Looking at Andre sleeping in my arms, I didn't feel sleepy at all. I'm still quite worried about whether he will be able to submit his paper tomorrow.

The morning alarm clock woke us up. We had a simple breakfast and started getting ready to go. Andrei, who was wearing a tie, looked at me in a black professional outfit and said with a smile, Linna! Will I defend or will you defend today? I ignored him, thinking that I was more nervous than you were about your answer.

At nine o'clock, we arrived at the defense room at eight o'clock. It's a big lecture hall. Here I met Natalia, who was in charge of organizing Andrei's defence. I gave her a box of chocolates to thank her for her support. Natalia may have seen my worries and said. Andrei really has no problem passing this pre-defense. His mentor is the Vice President of our college. These professors will give his mentor face. They will not embarrass Andrey. Andrei's supervisor took a total of 4 graduate students. It is the tutor with the most graduate students in our college, and of course, it is also the most difficult tutor to apply for in our college. Natalia said that none of the graduate students he took failed the defense.

The assistant teacher also arrived at this time, and he and Andre set up the projector over there. Natalia and I sat down in the seats at the back of the room.

One after another, Andrei's mentors and professors expired. I took a look, and there were eight professors in addition to his mentor. The professors are seated. Andrei's mentor signals that Andrei can begin.

Andrei began to preach his thesis. I felt that Andrey's statement was very clear, although I didn't understand the content of the paper very well, but I think Andrey's speech was perfect.

Andrei finished his thesis. It's the mentor's turn to ask questions. The first question was asked by a female professor, and Andre thought for a moment and answered, and I felt that he seemed to answer, but the female professor was quite satisfied.

At this time, another professor asked André a question about the concept of a British economist cited in his paper, and the professor seemed to want to know how much André knew about this concept.

Andrei smiled after hearing this question. He said that the views he quoted were from the original paper of this economist...... Andrei said the name of the paper in English, and then directly in English he told the content of the paper and his understanding of the idea.

I don't know how the professor felt when he asked the question, but I listened to Andrey's comfortable English and felt that he was right...... Hehe! Although, I didn't understand what Andrei was saying at all. Andrei finished answering. I saw the professor nod approvingly.

At this time, Andrei's mentor spoke, and he greatly praised Andrei's literary theory, and naturally no one in the professors present dared to refute his face. I felt that the serious defense actually made the atmosphere of Andrei's tutor full of lightness.

At this time, the domineering tutor actually asked questions in German like Andrei. Andrei answered the tutor's question. To be honest, I didn't understand a word.

I couldn't figure out whether the other professors understood or didn't understand, but everyone praised them anyway.

At this time, I finally understood what Natalia meant when she said that the graduate students of this mentor did not fail the defense.

The tutor continued to talk about Andrei's paper, saying that there are also English and German versions, and you can read those two versions if you like them. Originally, he wanted Andrei to defend in English or German, but Andrei insisted on defending in Russian. The tutor's words drew unanimous praise from the professors.

I was a little puzzled and asked Natalia, does the paper need to be available in other languages? Natalia said that in Russia, it is possible to defend her doctoral dissertation in addition to Russian, English and German. Hearing this, I was a little unconvinced Andre, I really want to ask, can you use Chinese to defend?

Andrei's pre-defense passed without a hitch, and I breathed a sigh of relief and began to secretly rejoice. Andrei's mentor was pleased with his performance.

Next, Natalia and I set up fruit, candy and champagne on the table outside the defense room.

Andre and his supervisor, teaching assistants, and a few professors briefly celebrated together that Andrey's thesis had been approved.

I told Andrei's supervisor that I had been worried that Andrei's thesis was not well prepared.

His tutor smiled and said, both of you are too careful, in fact, Andrei can apply for a pre-defense half a year ago. If he had asked to defend in English and German, he could have graduated early.

Andrei insisted on defending in Russian, apparently trying to challenge himself. The mentor appreciated Andre's point. Therefore, he also emphasized this point at the defense meeting today, which is one of the reasons why those professors looked at Andre differently and did not embarrass him.

I looked at Andre, who was chatting with the TA with champagne.

I suddenly remembered that on New Year's Day, when Maria talked about Andrei's defense, Andrei immediately interrupted her! Don't? Does Andrei really just want to challenge himself, or is he ......?