Ineffective Evasion

- [Please, please add this to your library orz. It means a lot to a little author like me orz. The story is better than the blurb (really). If you don’t ship them, I’ll stand on my head and eat shit. The protagonists are mature for their age and thoughtful. This isn’t a formulaic story, and readers over twenty can enjoy it too. If you think I’ve written well, please leave a good review QAQ]

- A cold-looking, determined top student × a handsome class monitor who’s also an excellent student but doesn’t live in his textbooks (determined, as in determined about everything, not a one-dimensional character)

- Also known as “The Nonstandard Underachiever,” “Ineffective Avoidance,” and “Confession Time: The Class Monitor Is Thoroughly Stunned by the School Hunk.” The title changes at random.

- I drew the character designs myself. My abilities are limited (I’m very dissatisfied with my work), but I love them.

From the moment he started his first year of high school, Chen Yixun had a lasting impression of Qi Yuchen, the guy who turned a blind eye to someone cutting in line by “taking the other person’s side”: a student whose middle school entrance exam score was even a few points higher than his, yet who didn’t go to the province’s top school.

Excellent grades, outstanding looks, dazzling presence?

Chen Yixun: He looks like a sanctimonious idiot to me.

Chen Yixun had always kept his distance from idiots like that.

Their strategic standoff continued until their senior year, right up to the day the other guy flung Chen Yixun’s phone into a mop bucket. Only then was Chen Yixun forced to take another look at him

Kid, you’ve been holding it in for three years?

Only making your move now? You’ve certainly got patience.

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The most famous class at K City No. 1 High School was undoubtedly the honors class.

In a class where everyone was “9*5+2*1,” there was no such thing as a poor student.

But there was one person in Honors Class One who was “a world apart from everyone else.” He was “thriving” in the class and “famous” throughout the grade, all because he consistently ranked first in the year… and was also…

An “undisputed” “social butterfly.”

Nobody would put those two labels together, but somehow, that absurd combination really did exist.

Chen Yixun had only been sounding someone out by asking for a name…

The other person replied on QQ in a flash

Yep, he’s my buddy.

The whole world is full of friends, especially a tiny little grade like ours.

Chen Yixun: Seriously?

What a coincidence. He hated people who put on airs more than anything.

From the day Qi Yuchen struck up a conversation with him, Chen Yixun’s life took a dramatic turn.

Although Chen Yixun was careful to keep his feelings under wraps, Qi Yuchen was terrifyingly perceptive. He saw at a glance that Chen Yixun liked Zhong Li, and even called him out to his face.

What was that supposed to mean?

Chen Yixun, whose scalp was tingling, gave a mocking smile and thought: So what?

…And what could he even do about it???

Qi Yuchen: “Because I like boys too.”

Chen Yixun: ???

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Years later, when Chen Yixun looked back on it, he realized that deliberate avoidance always had the opposite effect when you were dealing with someone who understood you.

I’m terrible at writing blurbs, but the way these two get together is completely outrageous from beginning to end. I guarantee a brand-new approach to romance ( ). The kind I find thrilling ( ).

Please note:

One-on-one, both leads have only ever been with each other, happy ending. The top is younger.

1. The top is ranked first in the year, while the bottom is in the top three. The bottom could study harder than the top, but he doesn’t care, since his grades are already good enough to get into his ideal university.

2. The bottom initially likes someone else.

The top doesn’t know how to pursue someone at first. There’s tension between them for a while, but they work things out later. They’re both first-time daters.

3. The story begins in the second semester of their senior year of high school. Both are adults.

(Blurb screenshot dated 2023.11.8)

Theme: Life has always been about more than studying.