Bai Jianliang has a childhood friend named Yukimura Seiichi. The other boy smiles all the time, and sometimes Bai Jianliang can practically see a lily-flower background behind him.
Their ill-fated connection began mainly because Bai Jianliang is an incurable beauty fanatic. He fell for that face back in kindergarten.
Come on! Who could resist that face?
So whenever the other boy said something with that face, Bai Jianliang couldn't say no.
Then one day, he was bound to a being that called itself a System.
[Hello, Host. I'm a romance System.] Actually, it was a simp-rescue System. It called itself a romance System because its seniors had told it that humans didn't really like being called simps, so it should keep that part secret to avoid making them angry.
"? Sorry, I'm not looking for love."
[Dear, are you saying you act like a simp but aren't in love?] It had spent a fortune on the latest detection feature, so there was no way it could mistake a simp for anything else.
"? When have I ever acted like a simp! And aren't you a romance System? Go find someone else. I don't like Seiichi at all."
[Are you sure? You always go running the moment Yukimura Seiichi calls you. That really does look like... ] Some things were better left unspoken.
After hearing this, Bai Jianliang gave it some serious thought.
He finally reached a conclusion: So I'm a simp? The internet says simps don't get the girl.
He's going to rise up!
The System had already prepared three ways for Bai Jianliang to handle the situation.
[First, meet other good-looking people.]
System: Aren't all these people handsome? Tezuka Kunimitsu, Atobe Keigo, Fuji Syusuke, and so on! How can you not like any of them?
Bai Jianliang: Maybe Yukimura Seiichi raised my standards.
The System failed.
[Second, look in the mirror and face your own looks.]
Bai Jianliang was pretty good-looking himself.
System: Look in the mirror. You're obviously handsome.
Bai Jianliang: I'm nowhere near as good-looking as Seiichi.
The System, internally: A beauty fanatic! There's no saving him.
[Third, stay away.]
System: Keep your distance. Choose a university far away. How about the University of Tokyo? I'll make sure you study.
This time, Bai Jianliang obediently did as the System said. But what he didn't expect was
The other boy chose the same university...
Bai Jianliang was shocked. "What! He's trying to lock me down!"
The System despaired internally. What more do you want from me? I'm practically turning into a study System! I look things up and write questions every day. Even for a System, that's exhausting.
Yukimura Seiichi was especially fond of his childhood friend, Bai Jianliang, but the other boy always looked at him with a conflicted expression.
He thought things would go on like that, until one day he saw someone confessing to Bai Jianliang. He decided he couldn't let things continue this way.
Yukimura Seiichi: "A-Liang, let's be together."
"Okay." Bai Jianliang only then realized what he'd said, and stared in shock. "Huh? What did you say?"
"You said yes, so you can't take it back."
Holding Bai Jianliang tightly in his arms, Yukimura Seiichi thought to himself that he should have caught him sooner, since Bai Jianliang could never say no to him.
The System: So the Host's feelings weren't one-sided after all. Well... if they get together, I guess that counts as successfully saving a simp?
Only then did the System receive a message from one of its seniors: You didn't buy that so-called latest detection feature, did you? It just came out that it's a shoddy product.
The System, crying on the inside, replied stubbornly: ...Haha, what are you talking about, Senior? Of course I didn't buy it.
Reader's note:
There will be some out-of-character behavior.
The protagonist is a beauty fanatic.
This is a comedy romance. (Both the protagonist and the System are goofballs, hahaha.)
Theme: None.
