[Double academic masters + dual strong men + hatred of the sea + sick family relationships in East Asia + mutual redemption]
The arrogant and arrogant male protagonist who criticizes the top academics in a dark way × the female protagonist who is a careless and gifted academic god
For eighteen years, Zhou Mingqian has only had one thing in his life: to be number one in the exam. If he doesn't get first place in the exam, he is nothing - the pride of his family and the eyes of his mother are all tied to that number.
Until Lin Zhi transferred to another school. She took his first place easily and treated every exam nonchalantly. He hated her, hated her excellence, hated her indifference.
She even hated the text message she received from her mother after finishing the exam: "Why wasn't she first?"
——It turns out they are all the same. He is a child who is loved and cared for, trying his best to get the first place in the exam, just to not be abandoned.
Then he finally beat her once. Standing on the podium and looking back, she just nodded to him, like recognition, more like pity.
At that moment, he suddenly understood: what he desperately wanted to take back had never belonged to him. And what she desperately wanted to escape was what he wanted - a mother who would no longer love her because she was not number one.
From high school to college, from eighteen to twenty-eight. From "I hate you" to "How could I leave".
It took them ten years to understand that first place is never a result, but the most important person in each other's hearts.
Intention: To everyone who works hard to prove that they are worthy of being loved.