The Top Student's Gaze at Me Grows Ever More Affectionate

New story: The Comic Book Villain Becomes Everyone's Beloved

Wen Mian and Gu Zhiyuan were famous at Number One High School for their clashing auras. Whenever they met, the temperature in a five-meter radius around them seemed to drop by two degrees.

Then one day, Wen Mian, who lived alone, picked up a three-and-a-half-year-old child.

The child's name was Gu Zhiyuan, his nemesis from the past.

Wen Mian's first instinct was to toss him out. But the little boy looked at him pitifully, tears barely held back in his eyes. Wen Mian couldn't help reaching out to ruffle his hair, and from there things spiraled out of control.

While looking after toddler Gu Zhiyuan at home, Wen Mian still had to deal with the taunts of eighteen-year-old Gu Zhiyuan at school.

From then on, eighteen-year-old Gu Zhiyuan noticed that his nemesis looked at him strangely. How to put it? It was full of... full of... affection?!

On the basketball court, Gu Zhiyuan ran a hand through his hair, revealing his smooth forehead. His defiant expression immediately drew a chorus of screams.

Gu Zhiyuan: "Wen Mian, if you've got the guts, challenge me one-on-one!"

Wen Mian shook his head. "No wonder you never play soccer. Getting hit by a soccer ball must have really hurt when you were little."

Gu Zhiyuan: "?!"

Gu Zhiyuan passed Wen Mian's desk and glanced at the cake on it, sneering. "You still like eating this stuff?"

Wen Mian looked at him seriously. "It's not for me. It's for you. You'd cry if you didn't get any."

Gu Zhiyuan: "Who said I'd cry!!"

The more Gu Zhiyuan provoked him, the more it felt like he was punching cotton.

And strangely, why was Wen Mian getting better and better at knowing what he was thinking?

In front of Wen Mian, he was already down to his underwear.

Wen Mian: "When you're taking a bath, you don't even have your underwear on."

Older Gu Zhiyuan nodded. "Mm-hmm. Of course you can't wear underwear in the bath."

Wen Mian: "..."

Ongoing story: The Comic Book Villain Becomes Everyone's Beloved

The interstellar pirate Ye Jia is notorious, with countless people hunting him down. The Empire's citizens wish he would drop dead this instant.

A mysterious forum quietly appeared on the StarNet. After serializing the official comic about Marshal You Si, whom everyone adored, it released a spin-off starring the official comic's great villain, Ye Jia.

It turned out Ye Jia was descended from Marshal Ye Lou Nian, a commoner who had been made a political scapegoat. After his father's death, Ye Jia no longer trusted the Empire.

Having grown up adrift among the stars, Ye Jia endured countless hardships. A harsh environment forced him to grow up, and with nothing to his name, he relied on his own strength to become the leader of a band of space pirates.

In the comic, the scene looked like a mass of black fire, burning stubbornly. The flames grew fiercer and fiercer, turning into a pool of thick black ink that plunged into the abyss.

Only the silver-haired boy in the very center of the scene kept his lips pressed into a tight line.

His gaze was aloof and cold, at odds with the intense atmosphere. Everything and everyone else was falling, while he alone grew upward with savage force.

He stood with one foot on a defeated enemy, his silver hair stained scarlet. His pair of red eyes burned like fire.

The corner of his mouth curved in a carefree smile, while his eyes held an unmelting glacial cold.

The clash of extremes: he was the undefeated king of the underworld.

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Citizen A: "The Empire's royal family framed Ye Jia, then turned around and blamed him for it. So who is truly righteous, and who is truly evil?"

Citizen B: "He's not a villain, he's my precious baby! Waaaaah, Ye Jia, Mommy's darling son, do whatever you want. Mommy will always support you!"

Citizen C: "So handsome, so handsome! I'm drooling, "

Citizen D: "Ye Jia is righteous! The Empire wronged Ye Jia. The Empire should apologize to him!"

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Empire Prince Ning Zhixi watched the comic. In the scene, five-year-old Ye Jia crouched down and looked gently at the lonely boy in front of him.

Ning Zhixi's long-dormant heart began pounding. So Ye Jia was the source of that kindness in his memories, the one he'd spent so long searching for and could never forget.

Empire Marshal You Si clenched his fists. He had once nearly died on a deserted planet after an enemy's trap, and someone had reached out to him from the darkness. He had never imagined that person would be Ye Jia.

Mecha master Duan Ziyao flipped through the comic with interest. No wonder his all-out search for the friend he'd made on the StarNet had gotten nowhere. That person was Ye Jia.

Overnight, Ye Jia, once loathed across the stars, became a superstar watched by millions, with over a hundred million fans. The Empire's prince, a marshal, and a mecha master all came looking for him in person.

Ye Jia: "..."

Ye Jia: "I only want to be a villain, and I only want to keep being a villain."

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