If flowers bloom, youth will naturally follow.

Fang Zhu was undoubtedly the top student in Class 18 of the second year of high school, and had a significant advantage over the second-place student.

This person fits the image of a bookworm even better than Qiao Tianyi. He is thin, wears a neat and simple school uniform, is taciturn, and has a focused gaze with black-rimmed glasses. He only glares at others when they disturb his studies.

He was very unhappy that his homeroom teacher interrupted him during morning self-study that day.

"Class, quiet down. We have a new student in our class. Let's welcome her," said Teacher Liu, standing on the podium with a very tall girl.

Fang Zhu's first impression of Xiao Pang was that she was a little girl with yellow hair. Although she was very tall, she looked very "small".

"Xia Ziwei, please introduce yourself," said Teacher Liu.

"Hello everyone, my name is Xia Ziwei, I come from Heilongjiang..." His unique name, his distinctive chubby voice, and his carefree smile made him incredibly cute, unsurprisingly eliciting another round of gasps.

Little Fatty absolutely hates Xia Ziwei. He secretly vowed that the day he changed his household registration, he would definitely change his name to something else, something like "cat" or "dog" rather than "Xia Ziwei".

"Wow, her name is Xia Ziwei."

"Wow, she's so cute when she talks."

The buzzing of the students reached Fang Zhu's ears. The bookworm was bewildered. Did Xia Ziwei have any special meaning? But her voice was indeed quite distinctive.

Well, this girl isn't unpleasant; she's even kind of cute. Fang Zhu wasn't so angry about being bothered by her.

However, this doesn't mean that love at first sight will happen; that's unscientific. Early romance is useless; women will only affect the efficiency of the top student's studies.

Fang Zhu simply thought she was carefree and cute, which is a universal human appreciation for beautiful things.

Little Fatty was assigned to sit behind Fang Zhu. It was just a classmate who had come to visit. A proper bookworm wouldn't let such a trivial matter distract him from his studies, and he continued to bury himself in his books.

However, this new girl was a bit too familiar with him. She poked him three times during the morning self-study session, which made the bookworm angry. However, considering that she was a freshman, the bookworm did not lose his temper, but just showed his displeasure with a stern face.

Fortunately, after figuring out the situation, Little Fatty was very sensible and stopped poking the bookish guy with the stern face in front of him, and the two of them were able to live in peace.

In the eyes of bookworms, it all comes down to academic performance. Fang Zhu initially looked down on Xiao Pang, which stemmed from the class contempt of a top student from a provincial key high school for students from a county key high school.

Moreover, Little Fatty did indeed deserve this contempt. As her only neighbor, Fang Zhu felt miserable listening to her frantically read English. Her pronunciation was wrong, her grammar was wrong, and her tone was wrong. Coupled with her childish voice, Fang Zhu always felt like a foreign child learning to speak.

When you encounter a toddler learning to speak, do you feel compelled to teach her?

The bookworm couldn't resist, so one time when the chubby boy was muttering a word in his Chinese-accented English, the bookworm finally couldn't stand the ear-piercing sound anymore, turned around and banged on the table: "The 'e' in this word is silent..."

"Oh?" Little Fatty was shocked. The wooden figure spoke up: "Thank you, thank you."

In return for the favor, when the bookworm was called on by the teacher to answer a math question in class and made a small mistake, the chubby boy whispered from behind, "Wrong, it's the absolute value, this number is the absolute value!"

These words were like a wake-up call. The bookworm was stunned. Indeed, there was no point in saying anything more after this number was wrong: "Teacher, I haven't figured out this problem yet."

As the undisputed top student in his class, he always felt a great sense of superiority. He was quite surprised that some classmates could find his mistakes in math.

He soon discovered that he had been surprised too soon. The little girl with blond hair from the small county behind him seemed to be a top student, with two-thirds of her being academic geniuses. In addition to her seemingly good math skills, her thinking in Chinese was also quite unique.

"Here's a question for me: what does her resistance represent? Is it resistance against feudal society?" The teacher tapped the blackboard during a Chinese class while analyzing a reading comprehension passage.

"Yes..." everyone said.

"Oh? Xia Ziwei, what do you say?" The little girl was in the last row, but as you can imagine, she raised her hand, and the Chinese teacher called on her.

"No, if she doesn't resist, it means she's resisting feudal society. The more she resists, the more she's bound by feudal ideology," a childish voice said from behind.

The students, including the bookworms, were completely confused. Was this some kind of tongue twister?

"Yes," but the Chinese teacher was very excited: "Xia Ziwei's line of thinking is correct, everyone think about it carefully..."

The final exam proved the bookworm's idea right: Little Fatty ranked thirty-fifth out of 56 students in his class.

The nerd was shocked. He had overheard that the chubby girl had failed English. So, assuming she got an extra forty points like him, would she become... second?

In other words, aside from English, this girl from the county town was only second in the class in all the other subjects combined.

In the eyes of a bookworm, improving English scores is too easy. So, a sense of crisis arises. The biggest competitor threatening the top spot in the class is actually this cute little blonde girl.