Scum, but Beautiful

Xu Shu was famous for his beauty. No one would have guessed that the dazzling man he is today was once a poor, scrawny student, the country bumpkin everyone in class despised and bullied.

The only thing that kept him going through those painful school days was the gentle encouragement he received in letters from a brilliant, popular student who secretly wrote to him.

Foolish Xu Shu thought Lady Luck had finally smiled on him, that Cinderella's story had come true, and that someone so dazzling and outstanding could really fall for someone as plain as him.

But a lie is still a lie. When his secret was exposed and his private photos and letters were plastered all over school, Xu Shu lost his family because of that relationship.

That day, amid the laughter of the brilliant student and his friends, Xu Shu became a clown in every sense of the word.

To get revenge on those scumbags, he was willing to pay any price, even if it meant sacrificing himself.

Those beasts used their families' power and influence to become entrepreneurs. The only family in Wenhang capable of taking them on was the Xie family. The eldest son, Xie Rong, was said to be intelligent and domineering, and in just a few years, his company had grown at an astonishing pace.

At their first meeting, Xu Shu realized Xie Rong was the aloof top student who had hated him back in school, and thought the plan was doomed.

At their second meeting, this increasingly unhinged, gloomy oddball actually proposed that they get married.

Xu Shu thought coldly: Got you.

Looks were just a shell. He had never cared about them.

Author's notes: [Short-tempered, unhinged beauty X cold-faced, devoted weirdo]

1. Important! Proceed with caution! The flashbacks contain extensive school bullying!

2. There is intimate contact with the second male lead, but nothing beyond second base.

3. The business battles are all played for laughs and made up.

Theme: The righteous path is the way forward