[The school’s top student who ranks last vs. the hopeless student who’s only good at one subject]
[Mutual first love in their youth + reunion after years apart + school life + happy ending]
At the start of the second semester of her first year of high school, Jian Ning was moved to the very last row. Her deskmate was He Sui, the school’s notorious champion sleeper.
She thought she’d been banished to the edge of the world. Instead, it turned out he could do more than solve problems. He peeled oranges for her, bought her milk tea, tutored her on weekends, apologized in the middle of the night, and got jealous whenever he saw her talking to someone else.
She thought he liked her.
Until she finally worked up the courage to confess, and he said, “I’m sorry. I don’t like you.”
Only later did she learn he hadn’t been drunk that day.
Every time he said he didn’t like her, it was because he liked her too much.
He was afraid of holding her back from getting into college.
She was afraid that confessing would cost her their friendship.
They liked each other, but neither dared to speak first.
“Hate is easier to forget than love.”
“But I don’t want to forget.”
Youth isn’t full of rights and wrongs, grudges and grievances. It’s just one idiot falling for another idiot.
And then the two of them being idiots together.
