Targeted by a Green Tea Puppy

For some reason, Shen Xing agreed to tutor Xie Ci in a foreign language before he went abroad to study.

He'd heard that Xie Ci was a rebellious high school boy with a bad temper, so Shen Xing decided to visit the bar where Xie Ci worked and get a feel for the situation first.

Before they could even say much, Shen Xing's annoying, bizarre illness flared up for no apparent reason, and he ended up in bed with Xie Ci, dazed and confused.

The next day, Shen Xing woke up in a panic and tried to flee, but his legs gave out and he fell on the carpet. Then he was laid up for three whole days.

Seriously, are kids these days really developing this fast??

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After getting himself back together, Shen Xing pulled himself together and sat beside Xie Ci to explain grammar, his voice warm and his manner patient and attentive.

Xie Ci propped his cheek on his hand. "Teacher Shen, could I ask you about a few problems of a more physical nature?"

Shen Xing's face was red all over, but he kept it cool. "Pay attention."

Xie Ci nodded. "Then, Teacher Shen, if I solve this problem, can I get a special reward?"

"I mean, a really special one."

Shen Xing took a deep breath, feeling that wretched illness stirring again, coaxed awake by temptation.

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Xie Ci had never met anyone so good.

Shen Xing made him a little cake by hand on his birthday, replied to his messages without ever getting tired of it, took him to the mountaintop to watch the sunrise when he was feeling down, and kept lowering his own standards to meet Xie Ci's every demand.

Xie Ci had grown up without a mother. The lack of family affection had led him to give up on himself, leaving him in darkness. Shen Xing was like a beam of moonlight, gently illuminating the lost boy he had become.

The pure-hearted boy in the throes of adolescence was sure this was love: one love in a lifetime, a lifetime in one love, a love of body and soul.

For Shen Xing's sake, Xie Ci removed his tattoos, quit his part-time job at the bar, and cut ties with his no-good friends.

He became a better person just as Shen Xing wanted, studying hard in hopes of getting into the school Shen Xing wanted him to attend.

Xie Ci was eagerly looking forward to the day he got his acceptance letter. He would propose to Shen Xing and loudly announce to the whole world that he and Teacher Shen were together!

But when he went to find Shen Xing, thrilled with his acceptance letter in hand, he was told that Shen Xing had disappeared long ago.

Shen Xing had had a reason for tutoring him, a reason for getting close to him. There was a reason for everything, but that reason definitely wasn't love.

Xie Ci: …

Xie Ci immediately called Shen Xing. His voice was hoarse, full of hurt. "Big Brother, I broke a bone playing basketball."

"Big Brother, it hurts."

Coming soon: Saving the Brooding Villain Is All Up to Me

Wen Tian transmigrates into a CEO novel he read before dying, becoming the short-lived cannon fodder who first provoked the villain into turning evil.

The good news: the villain hasn't turned evil yet.

The bad news: his hand has just slapped the villain across the face!

A vivid red handprint stretched across Jiang Han's pale, cold face. His dark gaze swept over Wen Tian, instantly chilling him to the bone.

"What are you looking at?!" Wen Tian glared back, eyes wide, and demanded fiercely, "You scored three points lower than last time. Wh-what happened?!"

Jiang Han: ???

Wen Tian angrily whipped out a little cake. "Then I can't give you a gold watch. You'll have to settle for this silver watch!"

Jiang Han licked the handprint at the corner of his mouth and said meaningfully, "Thank you, Young Master?"

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The original Wen Tian was hopelessly lovesick, madly in love with the protagonist gong, Lu Chen. He won Lu Chen's favor by tormenting Jiang Han, forbidding him from doing better than Lu Chen at school, looking better than Lu Chen, or treating the protagonist shou better than Lu Chen did.

Jiang Han was only the child of a housekeeper in the Wen family. His mother was gravely ill, his father was a gambler, and the weight of life had crushed the young man's back. He had no power to fight back.

All he could do was be Wen Tian's dog.

But fate played a cruel joke: Jiang Han was actually the real young master of the Lu family, switched at birth. After he was reunited with the Lu family, the first thing he did was bankrupt the Wen family. He then confined Wen Tian, who had bullied him, in a villa and put a leather collar around his neck, as if keeping a puppy.

The original Wen Tian eventually suffered a mental breakdown and jumped to his death.

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After transmigrating into the book, Wen Tian nervously starts raising Jiang Han's favorability and tries every way he can to save the brooding villain.

Since he can't go out of character, Wen Tian wracks his brain to exploit loopholes in the System.

For example, if Jiang Han scores worse than the protagonist gong, he gets a hundred thousand yuan. If he scores better, he gets a hundred thousand and one yuan, plus thirty-eight cents. Fair and impartial, with no feelings involved.

When the villain looks suspicious, Wen Tian makes him kneel on the floor and wash his feet.

I'm so... so evil!

Every time this happens, Wen Tian curls his toes, feeling like the most despicable person alive.

But he doesn't know that whenever Jiang Han sees him holding his nose up in the air, he thinks Wen Tian looks like an arrogant, pampered little ragdoll cat: fierce on the outside, but soft and fluffy, ready to topple with a single push.

Finally, one day, Jiang Han crushes the protagonist gong and wins first place in a competition. Wen Tian's eyes curve with happiness, but he says haughtily, "H-how could you beat Lu Chen?!"

"Then I'll only give you a villa. No swimming pool for you!"

Jiang Han laughed.

He knelt on the ground, clasped Wen Tian's hand, and said, "Young Master, I don't want a villa. Could you punish me some other way?"

Wen Tian's eyes widened. "Wh-what do you want?"

Jiang Han licked his palm, his expression both infatuated and sorrowful. "Young Master, slap me."

Wen Tian: … You little brat!

I raise you like my precious son, and you really go and act like a dog!

Cute, soft kitty shou X Dark, obsessive dog-like gong

Theme: With determination, you'll eventually reach the place you want to go.