Scraping By Every Day at the Aristocratic Academy

Sorry, everyone. I feel like this story has hit a bit of a wall, so I’ve decided to take a break from it for a while and start another one, My Dark Moon in a Hot-Blooded Shonen Manga. Thank you so much for all your support. I hope we’ll have a chance to meet again.

Coming Soon: My Dark Moon in a Hot-Blooded Shonen Manga. Scroll down to read more.

After binding to a System, Lu Ling learns that the world he lives in is actually an adults-only BL novel set at an elite academy.

The protagonist, the bottom, is his childhood friend, who has already gone to the school.

According to the plot, after entering the elite academy as a scholarship student, the protagonist will become a target of everyone’s hostility after provoking the four powerful young masters, the F4.

But in the end, his gentle, kind, resilient, and strong-hearted nature will win over the F4, and the five of them will reach a happy ending together.

So cliche. It’s just too cliche.

Its only selling point is all the adults-only, high-speed sex, so explicit that even a pure-hearted boy like him feels embarrassed.

And now, he has passed the entrance exam as a scholarship student and obtained a save point. His life at the elite academy is about to begin.

Lu Ling: I get it. My job is to protect the protagonist so he can have a smooth and easy time getting it on with the F4, right?

Such a simple task, and they even gave him a save skill. Who do they think I am, some kind of amateur?

Having figured out the tropes of elite academy novels, Lu Ling thinks it’ll be a piece of cake to manipulate these young masters who think with their lower halves.

But things take a turn he never could have imagined.

The brash, unruly F1 takes an interest in him as soon as he arrives at school. As his friend’s harem member, F1 seems to have no regard for fidelity and wants to cheat.

In an empty room, damp, thick tentacles surge in from all sides, restraining him and piercing his body.

As he slips toward death, he can faintly feel a man greedily kissing the corner of his mouth, eyes full of the most primitive desire.

When he automatically reloads to the starting point after dying, Lu Ling thinks he must be dreaming.

That is, until he is killed again and again, reloading again and again.

After finally using death to learn from his mistakes and escaping F1, he soon runs into the womanizing, flirtatious F2.

The devilishly handsome young man stares straight at him the moment they meet.

"You look delicious."

Then the face that could charm thousands of girls splits open to reveal a mouthpart. The young man explores Lu Ling’s body obsessively, searching for the best place to bite.

Lu Ling: ...Isn’t there something a little off about this whole direction?

The F3 and F4 who appear one after another are even more outrageous than the last. There’s even a perverted school doctor who wants him to have his baby.

There seems to be some secret hidden in this academy.

After having his worldview shattered countless times, all Lu Ling wants is to get out of here with his sweet, innocent childhood friend.

In the dorm room, cold arms wrap around him from behind. Countless nerves wind delicately around him like vines.

The protagonist’s gentle, harmless face slowly breaks into a smile.

"A Ling, the world outside is too dangerous. I’ll protect you."

"Didn’t we promise to stay together forever and ever?"

Lu Ling: ...

Oh, bro. So you’re one of them too?

Why is your elite academy nothing like my elite academy?

#Was this save point actually meant to help me survive?!#

[Blurb written on 2025.3.16 and saved]

Coming Soon: My Dark Moon in a Hot-Blooded Shonen Manga

Qi Huai, a new student about to transfer to Wang Hai Academy, has a dream and learns that he’s actually inside a manga.

Because of space constraints, the author cut a huge amount of his original characterization, turning him into a disposable supporting character with barely any scenes.

He first appears in Chapter 5 as a nobody with weak powers and a timid personality. He has a total of 17 lines in the entire story.

It isn’t until Chapter 23, when the villains invade the academy, that he gets his one shining moment: taking a hit for the protagonist. After leaving his last words, he dies and exits the story.

He gets a single panel in a later flashback, becoming the reason the protagonist powers up and defeats a mid-story boss.

After learning his fate, he gets one chance to save himself: he can survive only by continually earning popularity.

And there is one unchanging, eternal formula for becoming popular:

Beautiful, powerful, and tragic.

He was born beautiful.

But as a disposable supporting character, the other two qualities are far from obvious.

First, his ability is so useless that he ranks among the worst in the entire academy.

Second, his only tragic moment is dying after taking a hit for the protagonist. But so many people die in the academy incident that his death barely stands out.

Fortunately, his original character settings go above and beyond in all these respects.

Now he can choose whether to follow his original characterization or the one in the current version of the story.

Sitting in his unlit room, Qi Huai gazes at the photos of the main cast pinned to his whiteboard.

He picks up a dart and throws it at the protagonist in the center.

A gentle smile appears on his face.

As a hot-blooded shonen manga launched in a renowned magazine, The Record of the Silent World became a sensation thanks to its striking artwork and exciting, stylish plot.

But the author’s ongoing descent into madness caused the story to fall apart halfway through. A masterpiece became garbage.

Amid readers’ furious demands for refunds, the magazine decides to cancel the manga and remake the story.

When Qi Huai appears in Chapter 3, the forum erupts.

[It’s the real Qi Huai, our little angel! Sob, I missed him so much.]

When he goes to investigate the academy at night in Chapter 5, the forum is a little confused.

[Didn’t the little angel have no part in this scene in the old version?]

[Maybe the old bastard finally realized how great white-haired bowl cuts are and gave him a few more scenes. Is our Qi Huai fandom finally going to rise? (Bitter laugh)]

Qi Huai sneaks out of school with the main cast to see the temple fair. Qi Huai gets a birthday surprise. Qi Huai makes a promise to everyone about the future. Qi Huai smiles and says, "I love you all the most."

In the remake, readers have come to think of him as a member of the main cast.

So when Qi Huai still takes a hit for the protagonist during the villains’ later invasion of the academy, the forum is full of anguished cries.

[I thought they’d changed so much of the plot that the little angel wouldn’t have to die this time.]

[So you spent all that time building him up just to make me cry even harder when you killed him? I hate you!]

After the academy incident, the main cast and the villains become locked in even more intense battles. A mysterious masked figure suddenly appears.

He moves between the forces of good and evil, his ambiguous, inscrutable attitude raising questions in the minds of both readers and the main cast.

Only when the protagonist shatters his mask in front of everyone does he reveal a face they will never forget.

The manga and the real world both explode with reactions.

That night, after the chapter is released, Qi Huai’s old character settings are leaked.

The forum’s replies fly by at eight hundred times their usual speed, expressing everyone’s shock.

[What the hell, was this really Qi Huai’s original characterization?]

[You people who get called little angels are all a bunch of troublemakers, aren’t you? (Wry laugh)]

[But now all the plot holes in the old version make sense, even the source of his power. Old bastard, you really are a master of worldbuilding.]

[No wonder they had to delete the old characterization. There’s no way the story could have gone on otherwise.]

The stunned main cast stand frozen in place. The protagonist demands to know why, unable to believe it.

Qi Huai’s face wears the same soft, innocent smile he always does.

That smile, as dim as the light of day, will appear in their dreams like a nightmare countless times in the distant future, bringing them pain and regret as they wonder why they never sought the truth.

"Because I... love you all the most."

Theme: Keep striving to live.