Nancheng No. 1 High School had two legends: Wen Mianyue, who was always top of her class, bright and dazzling yet untouchable; and Jiang Ran, who never paid attention in class but stayed hot on her heels, lazy and aloof yet impossible to ignore.
They were opposites on campus, the subject of endless debate on the school forum, and a source of both admiration and headaches for their teachers.
No one knew that by the swimming pool one evening, Jiang Ran had cornered Wen Mianyue against the edge and, their breaths mingling, made a dangerously tempting offer:
“I’ll take care of every problem for you. Want to try a relationship that we can call off at any time?”
A game of love that began as a scheme: whoever fell first would lose.
Neither of them knew that the seed of this game had quietly been planted one afternoon many years ago.
