Are There Any Normal People at Your Elite Academy?

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The protagonist transmigrates into a novel he was reading before bed. The story has all the ingredients of a proper bedtime read: a beloved-by-everyone lead, *P, and love rivals competing for the same man.

The story is roughly about an impoverished protagonist who gets into an elite academy. Unable to stand the way students are ranked according to their family backgrounds, he unintentionally makes enemies of several of the main semes.

The semes are all heaven’s favorites, with dazzling family backgrounds. The school forum calls them the F4.

Of course, by the end of the story, each seme has his own dramatic regret arc, and they’re all deeply attracted to the optimistic, cheerful, stubborn, and resilient protagonist. That kicks off a whole series of love-rivalry plotlines that leave readers cheering, “That’s so satisfying!”

The protagonist transmigrates into the role of F1’s rumored boyfriend. It’s written as “rumored boyfriend,” but read it as “simp.”

The character he transmigrates into is also from a poor family. He was specially recruited by the school as an outstanding student and had excellent grades, but after just a year at the academy, he’d been assimilated by its ever-present class system. He realized studying couldn’t change his fate, but following the main seme could let him rise to the top in one leap.

F1 has a nasty personality. With his illustrious family and overwhelming power, he considers no one worthy of his notice.

Except for the protagonist, F1 has one, two, three, four, five, six simps at his side. The competition is vicious. Aside from the protagonist, the others all come from decent families, and they see the protagonist, who’s already been dubbed F1’s “rumored boyfriend,” as a thorn in their side.

As mentioned earlier, F1 has a nasty personality, and one way this shows is that he likes to “raise poisonous bugs.”

The reason so many simps have gathered around F1 is that he deliberately lets them.

He grew up in a powerful family full of intrigue and witnessed the ugliness of human nature. Keeping all these bugs at school is nothing more than a whim, something to entertain himself and stave off boredom.

After transmigrating into the book, the protagonist initially planned to bow out gracefully. But he realized that without F1’s “protection,” the others would probably crush him in the increasingly cutthroat competition, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep playing his part.

F1 was very perceptive. After watching the protagonist act for a few days, he realized that this little bug seemed to lack motivation. After thinking it over, he decided to feed the protagonist more bait to get him moving.

And so

He gave the protagonist a key card to his detached villa so he could buy him breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

He gave the protagonist a ticket to the front row of the academy’s grand festival so he could film his handsome face from every angle without missing a thing.

He gave the protagonist a plane ticket to sit beside him on the school’s annual study trip so the protagonist could shield him from outside disturbances and provide a peaceful place to sleep.

The protagonist was driven to thoughts of throwing himself into a river by the mounting grievances.

On another rainy day, F1 came down with that stomachache so familiar to readers everywhere and ordered the protagonist to go buy him medicine.

The protagonist ran through the wind and rain to the infirmary to get the medicine, cursing F1’s princess sickness all the while. He deliberately dawdled, then slowly made his way back to the classroom

But the room was empty.

The sky was dim and gloomy with rain. The light was murky, and the curtains billowed noisily in the wind.

F1 rested his chin lazily in his hand, sitting in the very last row at the top of the lecture hall. He watched the protagonist thoughtfully, then suddenly smiled and said, “Hey, boyfriend.”

“Want to kiss me?”

*

Aside from F1, F2, F3, and F4 at the elite academy were all oddballs, too.

The three of them had heard that F1 had reformed, but they’d never been sure who the incredible person was that had made him change.

Until another rainy day.

The three of them arrived with umbrellas at the lounge reserved for F4.

When they pushed open the closed door, the light inside trembled, and dust motes drifted through the beams.

The wind and rain howled outside.

In the unlit room, F1 wore a black tank top. His muscles were lean, pale, and powerfully defined. He leaned over the tall marble table, casting a deep, cold shadow as he kissed the person beneath him, arms wrapped around them.

His usually casual, indifferent face was now filled with a frightening madness and yearning.

Hearing the door open, he raised his eyes, irritation flashing across his face

One hand still cradled the back of the person in his arms, both restraining and protecting them. He clicked his tongue and demanded, “Can’t you knock?”

F2 spread his hands and smiled. “I didn’t know I was interrupting something good.”

F3 curled his lips and glanced casually at the slender figure in F1’s arms. Calmly, he said, “This is a public place. Have some consideration.”

F4, as taciturn as ever, coolly prepared to leave.

The protagonist couldn’t stand listening to them. He shoved F1 away, jumped down from the table, and turned to leave

He didn’t look at anyone. His lips pressed into a straight line, his eyes dark and listless. The flush at the corners of his eyes hadn’t faded, but his expression had already turned cool and indifferent. He walked past them without a word, the hem of his clothes lifting slightly.

The room fell silent.

Not a sound.

*

What the protagonist didn’t know was that his story had only truly begun at that moment.

[F1 is the main seme. The protagonist also has romantic storylines with the other three members of F4, including kissing and hugging.]

[The seme is a jerk early on, and the other F4 members are jerks, too. There’s plenty of old-school melodrama (important). In the early and middle stages, the romance is mostly unrequited, and the uke only cares about studying.]

Theme: Study hard, and the future is bright.