Prodigy, Give Me Your Tenderness

At exactly eight o'clock on the night Jiang Tong was born, an especially bright star appeared in the sky. The old folks said he was the reincarnation of the Star of Literature, so his father named him Jiang Tong on the spot, declaring that the child was a prodigy.

Things later unfolded just as predicted: he memorized the Three Character Classic by age three, took first place in the national elementary school math competition at nine, was hailed as "the youngest math genius" at thirteen, and left his opponent speechless in an English debate at fifteen, without even giving his name.

At seventeen, he scored 750 on the college entrance exam.

Everyone thought he would go to Beijing. Instead, he applied to Mingzhou University, right near home. He had just three words to explain why: "It's close by."

In four years, only one girl ever said a word to him: "Prodigy, please give me your tenderness."

He couldn't answer. He spent four years trying to solve that problem.