Everyone says that academic ace Lin Zhan has been “outclassed” by prodigy Shen Juan, stuck in second place year after year.
No one knows that ever since her first year of high school, she’s suffered from a precise “tenth-place syndrome”: she always scores just one to three points less than him.
It’s a masterful exercise in score control, a silent conversation only her rival can understand.
Until the night before the early admission results, when Shen Juan stopped her on the rooftop and tore away the pretense they’d both silently maintained.
“Lin Zhan, I’m tired of this game.”
“Either you catch up to me,”
“or I’ll give up first place for you.”
The two futures in his hands both pointed in the same direction.
It turned out that the greatest contest isn’t about beating each other. It’s about “I want us to give the same answer.”
