Transmigrated into a Universally Hated Student at an Elite Academy

Nan Xu transmigrates into a book, becoming a despised cannon-fodder character at an elite academy. The original Nan Xu was vain, looked down on those beneath him while fawning over the powerful, and never applied himself to his studies. Then his family went bankrupt, and unable to bear the blow, he broke down and attempted suicide. He was rescued, though. But the story did not end there. After waking up, the original Nan Xu would be exposed for deluding himself that one of the male leads was in love with him. Everyone would despise him, and he would become an object of scorn. At this academy, the scions of prestigious families stood above the world, treating life as a game. He was merely a pawn on their board. The scholarship students were poor but talented, and in their eyes, he was a worthless block of rotten wood. He became the most hated person at the bottom of the school hierarchy. After his death-from-the-start opening, Nan Xu finally managed to maintain a comfortable distance from everyone, hoping to keep his head down, live in peace, and graduate without trouble. But in places he never knew about, traces connected to him were hidden everywhere: the eerie silence that fell over a crowd when he happened to pass by, the turbulent commotion in an anonymous group chat over a single photo, the ambiguous bets placed at a party… They watched him greedily with ardent, shadowy gazes, guarding against and tearing into one another as they waited for a chance to obediently curl up at his side. # They tried to imprison Nan Xu, only to end up trapped in a cage themselves, fighting like cornered beasts. A friendly reminder: One-on-one romance, with a definite love interest. I’ll add more if I think of anything. Thanks, everyone~ [---Below is the blurb for an upcoming novel. Please add it to your collection~~---] "The Substitute Bride’s Plan Goes Awry, So He Fakes His Death" The protagonist was born in the slums of the chaotic Ninth District, scraping by through every kind of hustle and scam. One day, a con at a casino went wrong, and he was beaten within an inch of his life. While he was lying in bed recovering, a group of people came to him. Using his weakness against him, they demanded he take someone else’s place in an arranged marriage to the youngest heir of one of the Federation’s most powerful families. They handed him a photograph. The man in it was incomparably handsome, his deep eyes beneath dark gray brows and lashes gazing coldly into the camera. The protagonist recognized him: he was the culprit who had exposed the protagonist’s little trick at the casino and left him beaten and covered in blood. The protagonist laughed and agreed. * The male lead was aloof, aristocratic, and indifferent. Their wedding was supposed to be no more than an exchange of benefits. Yet countless times, as he held his wife in the dead of night, he was grateful he had never turned down the marriage. Until one day, the truth came out. The person beside him in bed was a fake, a spy, a con artist. It had all been a lie. His lover had shamelessly toyed with him using counterfeit affection. His wife fled from his side. He swore he would find them and make them pay. But when he received the next piece of news, he learned that his wife was dead. His heart filled with hatred suddenly went cold. Holding his wife’s portrait, he quietly turned gray-haired. Theme: Stand on your own two feet. Whether in hardship or not, stay firmly on your own path, and the dawn is just ahead.