Many Years Without Being Desk Mates

Note: Starts in school, then moves to the city. A second-chance romance.

A cold, poor top student gong x a lively, rich young shou

Scene One:

A transfer student joins Class 4, Grade 11. Shi Yang looks him up and down and realizes that this handsome, cool-looking classmate is a bookworm!

The bookworm even becomes his desk mate! Shi Yang sniffs in disdain and declares, "We're not cut from the same cloth."

Later, when Shi Yang is cornered in a narrow alley and almost can't get out, Xu Anzhi suddenly appears and gets him to safety. Looking at the bruised, fierce-eyed boy in front of him, Shi Yang's heart skips a beat. "Where did my bookworm desk mate go?"

Later still, Shi Yang blocks the stairwell, all fired up, then looks up pitifully and asks, "Could you help me raise my grades just a little? Please, I'll do anything!"

Scene Two:

At a birthday party, a group of tipsy teenagers playfully call one another Dad. Shi Yang, drunk out of his mind, grabs the cold and distant Xu Anzhi and howls, "I don't want to be your desk mate anymore..."

The classmates tremble. "No way, Shi Yang! You want to be Brother An's dad too!?"

Shi Yang shakes his head. "No, I mean I don't want to be just your desk mate."

Shi Yang grabs Xu Anzhi by the collar and says, bleary-eyed, "Xu Anzhi, will you be my boyfriend?"

Scene Three:

Six years ago, Shi Yang left without a word. Xu Anzhi stood in the rain outside all night, waiting for someone who never came to keep his promise.

Six years later, they meet again at a class reunion. Shi Yang reflexively turns to Xu Anzhi with a pleading look, only to be met with cold indifference.

Six years ago, Shi Yang said, "Xu Anzhi, if we ever accidentally lose each other, come find me at an art exhibition. I'll always be painting, after all. I'll definitely have my own solo exhibition someday!"

Six years later, Xu Anzhi asks, "Didn't you say you were going to be an artist? Why did you stop painting?"

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