The Underworld University Admissions Guide

After his family suffered a sudden upheaval, Tang Xi was left all alone just before the college entrance exams. Unsurprisingly, he bombed them, dropping from a promising candidate for a top university to below the undergraduate cutoff.

At the high school graduation party, Tang Xi got drunk. Egged on by a bunch of classmates who were academic failures, he recreated an iconic movie scene by setting up an underworld university on a tiny website. Its prospective students were ghosts and monsters. He even pretended to be official by stamping it with his family's ancestral seal, appointing himself president.

When he woke up again, he was on a bus filled with icy winds. Looking around, he saw only translucent figures with pale faces, all standing on tiptoe.

"Classmate," a newly enrolled evil ghost grinned at him, black blood trickling down between its teeth. "You smell so good. You have the familiar scent of a living person."

Tang Xi: ...

The ghosts looked around, eyeing the seemingly innocent blood-meal who had boarded the bus, eager to pounce. At this life-or-death moment, the living person they had taken for prey suddenly stood up and walked straight to the empty driver's seat.

"Hello, everyone. Nice to meet you. I'm the president of Fengdu University."

The ghosts: ?!

"I'm pleased to introduce the first rule of Fengdu University's code of conduct..." Tang Xi counted on his fingers, doing his best to stay calm. "Those with grievances must be given justice, those with enemies must be killed, the innocent must remain untouched, and peace must be maintained between the worlds of the living and the dead."

It was only a stalling tactic, but unexpectedly, the vow shook the underworld, and the Eight Halls of Yama gave their approval.

Tang Xi: ?

Oh no. Now he had no choice but to build this university!

All he could do was turn the act into reality and work hard to establish an underworld university: recruiting newly dead students in the living world, forcibly recruiting thousand-year-old spirits from the wilderness to serve as teachers, and earning merit as funding for the university...

He would nurture generation after generation of brilliant judges of the dead, ghost constables, and talented spirits who kept up with the times, fill the vacancies left by the ancient war, restore order in the living world, and make his school the greatest university spanning both the living and the dead!

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When Tang Xi heard that the woman his grandfather had once arranged for him to marry had come to visit, he thought he shouldn't hold her back. He'd put on a display of being hopelessly useless so she'd call off the engagement herself.

When they got caught up in a paranormal incident during their date, Tang Xi let himself go, panicking, screaming, and tripping on flat ground. He ended up crawling around in a pathetic mess, a total pretty-boy airhead. He figured she'd realize he wasn't worth marrying.

The next moment, the evil ghosts scattered. Someone gently lifted his chin, and he met the woman's inexplicably flushed face.

The woman spoke in a low, magnetic voice, her words spilling out between uncontrollable gasps. Her fascinated gaze stayed fixed on him.

She said, "Xixi, you look so pretty when you cry."

Tang Xi: ???

Oh no. She's into that!

A few notes:

1. A controlling, sadistic seme who pretends to be a cute, five-foot-two girl, paired with a six-foot man who acts weak and sunny.

2. The seme is actually six feet tall, but uses bone-shrinking techniques to pretend to be five-foot-two.

3. At first, the seme pretends to be a cute, five-foot-two girl. In reality, he's a sadist who likes watching the uke cry and is fiercely protective of him. He's the kind of sadistic seme from old-school novels who wants to carry the uke everywhere and thinks the uke can't live without him. But while he's doing all that at first, he still pretends to be a cute, five-foot-two girl ( ).

4. The seme dresses as a woman because he thinks the uke is into that. The uke doesn't expose him because he thinks the seme is into that. A gender-bent Mr. and Mrs. Smith story.

In the eyes of bystanders: a miraculous 4i (not really).

Theme: Study hard and improve yourself every day.