After the First Clear Skies

"The day I fell for you, my life was like the sky clearing after a snowfall. All the world's beauty began to embrace me and reveal itself to me."

[Laid-back, carefree genius heroine x top student who overthinks himself into a romance]

For a while, rumors that Mo Chuji, a transfer student who arrived in her second year of high school, had a crush on F City No. 1 High's most handsome boy, Gu Hongxue, swept through the school.

When a busybody asked Gu Hongxue about it, he simply replied, "Annoying."

After all, they weren't even in the same class. It wasn't as if they'd have to see each other every day.

Then, after some grade adjustments in the honors class, Mo Chuji moved up successfully, and the two became classmates.

Gu Hongxue: ...Could she really like me?

Later, when he saw Mo Chuji pondering a problem for a long time, Gu Hongxue, who had never taken the initiative to tutor anyone, went over to her. His ears turned bright red as he carefully wrote out every step of the solution.

Mo Chuji, who was thinking of another way to solve it: ?

"Thanks, I understand now." To get out of the awkward situation, she put on a look of sudden realization. Then Gu Hongxue, who had just explained the solution clearly and articulately, made up an excuse and hurried off.

Oh no, she really does like me.

Gu Hongxue thought, feeling his cheeks grow hot.

*

The rumor that started all the trouble began as a joke.

"Chuji, don't you think Gu Hongxue is the best-looking boy in our grade?" The girl beside her pulled her into a gossip session.

Mo Chuji connected the name with the top-ranked student she'd seen earlier on the monthly exam honor roll.

"Yeah, about that."

She was pretty interested in the top student, she thought quietly, already imagining herself as the city's future top scorer in the college entrance exams.

Theme: Study hard and keep improving