Acting Ordinary in Public: The School Bully Dotes Only on the Transfer Student

Name: Acting Ordinary in Public: The School Bully Dotes Only on the Transfer Student
Author: Zither Echoes Through the Secluded Bamboo Grove

人前故作寻常色：校霸独宠转校生

by Zither Echoes Through the Secluded Bamboo Grove (琴啸幽篁)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 185k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
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Dugu Rang’s father was murdered when he was young, and his birth mother was forced to leave to lie low and seek revenge. He grew up in poverty with his grandparents and was once the school bully everyone feared. After his gravely ill grandmother fell to her knees and pleaded with him, he put away his sharp edges and pretended to be an ordinary, well-behaved student who was eager to improve. All he wanted was to study in peace and keep his grandmother company. The arrival of transfer student Su Lian’er shattered the calm of his final year of high school. Dugu Rang fell for her at first sight and was thrown into a fluster. With their seats next to each other as an excuse to spend time together, he kept his violent past hidden and showed her a softness and patience he gave no one else. To outsiders, Su Lian’er seemed meek and timid, but in truth she had endured a difficult past and possessed a resilient spirit. Her birth parents had favored boys and given her away; her adoptive parents had given her warmth, while her biological family cared only about profit. Gentle and reserved on the surface, she was sharp-minded and knew how to overcome force with softness. They fell for each other, but trouble kept cropping up: the spoiled Xing Zhaonian, who doggedly pursued Su Lian’er; Shen Zhiwei, the squad leader who openly admired Dugu Rang; Lin Siyao, who clung to Shen Zhiwei and schemed behind the scenes; and teachers and classmates of all kinds, who kept their school life full of upheaval. Ten years passed in a tangle of twists and turns, and Dugu Rang became the sole legitimate heir to the prosperous Shengding Group. The once-arrogant school bully left his recklessness behind and grew into a dependable man. When he sees Su Lian’er again after ten years, what will he feel?

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