He takes what his foster mother often tells him to heart: "Study for yourself, not for Mama." His "aunty" says that even if you go to university, you're not guaranteed a job and asks what Yung-chuan's chances for the future would be if, coming as he does from a poor family, he failed to study hard and get into a public university.
他把「媽媽」常說的這句話擺在心裡；「姑姑」也說，讀到大學還不一定找得到工作，何況家裡經濟條件不好，不努力考上國立大學，以後怎麼辦？