[School life + two top students + his unrequited love + one-on-one happy ending]
Wen Heng and her sworn rival, Jiang Hanzhou, are transported into a strange room together.
Jiang Hanzhou is the school heartthrob, always at the top of every exam ranking and the secret crush of countless girls. He is also the person Wen Heng hates most.
Jiang Hanzhou tells her that they’ve been bound to a study System. They have to complete the tasks it assigns and get into Qing University to escape the room.
Wen Heng believes him.
To get out, she puts their differences aside and teams up with him to study, completing all kinds of bizarre tasks from the System.
They gaze into each other’s eyes in a sealed room, secretly touch hands at a packed ceremony, and sneak a hug on the sports field...
One day, Wen Heng mutters, “Jiang Hanzhou, are we really bound to a study System?”
What kind of decent System would make someone touch a boy’s Adam’s apple?
Jiang Hanzhou’s ears turn red. Keeping his desire in check, he calmly lies, “Of course.”
*
In midsummer, they both receive their acceptance letters from Qing University and successfully leave the room.
Beneath a sky full of stars, Wen Heng painfully turns down the boy’s heartfelt confession.
With red-rimmed eyes, he asks, “Why?”
“...I don’t like you.”
“You little liar!” Jiang Hanzhou pulls her tightly into his arms, his voice hoarse. “Do you know we weren’t bound to a study System at all? It was a romance System.”
“If you didn’t like me, we couldn’t have gotten out.”
*
A resilient, ambitious top student who’s slow to recognize her feelings vs. a rational, level-headed genius boy who’s hopelessly lovesick
“Wen Heng, you don’t have to do a thing. I’ll run to you, thousands upon thousands of times.”
