A Genius Scholar? I Just Love to Learn

The scene where the guy joins the math competition team and gets his face slapped is watchable if you skip it all; otherwise, it feels like this isn't school, but a gangster framing his rival to climb the ranks in front of a mob boss.

It's alright so far. I hope the protagonist gets into Tsinghua or Peking University so they can help him, and not just some ordinary university. I read books mainly for fantasy and wishful thinking. I've read a few where the protagonist was clearly very talented but ended up at a school that was actually quite bad for him, just because it was more expensive or closer to home. Those stories made me give up immediately.

Try to avoid writing too many scenes of self-aggrandizement followed by self-deprecation; it's not popular now and it's easy to create logical inconsistencies.

It's fine to write about other subjects in academic novels, but when it comes to math, it's something you've had since childhood, and if you don't have it, you won't have it later. Look at Schultz, Terence Tao, Perelman, Faltings, Wiles, Shing-Tung Yau, and Kohn—all the existing mathematical giants, they're all academic role models in novels. They were all high-IQ from a young age.

Sleeping only three hours a day, and still running to exercise? Forget it, I guess I didn't see it.

It's best not to include political content in novels.

The writing about being stuck in America is terrible.

If the later episodes reduce the amount of boasting and face-slapping, or at least soften the formulaic and less overtly dramatic displays of bravado, I think it will be watchable.

Why did the protagonist suddenly become so talkative and emotional when he went to France for his visa application?

Don't worry about the CPU overheating 🥵