The Perennial Runner-Up Takes a Turn and Becomes Top of the Class!

(All characters are adults. No inappropriate messaging. Set on a college campus.)

An Yuhuai has been runner-up for years. There’s one person ahead of him, the top student in their year, who’s just as good-looking and gets better grades. So An Yuhuai really hates Qin Huai.

Later, the two are unexpectedly assigned to the same class and end up as deskmates. Most absurd of all, their homeroom teacher tells them to love each other. Love each other? Impossible. They’d be lucky if they didn’t fight like cats and dogs...

At first, Qin Huai doesn’t believe his friends when they tell him to watch out for An Yuhuai. But after An Yuhuai becomes his deskmate, something changes. Qin Huai can’t help wanting to get closer to him and become someone he can share everything with.

In everyone else’s eyes, An Yuhuai is aloof and hard to approach. In Qin Huai’s eyes: So handsome, so cute!

An Yuhuai never imagined he’d find warmth and care in the person he hated.

An Yuhuai has been studying with the third-ranked student for three hours?

Qin Huai, outwardly: It’s fine. No need to panic.

Qin Huai, in secret: If I raise my grades, he’ll only look at me. Hehe~

An Yuhuai smiled at Qin Huai once today?

Qin Huai, outwardly: I’m a cool, aloof heartthrob.

Qin Huai, in secret: If I lower my grades, he’ll smile at me more. Hehe~

A shamelessly self-assured guy who talks himself into love × a cold on the outside, fragile on the inside guy who craves affection

Did I beat Qin Huai today? / Did he smile at me more today?

“Deskmate, don’t be number one anymore. Be my one and only, okay?”