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My boyfriend was a prodigy who got into a top-tier university at 13. I only got into an average university while he was doing his PhD. The research terms he threw around always sounded like a foreign language to me. His friends thought that our educational backgrounds were too different, and that we didn't match. But he seriously said, "No academic achievement means more to me than you, Sophia." We'd always been close. Even when I watched shows in my free time, he'd put down his books to keep me company. He'd sit beside me, using his sharp logic to analyze the plot and predict what was coming next. I thought we'd stay this way forever. Until one day, I saw his name on an important paper that he'd worked hard on, but he made a female colleague the first author. Then I realized our relationship had reached its end.