At the final interview at Haicheng University, the principal pushed her resume aside.
"Miss Lin, you're too beautiful. Students might get distracted when you're standing at the lectern."
Lin Weiyang froze for a moment.
A provincial-level outstanding thesis, four SCI papers, and the highest score in her defense: apparently none of them mattered as much as a face that was "too striking."
That evening, she created an account with the username "Miss Pi."
She wanted to see if, without using her face, she could make the world recognize her for her mathematics alone.