The No-Cat Effect

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Campus | Bittersweet push and pull | An atypical boy-chases-girl romance | A bold straight shooter who barges in and conquers the tsundere

Blunt, shameless boy x tangled-up, proud tsundere

Shamelessly eager x aloof but adorable

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You Yi had coasted through half his life, relying on his handsome face to get away with anything. His biggest problem for the first half of his life was probably having too many love letters and nowhere to put them.

Who could have guessed that one summer day he'd hit a wall when a bad-tempered girl feeding stray cats completely ignored him?

After school started, she became his new deskmate. She was an excellent student who kept to herself. The more he got to know her, the more he found she was prickly, dismissive, and haughty. She didn't take him seriously, or even treat him like a person.

You Yi got mad for a moment, then successfully won himself over, and from then on embarked on the point of no return: chasing after her.

He tried every trick in the book to woo his deskmate for half a semester, only to get one cold, heartless taunt from the girl: "Stay away from me."

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After a series of misunderstandings, You Yi thought Zhu Xiyue liked the honest, bookish top-student type. So he decided to take the long way around, studying day and night, getting up early and staying up late, and giving it his all for love for a hundred days. At last, he climbed to second place in the entire grade.

Zhu Xiyue still ranked above him :)

At the end-of-term awards ceremony, the first- and second-ranked students stood side by side, one below none and above ten thousand. The boy finally had a reason to hold his head high. Pointing at the banner bearing both their names, he cleared his throat with great solemnity. "Deskmate, do you see what it says up there?"

Zhu Xiyue lifted her heavy eyelids, glanced over, and answered perfunctorily, "What?"

"Happily ever after."

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*One way cats show affection is by scratching or biting human hands.

The Joy of Fighting Heaven, The Outcast Gets Beat Until He's Left With Nothing, Five Years of College Entrance Exams and Three Years of Chasing You, I Lied: I Didn't Take Five Years of Exams or Spend Three Years Chasing You, Because the Author Made That Blurb Up

pps: #. A campus story, narrated from the female lead's perspective

#. One-on-one / sexually inexperienced leads / each other's first love / happy ending

#. The male lead is an immature edgelord, not a poor student. He's just bad at English.

Theme: Study hard and keep improving.