"Color? Is that the messy stuff you've got all over you?" The Quadrilateral Teacher cleared his throat twice, his voice betraying clear dissatisfaction, "Do you become wiser by smearing these things on yourself? Has your degree increased even the slightest bit? This must have cost a good amount of tongzi, right? Instead of wasting money on such superficial appearances, you'd be better off saving up and heading to a big city for cosmetic surgery to make yourself into a nice isosceles triangle, rather than being half-baked and ridiculous like you are now!"
Yu Liang found this somewhat amusing. Color was seen as superficial, yet cosmetic surgery to change angles was considered substantial.
It seemed that the difference between substantial and insubstantial was down to angles, which related to "wisdom," but this way of thinking felt quite strange to him.
Could changing one's shape really make a person smarter?
