The English texts that others can memorize after two times, he has to repeat twenty, even two hundred times and still stumbles through.
What's worse: no matter how thoroughly he memorizes the text or the key points, come exam time, if it's presented in a different order or way, he's sure to be completely baffled.
What about things never departing from their roots?
For him, that just doesn't exist.
Not being good at it means not being good at it, no matter how hard he tries, at most he can only raise his passing score to seventy or eighty.
When effort far exceeds reward, the rebellious little teenager starts to give up on himself.
The long-standing authority meant he didn't dare confront his big brother directly or his other siblings who took time out of their busy studies to tutor him.
But in his attitude, there's inevitably a bit of the "going through the motions" approach.
Then the enthusiastic young Lian Xi faced a bout of provocation from his idolized big brother.
