After the Overpowered Hero Became a Four-Year-Old

[Due to various factors, after much consideration, I've decided to put updates on hold for now. I can only guarantee that the story will be completed, but I don't know when. Please enter at your own risk. I'm truly sorry.]

Blurb: Gu Shi is reborn at the age of four. A true-born Dragon Proud Heaven, he immediately decides to start training from childhood, always acting mature and steady so he can take over the family fortune as soon as possible! Build it up and make it big! Crush his peers!

But...

His mother strokes his little head. "You're so amazing, sweetheart. You can count to ten today. Now go to sleep..."

Yawning, Gu Shi stubbornly insists, "I still have to count to twenty!"

Make him study! Make him compete!

The next second, he face-plants on the spot.

Gu Shi laments: A kid with only three seconds of energy can't possibly be him!

*

After returning to age four and becoming less intelligent along with his younger body, Gu Shi's plans to be the ultimate overachiever are repeatedly postponed. That is, until he runs into his future nemesis, Jiang Qi, by the side of the road.

The person who will outdo Gu Shi in everything is standing by the road in faded clothes, head lowered, with a broken bowl in front of him.

Overjoyed, Gu Shi toddles toward Jiang Qi in his little steps--

He stops in front of Jiang Qi, lifts his chin, folds his arms, and looks down at him askance. With an air of reserve and arrogance, he asks:

"Do you know what 218 + 327 is?"

*

That year, Jiang Qi is five, and the Gu family adopts him.

A nemesis enters young Gu Shi's life. Every day, he competes with Jiang Qi to see who can eat more, go to bed earlier, and play games better.

He loses time and time again, but keeps trying. Later, even the person Gu Shi likes confesses to Jiang Qi first, while they're in college. Furious, Gu Shi challenges Jiang Qi to a drinking contest, only to pass out because he can't hold his liquor.

In a daze, he grabs Jiang Qi by the collar and asks, "Who the hell do you like?"

Jiang Qi says nothing.

Just as Gu Shi is about to fall asleep, warmth brushes his cheek. Jiang Qi's voice is calm and low: "You."

Gu Shi jolts awake, instantly sober.

Reader's note: 1. A beloved-childhood growth story, focused on friendship.

2. Jiang Qi is the love interest.

3. The story starts when they're children and continues as they grow up. The romance only begins in adulthood.

Next book: A Pretty Boy's Struggle to Survive in a Horror Game

Chi Yu is a villainous NPC in a dating game, with snow-white skin, limpid eyes, and a perfect beauty score. He's devious, but not very smart. He schemes between the male leads to win the heroine, gaining fans on his pretty face alone.

After awakening to his true nature, Chi Yu enjoys a leisurely life: acting like a sweet, scheming girl by day and sleeping at night. Now and then, he checks the forum to see if his fan count has gone up. Life is delightful.

Until one day, Chi Yu discovers that the dating game turns into a horror game every night. The male leads, impossible to win over by day, become the masters of the horror game after dark.

To survive the nights, Chi Yu has no choice but to seek out one of the male leads, Yu Xuechen. By day, Yu Xuechen is a gentle, kind, and refined young gentleman. At night, he seems more human than the other four lunatics.

Hearing why Chi Yu has come, Yu Xuechen smiles warmly. "Sure. I like you a lot, little fish."

Chi Yu visits Yu Xuechen every night and sleeps soundly. But when he wakes the next morning, something strange has always happened to him.

Trembling with fear, and unable to stand it any longer, Chi Yu pretends to play along with Yu Xuechen, tricking him into giving his life for him.

Just as Chi Yu is getting ready to run, Song Feiran, one of the male leads, grabs him by the throat. Blood from the man's hand drips down Chi Yu's jaw.

The man's eyes are pitch-black and his gaze is dark, yet he smiles. "You've stayed at the Yu house long enough, little fish. It's time you came to my place."

Chi Yu trembles, his eyes reddening and his lips turning pale from biting them. Shaking, he agrees, and the male lead pulls him into his arms.

At the time, Chi Yu doesn't yet know that four more lunatics like this are all after him.

1. The bottom is a silly beauty, but devious.

2. One top split into several versions.

3. It's not scary. If it's even a little scary, the author will be the first to get frightened.

Theme: Love learning every day