The clearer it becomes, the more one must learn to feign confusion.
Being smart is hard, being confused is hard, turning from smartness to confusion is even harder.
If not so, Zheng Ban could not have crafted the couplet "It's commendable to feign confusion" as he did.
When Meng Xin Zhi was speaking to him, Nie Guangyi truly wasn't paying attention.
His mind was solely fixated on hearing the answer he desired.
He directly screened out all other "irrelevant" information.
But as a hall-of-fame level academic, Nie Guangyi did possess a certain exclusive specialty.
Even if he wasn't listening at the moment.
Even if he was wandering in his thoughts throughout an entire class.
When he snapped back to reality, he could still recall what the teacher had said during that class when his thoughts were untamed.
Using his feigned anger as an excuse, Nie Guangyi took the chance to recall the words Meng Xin Zhi had told him earlier.