I Refused to Date Anyone, Then Lost to the Class's Bottom-Ranked Student

[Straightforward Top Student x Tsundere, Sharp-Tongued Young Master] Bickering Couple | Mutual Secret Crush | Period School Romance | Happy Ending A mutual secret crush spanning the turn of the millennium. In 2001, Fang Xiaoru gets into a prestigious high school with the determination to outwork everyone. She has only one ultimate goal: get into a top university! But then she meets her lifelong nemesis, Fang Yihai, a lazy, sharp-tongued rich kid at the bottom of the class. As a teacher-assigned “study buddy” pair, their daily lives become a chaotic mess. She earnestly threatens to report love letters, while he mocks her for being no fun. When her bicycle is stolen, she cries her eyes red, and he quietly sends his private chauffeur to drive her home in a luxury car. “Fang Yihai, can’t you focus on your studies?” Fang Xiaoru roars, smacking a test paper covered in red crosses. The boy looks like a cat that hasn’t fully woken up. He toys with Jay Chou’s new CD, then leans toward her, his eyes full of a tenderness she can’t understand. “If my mind isn’t on my books, then where do you think it is?” When a bookish, no-nonsense top student meets a sharp-tongued rich kid with a soft heart and a lonely soul, who will be the first to fall for real in this youthful game of wits at the turn of the millennium?