Reborn, I Was Outplayed by My School Heartthrob Rival

Content warning: Before meeting the love interest, the protagonist was the top, and he was neither inexperienced nor faithful (before being reborn). He was a jerk who was willing to be the bottom for love!

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Ji Chuchi had a kept boy. The boy was gentle and considerate, and never went against his wishes. For the two years they were together, Ji Chuchi believed the boy loved him deeply. So he put his playboy ways behind him and carefully cherished the boy as if he were the most precious thing in the world.

Everyone envied their romantic love, with both of them devoted to each other.

As Ji Chuchi prepared an anniversary party for their second year together, his usually obedient kept boy suddenly ran away, leaving behind only a note.

"I'm sorry I lied to you. There's always been someone else in my heart, my one true love. You're just his substitute."

"Now he's back, and I'm going to find him. Thank you for taking care of me these past two years. Goodbye."

Ji Chuchi: ...I was actually a substitute?!!

That night, Ji Chuchi went after him like a madman. But his car flipped on the way, and when he woke up, he had returned to his second year of high school.

Ji Chuchi: Great, hahaha! Let's see what this one true love looks like.

After meeting him, Ji Chuchi's first thought was: Holy crap, he's gorgeous. I kind of love him.

So he embarked on an absurd plan: win over the one true love, make the kept boy pine for him with no hope, and die of misery.

The one true love went to the milk tea shop to do homework after school every day? Fine, Ji Chuchi would keep him company.

The one true love often skipped breakfast to save money? Fine, Ji Chuchi would make him a loving breakfast himself.

The one true love wanted him to study hard and get into college? Fine, Ji Chuchi would pick up the studies he'd neglected for seventeen years and start over.

The one true love wanted to be the top? Fine... What?! No! Absolutely not!

Ji Chuchi tried to abandon the plan and run, but he was pinned hard against a corner, looking up into a pair of dark eyes. Deep in them lay a crazed, consuming obsession.

"What? Giving up halfway through?"

Ji Chuchi shook his head. Before he could explain, a hand covered his mouth, and a low laugh sounded in his ear.

"That won't do."

"This time, you jumped in of your own accord."

Only then did Ji Chuchi realize he'd been played.

Ji Chuchi: I played myself. Thanks.

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Wen Zeye first saw Ji Chuchi on an ordinary day during the summer break before his first year of high school.

He was standing behind the counter of a milk tea shop when a group of fashionably dressed boys stopped outside. The first one through the door caught his eye at once: he had beautiful misty-blue hair and a rare pair of eyes with visible lower whites.

His pupils were an exceptionally pale shade, glowing faintly blue. When he looked over, Wen Zeye's heart, long silent, suddenly skipped into a rapid beat.

He was captivated by that cruel yet gentle smile.

He heard the boys around him call out his name: "Ji Chuchi."

Ji Chuchi.

For countless nights afterward, he rolled that name over and over in his mind, swallowing it down along with the surging tide of his desire.

Hidden beneath the sunlight, he clenched his pale fingers around the stinging thorns, dreaming of touching that noble wild rose.

But in the end, he lowered his hand and let bright-red beads of blood trickle down the crisscrossing veins.

He watched him fall in love, watched him go abroad to study, watched him walk step by step through the light, watched as his future held no trace of him at all.

Even after he worked desperately hard and reached the same heights, they still moved in opposite directions, never crossing paths.

Back in the past, he thought, he would use the most irresistible bait to lure in the most beautiful prey.

He would kiss those cool, pale-pink lips.

He would make Ji Chuchi his own.

/He gave him the deepest despair, and the courage to keep living.

Cold, scheming, obsessive seme with yandere tendencies x arrogant, domineering uke with violent tendencies

Wen Zeye x Ji Chuchi

Both are reborn. Happy ending.

Theme: Set lofty goals and strive toward a better life