Studying to Death at a Prestigious School

Jiang Yi, the daughter of a housekeeper, transfers to the young master's elite school after an accident.

The students here have received an elite education since childhood.

Some are skilled in piano and ballet. Some have spoken several languages since they were little. Some excel at art and debate. Some start learning about business and socializing in their teens.

Jiang Yi can't do any of that.

She has no impressive family background, no comfortable life, and no talent she can show off.

The only thing she has is her own mind.

So Jiang Yi makes a decision:

If she has nothing else, she'll make sure she excels at studying.

She starts devouring books, doing practice problems, and entering competitions. For the first time, she begins to experience a world that once seemed far beyond her reach.

She feels inferior because of her background, loses her bearings when she can't fit in, and may dwell on an offhand remark for a long time. When she realizes she isn't good enough, she secretly cries... She envies those who were born with everything.

But she never lets that stop her.

Gradually, she realizes she doesn't need to become one of them.

Because instead of wanting to be one of their kind, she has begun to dream bigger.

She wants to go farther.

To university, to the laboratory, to fields no one has reached before.

She wants to understand why the world is the way it is, and to explore questions beyond the textbooks, questions for which even this world has no answers yet.

Years later, when she looks back,

all the things that made her sad, insecure, hurt, and jealous in her youth seem like grains of sand inside an oyster.

And from those grains of sand, she has long since grown a pearl of her own.

No romance. The female lead grows, and there may be one-sided feelings, but she won't return them.

If there's anything else, I'll add it later TT (The female lead's name is tentative. I might change it if I come up with a better one.)

Theme: She only wants to become someone whose name the whole world remembers.