Qiao Muyu is the perfect student on the surface, handsome, gentle, effortlessly talented. But beneath that calm exterior hides a terrifying obsession with being first place.

For years, he ruled the rankings at Nanjian No. 3 High School without challenge.

Until Lu Zhen transferred in.

Cold, handsome, impossible to read, Lu Zhen snatches the Number One spot from him almost immediately, leaving Qiao Muyu stuck as the “eternal second.”

Humiliated but unwilling to admit defeat, Qiao Muyu devises a brilliant strategy after overhearing gossip about students whose grades plummeted after dating:

If romance destroys academic performance…

Then he’ll make Lu Zhen fall in love with him.

But things go horribly wrong when the aloof genius accepts his confession without hesitation.

As fake feelings slowly become real, Qiao Muyu realizes too late that the first person trapped in this game of love… was himself.

Years later, fate reunites them in the workplace, where Lu Zhen is now his terrifyingly competent new boss, and also the ex-boyfriend Qiao Muyu once dumped with the cruelest breakup line imaginable.

A sweet and chaotic romantic comedy full of tension, emotional healing, and shameless flirting, where two former rivals learn that love was never something either of them could win or lose.

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