I Only Want to Hold the Top Student Back

[Next up: Black Haters Have Me Wrapped Around Their Finger and My Assistant Turns Out to Be My Arranged Marriage Partner. Thanks to all you cuties for clicking in~] Heart-Fluttering Study is livestreamed at a school in a fourth-tier city. The student with the best grades will win a generous cash prize. There are two top students at the school, evenly matched and at loggerheads. The whole school is betting on which one will come out on top. Ji Baixu, the younger brother of one of them, watches anxiously. To help his brother get the better of his rival, he tries every trick he can think of to distract the other student from studying. "Han, I'm here to ask you for help with my studies." "Han, let's play some games." "Han, want to watch a movie?" This is so frustrating. My ranking has dropped by fifty places. How is this guy still at the top? Han Shilin takes a certain idiot by the hand. "How about you agree to do me a favor, and I'll let your brother solve one of the hard problems?" [Top student seme x struggling student uke] Ji Baisi is a bona fide top student. He pays no heed to anything beyond his studies and devotes himself to his reference books. One day, the monthly exam results come out and he ranks first. He goes to the lower grades specially to share the good news with his younger brother. When he reaches the stairwell, he sees his rival carrying his frail little brother downstairs. The rival jokes, "Little dummy, say 'Daddy' for me." Brother Ji: This guy took first place from me, and now he wants to be my dad too?! P.S. 1. This story has lots of showbiz elements. It's fairly long and has a slower pace. Both leads have flaws, and there are quite a few supporting characters with substantial roles. 2. This is a fictional setting. The schools, entertainment industry, and exams all follow the story's own rules. None of the characters are based on real people. 3. New chapters go up promptly at six every evening. Other updates are revisions. 4. The author is adorable. Why not check out my profile? 5. Weibo: Yi Peng Maisui. Come by and say hi! Next up: Black Haters Have Me Wrapped Around Their Finger. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your library. Thanks! She Shijin is a professional fan-for-hire. Sometimes he leads a fan group, sometimes he's a hater. If the money's right, he can do just about anything. He's just taken a job: someone is offering 500,000 yuan to have him hate on a newly popular star. At the same time, the star's management is paying him 500,000 yuan to act as a fan leader. With countless alternate accounts at his disposal, She Shijin isn't worried in the slightest. First, he tears into the star on an anonymous forum: "Someone like Ning Jianjue? Does he even have a hundred real fans across the whole internet? Nobody even showed up to greet him at the airport." Then he looks up and shouts at the star in the airport: "Aaaah, Ning Jianjue, you're so handsome! I love you!" With his left hand, She Shijin receives a court summons over his defamatory posts. With his right, he's personally promoted by the star, who admires his top-tier flattery, to become his personal assistant. That costs extra, so the management team writes him a check for a million yuan that very night. She Shijin uses every trick in the book to keep the star smiling. The star wants him by his side even when he eats or sleeps. Until one day, the star pours his heart out and confesses his love to She Shijin in public. At the same time, all of She Shijin's alternate accounts are exposed overnight. She Shijin looks at the star, who's turning dark, and gulps. "Can I explain?" Ning Jianjue opens one of his hater's posts: "Could Ning Jianjue be gay? Ew, gross. Whoever he likes must be cursed with eight lifetimes of bad luck." He smiles faintly. "Go on, then. Explain." My Assistant Turns Out to Be My Arranged Marriage Partner The whole company is betting on how long the CEO's new kept assistant will last. With that affected, precious attitude, he probably won't make it three months. The assistant, Feng Deng, doesn't seem worried at all. He keeps doing whatever he likes at the office, so much so that even the office dog can't stand him. The CEO doesn't seem to care for him much either, fobbing him off with gold and jewels every day. Feng Deng is still delighted. Sure enough, once three months are up, the CEO hires a new assistant: a fresh-faced student type who treats money like dirt and has eyes only for the CEO. Now that's someone who knows how to play the game. The other guy should learn a thing or two. That's what everyone thinks. Feng Deng, the clueless one, takes his generous severance pay and leaves. Everyone assumes they'll never see him again. Half a month later, Feng Deng shows up at the company as the CEO's arranged marriage partner. Word is, his father is the richest man in Asia. If the CEO's marriage alliance falls through, the company could go under in an instant. Everyone: ...??? CEO, get your act together and go win your spouse back! What good are you to us if the company goes under? Theme: Promote patriotism and traditional Chinese education. Teach readers to love learning and make studying their goal, and encourage them to take a broader view of obscure rivalries and young romance at school by examining typical cases as cautionary examples.