The Top Student Always Secretly Whispers Sweet Nothings to Me

A youth chess tournament brought Du Yiwan face-to-face with someone quite unusual. Du Yiwan thought that when two academic slackers met, nothing good could come of it. But reality gave her a hard slap in the face. She assumed Xu Ruo'an, whose exam scores ranked below hers, was a slacker. But when the final exam results came out, she was stunned and kept insisting she'd been blind. Xu Ruo'an was clearly top-of-the-class material. From then on, Du Yiwan's quality of life plummeted, as the top student kept hounding her to study every day. “Hey! Can I take a break?” Du Yiwan, dizzy and bleary-eyed from doing problems, gazed pleadingly at Xu Ruo'an. “No. Time waits for no one, and I don't want my opponent to be a slacker.” Du Yiwan shot Xu Ruo'an a look of exasperation. Under his enthusiastic guidance, she began to change…