Love on a Deadline

[A seemingly aloof, cocky school bully with a sensitive heart × a seemingly conventional but clear-eyed heroine] [] Chi Sheng's class held an adult ceremony party at the end of July. Amid the cheering, Chi Sheng drew a slip of paper: Go confess to Lin Xue and pursue her for three months. Lin Xue was famous in class as an untouchable beauty, as rigid and boring as they came. Chi Sheng cast Huai Ling a casual glance with his charming eyes, stood up, and walked over to Lin Xue. In a cool, indifferent tone, he said, “Lin Xue, I like you. Be my girlfriend.” He'd thought Lin Xue would ignore him and carry on reading her English book. And indeed, she didn't even spare him a glance. Just as Chi Sheng thought he'd completed the task and turned to go back, he heard Lin Xue reply in the same flat tone, “All right.” Chi Sheng turned and frowned at her. Lin Xue closed her English book and looked up at him. “My time is valuable. You have only three months.” Chi Sheng gave a scoff. “Fine.” Everyone thought Chi Sheng had genuinely fallen for her, but then the two of them broke up. Later, someone saw Chi Sheng clutching Lin Xue's wrist and asking in a low voice, “Can we please not break up?” [] No one knew that Lin Xue's gaze, even when hidden in her books, had always been fixed on one boy. She watched him act cold and distant, seeing through the confusion behind his carefree manner. She knew he needed someone to pull him back from the brink, but she had no reason to do it. She'd thought it would end without anything ever happening, but a game unexpectedly tied them together. At last, she had a reason to walk up to him. Chi Sheng, let me pull you back. [] Both leads are adults. We do not encourage romance during senior year of high school.