The Pretty, Poor Student Is Always Trying to Reel Me In

*The title and blurb are from the top’s perspective, while the story itself is told from the bottom’s perspective.

He Wenye’s mother sponsors a poor student from a mountain village. The student’s grandmother once saved her, and now the student has gotten into the same university as He Wenye. Before the semester starts, his mother brings the student to stay at their home.

He Wenye’s first impression of Lin Qixu: he stutters, his clothes are pilled, he looks like a country bumpkin, and he doesn’t even know how to fasten a seat belt.

Still, he’s not bad-looking.

He Wenye is used to doing whatever he wants, so he doesn’t take his mother’s request to look after Lin Qixu seriously. He even orders Lin Qixu not to let anyone at school know they know each other.

Until one day, He Wenye accidentally spots the bookmark tucked inside Lin Qixu’s textbook.

It reads:

The mountain has trees, and the trees have branches.

My heart delights in you, but you do not know.

HWY

HWY... HWY... He Wenye?!

From that moment on, He Wenye’s whole worldview is turned upside down:

Lin Qixu likes men, and he likes me?!

No wonder he cooks for me: he’s winning me over with food. No wonder he takes a shower in my room: he’s deliberately seducing me. No wonder he’s secretly knitting gloves: they’re a birthday present for me!

Everything finally makes sense.

He Wenye decides that on his birthday, when Lin Qixu gives him the gloves, he’ll confess first. A man should take the initiative.

But before his birthday arrives, He Wenye sees Lin Qixu give the gloves he knitted for “him” to someone else, saying, “Happy birthday, Senior.”

And then He Wenye goes completely mad.

At a party, during a game of Truth or Dare, someone asks when he had his first kiss. He meets everyone’s gaze and stares straight at that person. His bitten lip has yet to heal. “Yesterday.”

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A motorcycle-racing prodigy who once took the scene by storm returns to the track, setting off a media frenzy.

The young man races through the wind in a glossy black, stand-collar leather jacket, radiating pure, untamed vitality: cool-headed yet reckless, arrogant yet free-spirited.

Few know that after taking off his helmet that day, He Wenye didn’t even have time to step onto the podium. He cornered someone in the lounge and pleaded in a low voice, “Baby, give me a kiss.”

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An unruly, self-deluded rich young master top x a sensitive, slow-to-warm, beautiful poor student bottom. The bottom just blinks, and the top thinks he’s a master of seduction!

*The top has a terrible temper and treats the bottom poorly at first, but only for a short while. Once he realizes his feelings, he spoils him rotten. He goes from being in love without knowing it, to convincing himself of his own feelings, to imagining things and getting jealous, then going crazy pursuing his wife and fighting everyone for him. The pampered young master goes through the entire journey of humbling himself for love. One-on-one in body and soul. The bookmark is a misunderstanding, and the bottom only gradually falls for the top while the top is desperately chasing after him.

To love someone is to break your former self apart and put it back together.

A preview of another upcoming novel: I Can Pretend to Be Your Type

Blurb:

Jiang Hemian wakes up inside a danmei novel as the beloved “white moonlight.”

Because the bottom looks like the white moonlight, the top keeps him as a substitute. He torments him physically and emotionally, then goes through the whole “chasing his wife to the crematorium” routine. To prove his sincerity during the pursuit, the top casually has the white moonlight’s family business driven into bankruptcy.

Jiang Hemian: ?

As luck would have it, he arrives right at that moment.

Wait, am I part of your little game or what?!

Watching his father plead for help in vain and his mother weep all day, Jiang Hemian decides to save the family business from collapse. But how?

He recalls that in the original story, the top acts so arrogantly because he has a powerful uncle, the real head of the Nie family.

This uncle only appears in dialogue. He’s described as a man who has renounced worldly desires and avoids women. The top once privately joked, “My third uncle is just sexually repressed. He actually likes them slutty. No one dares act up in front of him, that’s all.”

Jiang Hemian decides to go meet this uncle!

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The first time Nie Yanshan sees Jiang Hemian, Jiang is pole dancing and winking at him now and then.

Vulgar. Nie Yanshan curses inwardly.

The next moment, Jiang Hemian hooks a finger into his tie.

Hah, you arrogant little thing. You’ve got some nerve.

Before Nie Yanshan can react, Jiang Hemian settles into his lap. “Big brother, want to have some fun?”

At the instant their eyes meet, Nie Yanshan suddenly hears another voice in his mind:

“Help, this is so embarrassing! Am I laying it on too thick?!”

“No, I can put up with anything to get him!”

“Jiang Hemian, do you still want Nie Hang to kneel down and call you auntie?!”

“Third Uncle Nie Hang, I can pretend to be your type!”

“...” Nie Yanshan narrows his eyes.

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Later, Jiang Hemian discovers that the book wasn’t lying: Nie Yanshan really is sexually repressed. Once he gets a taste, he only lets Jiang take one day off at a time. Yes, one day off a year. What a complete pervert!

Later still, Jiang Hemian attends a family banquet with Nie Yanshan on his arm.

He sits in the seat of honor, with Nie Yanshan beside him.

Nie Hang, who has been banished to another city, takes advantage of the family banquet to beg his third uncle to let him return to the capital. Nie Yanshan says coolly, “That depends on whether your auntie agrees.”

Bottom: 21; top: 32. One-on-one in body and soul.

A beautiful, earnest man who’s finally had enough x a cold-hearted man whose old flame catches fire and can’t be put out

The top’s mind-reading ability lets him hear only the bottom’s thoughts.

The mind-reading ability spreads through sex.

Theme: Become better versions of yourselves together.