After rejecting Tsinghua University to dive headfirst into eight years of clinical practice, Song Qing was thrown out of her mother’s house by the furious dean—her mother—along with her college admission letter. She was sent to her grandmother’s home.

Huddled under the tin roof of the train station, weathering a torrential downpour, a girl in a red dress kindly offered her a ride, holding a small umbrella. She casually introduced herself.

She was Lin Yuan, a repeat student who had failed her college entrance exams and vowed to try again next year. Coincidentally, they had been in the same grade but different classes in middle school. Even more coincidentally, the surgeon who performed Grandma Lin’s fatal operation was Father Song, who had died of overwork-induced myocardial infarction two years prior. The Lin family’s medical dispute had been notorious at the time.

With that, the girl in the red dress fluttered away, leaving Song Qing standing alone in the rain, utterly bewildered.

Song Qing had no time to dwell on these matters. She was already headache-inducing over the eight years of tuition she’d boasted to her mother she would cover herself. Fortunately, her grandmother proposed a tutoring plan: private lessons for a high school senior and her cousin, Lin Yuan, with generous compensation.

Lin Yuan harbored a secret: she was secretly in love with the girl whose photograph adorned the honor wall of First High School, the girl who had illuminated the entire high school years of others.

Even though the strongest link between them was the bitter feud between their families, a feud the adults attributed to a medical dispute.

She tracked her movements, dressing in her best skirts and timing her appearances perfectly. She brought her colas and breakfasts, and finally managed to sneak onto the back of the girl’s bicycle. But the girl maintained an air of teacherly authority, every word she spoke revolving around academics.

Until one day, she discovered her secret.

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