I’m Done Pretending: Your Childhood Friend Is a Total Overachiever

[Precognitive dreams + school life + sweet childhood-friends romance + coming of age + mutual devotion]

[Gentle yet strong, clear-headed overachiever heroine × sharp-tongued, secretly devoted, proud and loyal hero]

At fifteen, Xu Zhuoran's aimless, carefree life was shattered by a long, despairing precognitive dream.

In the dream, rain fell without end. She saw the future she had missed, the family and friends who had drifted apart, and the boy she would meet again… only at a funeral.

To tear up that bleak script of fate, Xu Zhuoran made a decision: instead of crying in the rain, she would bury herself in books.

She picked up her textbooks and went from being a weak student who always came in last in her worst subjects to an unexpected star on the placement exams, then to the “study monster” feared by top students across the city in the joint exams.

She wasn't content to reunite with them at the top. She also wanted to pull everyone who had once been caught in the rain back into the sunshine, one by one.

As for Chen Ran, the delinquent who had gradually grown distant from her because of a misunderstanding…

At first, he scowled and tugged her braid. “Xu Zhuoran, acting sweet won't work on me. I'm not falling for that.”

Later, with red-rimmed eyes, he cornered her against a wall and murmured, “You said you'd catch up to me… So when are you going to make me yours?”

The Chen Ran everyone else sees: rebellious, aloof, the school bully who wants nothing to do with anyone.

The Chen Ran Xu Zhuoran sees: wagging his tail like crazy at the slightest bit of affection, getting jealous over everything, and being so lovestruck he'd do anything for her, like a proud puppy.

[Everyone says what they mean, no misunderstandings! In the best years of their lives, they tackle the hardest problems and fall into the sweetest romance!]