Columbia University is ranked eighth in the world in the heart of New York City, and is the third-largest number of Nobel laureates who have worked or studied here, making it a member of the prestigious Ivy League.

The members of the Ivy League are all the top universities in the United States and the largest number of Rhodes Scholarship winners in the United States. In the academic world, any university in the Ivy League is a paradise that all students yearn for, but for the sports world, the Ivy League is an embarrassing existence.

At least in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) tournament, the Ivy League member universities have been weak, especially in basketball, and in the last decade or so, the Ivy League has not produced any decent figures except for one Jeremy Lin.

The saddest thing is that Jeremy Lin is also a student at Harvard University, another member of the Ivy League, and as for Columbia, it has to be traced back to Jim Mike Milan, the champion of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972.

Jim Sr. is 67 years old.

In February 2015, just a month after the new semester, the NCAA division has come to an end, and it is about to enter the NCAA Championship in the "March Madness".

The only spot winner is the league winner, and for Columbia's basketball team, they are already in a position to fight for a place in the tournament heading into February, as they have lost two of their four games in the Ivy League which began in January.

The Ivy League only needs to play 14 games to qualify for the top-ranked team to qualify for the Ivy League known as March Madness, so every win counts, with one of the two games lost to arch-rival Yale University and the other to underdogs Cornell University.

"Damn! Ugly game! We only scored 47 points against Cornell! In the campus cafeteria, Columbia basketball team captain and shooting guard German Manodor Lowe said in frustration that he had been selected for the German national team last year, which would undoubtedly be noticed by NBA scouts, but if he can't make it to the tournament with the team, he will have to play against the sky at the European Championships later this year to get a better draft pick.

But there are a lot of great guys in the German team, especially since he overlaps with Denis Schröder, so he doesn't have much time. So not being able to make it to the tournament means he's going to fall out of this year's NBA draft.

Because in the divisional league, except for schools like UCLA and Kentucky, it is difficult for other schools to get the attention of scouts, let alone the Ivy League, where basketball talent is withering, and Jeremy Lin, who comes from the Ivy League, is already the best Ivy League student in the NBA.

And he, at the time of the draft, was also a draft loser....

Luke Petrashek, a sophomore sitting next to Maodore, also sighed and said, "I can't believe it's even more frustrating to score 47 points without either of us being absent, which is more frustrating than losing to Yale." I don't think Harvard and Yale are going to lose to a weak team like Cornell..."

Luke Pedrasek is a power forward who has been playing good numbers since he entered the school in 2013, when he averaged only about 18 minutes per game, but had 5.3 points and 3.2 rebounds, which is a very good result for the NCAA with an offensive time of up to 35 seconds, and he has averaged more than 10 points per game and nearly 5 rebounds this year, becoming Maodore's right-hand man.

Maodore is a junior, the team's top scorer, he has played a high number this year, so far, he has averaged 17 points per game, as well as four rebounds, two assists and 1.5 steals per game, is a balanced score, he hopes to be able to enter the NBA as soon as possible, because he wants to be in the NBA like his compatriot Nowitzki, in any city, and he wants to be a German hero in a certain city like Nowitzki.

However, the loss to Cornell made him very frustrated, and the remaining ten games should be difficult. Unless they win all, they will be passive.

While Maodore and Pidrasek were tasting defeat in the campus cafeteria, an alumnus who was supposed to have nothing to do with them woke up in a rental house in New York's Chinatown.

Li Wu sat up sweating profusely, looking at the furnishings around the room in shock, although it has been three years, he still clearly remembers that this room is the house he rented when he was studying for a bachelor's degree in history at Columbia University, a single room, with a bathroom, in 2015, it was in this room that he made a decision that affected the fate of his life.

In 2014, Li Wugang got a scholarship from Columbia University to study in the United States, he was born in a very ordinary family, his parents were just ordinary middle school teachers, and they couldn't afford the cost of studying abroad, but he got a scholarship with his own efforts to study history at Columbia University.

When he came, he made up his mind to make a lot of money for the happiness of his parents. So he didn't ask his family for a penny, and as soon as he was in the United States, he began to work and study.

Later, he got a job as a waiter at a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, which was small and owned by an old man in his seventies with no children under his knees.

For the sake of the generous hourly salary, Li Wu decided to work here, but the old man paid Li Wu an hourly salary not so that he could cook the kitchen, finish washing, or do something else, but to teach Li Wu a magical thing - martial arts.

"Young man, your bones are strange, the old man won't live long, let me teach you a unique knowledge." The old man with a Chaoshan accent and a wrinkled face said to Li Wu.

At the beginning, Li Wu agreed for the sake of salary, maybe the old man is just a martial arts fan, so it's a big deal to play with him, just accompany the lonely old man.

But the old man came to the real thing, directly shut down the restaurant, and began to let Li Wu chop wood, soak potions, and jump benches. At first, Li Wu was scarred and exhausted, but the old man asked him to meditate, and after a night, he not only had the energy to study, but also the energy to continue to toss the old man.

Later, chopping wood became chopping bricks, the water temperature of soaking potion was getting higher and higher, and the jumping bench became the side of the running cylinder, in addition, there were all kinds of unbelievable exercises, such as catching flies with chopsticks, blindfolded swatting mosquitoes, knives, guns, sticks, Emei thorns, everything had to be practiced, of course, there were all kinds of martial arts, such as Tongjiquan, Bajiquan, Iron Sand Palm, Tiyun Zong, Jin Yangong, and Lian Leg.....

Li Wu gradually felt the changes in his body, his original height of 175cm became 187cm in a year, his arms became longer and longer, and his fingers became white and slender, looking like he played the piano.

A year later, in January 2015, the old man said that Li Wu had left the school, and left Li Wu with a box of blue-skinned hand-copied books, and then Li Wu went to the restaurant again, never saw the old man again, and found that the restaurant had been sold to a foreigner to make a pizza place a month later.

So in February 2015, Li Wu decided not to study anymore and returned to China to participate in a martial arts program on a local station, and he felt that he should be able to make money from this.

Li Wu is right, he almost didn't use all his strength, only used a set of through-arm boxing to fight from Wulin Feng to Kunlun Duel, from Kunlun Duel to Huashan Lunjian, and finally about to fight Muay Thai boxing champion, taekwondo grandmaster, world boxing champion, consecutive victories, commercial value soared again and again, but he let his parents enjoy the blessings, and got a staggering fame and fortune.

By 2018, he had earned nearly $100 million and was ready to start making movies in Hollywood.

But on Valentine's Day in 2018, when Li Wu walked out of the Sanlitun Bar with a group of actresses of Yingying Yanyan, he planned to pee under the tree on the side of the road, but he didn't find that when he peed, he stepped on the wire under the tree that connected the lanterns on the tree, and was shocked...

The next moment, he woke up again on February 3, 2015, the day he decided to return to China for development.

"Am I being born again? I was actually urinating under the tree and was electrocuted by the leaking pull lamp! Hemp eggs.... Could it be the real-life version of "The Grim Reaper"? Li Wu covered his head and thought, he was wondering if there would be other bad luck if he avoided the wire that pulled the lamp, and at this moment, in the depths of his memory, he suddenly remembered a small episode when he decided to return to China and walked in Chinatown.

He didn't pay attention to this matter all the time, and then he got mixed up in China, and of course he didn't care even more.

That was when he dragged his suitcase out of Chinatown, a young man in a tunic and sunglasses stopped him, saying that he was going to tell his fortune, he ignored it, and left quickly, he had practiced martial arts, and deliberately wanted to leave, no one could catch up, but the young man shouted a word behind his back.

"Dude! Don't go to the ring in this life! Otherwise there will be sexual ......"

Li Wu didn't hear the words later, but now that he thinks about it, it should be "the worry of his life." ”

Lao Tzu met the young man today! Li Wu immediately jumped up as soon as he thought about it, rushed out of the rental house, and quickly went downstairs, standing on the streets of Chinatown, looking around, hoping to find the familiar figure.

Sure enough, at the door of a grocery store, a white-faced young man with a height of about 170, a little chubby, and sunglasses was also looking around, as if looking for some target in the crowd.

Li Wu immediately strode towards the man, and the young man also saw Li Wu, he was stunned, and immediately laughed, took off his sunglasses and walked towards Li Wu, and said as he walked: "Brother! I knew as soon as I looked at you that it was a compatriot, and your countenance...."

"Say it directly!" Li Wu took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket and handed it to the young man, he hadn't used to his identity change that was no longer worth $100 million, and one gave it was a hundred, in fact, this hundred was the only hundred-dollar bill in his pocket.....

The young man took it with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Brother is refreshing, I'll just tell my brother like this, my brother's face is rich and noble, and it will be idle to gain fame and fortune in the future, but ....."

"Brother has to remember one thing, in this life, my brother can't go to the ring and fight with everyone! So don't participate in boxing, fencing, or even underground fighting, brother, I can see that the brother seems to have practiced, and it's good....."

Li Wu was stunned when he heard this, it turned out that what this kid said was the same as back then, don't go to the ring in this life! Otherwise, you will have to worry about your life! This kind of thing is mysterious, but he has experienced it himself, and he has to believe that he doesn't want to die so early.

Although he made a lot of money in the last three years of his life, his parents were always worried that he would be beaten to death in the ring.

"Son, you won't become Ali when you're old, right?"

"Son, fight less, just have enough money!"

"Son, don't be reckless, the corners of your eyes were broken last time!"

This is what his parents often say to him, Li Wu wants his parents to live a good life, and he wants his parents not to worry about himself.... Swapping his life for money, his parents will definitely not be happy, Li Wu thought as he walked around unconsciously.

"Hey.... Ay? Dude! Don't go! I haven't finished that yet~! Actually, we can...."The young man in the tunic shouted and wanted to chase Li Wu, who seemed to have lost his soul, but he didn't expect Li Wu to disappear into the crowd in three steps and two steps.

Li Wu is now thinking about it, after learning martial arts and not fighting in the ring, how can he make money quickly? Do you really have to wait to finish college on a scholarship and find a job? History..... Even if it's a big brother, how much can you earn?

He was a vulgar man, he needed money, but he didn't want to take his own life.

Li Wu was walking, when he suddenly felt that his foot was touched, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a basketball.

"Hey! Dude, can you throw the ball over? Next to the street, a teenager with a black accent said.

Li Wu turned his head and saw a wild court next to the street, and the net around the field was not high, only about three meters, and it should have rebounded.

Several black teenagers were waving at Li Wu.

"Absolutely!" Li Wu picked up the basketball, looked at the basket at his forty-five degree angle, and suddenly remembered: Lao Tzu was on the school team when he was in junior high school and high school! I also won the first place in the city's high school basketball game! With this martial arts and basketball skills, maybe.....

Now the distance he is from the basket continues to be the distance from the half-court scrum line to the basket. Li Wu was silently lucky, raised his hand, and used the power of the dark weapon to hit the basket.

"Brush!" Basketball brushes into the net.

"Whew!"

"Whew! Oh, God! ”

“WTF！”

"What do I see?"

"Big threes?"

Several black teenagers shouted, and some even pressed their heads with both hands.

Li Wu was overjoyed: "There is a play!" He turned around and immediately walked towards Chinatown.

The young man in the sunglasses in the tunic was still wandering around Chinatown, and a familiar voice sounded in his ears: "Is the basketball court considered a ring?" ”

When the young man saw Li Wu coming back, he immediately smiled: "No, no, no!" Of course not! Dude is going to play basketball? Forehead.... It's not that I said, although my brother is not short, but this one plays basketball..... Kindness... It's still okay to go to the CBA as a guard..."

Li Wu immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and asked the young man with a smile: "My name is Li Wu, a student of Columbia University, what about you?" ”

"Huh? Hello alumni! I'm a freshman at Columbia University, He Dabao, who only came last month to study econometrics in the Department of Finance at the School of Business. The young man immediately stretched out his hand and laughed.

"Econometrics fortune telling in Chinatown in a tunic suit?" Li Wu shook hands with He Dabao.

"Hey! I'm looking at whether probability coincidence in physiognomy and metrology is a mathematical category... That's why you have to come out to tell fortunes! The ship is dressed to win the trust of customers. You must know that in fact, fortune-telling is also a kind of..."He Dabao was about to gush when Li Wu interrupted him.

"Brother, I feel like I need you." After speaking, he took He Dabao to Columbia.

Isn't Columbia Business School just going to be your own agent? Li Wu has changed a lot of agents in the past few years because the other party is too pitiful, and he is often fooled by Party A's sugar-coated shells and verbal games, resulting in his loss of a lot of money, He Dabao is a student of the Department of Finance of Columbia University, he should not be so stupid, not to mention that the other party can also tell fortunes. This is especially important for him, who has died once.

"No, brother, where are we going?" He Dabao asked blankly after getting into the taxi.

"Go find Maodore." As a Columbia student, Li Wu certainly knows this school's influential figure.