Everyone Wants to Win Over the Straight-Laced Character

Ning Jiyue is a game character.

He comes from a romance game focused on winning over love interests.

According to his character profile, he is equally capable of hosting guests and cooking, and his only flaw is having no sense of direction.

Unfortunately, among a cast of outstanding male leads, these qualities are too ordinary. He barely gained any popularity in the test version and was almost entirely overlooked.

Then the game's funding ran out, and production collapsed halfway through. The game shut down before it could even officially launch.

As a result, all the game characters were trapped in the data, waiting day after day for their destined heroine to arrive.

One day, Ning Jiyue woke up to find himself in another world.

Here, everything is determined by genetic rank.

It is a place governed by the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak.

Fortunately, he does not have to enter society and face its merciless struggles just yet.

Unfortunately, he is in an academy that cultivates the finest genes, surrounded by the descendants of the elite.

Ning Jiyue has no idea why the world has changed. In his "program," his task has never changed:

Become one of the academy's top ten students and wait to meet the heroine.

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The Sri Lanka Academy is the world's top institution.

Only the most extravagant and noble bloodlines gather here.

But recently, an outsider has appeared.

No illustrious background, no vast fortune, no extensive connections.

All he has is a face of astonishing beauty.

People like him are usually lowborn with inferior genes, but through sheer luck, he passed the entrance exam and made it in.

The young masters of the elite look at him with contempt, waiting for this presumptuous outsider to fall into the mire and return to the rotten underground.

Yet they cannot help stealing another glance at his extraordinary beauty.

No one expected that the outsider everyone regarded as inferior would steadily climb the rankings.

He made it into the academy's top ten!

At last, they could no longer hold back. They invited the outsider named Ning Jiyue to a banquet set up as a trap.

At the banquet, the young masters of the elite each have their own agenda.

One of them, the one who is on relatively good terms with Ning Jiyue, gives him a teasing order.

"Ning Jiyue, give me a kiss?"

It is a joke, and a test.

Of course, they know that Ning Jiyue is cold to everyone and has none of the clinging, ingratiating qualities of a parasitic vine.

But in that instant,

the boy, as radiant and clear as his name, pauses. An eerie blue glimmers in his dark eyes, unseen by anyone.

His gaze softens, his lips curve, and he smiles with a charm that could beguile the soul.

Without hesitation, he leans in and kisses him.

Everyone is stunned.

Even the one who was kissed stares at him in disbelief.

But Ning Jiyue speaks.

"Affection rating confirmed. Kissing permitted."

Pandora's box is opened.

[Reading Guide]

1. Self-indulgent dogged pursuit-of-love fiction.

2. I like writing coming-of-age protagonists. The protagonist has flaws and is not perfect.

3. My take on a noble academy, full of unrequited crushes, but the protagonist doesn't get involved.

Theme: Believe in your own strength, for it is the power to change things.