The Most Hated One After Being Reborn Ninety-Nine Times

The top is the most hated student at an aristocratic academy.

Because he is poor, an excellent student, pretty, and honest, the teachers turn a blind eye as he becomes a target for the academy's golden boys.

In his first life, they poured a bucket of cold water over him in winter and locked him in a refrigerated room, where he froze to death. The golden boys laughed and said they hadn't expected him to be so bad at handling the cold, then carried on with their school lives.

In his second life, he became one golden boy's lackey, only to be seen as a thorn in the side by that boy's admirers and deliberately run down. No one would care if a lackey died.

In his third life, he tried to transfer classes...

His ninety-ninth rebirth.

"Crash!"

His desk was kicked over. The top watched in silent stillness as it all unfolded, while the golden boy's grin looked utterly revolting.

The boy impatiently patted his face. "Why are you just standing there? Go buy me lunch, got it?"

The top nodded quietly.

He crouched down and searched through the mess on the floor, then took a fruit knife from his pencil case.

A gloomy, twisted top who went insane after dying too many times

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An upright policeman bottom who thinks, "But he's really so pitiful."

"That's what happened."

Sitting in the police station, the top looked at the officer questioning him. Beneath his long black hair, his dark eyes were utterly still.

"I stabbed xxx. How do you want to sentence me? Death, life imprisonment, or should you just let me go and leave him to deal with me?"

The officer across from him looked to be in his twenties. Tall and handsome, with long legs that looked especially cramped in the interrogation-room chair, he stared at the top in a daze for a long moment.

"N-no, that's not necessary... We'll summon xxx right away."

"Are you okay? Do you need a therapist? Or would you like a hot meal first?"

The top was stunned.

So there really were normal people in the world outside school.

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[Afterword]

On the day the special task force arrived and the school was shut down, Yin Yue finally learned just how powerful the officer's family was.

The golden boys who had killed him countless times, haunting him like a nightmare he couldn't escape even with a knife in hand, had their assets seized. They were about to be sent to prison, weeping and begging him for mercy.

Yin Yue gave them a cold glance and turned to leave.

At that very moment, he heard the officer behind him speak.

"Criminals should be brought to justice. If you're begging your victim for mercy now, are you planning to keep harassing him?"

The officer was handsome in a rather carefree way, but his voice rang with authority.

Yin Yue thought, How warm.

Like a ray of light.

He stopped, lowered his eyes, and tugged at the officer's sleeve.

"Big brother, I'm a little scared..."

He wanted to hold on to the light.

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Pretty top, handsome bottom, 1v1. Don't split them up or reverse their roles.

First version: 2024-06-11. Third version: 2025-03-07. The blurb has been archived.

The original wealthy-family butler trope was a little odd, so I replaced it. If you don't like this trope, feel free to remove it from your favorites. Sorry about that (bows).

Theme: The world is in darkness, but he alone is the light.