The Maybach Meant for My Younger Brother's Mentor

Zhao Buxi, also known as Zhao Erniu, is illiterate. Two good things have happened in the past year, and now he walks around the village with his chin held high.

First: The family cow gave birth to twins.

Second: His younger brother Zhao Sheng got into a prestigious university's graduate program.

Every day, Zhao Buxi carries around a photocopy of his brother's admission letter, bragging to everyone: "See that? It says, 'Welcome, brilliant Zhao Sheng, to our university.'"

The villagers point at the line he's indicating: "That says, 'Scan the QR code for details.' You illiterate fool."

They can't stand his constant showing off. "You'd think he was the one who got in. He can't even recognize a single character."

Zhao Buxi just thinks they're jealous, jealous that the Zhao family has a graduate student.

Every day, Zhao Buxi is over the moon. He eats, sleeps, and stares at his brother's admission letter, until several academic scandals break. The biggest one is about a graduate student being bullied by his advisor because his parents didn't give the professor a gift.

Zhao Buxi feels the sky collapsing. No gift, and you get bullied? He can't eat or sleep anymore. He packs up and heads into the city in the middle of the night to deliver a present.

In the city, Zhao Buxi waits by the roadside for his rideshare. A car pulls up in front of him, and he gets in without thinking.

As soon as he gives the last few digits of his phone number, the rideshare driver's call comes through.

"Holy crap!!! Get out! Get out right now! That's somebody's Maybach!!!"

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Fang Peizhi is a rich young master from Beijing, heir to a fortune. Everyone assumes he'll take over the family business, but instead he went out and got himself a nine-to-five university teaching job.

People mock him for giving up the good life to go looking for hardship.

Fang Peizhi: I'm making a contribution to education. What would you know?

He normally hates gifts and flattery. Then, just after welcoming a new graduate student at the start of term, someone goes and puts him on the spot. It's Zhao Buxi, who mistook him for a rideshare driver.

At first, Fang Peizhi finds fault with everything about Zhao Buxi: uneducated, boorish, loud when he eats, a country bumpkin. But as time passes, he takes another look and finds himself more and more charmed.

So beautiful~ So lovely~ Right in his heart~

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Zhao Sheng got into a prestigious university's graduate program and fought his way into the lead professor's research group when choosing an advisor. Besides Fang Peizhi's abilities and impressive research record, the main reason was that the professor wasn't the sort to start talking in the middle of class about his child studying abroad or his wife or husband...

Who knew that after his brother got together with him, the great professor would develop a serious case of spouse addiction, bringing up his brother at the end of every class: "That's all for today. My partner's taking me out for noodles, so I'm off."

Zhao Sheng: ...

Wait, didn't you invite me?

In class, the great professor wears a gaudy pink shirt: "Oh, my partner and I have a date today."

Zhao Sheng: Who asked you?

At a research group dinner, the great professor's alarm goes off. "I have to head home. My partner keeps me on a tight leash."

Zhao Sheng: You think my brother keeps you on a leash?

Late at night, Zhao Sheng stands by the window dressed as a rat with its paws behind its back. "Why did I choose to be his graduate student in the first place..."

Illiterate country bumpkin bottom X university associate professor top

Upcoming: I Topped Up My Crush's Phone Bill by Mistake, So Now I'm Talking to Her Brother. Add it to your reading list!

Li Mingzhi has had a crush on a girl since childhood. She's beautiful, smart, and kind, and he's never dared to confess.

Then, after the high school entrance exam, Li Mingzhi realizes his terrible scores might keep him from attending the same high school as her. He might never see her again, so he heads to her house to confess, determined not to regret it.

Li Mingzhi: "My goddess! I like you."

That day, her brother opened the window. "Get lost, idiot! I'm a guy!"

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He never expected to just scrape into a top high school. Overjoyed, he runs out of phone credit, so he tops up a hundred yuan. Usually he only adds ten at a time, but in his excitement, he enters one wrong digit and sends the money to the wrong number.

He calls to ask for it back, only to discover that the person who answered is his goddess.

Goddess: I'll add you on WeChat and pay you back.

They add each other on WeChat. Li Mingzhi: No need, it's a small amount. Don't worry about paying it back.

Her brother realizes this guy is a real idiot. He won't take the money back and keeps messaging him, treating him like his sister.

Eventually, the brother gets into the chatting too, adds him on WeChat, follows him on Douyin, and talks with him for over half a year.

The more the brother chats with Li Mingzhi, the more he feels that something isn't right. Why does he want to kiss him?

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Li Mingzhi is horrified when he finds out that the goddess he's been chatting with is a man.

"You're disgusting! Bleh, bleh, ugh!"

But the brother shamelessly pursues him anyway. "Forget about my sister. Like me instead."

Li Mingzhi: "Get lost, idiot! I'm a guy!"

Theme: Never give up on yourself.