Are You Going to Study or Not?

[The story is complete. I’ll be fixing typos from time to time, so don’t mind the update icon.] ★ A sweet little story to lift your mood. I won’t accept baseless plagiarism accusations. If you have no proof, don’t make accusations. Jinjiang has a reporting center, so submit your evidence there. I’ll save screenshots of any defamatory comments. Anyone who stirs up trouble, insults people, or launches personal attacks will be sued. Please don’t mention other works in the comments. I’ll report and delete those comments. ★ Updates every night at eleven. ★ Thanks to my dear friend for staying up until the early hours to draw my cover. It’s gorgeous, sob! [Blurb] Jiang Xing is a moderately well-known problem-solving creator on a video platform. He always uses a voice changer, never shows his face, and even wears half-finger gloves when livestreaming lessons. For certain reasons, his family transferred him to Yun Zhao Experimental No. 1 High School. Jiang Xing continued to coast along, comfortably ranking second to last in his class. The student in last place was his deskmate, Ji Xu, a cheapskate who considered “romance is a waste of money” the ultimate truth of life. They agreed to stick together in the last two rows of the grade report and be brothers who would never part. Not long afterward, when Jiang Xing finished a livestream lesson, he received several long private messages that read: [Hey, creator, are you there? I want to order a custom set of basic practice problems for every subject, as basic as possible.] [So, I have a deskmate who isn’t very bright. He’s sensitive and thin-skinned, and I want him to study hard. I’m flexible about the price.] [It would be best if the cover looked really impressive, so he thinks the problems he’s doing are advanced too.] Jiang Xing: “...” After reading the messages, he could only think that this person and his deskmate were both nuts. For the money, he stayed up all night making the set, gave it an extremely impressive name, Advanced Question Bank, and mailed it out. A few days later, the thick stack of Advanced Question Bank appeared on his own desk. Jiang Xing: “...” He glanced at his smug deskmate. Ji Xu had no idea. “Hey, Jiang Xing, how is it? Aren’t I good to you? Only smart people do books like Advanced Question Bank. It’s perfect for someone like you!” Jiang Xing: “...” What a fucking idiot. If he weren’t the creator, he’d have believed it. Ji Xu really was unbelievable. Many years later. Jiang Xing got home and had just taken off his tie when someone scooped him up and carried him to the bedroom. The moonlight dimmed, and a cool, restrained curse rang out. “Ji Xu... you fucking... aren’t human...” Ji Xu kissed his ear. “I stopped wanting to be human a long time ago.” Coming soon: Professional Bad Ending Master Yu Lian is a master screenwriter specializing in melodramatic bad-ending plots. Star-crossed lovers, stand-in stories, white moons and cinnabar moles, I love you but you love him and he loves me... He uses every old-school tragic romance trope, and every character’s exit from each world is achingly beautiful and tragic. Before retirement, Yu Lian picked a high-risk world combining several novels in order to qualify for the highest-level retirement benefits. Scum Top One: The First Seat of the Immortal Realm. Yu Lian is the First Immortal Venerable’s senior disciple. Gentle and generous, he quietly takes care of everything on the peak while suppressing his forbidden love for his master, suffering and struggling as a demonic obsession grows within him. His master treats him well. So well that he would risk serious injury for him. His master treats him terribly, too. So terribly that he digs out Yu Lian’s heart for someone who looks just like him. Later, the usually heartless master, drenched in blood, returns the heart to Yu Lian with great care. His eyes redden. “A Lian, I’m giving your heart back. Please love me again...” But Master, how can a heart that’s been dug out be put back? And how can someone without a heart love another person? Scum Top Two: The First Seat of the Immortal Realm’s sworn enemy, Lord of the Underworld. The Lord of the Underworld grips his chin. “Yu Lian, you love him so much you’ve lost everything. I’ll make you forget him. Once you fall in love with me, I’ll restore your memories. I bet you’ll look beautiful when you break down.” Yu Lian really does fall in love with him. The Lord of the Underworld doesn’t know how to love, so Yu Lian teaches him little by little. He gives the Lord of the Underworld so, so much love. So when every beautiful illusion is torn away, the exquisite pain and despair that emerge are enough to make your bones go cold. The Lord of the Underworld finally learns how to love. But he’ll never find the person who loved him again. … Yu Lian opens the script he wrote and watches the plot-completion percentage keep climbing, perfectly satisfied. Reading guide: 1. The protagonist ends up on his own. There is no CP. 2. A new relationship only begins after the previous one has ended. 3. Old-school melodramatic tropes. The scum tops are sent straight to the crematorium to be incinerated. Theme: Study hard so you can embrace a beautiful life.