After the Villainous Cannon Fodder Enters the Elite Boys' School

[He watched others go mad over him, thinking it was nothing special.]

Lan Yu's life was a joke.

When he found the only son of the Yan family of A City fallen on hard times, he thought he could finally glimpse the light. He happily left the isolated mountain village, never imagining that a string of indignities and endless hardships awaited him.

When Yan Hanqing brought him to that elite boys' school, Lan Yu's nightmare began.

Wens Academy had a history spanning hundreds of years and was considered the finest school in the Alliance. It trained political and business elites, as well as artists, and upheld a tradition of cultivating the most accomplished and refined young men.

And Lan Yu was just a lowlife from the sticks, an ungrateful opportunist with delusions of grandeur.

He was also stupid, ungracious, and flashy, clinging like a dog to "the light of Wens," Yan Hanqing, and refusing to let anyone else have his attention.

Lan Yu brushed off the malicious stares, the subtle attacks of their eyes, and the honeyed words meant to lure him in. He wouldn't fall for any of it.

Until Yan Hanqing decided to toy with him.

He ran toward that counterfeit love, only to be knocked to the ground and left to die.

Lan Yu regretted it.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the day he first entered the nightmare.

Yan Hanqing was standing before him, complaining nonchalantly. "Those people are so annoying. You're even worse, always clinging to me."

The next second, Lan Yu gave him what he wanted. "Fine. I won't cling to you anymore."

"..."

"Who are you going to cling to?" Yan Hanqing didn't ask.

Lan Yu didn't want to let anyone get away with it.

Not Yan Hanqing, who had deceived and betrayed him in his previous life,

nor those cold, arrogant classmates,

nor the others who had lured him in and watched him descend into hell,

nor all the people who had ultimately driven him to a desperate death.

Lan Yu wanted to drag every last one of them into the abyss.

The weak have weapons of their own.

He smiled at them, with his teasing, sultry gaze, damp hair, feverish body, lingering embraces... and more.

No one could ever be more successful than Lan Yu.

Yan Hanqing gradually lost all of Lan Yu's attention. Those devoted eyes that had always wandered back to him were gone.

He grew so restless he couldn't sleep. The person he had once resented and pushed away left him unbearably empty, and everything about his old flame drew him in like poison.

He searched everywhere, spending long stretches of time waiting in Lan Yu's dorm room for him to return. But when he heard faint footsteps and opened the door, he found Lan Yu gazing tenderly at someone else.

Lan Yu's cold gaze slowly swept over his pale, frightened, furious face. Then he asked in confusion, "What are you doing here? You're interrupting me."

Yan Hanqing stared blankly as Lan Yu leaned slightly into the arms of the tall man beside him. With a flirtatious look, Lan Yu turned away and stopped looking at him.

He descended into madness.

Reader advisory and content warnings:

1. There are probably a lot of things to watch out for, including all kinds of melodramatic tropes, such as rivals becoming lovers, turns out I'm the one everyone loves, everyone wants me but no one wants to love me (in the previous life), and men competing for the same love interest in dramatic showdowns.

2. All the male leads are virgins.

Theme: Sincerity should never be betrayed.