Lin Xici discovers that the world she's in has gone crazy. Jiang Jingyao, once a school bully and a poor student, has transformed into a top student and a genius.
And somehow, she's become a school bully herself, the kind she remembers Jiang Jingyao being: the sort who makes people flee and flowers wish they could die.
What's bizarre is that everyone says studying has made her stupid.
They say Jiang Jingyao is just a bookworm who couldn't hurt a fly.
Lin Xici doesn't buy it. She keeps thinking Jiang Jingyao is putting on an act.
He's up to something, and everything he does is suspicious.
Lin Xici tests him again and again, trying to get to the bottom of things.
She never gets a clear answer.
One day, she and Jiang Jingyao are cornered outside school. She has nothing she can use as a weapon. Terrified, her legs give way, and she drops to her knees to beg for mercy.
The person beside her grits his teeth in frustration. "You're a school bully, not a coward. If someone picks on you, fight back!"
Lin Xici trembles. "I'm a school bully, but I can't fight."
"..." In the end, the top student fights his way out alone.
Lin Xici cries out, "Didn't you say you weren't a school bully?!"
He replies, "I'm not one now, but I never said I wasn't one before. And I never said I couldn't fight."
He says he's come from the future, and Lin Xici teases him that he sounds like a knight.
But after the college entrance exams, he disappears.
Later, she finds a book in his desk drawer and finally learns that he lied to her.
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Blurb saved: November 9, 2025
Theme: Study hard
