Chapter Two: Everyone Else Was Wrong

His lie equation was vastly more intricate than Chen Hao’s. It held contracts, accounts, judges, and recommendation quotas from three schools. Yet it, too, could be solved. Lin Yan sat and turned his answer booklet over. In eighty-seven minutes, he filled fourteen pages. The first six proved the contradiction in the initial conditions. Four more constructed every possible boundary and excluded the chance of omission. On the final four, he did not answer the problem at all. He used typesetting discrepancies to infer when the file had been replaced, then used the distribution of paper serial numbers to prove that at least one different version had been printed.