I Grew Up with the F4 of a Campus Novel

[Writing takes time. Thanks for your support! My other novel, My Former Sect Leader, Who Died Young, Awakens, is now available. Check it out if you're interested.] [An almost-too-hot bonus chapter is coming later.] #The Childhood Friends I Grew Up With Have All Fallen for Me After Wen Xiao died, he was reborn and awakened to his own existence, discovering that he was living inside a danmei novel. Fortunately, none of the story had happened yet. His family hadn't gone bankrupt, his parents were still alive, his older brother hadn't been killed, and he hadn't antagonized the protagonist because of jealousy, only to suffer the revenge of the F4 group. The novel's protagonist is ordinary in background, pure and delicate without being affected, and innocent enough to dare to love and hate. He falls passionately in love with the “F4” of an elite boys' school, creating a chaotic, over-the-top mess before all five of them reach a happy ending together. The F4 are heirs to four great families, with lofty status. At school, they bully people and force kisses, unleashing one ridiculous melodrama after another. Wen Xiao spent the entire time watching like an old man squinting at his phone. At the best age of your lives, you choose not to study and instead form cliques at school? You should copy the words “prosperity, democracy, civility, and harmony” a hundred times. But Wen Xiao soon realized that the timing of his rebirth seemed a little off. He looked at Kid A, dozing face-down on the desk with only the back of his head showing. Then at Kid B, listening attentively with his book upside down. Then at Kid C, kicking the desk while snacking. Finally, he glanced at the antisocial Kid D, sitting in the corner with pursed lips and his hands under the desk, doing who knew what. He checked the class list to make sure he had it right. The future F4, who would rule the whole school, were... these kids? Their average height couldn't even reach four feet. He had gone back ten years before the story began. They were only seven and had just started first grade. Wen Xiao: ... Great. You have to start teaching naughty kids while they're young. [Blurb version 3.5 retained] Coming soon: the reverse-harem novel A Bystander Teacher at an Elite Boys' School. Please add it to your favorites. It'll be my next book. Lu He considers himself an ordinary person. Even after transmigrating into a book, he's still just an ordinary passerby. In a melodramatic school novel, the teachers are invisible throughout the story. By pure bad luck, he transmigrates into the teacher of the main couple, who is invisible from beginning to end. The original owner comes from an ordinary family and is afraid of the powerful. He wears a gray plaid shirt all year round, thick square glasses seemingly welded to his face, and is so dull and awkward that he doesn't fit in at this elite school at all. Lu He plans to stick to the character and remain thoroughly forgettable. He'll turn a blind eye to whatever happens between the main couple, steer his fellow bystander students away from their dramatic showdowns, recite his line, “If you're in trouble, go to a teacher,” and then wait for the end of the workday. According to the original story, the male lead is a rabid dog who needs discipline, while the protagonist is clear-headed and independent, and never lowers himself to ask anyone for help. So Lu He is shocked when he barely gets his line out before the protagonist grabs his sleeve. “Teacher, please help me.” Lu He: No. I really can't help. The male lead's voice turns dangerous. “How are you planning to help?” Later, Lu He realizes that the protagonist keeps coming to his office, while the male lead is increasingly fond of hanging around him too. The male lead blocks his way and drawls, “Teacher, do you like him and not me?” Lu He replies diplomatically, “Because I like clever, well-behaved students.” The male lead pulls a crumpled test paper out of his pocket and waves it in front of him. “I got sixty points. That's clever, right?” Lu He: I think you might have a little misunderstanding about what “clever” means. * Being a bystander teacher has made Lu He question his life. Not only does he have to deal with the troublesome main couple, he also has a whole mess of difficult colleagues to contend with. The domineering head of discipline is a top-school graduate who loves bossing students around, and him too. The baby-faced school doctor drops by every few days for a checkup and likes calling him “big brother.” The current athlete, a dark-skinned, well-endowed PE teacher, pinches his arm, then draws up a personalized workout plan and keeps telling him he's too weak. Holding his thermos, Lu He asks, “Am I not supposed to be a bystander? Could you all stop adding scenes for me?” Theme: Break free from fate and become yourself.