My Top-Student Deskmate Is a Hopeless Romantic

Chu Yi always thought of herself as cold-hearted. When her parents died in a car accident and plunged into a river, she didn’t shed a single tear, not even at their funeral. She was even relieved to be free. She was used to walking alone, even if it meant being on the road alone forever. But then she met someone who treated her with such tenderness that she couldn’t forget him. Xiao Jihua followed the path his parents had laid out for him, moving steadily through life without rushing. Then he met her. Her blue hair fell over her shoulder as she leaned against the ping-pong table, smoking with practiced ease. Cigarette butts covered the ground, their scattered red embers flickering as he longed to see her clearly. The world began to change. From then on, everything in his life had something to do with her. The two of them in Licheng, the two of them in Huaicheng: he loved her in every version of their story. Xiao Jihua didn’t want to keep score with Chu Yi. He wanted her to owe him his kindness forever.