The Boy I Once Loved

As an incoming college freshman, Xi Jiachi has one more task before school starts: find a job for a younger friend.

The kid has just graduated from junior high and needs to earn money to support his older brother's repeat year of high school.

While waiting for the brothers to arrive, Xi Jiachi scrolls through messages in his old junior high group chat.

Someone posts that the person he had a crush on dropped out of school a year ago!

Li Yuanhai was always one of the top students in both junior high and high school, and he was also Xi Jiachi's crush.

Once, Xi Jiachi slipped a love letter to him while he was playing basketball, only to get caught...

The group chat laments that the dream boy of countless girls has vanished into the vast sea of people.

Then Xi Jiachi looks up and sees him.

The boy standing before him is tall and thin, wearing black-rimmed glasses. He's so ugly!

And it turns out he's the repeat student whose younger brother is supporting his studies!

How detestable!

In that one instant, love turns to hate.

Xi Jiachi wants nothing to do with Li Yuanhai. He won't even look him in the eye, and keeps tripping him up at every turn!

For example:

Li Yuanhai: "Let's talk."

Xi Jiachi: "No!"

Li Yuanhai: Shy, are you?

Xi Jiachi gives Li Yuanhai a present, but when he refuses to take it, Xi Jiachi grabs him fiercely by the collar: "You're taking it whether you want to or not!"

Li Yuanhai: He's crying!

Li Yuanhai's hair is too long. Unable to take it any longer, Xi Jiachi sweeps his bangs aside, then freezes.

Xi Jiachi: He's so handsome. Damn, can I take back all the dirty looks I gave him before?

Li Yuanhai: He's blushing!

Later on.

Xi Jiachi: "Li Yuanhai, I'll keep you."

Li Yuanhai: ?

Xi Jiachi shouts again, "Li Yuanhai, I'll keep you!" The whoosh of passing traffic drowns him out.

Li Yuanhai: "What?"

Xi Jiachi yells, "I said I like you! Don't pretend you can't hear me!"

Li Yuanhai: He runs off crying!

When Li Yuanhai hands Xi Jiachi 2,000 yuan and says, "I'll support you," the little rich second-generation answers excitedly, without a second thought: "Okay!"

Li Yuanhai: You like me that much?

For the New Year, Xi Jiachi invites the two brothers to stay at his house. On New Year's Eve, he chases away the younger brother who was supposed to share a room with Li Yuanhai, then crawls into Li Yuanhai's bed.

With his plan a success, Xi Jiachi says, "Hee hee!"

Li Yuanhai: You're that happy?

The little fox wants to be inseparable from him for the New Year, or he'll cry.

A delinquent young master vs. a scheming, poor repeat student

Theme: If you can't tidy up your own room, how can you put the world in order?