Pretending to Be a Struggling Student: The Transfer Student's Unexpectedly Tender Favor

[School life + healing + top students + mutual devotion]

At seventeen, Wang Xi is pretty, smart, and poor. For two years, she endures relentless bullying at school.

Just as despair threatens to overwhelm her, a transfer student joins her class and becomes her deskmate.

She instinctively keeps her guard up, convinced that the new boy will be another vicious bully.

But from then on, whenever her classmates pick on her, a tall, cool, muscular figure seems to appear behind her and rush to her defense.

He helps her time and time again, but she never dares believe he’s a good person. She thinks it’s some kind of devilish game: first he’ll earn her trust, then he’ll hurt her beyond repair.

But the torment she expects never comes. The boy’s quiet, unassuming kindness keeps shielding her from the malice aimed her way. In the end, he sparks a warm light that illuminates the hope of her brilliant future.

“What’s your name?” Dian Ran asks, gazing at her gently.

“My name is Wang Xi. Wang as in ‘eyes brimming with tears,’ and Xi as in ‘dawn.’”

“Wrong! It’s Xi, as in ‘hope,’ and Wang, as in ‘hope,’ too.”

“There’s always hope. You just need to meet the right person to kindle it for you.”, Dian Ran