Failing to get into the city high school means following your parents into landscaping.
Studying hard means getting ostracized by your classmates.
Struggling to survive between the good students and the bad, with "people-watching" as his hobby, Xiao Muchen is a chuuni who doesn't even realize it. He's only sixteen this year, yet he's worn himself out like a donkey on a production team.
He slacks off in class, either sleeping or spacing out, and still manages to stay in the top five of his class. The bad students who hate top performers don't resent him, and the proud top performers don't look down on him. How does he pull off such a feat?
Our protagonist, the genius! (laughs) Xiao Muchen, speaks through tears of bitterness: "My friend, have you ever tried writing furiously beneath the midnight light?"
On an ordinary night like any other, Xiao Muchen, burdened by his heavy studies and never having given much thought to his future, found his life suddenly changed.
"The autumn wind comes to the frontier... Hmm?" Why was there a girl's voice in the boys' dormitory, where he was the only one awake? Xiao Muchen wondered as he quietly recited an old poem.
P.S. This is not a gender-bender romance. The protagonist will get married, but this is not a conventional gender-bender marriage story either. Even if the protagonist does marry, they won't marry an important character from the early story. The romance will only develop once the plot has progressed to a certain point.