[College Life] [Romance] [One Female Lead]
Wen Xubai and Qiao Zhixu have been close since childhood. They have lived across the hall from each other for nineteen years, and have been competing ever since they were little.
She takes the class monitor position from him, and he hides her homework. When she comes in first, he gives her the cold shoulder; when he comes in first, she sneers at him.
After a misunderstanding following the high school entrance exam, she tells him to "get lost." He actually does, and they don't speak for three years.
At the start of their freshman year, Wen Xubai's roommate recommends an anonymous social app to him. It claims to match souls, not faces. After he finishes the test, his match score is 98 percent. His match is the user "Seventeen."
He realizes that this person's catchphrases are familiar, their answers are familiar, even that awkward insistence on "I'd rather not have a lover than lose my rival" is familiar. One day, the other person messages him: "Wen Xubai, you put my birthday as an answer on the test. Are you secretly in love with me?" His hand trembles. He looks out the window at the girls' dorm across the way. Qiao Zhixu is holding up her phone, and the beige curtains sway in the breeze. So the algorithm wasn't bugged.
They were the ones with a bug: after living across the hall from each other for nineteen years, they still needed an anonymous app to say good night.
The writing style is good, but the writing is not good. There are many small flaws and logical confusions in the first two chapters alone. Moreover, it is clearly the heroine's own problem and she unilaterally blocks the male protagonist. Why does the male protagonist need to compensate her? What does it mean to be "pushed away by the male protagonist for nineteen years"? Not to mention whether the breakup lasted as long as nineteen years, what did the male protagonist do wrong? You failed in the exam and are still sick. I'm going to give you medicine and comfort. You don't appreciate it, so forget it, but you unilaterally block me? Just this point alone made me so disgusted that I just walked away.