A Scumbag's Guide to Rising to the Top

Everyone in H City's upper circles says Lu Jingtang has looks, brains, and a good family background. He's got everything going for him, except for one thing: his taste in people is terrible.

First, a third-rate star tried to climb the social ladder by having his baby. Then a scheming junior drugged him and slept with him. Lu Jingtang seemed blind, accepting anyone who came along.

Only after the child was born and diagnosed with a rare genetic disease did he realize the paternity test had been wrong. The junior accidentally ended up in the wrong hotel suite, and when the real lover made a public declaration of love, it turned out the whole thing had been a scheme from the start.

One farcical mess after another has become the norm for Lu Jingtang. So when this rich young man hooked up with a guy, the whole upper crust waited for a grand gossip fest.

I hear the guy's a pretty boy, and older than him, too...

Not just that, he never even graduated high school. His education's worse than our housekeeper's!

Honestly, if he's going to date a man, you'd think he'd pick a good one!

You know what Lu Jingtang's taste is like! Sigh, I wonder when he'll see through that pretty boy and let us have a laugh.

Exactly, hahaha...

Listening to the gossip about Lu Jingtang's new flame, Zhao Cheng glanced at his own biceps. They didn't look that pretty, and was being one year older really such a big deal? The high school thing was nonsense, too. He'd never gone to college, but he had graduated from high school.

As for his taste, ever since Tangtang's erectile dysfunction was cured and he no longer needed a cover story, Zhao Cheng had been putting even more effort into certain things.

If he wanted to climb to the top, he really needed some 'skills.'

A man's tale of climbing the social ladder: who's worse than whom?

CP: Zhao Cheng x Lu Jingtang

Theme: A little sweetness amid the scum