Fervent

[The print edition with the same title is now available, with a 6,000-character bonus chapter] [A slice-of-life story about friendship at a high school] In their second year of high school, the class forms subject study groups. Math dunce Lin Kongsang and English disaster Cang Han sit in silence across a desk from each other. As a "super big brother" who split off from the old "big brother gang," Cang Han is a man of the underworld, with one legend after another told about him. Lin Kongsang gathers up her courage and approaches him, only to discover that his usual aloofness is really just a delayed reaction. He speaks half a beat too slowly and is always daydreaming. You have to wait half a minute for him to get onto the same conversational wavelength. Actually... he's pretty cute. Just as Lin Kongsang is spending every day insisting, "Don't believe rumors or spread them," and "Cang Han is a little angel," she accidentally sees him calmly take care of a scumbag, then light a cigarette with a cold expression. "..." Lin Kongsang: He smokes, drinks, fights, and skips class, but I know he's a good boy. Cang Han: ... At the New Year's Eve party, Class Six puts on a group singing performance. Cang Han has very pale skin and a perpetually blank expression. Under the stage lights, he looks just like a zombie. The girls in class push Lin Kongsang to put some makeup on him, but as soon as she gets close, he blushes. "The blush looks nice," says a passerby who doesn't know what's going on. "It looks so natural." 1. A male lead who's always mistaken for showing off x a female lead who tries hard to explain that he really isn't showing off, but no one believes her 2. No school bullies. I'm not writing school bullies. They're all a bunch of kids. How could there be school bullies? 3. She's making a fuss, he's smiling. A sweet little slice of high school life 4. Cover art by artist Mrs. Kaxi. I bought the rights to use it. The male lead is Cang Han from A World Apart. Theme: Dare to dream and dare to act.