You Liang had been a happy child from an early age. Nothing ever seemed to trouble him, and he possessed everything beautiful a child could have.
Innocence, joy, boundless curiosity about everything, the ability to quickly forget unpleasant things—every day of his life was bright with sunshine.
In class, You Liang was the little rascal who gave his teachers headaches and the show-off among his classmates. Rules never constrained him, and his personality was lively and unpredictable.
Normally, a child like him would have been strictly disciplined, but he met the most important person in his life—Yan Xizhi.
The Principal did not educate him according to a prescribed formula. Instead, she encouraged him to discover more of the beauty around him and use his own strength to inspire more children.
Principal Yan had known early on that You Liang deliberately earned terrible grades. Rather than coming first, he only wanted to come last, because the bottom places in his class had always belonged to the same few children with intellectual disabilities.
Even though everyone encouraged them, they seemed to understand that they were a burden, that they were not as good as the others.
You Liang was friends with all of them, and his reasoning was simple. Someone has to come last in class anyway, so why not me?
Scoring lower than his friends was not actually easy. Even guessing on every multiple-choice question might not guarantee last place, so he had to study hard too. He needed to know which answer was correct before he could avoid it.
After graduating, You Liang entered society, where his happiness and sunny disposition were utterly at odds with the city.
He had his own pursuits and ideas, and he disliked holding down a regular job. With neither money nor a home, he