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He Xiangyi was proud and radiant, the center of everyone's attention. But the summer he got into a PhD program, he fell into a mire and started livestreaming in pretty skirts.
The livestreaming field was fiercely competitive. He Xiangyi didn't want to show his face, and after many days of trying, he still wasn't getting anywhere. Then one day, a big spender showed up in his stream and immediately asked how much money he needed.
He Xiangyi: O.o? Can you just ask that?
He blinked and said sweetly, "I don't need much. Just come hang out in my livestream every day, big brother!"
As if.
He Xiangyi kept his benefactor hooked for two whole months, raking in tips until his hands were sore. Later, he even made up a female identity and started an online relationship with him.
When summer ended, He Xiangyi had earned enough money. He sent his benefactor a half-hearted breakup text and promptly deactivated his livestream account.
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When the new semester began, He Xiangyi discovered to his horror that the top donor he'd scammed out of money and affection was none other than the senior in his research group, a brilliant academic with countless high-impact papers to his name.
He Xiangyi: ...?
Is the world really this small?
Can even a top student get scammed in an online relationship? O.o
Everyone said this senior was dignified, aloof, and impeccably self-possessed. He Xiangyi eagerly thought his senior might have just been playing around. Besides, he had never shown his face, so he was sure his senior wouldn't recognize him so easily.
Not long afterward.
Beside the laboratory, in a cramped, dimly lit storage room.
Xu Qingyan gripped the back of his neck with those large hands He Xiangyi had praised countless times, and asked slowly, "You don't like guys who are too controlling? Don't like hands with thick knuckles? Those were your reasons for breaking up with me?"
With red eyes, He Xiangyi whimpered and begged, "Senior, you've got the wrong person. I'm not some pretty streamer. I'm just a junior you barely know..."
"Such an innocent baby. Guess why I entered your livestream? I'd noticed you back when you were still a graduate student."
Xu Qingyan chuckled. His rough fingertips pressed against the beautiful red mole at He Xiangyi's waist as he asked softly, "When we video chatted, didn't you love biting your shirt hem and swaying your hips? Why don't you sway for me again?"
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[Extra Scene]
To thank his livestream followers, He Xiangyi once spent a fortune buying lots of pretty skirts. But his senior hated a few of the brightly colored styles and tipped him lots of money to keep him from wearing them.
Only after they really got together did He Xiangyi learn just how much someone "hated" those skirts: enough to insist on helping him put them on one by one, then tear them off.
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Fake celibate, real pervert x genuinely gorgeous, genuinely dumb. The blurb is tentative; the published story will be definitive.
Shares a setting with After Crashing and Burning After Provoking My Stuffy Daddy and Heartburn. Characters from the first two books will make appearances, but you don't need to have read them.
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2026/2/21: Idea saved. Revised version from 7.29.
Theme: Be honest.