"Yuanying, darling, look at the Gothic Deconstruction! You can only understand the aesthetic purpose of the whole structure if you mentally dismantle the component geometry! Isn't that fascinating, Mr. Shen?"
The whisper was loud enough to be heard but framed as an innocent, appreciative commentary on her own reading material. It was a perfect plausible deniability.
Mr. Shen chuckled, pleased by Huaijin's intellectual curiosity. "Indeed, Miss Huaijin! That's an excellent parallel. The architects of the Gothic era certainly had an intuitive grasp of geometry."
But the message had reached Yuanying.
'Dismantle the component geometry.' Yuanying looked back at the tessellation problem.
She realized she didn't need a single formula; she needed to mentally break the shape into simple triangles and squares.
She immediately lowered her pen and started sketching the components. Five minutes later, she had the correct answer.
