After the Real Young Master Cannon Fodder Started Slacking Off

After a car accident, Li You is reborn as the villainous real young master in a novel about a switched-at-birth true and fake young master. Abandoned by his adoptive parents as a child, he grows up in an orphanage with a twisted personality. When he returns to his biological parents' home, he is treated with contempt until his heart grows warped. He tries to kill the innocent and adorable fake young master, but ends up getting himself killed instead.

Fated to be despised, Li You gives up completely and lets loose, picking fights with everyone and everything:

His parents find him crude and ill-mannered. Li You drops his knife and fork. "That's right, I'm crude and ill-mannered. I have no father, no mother, and nobody to teach me."

His older brother thinks he's a terrible student, a disgrace in his shabby clothes. Li You slumps back in his chair. "That's right, I'm a terrible student. I can't read. What are you going to do about it?"

The fake young master, a white lotus, sobs that he's innocent and only wants to get along with Li You, and begs Li You not to dislike him. Li You raises an eyebrow. "That's right, I dislike you and don't want to get along with you. Get lost."

When a group of school bullies try to throw their weight around and beat Li You up, he grabs the ringleader by the crown of his head with his bare hand. "Say that again. Who are you going to gang up on?"

Then he looks up and sees his good friend Duan Sen watching him.

Li You runs over in delight. "Duan Sen, you came here too?"

The male lead of the novel, Gu Qianfan, gives a cold laugh. "Who's Duan Sen?"

Li You: "..."

Oh, so this is the blind idiot of a male lead. He looks exactly like Li You's good friend Duan Sen.

Ugh!

Li You turns and walks away.

Gu Qianfan: "...?" Playing hard to get?

Gu Qianfan: "Li You, stop playing games. I will never be with you."

Li You sneers. "As you wish."

Later, the parents who once despised Li You try to make it up to him, and the older brother who pushed him away chases after him to apologize.

Li You comes in first by a huge margin in the joint exams, goes viral for his guzheng performance at the school anniversary celebration, personally sends his adoptive parents, who switched the true and fake young masters, to prison, and steps into a national-level laboratory as he pursues his dream of reaching for the stars.

Gu Qianfan is eaten up with jealousy. "Xiao You, who's Duan Sen? Did you treat me as his replacement?"

"Who is he, anyway? How am I not as good as him?"

"Li You, look at me."

Li You: "..."

He gives up so hard he becomes everyone's darling.

Theme: Communicate in time, uncover misunderstandings, resolve conflicts, and find happiness.