On her first day at a new school, Xu Mian was assigned to sit beside the notorious school bully.
Everyone waited to see him throw her out.
Instead, he leaned over his desk, turned his face toward her, and asked with narrowed eyes:
“What were you reading just now?”
She hid her copy of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" and answered without batting an eye: “Just a book.”
He smiled like a cat that had just spotted its prey.
Soon, everyone at school knew the bully was pursuing the transfer student. No one knew that each of them had a certificate for first prize in the national physics competition hidden in their schoolbag.
Xu Mian thought she was keeping up a facade.
Shen Du thought he was testing her.
Until one day, she found a note inside her textbook:
“Stop pretending. I know you’re one of us too.”
On the back was another line in tiny writing:
“So, want to join me in getting recommended to Tsinghua?”
