The Perfect Tutor and the Failing Student

**Synopsis:**

When the cool-headed, disciplined top student Lin Yiyi is forced to become “siblings” with rebellious, unruly school bully Yun Zheng, an explosive clash of fire and ice erupts at Qingteng High. Behind her black-rimmed glasses is the absolute rationality of the top student in her grade; beneath his silver hair and earrings is the wild arrogance of the student ranked last. Under the same roof, they can’t stand each other. At school, they act like strangers.

Then one night, Lin Yiyi catches Yun Zheng secretly working at a convenience store. He pins her between the shelves, glaring fiercely. “Tell anyone and I’ll kill you.” The next day, he tosses a crumpled note in front of her: “Pretend to be my girlfriend and keep the girls away. I’ll be your slave after finals.” Lin Yiyi adjusts her glasses and writes down her own terms: “Deal. One condition: study with me for two hours every day.”

The “devil’s pact” is sealed. The whole school is in an uproar: the cocky bully is chasing the school’s top student with a stack of workbooks, calling her “Teacher”? The pretend couple, who can’t stand each other, are forced together. But amid the smoke of tutoring sessions and the flirtation of pretending that becomes real, they catch glimpses of the cracks beneath each other’s armor: his quiet endurance as he works late at night, her loneliness beneath her perfect grades; his dazzling talent on the basketball court, her startling insight and logic.

Feelings quietly take root amid their clashes. His clumsy acts of protection, fighting for her and taking the blame, and her levelheaded interventions, helping him out of trouble, make the line between “siblings” and “contract” wobble. When Yun Zheng uses basketball as his spear and hard study as his shield, pushing himself to the limit to meet the admissions cutoff for the elite university Lin Yiyi hopes to attend, Lin Yiyi becomes both his strictest and gentlest tutor.

When the college entrance exam results are released, a miracle comeback by a former underachiever is born! Yun Zheng takes two