A Place to Stay

First day of summer vacation. The neighbors upstairs started renovating.

Lin Chen lay in bed, feeling like his brain was throbbing.

Day two.

Lin Chen did his homework, feeling a pain in his chest.

Day n.

Lin Chen watched plaster fall off the wall, feeling his wallet ache.

At last, the apartment upstairs went quiet before school started.

So Lin Chen took the tube of 502 glue he'd bought over a month ago, snuck upstairs to glue the neighbor's keyhole shut, got caught by someone coming out, and ran away, covering his face.

First day at his new school.

A cold-faced boy stood in the office as the homeroom teacher frowned.

"Your overall grades are good, but your Chinese is a little weak. You can sit with the Chinese class representative."

Ji Heng slung his bag over his shoulder, put in his earbuds, and found his seat. Then he spotted the person who'd tried to glue his keyhole shut that morning, fast asleep at the desk beside him.

The two boys scowled, neither looking at the other.

Ji Heng: "I want to change seats."

Lin Chen: "I want to change seats."

Not long after.

Lin Chen: Ji Heng's air conditioner is so cool, his desk is so comfortable, and Ji Heng himself is... so handsome!

Ji Heng: Whoever lives downstairs makes really good food.

I only let you stay at my place for a night or two. Who could have imagined that, with your young heart still burning, you'd lend me your open heart and let me live there for good?

Theme: Education changes your destiny