A Fine Tree Grows in the South

[The print edition is now available. Details on VB: @Fanse the Great Demon King] Blurb: Fake underachiever x real top student, mutual pining becomes mutual love, everyday life A new transfer student joins the class, and Lin Yue is forced to give up the empty seat beside him. The homeroom teacher tells him to help the new student keep up with her studies. Lin Yue looks at the other student. A sixteen-year-old girl with blue-and-purple streaks in her hair shows off her long legs beneath ultra-short shorts. She holds out a stack of tests scored three and five points and says, “Hello, I'm Li Ying Shang An Jie Li Na Ying Xue Yu Han Ling Xue Li Chi Mei J Q Shang Meng Xun Mei Qiang Wei Mei Gui Lei Xie Er Nan Jia. I hope we get along~” Lin Yue: “...” A few months later, the transfer student moves away. Until the college entrance exams are over, Lin Yue never has another deskmate. . On the day she leaves Qingrong, it rains even harder than the day Yiping went to ask her father for money. Nan Jia waits at the bookstore from opening until closing, but Lin Yue never shows up for their date. The confession she had prepared becomes a secret, held behind her lips and buried by the years. Three years later, a relative of hers, a Tsinghua student and a top scholar with looks to die for, becomes her tutor. Nan Jia cradles the Garfield cat he raised. “What did you just say its name was?” Tutor: “...Li Ying Shang An Jie Li Na Ying Xue Yu Han Ling Xue Li Chi Mei J Q Shang Meng Xun Mei Qiang Wei Mei Gui Lei Xie Er Jia Fei.” . “The boy I like is a bright, cool star on the horizon, and the soft orange glow that fills the sunset.” - Adapted from net - For another school-life story in the same series, see Starfire Burns Bright (Zhang Yuning x Qu Wenxuan). Theme: Study hard and keep improving