Lin Xiao, a middle school student, was accidentally admitted to a provincial key high school. He thought he would only face more difficult academic competition, but he did not expect that the real challenge would be the "top student rule" that operates precisely in this school.
Here, scores are passes and rankings are social currency, and "wanderers" like him are destined to be out of place - until he meets Lu Chengchuan.
Lu Chengchuan, a regular on the honor list, sneered at this set of rules. The two went from tit-for-tat to walking side by side, and a certain tacit understanding quietly developed in the gap between topical tactics and interpersonal games.
The touch of fingertips when borrowing notes, the night walks side by side after evening study, the tissue handed to me after crying in the dormitory bathroom late at night, and those tacit glances have all become secret comforts in a high-pressure environment.
However, the survival rules of key middle schools are far more complicated than test papers.
When rumors become the focus before grades, and when teachers' interference is more suffocating than the countdown to the college entrance examination, they have to make a choice between the "right" track and their true heart.
On the day the college entrance examination ended, they agreed to cross all boundaries, but fate pressed the pause button at this moment - an accident forced the two of them to go in different directions at the most critical moment in their lives.
As time passed by, when Lin Xiao thought that time had healed everything, one night when he was working overtime as usual, he saw that familiar name on the computer screen reflecting the cold white light of the office building.
The appearance of Lu Chengchuan also made Lin Xiao realize that some time differences are never misjudgments, but waiting for the right person to finally reach the same frequency.
The idea: to get to know each other and fall in love under the constraints of the exam-oriented education system, experience separation and reunion, and finally complete a gentle rebellion against the standardized life with sincere emotions.