Pretending to Be Poor

Tong Huai is a rich student with terrible grades, spoiled rotten and full of bad habits, barreling headlong toward becoming a trust-fund brat. To teach him what life is like, his dad makes a deal with him over summer break: he will send Tong Huai to get a summer job. Tong Huai works with great reluctance, then looks up and spots Xue Ting, his nemesis who just transferred to his school, coming in to eat. Egged on by his terrible friends, Tong Huai gets a bright idea and puts on a show: I grew up poor, so I got a summer job to save up for tuition QAQ

Xue Ting: ...

Tong Huai only meant to put on a bit of an act, but before long, the two grow closer, and Tong Huai finds himself going further and further down the path of pretending to be poor. Until one day, Tong Huai accompanies his father to a high-society party and runs into Xue Ting.

Tong Huai, sniffling as he pretends to be poor: ...

Xue Ting, who wasn't pretending to be poor on purpose but was definitely pretending to be poor: ...

Tong Huai: My family actually built this school building.

Xue Ting: My family actually bought this plot of land.

Before they reveal their true identities.

Tong Huai: Work hard, okay? Trade your bicycle for a BMW, or your future partner will be crying in a BMW.

Xue Ting: Oh.

Much later, Xue Ting pulls up in a BMW: Come cry.

Tong Huai: ?

Theme: Mostly everyday campus life, pure sugary fluff, a book for reading on the toilet.