Knowing his widowed mother didn't make enough from her service-industry job to rent him a room in Taipei, he gave up the idea, and instead accepted a full scholarship to the private Stella Maris High School.
父親早逝的他，考量從事服務業工作的媽媽無力負擔額外的住宿費用，決定進入願意提供全額獎學金的私立海星高中。