Taken Down

"So you came out to clear your head?"

Wu Fang somewhat understood why the other two heaven-favored prodigies were willing to be friends with the person before him. Who would not like a friend like this? "So, I ran away."

It had come out unexpectedly easily. Even Wu Fang was surprised by how calm he felt at this moment. Perhaps it was easier to pour out one's heart to someone who was a complete stranger.

Bian Chunchou thought, wasn't this just like a brooding little white rabbit getting into one of those hypercompetitive elite high schools? Back when he had gotten into an elite high school, he had been over the moon. Then... once he got in, he found himself surrounded by geniuses. This one did academic competitions, that one slept through class every day yet never fell out of the top ten in the grade. Before he had even left the ivory tower, he had already learned just how uneven the world could be.

But looking at it another way, Mencius's mother moved house three times precisely to give her son a better learning environment. With so many genius classmates around him, if he still failed to make something of himself, then he would truly be hopeless! People were all intermittently full of lofty ambitions and perpetually flat on their backs like salted fish. Even geniuses had moments when they nodded off.

"I'm not as good as them. Rather than occupying something that doesn't belong to me, I might as well make room for someone who needs it more." Wu Fang gave a self-mocking smile. "I thought I'd already let it go, but this place..."

It was still branded deeply upon him, as though telling him that he had always been nothing more than a mediocre talent, incapable even