With a Fierce Face, I Was Mistaken for a Gangster Academic Ace

Stories about “Yan Da’s Fiercest Guy” are always making the rounds in the streets and alleys of Xinyuan City.

Some say he’s seven and a half feet tall, with a scarred, brutish face, a gangster fresh out of prison who scared the security team out of their wits on the first day of school.

Some say he can flip a basketball hoop with one hand, knock out an underground fighting champion in three punches, and even make the old district’s Xinyi Hall call him “Boss.”

Others say this “demon” is actually the province’s top Gaokao scorer, a genius in financial engineering whose research leaves international big shots applauding in admiration, and who can solve calculus problems as easily as drinking milk.

Qin Meng only wants to be a quiet top student, but his appearance keeps dragging him into trouble.

His dormmates secretly hide their pepper spray when they first meet him. The love letter from the department belle is mistaken for a “gangland oath of allegiance.” An investment bank CEO kicks him out, thinking he’s a security guard, then turns around and begs him to save a project worth tens of billions.

When torrential rain tears through the embankment and he uses his own body to plug the breach; when a loan-sharking gang threatens students and he produces a complete chain of legal evidence; when he uses his skill to crush his critics at an international academic forum…

People finally understand that beneath that fearsome face lie shoulders harder than steel, a mind brighter than the stars, and a heart warmer than the spring breeze.

“They say I’m a gangster? A monster?” Qin Meng scratches his head and looks at Lin Xi, whose eyes curve with laughter. “Doesn’t matter. I just want to do the right thing.”

From a “dangerous character” everyone at school avoided to a top talent fought over by the Seven Great Families