[Clear-headed, restrained top student × proud, obsessive young heir of Beijing’s elite]
Rumor had it at Haicheng No. 1 High School that the new transfer student, Chen Wang, was a lunatic nobody should mess with.
With his sharp, icy good looks, he was arrogant and lazy. He could hand in a blank exam and still have the principal greeting him with a smile.
The whole school kept its distance, except for Lin Ting, the cool-headed top student who lived under someone else’s roof. She treated him like he wasn’t there.
Lin Ting had only two goals in life: get into Jing University and leave Haicheng for good.
When her foster family mistreated her, she neither cried nor made a fuss. She calmly planned her escape and prepared a way out.
When others gave her a hard time, she kept a blank expression and rationally looked for the best solution.
Clear-headed and restrained, she was like ice that would never melt, never allowing anything unexpected to derail her plans.
Until that sweltering summer.
The young master of Beijing’s elite, who had always looked down on everyone, took care of every problem for her, then cornered her in a dim stairwell.
Chen Wang’s eyes were red at the corners, all his arrogance gone. His voice held a rare note of pleading. “Lin Ting, don’t just look at your books. Could you look at me instead?”
Everyone thought that a gentle, good student had saved a fallen young master.
Only Chen Wang knew the truth: like a madman consumed by insecurity, he had forced his way into her tightly sealed world, willing to wear a collar and become her only believer.
He didn’t believe in the world, but he believed in her.
And the girl who was always rational and needed no one to save her had stopped for him alone.
A genius from Beijing’s elite circles, sent away from home, and a foster girl who wanted nothing but to escape.
That summer in Haicheng, they became the one exception in each other’s lives.
