My Underachieving Deskmate Got Stronger

Ye Sheng was the pride of heaven: an outstanding student who won so many competition awards he could barely keep track of them.

At the start of the new term, Class Eight got a new transfer student named Min Xian. With his innocent, top-student face, he studied like crazy every day. Whenever he received a love letter, he tossed it straight into the trash without even looking at it. Everyone thought their class had gotten a formidable new student, including Ye Sheng, the top student who sat beside him.

But Min Xian came in dead last on every exam, consistently.

Ye Sheng: ...

Had he misunderstood him???

Hard work paying off, practice making perfect, and being bad at something meaning you should practice more: none of it applied to Min Xian. To everyone else, he studied harder than a dog, yet his grades were a steaming pile of crap!

Ye Sheng watched his deskmate study with such intense determination, yet remain a hopeless student, and felt sorry for him.

Since his deskmate seemed like a decent person, Ye Sheng decided to take their teacher's suggestion and give him a hand. He never expected Min Xian to refuse.

Ye Sheng: ?

Min Xian turned down Ye Sheng's tutoring, but their relationship grew closer. Ye Sheng, the