The Academic Goddess and the Great Demon King Get Their Happy Ending [Reborn]

Coming soon: "Playing a Frail Beauty in the Infinite Game". Younger top x top, with secret identities. Blurb at the end. Please add it to your reading list.

This story is a childhood-friends-to-lovers romance with mutual first loves. Updated daily at 9 p.m.

Blurb.

Lin Nianhe has excelled in both conduct and academics since childhood.

He's always ranked first in his year, and he's very handsome, too.

He's the universally recognized beauty with pale, cool-toned skin who can captivate you at a glance.

He has a very handsome childhood friend.

The other boy is Ling Ying's resident demon king, handsome as a figure in a fashion spread, but constantly breaking school rules and never learning his lesson. His family has even donated two buildings, so not even the principal dares cross him.

He and He Yi are polar opposites.

If they hadn't lived across the hall from each other since childhood and their parents weren't close, they might never have crossed paths.

Once, when Lin Nianhe went looking for He Yi,

he found him cornering someone in the alley behind an internet cafe, with a shocking injury on his face and a cold, contemptuous look in his eyes. He smiled and said, "Lin Nianhe, I'm afraid I'll lead a good student like you astray."

No one at school knew they were childhood friends.

But in their senior year, Lin Nianhe suddenly fell gravely ill.

He Yi was the one who kept watch by his bedside night after night.

Everyone said Lin Nianhe couldn't be cured and there was no hope.

He Yi visited every temple in Yinjiang City, gathering talismans of every size, and stood guard by his hospital room, wanting nothing more than for Lin Nianhe to be safe and sound.

On a breezy summer afternoon, in the quiet, empty hospital room, He Yi held his hand and leaned in to kiss him.

That was when Lin Nianhe learned He Yi had been secretly in love with him.

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Fortunately, regrets can be put right.

Lin Nianhe was reborn.

He returned to his second year of high school, healthy again, with perfectly normal test results, as if none of it had ever happened.

Lin Nianhe decided to try flirting with his childhood friend again, so he made a move.

But the guy was completely unresponsive.

He Yi: What makes you think I care about you?

Lin Nianhe, not every guy is into your type.

I'll say it again: don't mess with me.

Lin Nianhe: Such a handsome guy, what a shame he has a mouth.

But he noticed that his childhood friend, who always looked so fierce,

seemed to turn red in the ears whenever he talked to him.

Lin Nianhe: Do you like me?

He Yi: Heh. I'm not blind.

Lin Nianhe: Fine, I'm leaving. I'll go find someone else.

He Yi: ...Damn it, no!

Later, in the dim old alley behind their high school, He Yi held Lin Nianhe against the wall and kissed him fiercely again and again.

"Honey, you haven't told me you love me in ages. Does that mean you don't love me anymore?"

Lin Nianhe: ...

And so everyone discovered:

Good news: The Demon King has turned over a new leaf.

Bad news: He's become a lovesick fool.

Even worse news: The person he stole away is our beloved academic heartthrob?

Demon King He: Have you people never heard of first come, first served?

Classmates: How early are we talking?

He Yi: In the womb :)

Couple:

A top who's stubborn to the bitter end but has loved his sweetheart since childhood x the beloved heartthrob who's secretly ruthless and calmly watches you perform

He Yi x Lin Nianhe

A childhood friend who says one thing but does another

P.S. The top is a good person, and there's a reason behind everything he does. Both the top and bottom are excellent students.

Blurb archived on 2023-07-17

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Coming soon: "Playing a Frail Beauty in the Infinite Game"

Blurb:

Shen Qiling was an NPC announcer on the radio in "Infinite Night 1.0". Every broadcast signaled the end of the current instance and the closing of that world's storyline.

The monsters would return underground, while surviving players would burst into tears at the sound of his voice. They called him the "Voice of God."

"Infinite Night 1.0" was taken offline because of a version bug. When it returned, every instance on the map had been updated.

Shen Qiling was unexpectedly pulled into the "Infinite Night 2.0" closed beta. The System told him to play a decorative vase of a player in the instances: he only had to stay clean and pretty.

To that end, it weakened his stamina, allowing him only to cling to other players for support.

Even while snapping a vicious ghost's neck, Shen Qiling was careful not to get himself dirty, all while maintaining his delicate beauty's fragile image in front of everyone.

At first, the team all thought Shen Qiling was a useless pretty boy.

But when the instance ended, the familiar voice every player expected to hear didn't come over the channel.

Fear crept into everyone's heart.

At that moment, Shen Qiling's voice sounded beside them.

Shen Qiling, the pretty-boy player, said, "What are you all standing around for? Waiting for someone to collect your bodies?"

Later, another rumor spread through the channel: a cool and beautiful vase had led them in slaughtering their way through the instance.

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One day, Shen Qiling found the head of a ragged young man in an instance.

He looked like he'd been a respectable person when he was alive.

Shen Qiling pieced together a body for him. "It's been patched up for three years, so you'll have to make do with it."

Zhu Yu was a hidden boss in an instance from the 1.0 era. Everyone had always treated him as an ominous source of misfortune, fearing and insulting him.

Only Shen Qiling gave him a sense of belonging.

According to the System's settings, the more stamina Shen Qiling used, the weaker his body became. Fortunately, he'd picked up a personal bodyguard, a loyal powerhouse he could rely on.

All Zhu Yu wanted was for Shen Qiling to stay beautiful. He didn't mind getting his own hands dirty.

Later, a new rumor spread through the game channel: Every generation has its own version, and every version has its own Yu God.

Late at night, Shen Qiling's stamina was limited. If he could lie down, he wouldn't stand, and he wasn't about to do anything tiring.

Zhu Yu said, "Then just lie there. I'll take care of it."

Couple: A beautiful, cleanliness-obsessed, and physically weak former NPC bottom x a former instance boss top with incredible stamina

Younger top. Both have secret identities, and in the 2.0 era they're both ordinary players.

Shen Qiling x Zhu Yu

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Theme: Treasure the people you have, for the present is eternal