A champion who understands the power of words

Despite claiming to not being "a fan of contests", Chen Geng, the reigning champion of the Chinese Classical Poetry Quiz Show, impressed the audience by participating in all four seasons since the show's debut in 2016.

Clad in a blue shirt and black skirt, the 26-year-old pig-tailed doctoral student of robotics from Peking University was always eager to press the button to deliver answers. She took the show, that has been watched a total of 2.1 billion times across numerous platforms worldwide, by storm.

"When I stood on stage, I was very excited, feeling like every cell in my body was boiling, because I was talking about what I cared deeply about," she says.