At a school not far from Su Ming's base, a top student lay awake all night over an academic problem that had been troubling him for a week.
It was not because he lacked ability, but because he had been unable to calm down lately.
For no other reason than a prank by his classmates had disturbed his peaceful heart.
The cheerleading captain and school beauty had lost a game at a party and chosen a dare: confess to the top student.
This had made the top student wildly excited, mistakenly believing that the school beauty truly liked him.
The top student was not particularly handsome, nor was he especially outgoing.
It was obvious that the school beauty's confession was not that simple.
But the top student lacked experience in such matters and did not realize he had become the laughingstock of his classmates after school and over meals.
Only when the game ended and the school beauty came clean did he learn that the feelings of his innocent young heart had been ruthlessly toyed with.
It was a very clichéd story.
Yet it left a shadow in the top student's heart, leaving him unable to concentrate on studying ever since.
His grades had also fluctuated.
Fluctuated as they did, his score had merely gone from being far ahead to within reach of second place.
He was still first.
But academic problems that had once meant nothing to him now irritated him endlessly.
"Damn it, why did they have to pick me... Could it be that she really didn't like me...?"
Though he was supposed to be pondering an academic problem, the top student kept unconsciously recalling that stupid prank.
He messily scratched his hair and gathered his thoughts before looking back at the question.
"Damn it, I'm so close!