I Really Don't Want to Be a Top Student

A bolt of lightning swapped the lives of two people who could not have been more different.

“Bai Yifan,” a high school entrance exam score of 287, a notorious academic underachiever, football prodigy, and gaming ace. He opened his eyes to find himself in the body of “Zhou Liang,” the provincial third-place science student at Huaqing University.

Math, physics, and chemistry? He couldn't understand a word. Calculus? It was like reading a foreign language. But if he dropped out, he would have nothing.

So he had no choice but to grit his teeth and pretend to be a top student.

The good news was, he was pretty convincing:

At his major-transfer interview, one off-the-cuff remark made Zhu Shikai, a leading authority on criminal law, burst out laughing;

In his first jurisprudence class, he used “the rules and sportsmanship in League of Legends” to explain law and morality, leaving Vice Dean Gou Zhenyu, who had been trying to trip him up, speechless;

On the football field, while others charged ahead with brute force, he brought the whole team to life with his tactical direction and passing, becoming the university team's “two-man midfield conductor.”

Everyone thought he was a genius who had been hiding his true abilities.

Only he knew the truth: he got through exams by rote memorization, relied on his roommates to help with assignments, and understood nothing in advanced math lectures.

Meanwhile, the top student whose body he had taken, Zhou Liang, was going by the name “Bai Yifan” at a vocational college in his hometown, breaking football down like a series of math problems. He had a top-tier physique and a decent brain, and his progress was frighteningly fast.

One was in the northwest, the other in the capital. These two strangers were bound to collide on the field sooner or later.

Bai Yifan: “Please, stop praising me. I really don’t want to be a top student.”

Everyone: “You go to Huaqing and say you don’t want to be a top student? Are you showing off?”

Bai Yifan: “...Fine, call it showing off. If I keep pretending, maybe I’ll actually become one.”