After classes were divided, not only were the two infamously and widely known “problem youths” placed into the same class, they became deskmates. They were obviously exam prodigies but they pretended to be slackers, their entire beings immersed in this skit. They had to compete for last place during exams; playing games every day on the surface but studying seriously behind others’ backs. Come and gossip about the two guys in our class who always have to compete for last place: the one who always plays tricks in solitude (He Zhao) x the one who would rather destroy humanity than concede (Xie Yu).
