Perfect Scores, Perfectly Rebellious: Campus

*Next up for pre-order: Secret Crush, No Secrets. Please add it to your library! *Slow burn / personal growth and a comeback / ensemble friendship / updating daily!! *Wild, cocky girl vs. gentle, brilliant top student 1、 Yan Lan had just one request for her new deskmate: Don’t bother her. There were plenty of top students. A handsome one was nothing special. But the new guy had both going for him, and he barely talked. Perfect. So on Zhou Xianyu’s first day sitting next to her, she treated him like air. The second day, he was still air. On the third day, the air reached out to her. “Give me your homework.” “Didn’t do it.” “Give me the blank pages too.” Yan Lan exploded: “What, you collect trash? Take it all.” A pile of empty workbooks ended up beside his neatly arranged competition prep books. Yan Lan narrowed her eyes. “He’s definitely mocking me! You collect books too? Here, have a few more.” The next day, the cool and aloof top student found a few novels mysteriously dropped onto his desk: My Brother Is So Irresistible and The Young Master Falls for His Seductive Stepmother… Zhou Xianyu raised his eyes, unruffled, and accepted them all. Yan Lan: What a tease. 2、 The novels on the top student's desk got more and more outrageous, and Yan Lan waited for him to crack. A few days later, he returned her blank workbooks. Yan Lan gloated. “So you admit defeat?” She casually opened one: A neatly written, clearly reasoned review of My Brother Is So Irresistible. Tucked inside were a few novels in English, along with a note: In exchange, please review these novels too. P.S. In English, of course. But if you don’t write one, that’s fine. No pressure. Was he looking down on her? What, she couldn’t read a few steamy novels in English? She gritted her teeth, read them all, wrote an eight-hundred-word English essay, and slapped it down on his desk. … Over time, her grades shot up, and she became the class’s most improved student. Yan Lan: Something about this feels off. 3、 Later, after she quickly solved the hardest problem on the test, she asked him, “Do you even know how to pursue someone? You picked a fight with me from the start. I thought you were trying to provoke me.” Zhou Xianyu stopped writing. “I was provoking you.” “What?!” Zhou Xianyu replied casually, “It’s like keeping a cat. The more you tease it, the more lively it gets.” Yan Lan narrowed her eyes. “You think I’m a cat?!” “Could be.” Zhou Xianyu leaned back slightly, his voice low. “If you rub up against me.” - - 【Reader's Guide】: 1. A fallen god grows new wings and rises to the altar once more. 2. One-on-one romance, happy ending, pure school story, focused on personal growth. 4. The heroine is imperfect. She slacks off at first, works hard midway through, and makes peace with herself and turns things around by the end. (She has a strong foundation but doesn't want to study because of family issues.) - Next up for pre-order: Secret Crush, No Secrets - *Reserved small-town girl vs. carefree rich playboy *Unrequited love becomes mutual / angsty push and pull / reunion after years apart / stealing someone else's partner / from school to city life 1、 At A University, Hu Qingzi and Han Jia were worlds apart. No one would ever have thought to link them together. She was a quiet, reserved girl from a poor rural town who had earned her place at the university. He was a wealthy, carefree golden boy, adored by everyone, with one beautiful girl after another at his side. She read every book he borrowed and watched every one of his basketball games. But she always did a good job of keeping her feelings hidden. Her library checkout slips were several entries away from his, and she always sat in the last row at his games. She was afraid of drawing attention, afraid of the boy’s gaze, afraid she would panic and avoid him. On her way along a shortcut during evening study hall, she heard a few boys chatting. “What about Hu Qingzi?” someone asked. She stopped in her tracks and heard that familiar voice answer lazily, “Stiff and boring.” Hu Qingzi lowered her lashes, as if icy rain had swept across her ears. Mosquitoes swarmed along the pitch-black path, and from that night on, she kept her feelings under lock and key. 2、 At graduation, classmates hugged each other goodbye. It was the closest Hu Qingzi had ever been to Han Jia. Her fingers were stiff with nerves, and she could barely move. Before Han Jia’s hand could touch her back, a girl shoved him away. Han Jia froze, then gave a lazy, roguish smile. “Guess there really are people who don’t like me.” Someone laughed and added, “Young Master Han’s moving overseas. Might as well leave a little regret behind here.” Hu Qingzi stood in the shadows, her whole body rigid. After everyone left, Han Jia passed out drunk on the sofa, his collar loose and his breathing heavy. She stood in the shadows for a long time. Then she bent down and brushed his lips ever so lightly with hers. This is a full stop, she thought. The next second, someone grabbed her wrist, and the world spun around. The boy, who had seemed drunk, smiled with clear eyes. “You kiss me and then run?” Hu Qingzi stared at him in silence, then kissed him. After one reckless night, Hu Qingzi left without a trace. She chose to think of it as a fleeting dream of romance. 3、 They met again when Hu Qingzi went with her boyfriend to a classmate’s engagement party. The moment the handsome, roguish man in a sharp suit walked in, every eye turned toward him. Her boyfriend introduced them. “This is my high school classmate. He just got back from overseas.” Han Jia looked at the woman with her eyes lowered and smiled lazily. “Your girlfriend doesn’t seem to like me very much.” She stepped outside for some air. Just past the corner, a powerful hand dragged her into the stairwell. The usually lazy, roguish man pinned her down, his voice hoarse and wounded. “Hu Qingzi, does your boyfriend know you sleep with someone and then run off?” Theme: Never back down