Ji Xingmian is a first-year physics student, the top scorer on the college entrance exam, and lives by the motto, “If a formula can solve it, it's not a problem.”
Bai Zhi is a first-year art student who only just made the cutoff for admission. Her motto is, “Just enjoy today. Tomorrow's problems can wait until tomorrow.”
The two had nothing to do with each other until a hideously ugly pink “Bestie Bonding System” forcibly bound them together.
System rules: Complete one intimacy task every day to earn points.
Task One: Share a mango shaved ice.
Task Two: Hold hands on the way into the classroom building.
Task Three: Stare into each other's eyes for thirty seconds without laughing.
Points can be exchanged for food delivery coupons, exam topic prediction cards, three-day hunger-proof energy bars… and even opportunities to change your fate.
The punishments for failure are all over the place, but they share one thing in common: public humiliation.
The aloof top student is forced to stick close to the goofy slacker. They eat shaved ice together, wear matching best-friend outfits, scream at the amusement park, and share a bowl of instant noodles in the dorm hallway late at night.
Bai Zhi says, “Ji Xingmian, do you know how to do anything besides study?”
Ji Xingmian pushes up her nonexistent glasses. “I know how to solve you.”
Later, they discover that the System's real rewards were never the points or items.
They're the person willing to walk beside you along an unlit road at two in the morning.
They're someone standing up for you when everyone doubts you and saying, “Her painting is original.”
They're two umbrellas merging into one on a stormy day, not caring that your shoulders get wet.
“Ding! Task complete: Please stay best friends with your bestie for the rest of your lives.”
The sweetest things aren't forced by a System.
When you're by my side, every day is bright.
