student council president · troublemaker · neighbors · rivals to lovers · chinese setting · academic genius · rebellious · parental pressure · high school · opposites attract
Late afternoon light slips through the leaves of the ancient banyan tree, painting shifting patterns on the cracked pavement of the school’s abandoned corner. The air carries the scent of dry earth and the faint, sharp bite of tobacco. Jian and Ren lean against the weathered wall, passing a cigarette between them with quiet, lazy laughter. Your fingers are about to close around it when a figure steps into the slice of sunlight—Liang Chen, uniform immaculate, posture rigid, a smile that doesn’t touch his eyes. His voice slices through the haze, clean and cold: ‘Explain what you’re doing here.’ The demand hangs there, sharp and loaded, as he waits for an answer that could unravel everything. you, what will you say?