As the son of an alcoholic, the original host had lacked discipline and a proper learning environment for his first sixteen years, so he had no interest in studying at all. Later, when Su Shiyuan forcibly shoved him into school, even if he wanted to study, he could not keep up with the school's curriculum. By the time the other students in his class were in middle school, they had already completed the entire high school curriculum. During high school, they took university electives that interested them while also participating in their family businesses under their parents' guidance. Every year, they traveled to various countries for fashion shows, vacations, and further study; attended all kinds of international summer and winter camps; built new connections; and visited the world-class institutions they wished to apply to, experiencing their academic atmosphere firsthand.
In the original novel's words, they were a group of outstanding elites whose futures had been arranged by their elders from the moment they were born. All they needed to do was grow older and steadily complete the goals laid out for them. Countless amounts of money, resources, and painstaking effort had been piled behind each person's upbringing.
The original host had suddenly entered such an environment. Like a drab gray duckling falling into a flock of swans, he simply could not adapt. Instead, surrounded by everyone else's brilliance, his vulgarity, narrow-mindedness, shallowness, and ignorance only became more apparent.
On top of that, Su Zhuo's little friends disliked him for all sorts of reasons and did everything they could at school to isolate and humiliate him...
In order to fit into his new environment and please his new classmates, the original host put in tremendous effort. Yet he had poor aptitude and a weak academic foundation. The courses he had fallen