> On my first day at my new school, I caught the school bully doing competition problems in an empty classroom.
> His pencil scratched sharply across the page, glinting as coldly as his earring.
> “You’re new?” He ripped up a perfect-score test and crumpled it into a ball. “Tell anyone, and you’ll end up just like this.”
> Later, the whole school started saying I’d given him a love letter.
> He kicked over the rumor-monger’s desk. “Anyone who spreads more lies about her will end up as a paper ball.”
> At midterms, he deliberately handed in a blank paper. The dean lamented, “Jiang Yu, you’re at the bottom again!”
> I held up the notebook of mistakes he’d stayed up all night compiling for me. “Sir, his notes are more detailed than your lesson plans.”
> After school, he cornered me in the hallway. “Lin Wan, did you really have to expose me?”
> He suddenly shoved an umbrella into my hand. The handle was still warm from his touch.
> “Take it.” His ears turned bright red. “Last time... the one who got rained on was a puppy.”
