My Underachieving Seatmate Doesn’t Need Any Comforting

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Qiao Shao, who worked hard to stay up all night and study, was first in class — if you count from the bottom.

He Shen, who was able to get a perfect score even when he slept all day, in a rare display of kindness, bought a bottle of drink to comfort his s*upid seatmate.

Then he saw the messages popping up on Qiao Shao’s phone—

Dad: Don’t panic, it’s okay if you didn’t do well in the exam. Dad just ordered a new sports car for you.

Granddad: Grandson, there’s no need to hurry. It’s alright even if you didn’t do well in your exam. Granddad bought a new yacht for you, come and take a break.

Grandpa: Grandson, don’t cry, it’s okay if you didn’t do well in the exam. Grandpa’s billions-worth of properties are all yours.

With a blank expression, He Shen threw his 2.5 Yuan worth bottle of drink into the tr*sh.

Hold your horses! Comfort?

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Học tra ngồi cùng bàn không cần an ủi
MUSDNAC
MUSDNC
学渣同桌不需要安慰
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KagayaHoshi
KagayaHoshi rated it
June 17, 2020
Status: c120
This is good. It is really really REALLY good.

The summary doesn't do justice to this story. It has its fluffy moments, but it also has its tear-jerking moments. There were so many times my stomach almost started hurting from holding my laughter, but I cried my eyes out that many times too.
It is a story of love, but also of overcoming difficulties. And sweet, REALLY sweet.

Not going to lie, I feel both love and hate for the author - love for bringing this story and hate for all that Shao Shao has to go through.

This story has so many layers. There were many times I initially thought that the characters were doing stuff thoughtlessly for no reason like characters in stories usually do, but it's just that their intentions weren't revealed to us yet. And they are revealed later, slowly and painfully.

I had so many questions from the beginning. Things made sense but seemed off at the same time.
Why did Shao Shao go to East High? If he wanted to study, he can do it in the school his family wanted him to go to, right? Sure, people there would know his identity but that shouldn't affect his studying too much?

Why are his dad, granddad and grandpa so overly doting on him? Not that it's bad, but it just seemed a little too overly protective.

Why was the term "new environment" so significant that it influenced their decision to let him go to East High?

Most of all, why does Shao Shao not want people to know he is Qiao Zongmin's son? It didn't seem to be from just it being distracting. He seemed really averse to it.

I thought at first I was thinking too much. This IS a fluff-filled novel. But I was not. And the author revealed that little at a time. Until we came to know everything.

Spoiler

Shao Shao was hiding not his identity but his experience. Most people would know what Qiao Zongmin's son went through. He didn't want people to know he was Qiao Yi. So he had to start off anew with new identity where people would not recognize him.

His family is so protective because of what happened to him.

It's so so heartbreaking to read those parts. I felt really really glad that Shao Shao could get over it and come to terms with what happened to him. His year long confinement is kinda downplayed in the story, but I can only imagine how despairing the situation must have been. To wait for months upon months to wait for someone to come save him, only to be disappointed and end up being freed only when his captor died.

Shao Shao is an incredibly strong character to even be able to function like a normal person after all that happened to him. Loosing his most beloved mother right after he was finally getting out of the shadows of his confinement? And that he himself was so rejecting and afraid of her before her death... It must have have felt awful.
I'd imagined all kinds of situations for what might have happened to his mom to give him the trauma but the real thing was so so SO much worse than I imagined.

I'm also glad he could be of help to his dad and they could overcome it together. And his granddad and grandpa too. Both of them suffered from losing their wives and one child (Qiao Zongmin's little brother and Yang Yun) and then they watched this happen to their little darling grandson. It must have been incredibly painful. I really cried when I read about one of them wishing he could replace Shao Shao to be the one to suffer. So I'm happy they could get over it too.

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The name of the novel is a little ironic, since the "underachieving" seatmate does need comforting, just not in the way you would think.

Also, Shao Shao is not an underachiever. He is just not able to take exams properly after what happened as he can't handle the quiet. Somehow, that hit me really hard.

In any case, I recommend this story if you want to read a fluffy story that has its sad parts.
But maybe avoid this if you are looking for a lighthearted BL romance.
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