86 How Have You Been? Let's Not Lie (6)

She just complained a little, but it made him determined to study for no reason other than helping her.

As time passed, he was actually able to help her. His mum practically invited her over for dinner every day, so she spent most of her time studying at his house. When she wasn't in the study room, he took the chance to sneakily go in, flip through her textbook and figure out the focal points so he could help her later.

In the second year of high school, art and science classes were split up. Since He Jichen's scores shot up, he and Ji Yi were put in the same science class.

She and He Jichen seats were on opposite sides of the room, so the two of them still didn't really interact with each another.

There were more assignments for Yizhong's second years than first years, so the school started to ask students to study more during the evenings. Every day at nine in the evening, Ji Yi rode her bike back home alone from He Jichen's house.