My Wheelchair-Bound Deskmate: The Secret Salvation of an Obsessive School Heartthrob

After spending ten years paralyzed, Jiang Ning wakes up back in her second year of high school in 2008.

She hasn't been in a car accident yet. Her legs can still run, and her hands can still write. Jiang Qi, the depressed genius who will later become astonishingly gifted but take his own life with pills at twenty-five, sits silently behind her.

The whole school says Jiang Qi is cold, strange, and best avoided.

Only Jiang Ning knows about the injuries hidden beneath his sleeves, the debt collection notices stuffed in his schoolbag, and the gambling-addict father who will slowly drag him into the abyss.

She decides to devote her whole life to warming this iceberg. She brings him medicine, calls the police for him, forces him to ask for help, and pulls him out of the mud.

But after the college entrance exams, her illness returns. She plans to go abroad for treatment in secret, so she won't burden him anymore.

Before she can board her flight, Jiang Qi stops her at security.

The usually aloof genius has tears in his eyes as he holds her, trembling.

“Who do you think died in your place in that car accident fifteen years ago? I've been through three cycles of reincarnation. It wasn't so you could abandon me all over again.”