About the Story
This isn't just a story about a good girl and a wolf.
16-year-old Fang Zhu is enrolled in No.1 High School, the best school in the fictional city Sky Harbor. Smart as she is, she is always overshadowed by her genius twin sister, the top scorer of the city in the high school entrance examination. In the "parallel class" (or the standard class, for students whose scores are lower), Fang Zhu feels everywhere the teachers’ favoritism toward the "experimental class" (or the advanced class, for students whose scores are higher) and the keen competition among her peers. Only if she could surpass her sister just once... Fang Zhu holds this wish quietly inside her.
However, what Fang Zhu truly loves is music. She enjoys playing the piano (exams aside) and has always wanted to write music. But for the sake of her college entrance exam, and in order to surpass her sister, or to find a decent job, she has sensibly buried the far-fetched dream of becoming a “musician.”
Then one day, a childhood friend tells her that he is a werewolf — the world Fang Zhu thought she knew starts to fall apart. What she once held important...doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
Characters
Fāng Zhú 方竹 — Protagonist · Year 1, Parallel Class
Everyone calls her a good student. Self-doubting and hungry to be seen, she is secretly in love with music in a world that doesn't have room for it.
Fāng Lán 方兰 — Twin sister · Year 1, Experimental Class
The sister Fang Zhu both loves and envies; the one who got the top score, the elite class, and everybody's attention.
Jiāng Xiàngyì 江向翼 — Childhood friend · Year 1, Parallel Class
Fang Zhu lost contact with him after his family moved to the suburbs. Their old ease picks up as if no time has passed.
Móu Yúnfēi 牟云飞 — Secondary character · Year 1, Parallel Class
Fang Zhu's middle school classmate. Has been pursuing her since middle school — an unpleasant guy with no sense of personal boundaries.
Zhāng Bìchén 张碧晨 — Homeroom teacher · Sciences
Fang Zhu's homeroom teacher. She runs her classroom through pressure, comparison, and pointed silences. The archetypal Chinese teacher — a walking repository of Chinese educational trauma.
