Todos los capítulos de Trusting the Wrong Genius: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

The second half of senior year had just begun. However, the whole school already knew that the new transfer student was a genius who ranked among the top ten students at the city's key schools.That evening, during study hall, I walked into the classroom with a collection of the toughest math problem types I had spent the entire winter break working through.My classmates were supposed to be studying, but they all fell silent the moment I walked in.Selene sat surrounded by classmates in the middle of the room. She was the one who waved me over. "Summer, you're here. There's actually something I need to talk to you about."She smiled faintly before she continued, "From now on, everyone's going to study with me instead. We don't need you anymore."I froze. I couldn't process what she had just said.Two years ago, I had ranked first in the entire city. Every top school had fought to recruit me, and Enasteri High School was no exception.But at the time, my father was gravely ill,

All these years, I had always paid for everything myself. I bought practice books one at a time, worked through problem after problem to organize the material, then paid out of pocket to have everything printed into study packets.After two years, I had never asked a single person in the class for a cent.I slowly scrolled back through the chat history. It held two years' worth of conversations between my classmates and me about schoolwork.Math was Cole Clarkson's biggest weakness. I created a tailored study plan for him, broke down the key concepts, put together a customized set of practice problems, and watched his scores climb little by little.Melissa Ludley's grades were poor, and her family saw school as a waste of money and pressured her to drop out. I tutored her privately time and again, helped raise her scores, and kept her chance of staying in school alive.Whenever Wendy Walters ran into a type of problem she could not solve or a concept she could not untangle, I pati

I followed everyone's gaze to the results board.First place: Selene Chevalier.Second place: Summer Barnes.Selene had beaten me and taken the top spot in the grade, a position I had held for more than two years.Selene stood off to the side of the crowd, her eyes gleaming with satisfaction. "See? I told you there was nothing wrong with my study method."Lucky for all of you that I transferred into this class. Otherwise, who knows how much longer that so-called top student would've held you back."The moment she said it, several classmates around me shot me strange looks.I clenched my fists without thinking, but I couldn't come up with a single word to argue back.Selene wasn't wrong. Grades were the most direct proof there was.This time, I really had lost to her. Even the students from the class next door who had used the notes I'd put together had failed to outperform the students in my own class who had studied with Selene's materials.Was it possible that there really

With nowhere else to turn, Selene transferred to our school.She knew she had no real ability of her own, so she relied on her father's connections to take shortcuts.That review packet from the last mock exam, the one that had matched the actual questions so closely, had never been her own work.Her father had used his position to obtain an advance copy of the city's mock exam questions and leaked them to her.She took those questions, made a few minor changes, and photocopied them for the class. That was the only reason everyone's scores had risen so sharply in such a short time.It was also how she had overtaken me so easily and claimed first place in our grade.The whole image she had built around "work-life balance" and easy score gains had never been anything more than a cover for her lack of real ability. It was also a way to win over the class and feed her own vanity.She knew she could keep taking shortcuts as long as she had her father's connections to rely on.No mat

My mother no longer had to spend her days scraping by behind the counter of that small stationery shop. She no longer had to rise before dawn or stay up late at night, scraping together profits a few cents at a time. At last, she could set down the burden she had carried for so long and rest comfortably at home.Once in a while, she chatted with the neighbors or went out for a walk. Her days became peaceful and steady.Through my own efforts, I had lifted my family out of poverty and left those years of hardship behind. I had given my parents the stable, secure life they deserved.That had always been the whole point of everything I had worked for.…After the new semester began, I officially joined my senior's tutoring center as both a partner and a full-time teacher.The center had always enjoyed a strong reputation. Most of its students came from ordinary families. They had weak academic foundations and hoped to change the course of their lives through hard work.I contri