Little Deer

His unreliable childhood friend nags Xiang Chen to save someone, so Xiang Chen has no choice but to climb over the school wall during PE class. But just as he lands nimbly on the other side, someone crashes right into him. He turns around to see a boy sitting on his back, his expression cold and his features delicate and refined. He has an utterly incongruous, hedgehog-like haircut. It's Lu He, the notorious school bully in Xiang Chen's class. After that unexpected collision, Xiang Chen and Lu He seem fated to keep running into each other. Xiang Chen goes out to eat for a friend's birthday, and he sees Lu He. He buys a cup of milk tea, and he sees Lu He. Even when his childhood friend drags him to a cat cafe, he still finds Lu He there, wearing cat ears and a butler-style uniform, his face cold and making no effort to play along. Xiang Chen, who recently transferred into Senior Class 2, Section 19, has clearly become the center of all the gossip. The moment he arrived, the school's heartthrob changed. He's not only good-looking and from a well-off family, but also does well in class. He was placed in the honors class as soon as he arrived. The only strange thing is that, when it comes to Lu He, the school bully in Section 19 who keeps everyone at arm's length, Xiang Chen doesn't avoid him. He even keeps approaching him. Everyone expects Lu He to lose patience, but they watch him go from avoiding Xiang Chen with a cold expression, to no longer rejecting his advances, and finally to habitually accepting the lunch Xiang Chen brings him every day and coming and going with him. So much for being a school bully? 1. The school's golden boy, top student, and pride of heaven, seme X the cold on the outside, soft on the inside, resilient faux bully, uke. Xiang Chen X Lu He. 2. I'm terrible at titles and blurbs. Anyway, it's a school story. I'll revise it again before I start posting. 3. The story is mainly told from the uke's perspective, but I'll switch to the seme's perspective when the plot calls for it. Here's a preview. Unless something unexpected happens, I'll finish this story this month and start the previewed novel next month: - Former top-tier star Xi Xihan fell from grace overnight and vanished without a trace for five years. Five years later, a man named Ji Shang frequents the backstage areas of performance venues, working as an utterly unremarkable behind-the-scenes staff member. But it all begins when he casually offers a word of advice to a minor star who's about to leave the stage. Soon, an idol with rock-bottom popularity, a vocalist who can't sing in tune, and a beautiful young starlet with a face to envy but a mountain of scandals... Those the outside world has given up on gradually gather around him. They begin as insignificant grains of sand, then wipe away the dust and see their popularity soar. A studio centered around Ji Shang is established in their "dormitory" as well. And as Ji Shang gradually gains a say in the industry, the truth behind the disappearance of former top-tier star "Xi Xihan" also begins to come to light. The sharp-tongued CEO, whose attitude toward Ji Shang has been strange from the start but who has helped him out more than once, is discovered, after an accident, to have a whole room at home piled with Xi Xihan CDs, posters, and photographs. Ji Shang: ... Ling Shizhi: ... Ji Shang: Did you buy them by accident? Ling Shizhi: Actually... Ji Shang: What about it? Ling Shizhi: My mom is your fan. Ji Shang turns around and pulls out a CD addressed to Ling Shizhi. He wrote it himself, ten years ago. * Ling Shizhi X Ji Shang. The cold-faced, sharp-tongued CEO seme X former top-tier star uke. * An alternate universe with no real-life models. This is an unconventional entertainment-industry story. No need to scrutinize the details or compare it to reality. At its heart, it's a story about collecting and nurturing talent ( ). * I'll build up a stock of chapters before posting and try to update daily. Theme: When a young man breaks free from the shackles of his past and reconciles with both the world and himself, everything will be a rebirth from a chrysalis.