The Campus Beauty Is Not to Be Trifled With

In ninth grade, school beauty Xia Shuyu shoved a phone with a shattered black screen into my hands and said, “Fix it. I’ll pay whatever it costs.” I was a tech nerd who barely registered to anyone, and fixing things was my only talent. I repaired her phone, but accidentally stumbled upon a folder hidden deep inside it. Photos, chat logs, and her boyfriend Lu Ming, who had more fist than brains… That was when I realized that some secrets, once seen, couldn’t be unseen. From that day on, I managed her accounts, took punches for her, and plunged into the roughest crowd at school. I went from a coward who could barely get a word out to someone who stood before them all. Everyone asked me how I dared. I glanced behind me. Xia Shuyu was watching me with a smile, dimples faintly showing. “Maybe because there’s someone worth being a coward for, just this once, even if it costs me my life.” This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.