History humblest senior brother.

"Of course, what do you expect from a peerless genius like me? Don't you even think about it, you wouldn't be able to begin to comprehend my peerless achievement."  

I mean people outside of my family have also told me the same thing (as in smart and good looking), so Im pretty sure they wouldn't lie, but I don't want to let myself get high on my own ego again. But according to everyone else I beat my self down. Maybe I do beat myself down subconsciously. But I get what you're talking about with the novel, that he doesn't really own up despite knowing it's a big deal. Pretty fun ngl to see people busting a vein from him trying to be humble. 

That's exactly what's irritate me to no end. I mean if every single time when your axhievement has been praised, you just say "oh, you overprised me", even if it's clearly deserved praise. 

Well normal people do accept praise exactly like that. That's common courtesy....... else they are though of as narcissist 

Tbf if you praised someone and they unironically replied "yes, I am pretty amazing. No one else could do this as well as me, y'know?" you'd be thinking they were a prick or narcissistic. Novels might use more flowery and kinda fake "humble" statements that honestly don't come off much better, but the gist is supposed to be that they don't reply to praise like assholes. 

I'm pretty much like this, my parents will say something along the lines like why are you so cute/handsome, I'm like but I'm not tho. They get ticked off at me and say they can't even compliment me. I personally dislike getting complimented because I feel like I don't deserve it. Then agian I have low self-esteem and put myself down because I hate how I've messed up before because I used to think I was a big shot. Stuff along the lines of, such and such person isn't smart as me or isn't as good looking as me. So I just changed how I think and act because I've fell on my face before from hearing so much praise. 

Because he's not "normal" people?
Well, honestly though...even with all those humble attitude, I never saw him as an actual humble person. I mean, most of his actions are anything but humble. So I just saw it as him trying to be polite or something, or maybe it's just the norm there to give such reply even if it's just on the surface.

And I don't think it's exclusive to zhaoge, I believe some other character also reply in such manner when praised, especially by a senior. 

Or you could simply reply, thank you (for the compliment) or laugh it off. Your sentence is a bit narcissistic, but true and honest. What they do is promote backward societal thinking. Lying to be humble and being "humble" as to keep within (retarded) rules you (they, whoever) set down is honestly retarded, offensive to the person praising you and dislikeable.
Would you praise someone for something normal but admirable if they shut you down one or more times with the sentence "you are overpraising me, it is nothing"? No, cause it mocks/attacks everyone else who can't do that "nothing" and doesn't have very high selfesteem

my own opinion (and if you didn't notice, this is a little rant since I am also bothered by it)