herself; she had never attended college because the Lu Family did not value education for girls, leading her to vocational technical school after junior high. This made her feel that her life experience was not qualified to guide Qiao Ze in any way.
Unlike other mothers who liked to control their children tightly, she was more worried that meddling would interfere with his development.
So now that Qiao Ze was in college and had even secured a good job for her, Lu Xiuxiu felt very blessed. Her only desire was for Qiao Ze to take good care of Su Mucheng and to get married and have children when the time was right.
As for Li Jiangao, his mindset and guidance toward Qiao Ze were constantly changing.
Initially, he hoped Qiao Ze could live life like a normal child, balancing study and personal life seamlessly.
Then he found out that, at this stage, study seemed too simple for Qiao Ze, and living like a normal student appeared to be quite difficult,
because the two simply couldn't blend.
The way Qiao Ze thought about problems and the angles he took were not just different from ordinary students but also vastly different from him.
Li Jiangao didn't know how to draw a comparison; it was probably like the difference between a high-dimensional and a low-dimensional perspective.
Too different to integrate.
After some simple attempts, Li Jiangao had given up on this impractical idea.
He even doubted that without Xu Dajiang taking a strong interest in Qiao Ze, specifically instructing counselors to give a bunch of directives, just letting Qiao Ze blend into the group would probably still result in his being seen differently by his roommates and classmates.
Especially after Qiao Ze prepared a hundred papers for him, Li Jiangao wasn't too keen on giving Qiao Ze any advice.
Because he began to believe that Qiao Ze could find the most suitable path for himself through independent thinking,
after all, he had been in the academic circle for so many years, and his achievements simply couldn't compare with Qiao Ze's.
Heaven knows what Qiao Ze pondered every day from elementary to high school during those twelve years, how much he learned, and how much he accumulated.
Although Qiao Ze had shared a few thoughts with him, Li Jiangao highly suspected that those were only the issues Qiao Ze had considered deeply, and there were many more miscellaneous thoughts that Qiao Ze simply couldn't be bothered to discuss,
So when he introduced Qiao Ze to the academic circle, a major explosion of activity followed.
And because he didn't fully understand, Li Jiangao naturally didn't dare to make wanton suggestions.
He now saw his role as simply providing escort service.
If he noticed any deviation in Qiao Ze's path, he would quickly correct it; anything else was up to Qiao Ze himself to handle,
But Su Mucheng was different.
From the beginning to the end, she had only one belief: Qiao Ze was the best, the kind who couldn't be hidden; it was better to boldly show it.
She couldn't wait for the whole world to realize just how outstanding Qiao Ze was.
Moreover, Su Mucheng had been so well-protected by Su Lixing from childhood that she'd hardly ever faced setbacks. And Su Lixing was of a peaceful nature, modest and only liked to enjoy life quietly.
But Su Mucheng didn't like her father's unreliable logic and thus developed a somewhat unruly nature.
In some ways, this was similar to Qiao Ze; both were not inclined to follow so-called established rules.
The difference lay in the fact that if these rules didn't affect Qiao Ze, he'd ignore them,
whereas Su Mucheng would think about slapping any dog that passed by if it didn't look right, and right now the thing that irked her the most was Qiao Ze being ignored,
If you had to describe it, it would be like if a dog passed by Qiao Ze without wagging its tail, she'd want to kick it first and ask questions later.
Not to mention Qiao Ze writing letters of application and not receiving any response in a day.
This is why those experts were lucky to be far away from Su Mucheng, for with her guts, it wouldn't be surprising if she did something utterly unthinkable,
The only issue was that her abilities were still lacking, but that was okay because Qiao Ze just happened to complement her.
So the two worked together seamlessly.
It was like when they walked out of the lab building together, Qiao Ze would instinctively extend his left hand, making it convenient for Su Mucheng to cling tightly to his arm, merging their shadows under the street light into one,
Without needing to say much, they emphasized warm companionship,
As usual, Qiao Ze walked Su Mucheng back to her dormitory first, then he headed back to his own.
Qiao Ze originally wanted to stay at home,
But due to the promise made to Zhang Zhou and Gu Zhengliang to answer some questions for them every day, he decided to stay in the dormitory during the week and go home on weekends,
Just as he turned to leave, he hadn't gone far when he heard someone calling out behind him in a strange tone, "Hey, hey…"