I Just Open-Sourced It, So How Did I Become a Sage?

His advisor accuses Gu Yan of plagiarism, steals his paper, and confidently pops champagne to celebrate.

(A team led by Academician Lin Zhenhua storms the school and discovers in less than three minutes that Gu Yan was the original submitter.)

Advisor Zhang Hongbin nearly wets himself on the spot. "Holy crap! That garbled mess I deleted... was actually a god-tier closed loop worth hundreds of billions?!"

A community doctor sternly reprimands Gu Yan for wiring things up carelessly, warning the elderly not to risk getting electrocuted while trying folk repairs.

(Dr. Li takes out an imported scanner and checks an elderly patient's body. Their neural activity instantly shoots up by forty points.)

Dr. Li freezes on the spot. "Holy crap! Even a two-million-yuan medical pod can't do that. You maxed it out with a ten-yuan tin box?!"

A foreign conglomerate arrives in a fury with a team of lawyers to demand answers, mocking Gu Yan for dabbling in feudal superstition.

(Gu Yan plugs a five-yuan adapter into the company's secretary robot, and the robot promptly cures the foreign executive's migraine.)

The foreign executive turns to stone on the spot. "Holy crap! I spent tens of billions of dollars on research, and you beat us with a plastic shell that cost fifty cents?!"