Tell it to your pillow

To have a pow-wow

keen-eared; observant

trivial matter

hijiki (brown sea vegetable)

To get rejected

The answers lie within yourself

narrow-minded scholar

thick congee

extreme depression

Beautiful prose

uncultured individual

Beauty meets a cruel fate

kingfisher

① managing weight ② adjusting style

a great achievement

shallow and superficial

uncultured

obsequiousness

refusing to succumb to despair

① uncultured ② barbaric customs

scowl