Can This Scheming Cannon Fodder Get a Happy Ending at the Aristocratic Academy? [Book Transmigration]

After waking up, Lin Chuji found himself transmigrated into a novel as one of the cannon-fodder tops who barely got half a chapter's worth of attention.

With his striking looks and an unusually sensitive constitution, Lin Chuji, who had no powerful family backing him, was in for a hellish start at an elite academy.

And his bad ending was only a year away.

To keep anyone from noticing something was off, the first thing Lin Chuji did after arriving was follow the novel's setup and buy a pair of thick, black-rimmed glasses.

Well, it was a novel world, after all. It worked.

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At first, Lin Chuji did his best to avoid the main couple, thinking that would keep trouble from finding him.

But when he was living at an elite academy with such a rigid class system, as a scholarship student in a top-level class, it seemed he could never escape the fate laid out for him.

Surrounded by wolves and caught in open and covert power struggles, the slightest mistake could send him spiraling into an early bad ending.

Lin Chuji had no choice but to abandon wishful thinking and throw himself into the game, making sure everyone had their eyes on him.

As long as he stood at the very center of things, he could still get a happy ending!

Orens Academy was founded for the prospective heirs of the great families. They could enroll only after their eighteenth-birthday coming-of-age ceremony. The academy aimed to develop the full range of abilities they would need to manage their families' businesses in the future.

Students were divided into classes by the color of their uniform ties.

Each year, Orens Academy admitted only two additional scholarship students with clean backgrounds, for the prospective heirs to choose from. It was also a form of investment by the academy.

That year, the main love interest and Lin Chuji were the new students.

No one could have expected this:

The heir to the Ling family, usually so cold and distant, was supposed to become a gloomy, terrifying madman who bowed and submitted to the main love interest. But now, he was clinging to the hollow of Lin Chuji's neck, utterly distraught.

"...I can give you everything you want. Please stop avoiding me, okay?"

And the second son of the Feng family, born with a violent nature and supposed to take whatever prey caught his eye, was now kneeling carefully before Lin Chuji, lowering his head for the first time in his life.

"Tsk, so delicate... If you won't let me carry you, I'll give you a piggyback ride."

Even the main love interest from the original story had broken character. He offered up everything he had with both hands, adding new, deeper scars to his body, all so Lin Chuji would spare him a brief glance instead of looking at those tigers and wolves.

"I know you're using me. Does that mean I'm still worth something?"

Lin Chuji: ...

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A delicate, ruthless and cold-hearted beauty of a top who knows how to reel people in x a handsome, strong and ruthless bottom who dotes on his lover and holds everyone else to a different standard

Lin Chuji x Ling Wei

Notes:

1. Top-led romance. The bottom pursues the top.

2. The top is irresistible to everyone. He may have a cold expression, but he's beautiful and adorable.

3. There is no logic here, so don't overthink it.

All characters are adults when they appear in the book. The story is entirely fictional. Please do not conflate it with reality.

Theme: Even when facing adversity, keep striving.