Chapter 385 That Must Be Because Your Ability Is Insufficient
The students below saw that Isabella had actually solved the problem and started discussing among themselves.
"This problem is so hard, how did she do it?"
"I looked at it and had no clue at all. She solved it in five minutes. That's really impressive..."
Kennedy breathed a sigh of relief.
She had a new understanding of Isabella's intelligence and abilities. Before seeing this, she didn't know the problem could be solved this way.
Seeing everyone looking at Isabella with admiration, Jerald's expression became even more unpleasant.
His original intention was to severely punish Isabella.
But not only did he fail to punish her, he let her shine in front of everyone.
How could this be acceptable?
Watching Isabella's back as she walked toward the stage, Jerald coldly called out, "Isabella."
Isabella paused slightly, turned to look at Jerald, and said casually, "What? Jerald, is there something else?"
Jerald said with disgust, "Don't think you can be smug just because you solved this problem."
"When was I being smug?" Isabella raised an eyebrow, somewhat amused. "But you, as a teacher, using your position to get revenge in class - where's your professional ethics?"
Jerald's face darkened. "When did I..."
Isabella directly interrupted him coldly, "Giving a first-year student a problem as difficult as the final question in an international physics competition, and threatening to make them copy it 180 times if they can't solve it - dare you say you weren't using your position for revenge?"
"Even if you gave this problem to third-year students, not many could solve it, right?"
"Are you saying I deliberately gave you a hard problem to embarrass you?" Jerald frowned, saying with displeasure, "Then I can only say that if you felt embarrassed, it must be because your abilities aren't good enough."
He added in a superior tone, "For me, this is just a basic problem, so there's no such thing as using my position for revenge."
"A basic problem?" Isabella scoffed. "Are you sure this is just a basic problem for you?"
"Naturally."
"Then it seems Jerald is very knowledgeable. I didn't have a clear understanding of Jerald's abilities."
Isabella said this with a faint mocking coldness in her eyes, which made the students below inexplicably sense a growing tension.
Just then, Isabella's clear and firm voice rang out again:
"Since you're so capable, I'll give you a problem on the spot. What if you can't solve it?"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp in surprise.
Isabella was actually going to give Jerald a problem!
They'd only seen teachers give students problems, never students give teachers problems!
The roles reversed - this was too exciting!
Jerald literally laughed.
"Isabella, do you think that's possible?"
"How could I not solve a problem you give me?"
Isabella just looked at him coldly, with a mocking tone, "Don't be so full of yourself. You really might not be able to solve the problem I give you."
Hearing this, Jerald immediately frowned with displeasure, looking at Isabella with even more disgust.
"Who do you think you are?"
Isabella was actually mocking him here.
He had lived nearly forty years, spending almost his entire life on academic research. How dare a young girl who just started and knew nothing challenge him in front of him? How interesting. Jerald had never seen such an arrogant young person.
Isabella was truly absurd!
Jerald said with a stern face, "As a student, you don't know humility, don't know how to respect teachers. You solve one problem and think you're something special, and now you even want to give the teacher a problem. You really don't know your place."
"But since you're so confident, I'll give you this chance. Go ahead and give me a problem, just don't say I embarrassed you later!"
After saying this, Jerald angrily turned away with his hands behind his back, no longer looking at her.
Isabella picked up the chalk and started writing on the blackboard.
Jerald didn't even bother to look at what kind of problem she would give. He was a professor after all - could he really not solve a problem given by a first-year college student?
Soon, Isabella finished writing the problem.
Seeing Isabella stop, Jerald snorted coldly and picked up the chalk to start solving.
He first scanned the problem.
Jerald stared at the blackboard. As he looked, his expression gradually changed.
Isabella just stood to the side watching him silently, still holding a piece of chalk in her hand.
Jerald could feel Isabella's gaze.
This gaze made him very uncomfortable. His eyes quickly scanned the problem over and over, and his expression became increasingly anxious.
One minute passed, Jerald didn't move.
Two minutes passed, Jerald still didn't move.
The people below first stayed quiet, afraid of disturbing Jerald's problem-solving, but after two minutes passed, strange expressions appeared on everyone's faces.
"What's going on? What's wrong with Jerald? Why isn't he writing?"
"Could it be he doesn't know how?"
"How is that possible? You're underestimating Jerald too much! Jerald is a famous professor at our college, and his papers have won international awards!"
"Exactly, Jerald is very capable, there's no way he can't solve this problem."
"..."
The whispered voices from below reached Jerald's ears, and now he had to start writing.
First, he drew an auxiliary line.
After thinking, Jerald erased the auxiliary line, drew another one in a different place, felt it still wasn't right, and erased it again...
Five minutes passed, and Jerald was still drawing auxiliary lines.
The people below: "..."
To be honest, they were starting to have doubts.
"Can Jerald actually solve this or not?"
"Could he really not be able to solve it?"
"..."
Being stared at by everyone, Jerald felt like he had thorns in his back, and sweat started forming on his forehead.
He simply didn't believe he couldn't solve Isabella's problem, but looking at this problem, he really didn't know what to do.
That's how science problems are - if you don't know, you don't know, you can't even start writing.
The solution area on the blackboard remained completely blank.
Another five minutes passed.
"Jerald, didn't you claim to be so capable? How come after all this time, you can't even get one auxiliary line right?"
Isabella mocked him coldly and walked over.
"Why didn't you think of drawing an auxiliary line here?" Isabella took the chalk and lightly drew a line on it.
"After drawing this auxiliary line, directly use this formula..."
She wrote the formula below and started calculating.
Jerald was forced to step aside. He stared intently at Isabella's solution steps, his face becoming ugly with disbelief.
In less than two minutes, Isabella had already written to the last step.
She used the chalk to write out the final result.
"This is the final answer to this problem."
Isabella's clear voice landed like a knife, stabbing Jerald's heart.
Jerald gripped his chalk, his face pale.
At the same time, discussion erupted from below.
"The teacher actually can't solve a problem given by a student."
Most of the students at Radiant University were unruly rich kids. At this moment, a male student joked:
"Jerald, you can't solve the problem Isabella gave you. Doesn't that mean, in a way, your knowledge isn't as good as Isabella's?"
"Hahaha! Jerald is a professor, but he's not as good as his own student. How fun would it be if this got out!"
"Can just anyone teach at Radiant University now? Didn't they say Radiant University's teachers are all top-notch? Is this it?"
"He just said Isabella didn't know her place. Now look, he really can't solve the problem Isabella gave him. He's completely lost face, hasn't he?"
"..."
Wave after wave of mocking and ridiculing voices came. Jerald felt like he was being slapped in the face over and over in public - an unprecedented humiliation, an unprecedented loss of face.
Just then, the bell rang for the end of class.
Jerald didn't want to say anything. He picked up his teaching materials and left the classroom with a dark expression.
After Jerald left, the students discussed even more intensely. Even after he left the classroom, they were still talking about it. Some students even told this gossip to friends from other colleges they met on the road.
"Today our class teacher called on a student to write a problem on the board, and then..."
Inside the classroom, quite a few people also surrounded Isabella to join the excitement.
"Isabella, did you come up with that problem yourself? We searched online and couldn't find it."
"I came up with it myself."
"What? You can even create problems?"
"You're so amazing."
You know, solving problems and creating problems are not the same thing, especially such difficult problems - Isabella actually created it herself.
"It's just being able to create problems, what's so great about that."
When Jasmine and others passed by, seeing a bunch of people surrounding Isabella, they immediately sneered with disdain.
However, her voice wasn't prominent because it was too noisy around, and Isabella's side couldn't hear it at all.
"This Isabella is really something else." Selene walked behind Hestia, quietly clicking her tongue. "Isn't she afraid Jerald will make things difficult for her?"
Isabella dared to offend a college teacher - what was she thinking?
Last time Jasmine asked Isabella to help move boxes, but Isabella was too high and mighty to lift a finger. After that incident, Selene disliked Isabella from the bottom of her heart.
Isabella really thought she was something special.
Today she discovered even more that Isabella was really arrogant - she even dared to give the teacher a problem, confronting the teacher in class. Really interesting.
"Just wait and see, Jerald will definitely not let her graduate." Hestia said.
Although Jerald was just a teacher, given his status in the academic world, he would probably enter the Powell family research institute in the future.
People who take the academic path generally plan it this way - the highest achievement is to become a national-level scholar, then get the opportunity to be recognized by the seven great families and become part of them.
Once Jerald entered the Powell family's research institute, if he had the chance to take the Powell family surname in the future, he would not be someone to underestimate. Even the seven great families would have to give him some respect.
So they didn't dare to look down on teachers like Jerald.
But Isabella was different - this time she had probably offended Jerald completely.
However, although Isabella had offended Jerald, she was now a prominent figure.
Isabella had already stolen the show in ancient martial arts class before, and now she had made a name for herself in mechanics class. Even Jasmine's spotlight had been overshadowed by her.