After an Ordinary Girl Became Everyone's Favorite

[A regular girl’s harem-girl life #Her harem-girl constitution is set in stone#]

Shen Tianyun considers herself perfectly ordinary: an average family, average looks, and an average personality.

Her life has always been unremarkable. At eighteen, she outperformed herself and got into the country’s top university. That was definitely the biggest stir she’d ever caused.

After starting school, Shen Tianyun realized she didn’t even qualify as unremarkable here. The place was crawling with geniuses, and gold was everywhere.

She felt like a grain of sand in a pile of gold, and the smallest one at that.

Shen Tianyun could barely breathe.

And who can understand the misery of a college girl facing a placement test right after the semester starts? She had two weeks to prepare. First, she’d gone pale at the sight of the exam topics; then, she’d gone pale again while studying.

She finally snapped, ran up to the roof, and went from choking back sobs to bawling her eyes out, all while reciting her notes.

Only after finishing her review did she come down from the roof. As she turned around, she saw four men.

Shen Tianyun: ...My head’s spinning.

She had never cried in front of strangers before. Judging by their expressions, they’d clearly witnessed the whole thing: her sobbing, hiccupping, and reciting her notes.

Shen Tianyun: How embarrassing. So embarrassing.

As she looked at the four men, each with a different style but all astonishingly handsome, she felt awkward, mortified, and flustered.

One of them, a slightly roguish-looking man, curled his lips as if about to laugh. Shen Tianyun didn’t even dare look at him and fled. She vaguely heard a lovely voice trying to stop her, but she only ran faster.

“So cute.”

When the finance department’s top student stopped her after class and warmly invited her to join his competition team, Shen Tianyun was stunned for a moment.

She’d barely passed the placement test and was a bona fide academic underachiever at the school.

Why would someone so brilliant come looking for her...?

She was nervous, but she gathered her courage and said yes.

The handsome, refined finance prodigy seemed relieved, too. For an instant, he looked even more nervous than she was, but he quickly hid it and gave her a bright, easy smile.

So when Shen Tianyun found herself bumping into a CEO every three days and running into a family heir at least once a week, she began to suspect she’d somehow fallen into an otome game trap.

The trials and tribulations of her life made her imagine that she was the heroine of this dating sim.

“Miss Tianyun, are you free after class...?”

Shen Tianyun was daydreaming and didn’t react at first. She stared blankly at the handsome, composed face of the CEO’s assistant in front of her.

After class... Shen Tianyun nodded a beat late. “Is Mr. He looking for me again?”

Mr. He was the assistant’s boss. Ever since meeting her once, he’d been asking her out regularly, with suspicious frequency.

If not for

Shen Tianyun’s eyes wandered uncontrollably over the man’s perfectly fitted, crisply pressed suit, settling on a certain bulging spot. She stared, dazed.

Ah... A mature, steady, irresistibly masculine daddy type. If this assistant had not been exactly her type, she never would have agreed to a strange man’s repeated invitations.

As usual, the assistant didn’t notice her gaze. His expression was calm. “It isn’t Mr. He. This time, I’d like to invite you out on my own behalf.”

Ah?

The daddy-type assistant fixed his eyes on hers. “Would that be all right?”

“Y-yes, of course.”

Lately, men of all different types had been asking her out so often that she’d gotten used to it.

Although she had no idea why a regular girl like her had suddenly become so popular, still...

She really liked this type.

*Drafted on March 20, 2024

Theme: Those who love others are always loved in return