Tales of Qianyuan: The Prodigy and Dong Erpi

This is a “story from the past” set in the future, a tale of friendship between a genius and an “average student who barely made it into a second-tier college.” It is one of the prequels filling in the backstory of the Qianyuan Yunshan series, and a direct prequel to Qianyuan Yunshan: Shadows of Days Gone By. Keep looking for your characters. The author's friends are never left out.