At the start of their second year of high school, underachiever Lin Xiao is moved to the back row, where all the top students sit. Just as he’s planning to keep his head down and go unnoticed, he discovers the class monitor secretly drawing comics, the academic ace writing screenplays during class, and the class rep hiding an e-sports dream. To protect their secrets, these “pretenders” are forced to form the Back Row Alliance: help the academic ace with homework in exchange for screenplay credits, cover for the class monitor in exchange for comic merch, and team up with the class rep to win competitions in exchange for permission to copy notes. But when the homeroom teacher suddenly announces a “talent showcase inspection for the back row,” everyone’s carefully maintained facade is about to fall apart.
