First Place Is Mine!

Being number one is Xu Yanyu's motto in life.

So he held the top spot at school for five years, ruling every aspect of campus life.

Then, in senior year, a transfer student named Zhang Zhan joined his class. Xu lost his place as the top student, and the school beauty he'd liked for half a year confessed to the newcomer.

What made it even more infuriating was how Zhang always managed to show up right beside him, stirring things up and provoking him again and again.

The feud that began over who was the top dog on campus kept escalating.

Xu Yanyu sent him a note challenging him to a fight, determined to settle things once and for all that day!

Zhang Zhan took the note with an impassive expression.

He said, "I like you too."

Xu Yanyu: "???"

He snatched the note back.

He'd realized he'd picked up someone else's love letter to him by mistake.

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Nothing matters more than saving face.

Xu Yanyu gritted his teeth and accepted Zhang Zhan as his boyfriend, ready for daily arguments and constant one-upmanship. But then...

There was a warm breakfast he liked in his desk every day.

When he woke up from a nap in class, his notebook was filled with key notes.

On weekends, Zhang took him on dates, picking the exact internet cafe he liked best.

Why is he so competitive even as a boyfriend?!

Determined to win first place in the Best Boyfriend contest, Xu Yanyu gave it his all and kept outdoing himself.

After eating breakfast, he bought Zhang Zhan his favorite drink during a basketball game.

After looking over the notes, he helped Zhang sort through his mistakes.

At the internet cafe, he didn't even play games. He watched romance movies with Zhang all afternoon.

In a dim internet cafe booth, their eyes met.

Zhang Zhan looked away first, then quietly took his hand.

So the competition had finally come to this!

Xu Yanyu gritted his teeth, squeezed Zhang's hand back, tilted his head up, and kissed him.

From refusing to back down to outdoing each other all the way to the end, they got into the same university, met each other's parents, and received everyone's blessings...

Xu Yanyu: "I'm going to be number one! Do you even know what one means?!"

Zhang Zhan: "But zero comes before one."

Xu Yanyu: "?!"

Something doesn't seem right here!

A cool, cocky campus king who never backs down and charges ahead, the bottom vs. a seemingly aloof but secretly obsessed top who's been in love for years and planned everything in advance

My next book will be Sleeping Terribly Tonight. Please add it to your favorites, mwah mwah mwah~

Song Lianxing spent the first twenty years of his life like a puddle of mud.

His parents abandoned him.

He was adopted, then abandoned again. His adoptive father was a compulsive gambler, so debt collectors hounded him and he missed the college entrance exam.

Even when he was working on an assembly line at a factory, his dormmates ostracized him because a female coworker in the same workshop liked him.

At twenty, he left the electronics factory with all his savings and rented a place to live.

His landlord was unexpectedly young and didn't look like he needed the money. Yet he rented Song a room with a private bathroom for a very low price.

From that day on, Song somehow started having good luck.

The landlord asked him to look after some kittens, and in return waived his rent and provided delicious, healthy meals every day.

A casual video of him singing went viral. Just as he was thinking about starting a singing livestream, he won a complete set of streaming equipment.

After only a couple of days of streaming, he received a huge donation.

By a twist of fate, he added the top donor as a contact.

His top donor was forty-three, had lost the love of his life, was disabled, and suffered from severe insomnia. He always stayed in Song's livestream until the end to keep him company.

Sometimes Song would chat privately with the top donor about things in his life. The other man always listened patiently and gave him the most sincere advice.

One time, after getting drunk, Song worked up the courage to tell him that he thought he was falling for his landlord.

The next day, he woke to a reply from the top donor. Unlike his usual warm, steady support, the message was full of malice: "He's clearly a lunatic."

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The landlord, who seemed like an ordinary person living in a small apartment, was actually an heir to a wealthy family, with assets worth hundreds of millions. They belonged to two different worlds.

Song Lianxing was even more convinced that he had nothing worth coveting. And with his first love taking hold, he fell harder and harder.

He and the other man grew closer and closer.

One day, he accidentally opened the computer in the study.

It showed surveillance footage covering every corner of the house, including a camera pointed right at his bed.

And the avatar beneath it, showing a notification for an unread message, belonged to his top donor.

As he stood there in shock, the study door opened, and the landlord walked toward him step by step. His gentle, self-controlled facade fell away, revealing the obsessive man beneath it. "Didn't I tell you I was a lunatic?"

"You didn't run then, and now it's too late. You can't get away."

Song Lianxing closed the surveillance feed and said helplessly,

"I never wanted to run."

"You could've just come to see me yourself..."

A vulnerable but resilient little victim mired in despair vs. an obsessive widower reborn with a gentle, fatherly persona

Theme: Keep striving to improve and become the best version of yourself.