Zhong Ran, a student who excels in some subjects but struggles in others, transfers schools in her second year of high school and ends up sitting beside the person she used to fight with.
Her deskmate relentlessly boosts her grades, and before long she becomes one of the class's top students.
"So many people teach you, but I love you."
A quiet, reserved, and unexpectedly eloquent "school heartthrob" (gong) x an easygoing, overlooked, atypical underachiever (shou)
Reader's Guide:
1. A slow burn with plenty of little details
2. There is a secondary couple
3. Meeting someone kind and growing together
Theme: To youth, and to dreams