Su Yuanman doesn't say much, and when she does, her words are cold and cutting, with a hint of meanness beneath them. Apart from the lunch buddy she chose herself, few people pay her any attention.
She has a little habit: whenever something is too dazzling and out of her reach, she does everything she can to avoid it.
Like Xu Fenglan, the school's most popular golden boy. His grades are always at the top, his family is well-off, and he's never short of admirers.
Su Yuanman first heard about him when she started her first year of high school. They were in the same grade. She thought someone like him was destined to have nothing to do with her.
From bits and pieces of other people's conversations, she pieced together everything about him except what he looked like. Even when he stood beneath the national flag to give a speech, she never once looked up.
After the classes were reshuffled in her second year, Xu Fenglan ended up in the same class as her. When she heard someone mention his name, she turned around as if possessed.
That was the first time she saw what Xu Fenglan looked like.
But her eyes suddenly hurt for some reason, and she quickly turned back around. Even she didn't realize that his appearance perfectly matched every preference she'd never voiced.
At the same time, Su Yuanman noticed that the girl seated diagonally in front of her had a crush on Xu Fenglan. There had been plenty of girls like that before, and she'd never cared. But this time, she became almost obsessed with observing the girl's crush.
She thought she was on the outside, watching with a complete, godlike perspective as she read everyone's feelings with perfect clarity.
But she'd forgotten that the gazes in a classroom never flow in just one direction.
The person diagonally behind her, whom she'd deliberately avoided for a year, had been watching her for a long time.
Reading Guide:
1. The male lead won't take no for an answer and is very hard to shake off.
2. The female lead's words say one thing, but her heart says another. She can run away, but her heart can't.
Content Notes:
The female lead has a questionable sense of morality. The male lead has a friend who's very talkative and noisy. If that bothers you, please don't read!
Synopsis written on September 1, 2026
Theme: Some stories can catch fire and burn you when you read them for too long
