On the first day of school, I spilled my paint palette all over Jiang Xu's five-figure white shirt. He was the campus heartthrob, and that shirt was worth a fortune.
I thought I'd have to sell everything I owned to pay him back, but he coolly handed me a "dating contract." "Pretend to be my girlfriend, and we'll call it even."
Me? An utterly ordinary nobody, playing the public enemy of every girl in school?
Fine. It's just acting. How hard can it be?
But as the act went on, things started to change.
In public, he was a cold, sharp-tongued academic heartthrob. In private, he took notes for me, fended off my admirers, and even stayed up all night writing code just to make me smile.
Girls, how is anyone supposed to resist that?
Just as I was about to drown in all that tenderness, the alarm sounded: our contract was expiring.
I packed my things, ready to bow out after a job well done. But he pinned me against the wall, eyes red-rimmed. "You flirt with me and then run? Who taught you that?"
And then an even bigger secret came to light.
Just as my illustrator secret identity, "Jianyue," took the internet by storm, his identity as the CEO of a tech company shocked the whole school...
Only then did we realize that this act, which began by accident, was really two powerhouses choosing each other.
