Sun Xinhong's reason for hiring Wang Chen as a private tutor was simple: he wanted to improve his individual combat power.
Most majors at the First Imperial Higher Military Academy, even those geared toward civilian roles, imposed fairly high requirements on students' Physique and combat skills.
After all, once these students graduated, eighty or ninety percent of them would be stationed long-term with the Space Fleet or in military fortresses, facing the trials of war at every moment. They needed well-rounded personal capabilities.
Besides, the Empire had always revered martial prowess. A man too weak to truss a chicken would be looked down upon with utter contempt.
Even more so at the First Military Academy.
Sun Xinhong majored in Military Psychology, and his superpower was quite unusual—Mind Reading.
Mind Reading was undoubtedly a very powerful ability. The problem was that Sun Xinhong needed prolonged contact with a target before he could read that person's memories and thoughts.
Once they were separated, he was completely helpless.
Such Mind Reading could only be called neither strong nor weak, yet it was precisely this ability that had gotten him into the First Military Academy as a Military Psychology student—perfectly suited to his major.
Not only that, Sun Xinhong had another identity.
The same identity as Tang Mi: an external member of the Imperial Security Bureau!
It was precisely because of his field and his identity that Sun Xinhong had an urgent need to improve his own combat power.
The problem was that he had no talent for either body techniques or combat skills. His grades in those two foundational courses were abysmal, and he had never once won in sparring matches against his classmates.
As a result, he had earned the glorious title of "weakling," becoming the soft fish everyone in his major