*A school story
A laid-back top student x a fiercely competitive straight-A student
On Valentine's Day in their second year of high school, the girls started falling in love and suddenly began competing with each other. Chocolates piled up like mountains on the school heartthrob Xie Yanci's desk. Some were said to be the Hermes of chocolate, some were made for the royal family of Dubai, and some were handmade, carved into a fairy-tale castle... They went all out, yet insisted they were just "chocolates given out of courtesy."
There was nothing courteous about it.
Jiang Ming decided to give up. On her way home from school, she buried her crush and filled her stomach with the chocolate she never gave him. One more person wouldn't make him remember me anyway.
*
From the time she was little, her mother always said, "Things get easier once you go to college."
Jiang Ming had been enjoying college life for barely two weeks when she received sixteen emails reminding her about assignments from the group leader of an elective course, someone she'd never even met.
...What an overinflated sense of authority!
Fed up, she replied with a single email: Would one less person really hurt your campaign to become principal?
The next day in class, the group leader, Xie Yanci, replied: It would. :)
*
Jiang Ming couldn't understand why there were so many classes where she kept running into Xie Yanci.
During English partner exercises, he always had to be the first to raise his hand. When their elective-course group presented its final project, the teacher said they could choose who would present, but he insisted on doing it.
Jiang Ming's principle was to slack off whenever possible. Since she didn't dare slack off openly, she had to find clever ways to do it.
Finally, one day, Xie Yanci could take no more and cornered her outside the dormitory. His long, slender fingers gripped her delicate wrist, and his gaze was cool and clear. "After all these years, I can't believe I admired you!"
Jiang Ming slowly raised her head: ?
Reading guide:
1. A short, sweet male-male romance, expected to be around 100,000 words.
2. Blurb written on June 7, 2023.
Theme: Study hard and keep improving.
