Fu Zhi went into the study next door after she came out of the office.
Since she'd had her phone on silent mode the whole time, she only realized that there was a dozen missed video calls when she pulled her phone out.
She dialed back and, very soon, a hoary male voice answered the call. It said, "Zhizhi, there are two more weeks left until the Physics competition. I wonder if you're free to set up the questions?"
The man was Sheng Hua. He was the president of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology. He had turned 58 years old this year and he had a rather erratic temperament.
He and his team had been tasked to set up the questions for this competition as well as to pick the candidates that would take part in the international Physics competition.
