I'll Do Whatever It Takes to Survive

Gentle, sweet-looking top student with a dark side VS self-serving man struggling at the bottom

Sweet exterior, dark interior + soul redemption + possessiveness + troubled family background

Shen Jin struggles to survive in the mire of the underclass, doing whatever it takes to stay alive.

He is calculating and exploits people’s kindness. When he reveals all his shameful secrets and schemes to Xu Qinghe, he says, “Now we’re even more of a match. We really are a pair of born bad seeds.”