The Toyed-With Heirs

After Xiao Ling died, he made a deal with the System. Taking the place of a despised illegitimate son, he entered the Levenna Academy once again.

The vengeful ghost became the campus's universally acknowledged foolish, vain beauty. Sorting through his few memories, Xiao Ling sneered, "Wouldn't everything be fine if they just kept their distance?"

But he soon realized there was no escaping it

There were four heirs. One was his boyfriend in name, one was secretly hooking up with him, one seemed normal but had some mysterious, massive financial dealings with him, and one seemed uninterested yet secretly spied on his life.

The original owner had left him a complete mess. Looking closer, the beautiful, money-grubbing, cruel darling was far more famous than he'd thought.

At first, they got along well enough. Then the targeting, bullying, and rumors grew worse and worse, until malice filled his world. Xiao Ling calmly retaliated against them all, one by one.

But things didn't go the way he'd expected

1.

Heir A orchestrated a "prank" targeting Xiao Ling.

Thinking of A's nasty attitude, Xiao Ling was eager to get even.

At the lavish banquet, before Xiao Ling could splash a drink on A, a card loaded with thirty million was shoved into his breast pocket. A smiled contemptuously. "If you want money, come to me. I'll give you as much as you want."

Xiao Ling barely paused to think. "Three more cards, then."

Then he still held the glass high over A's head, letting the drink soak him, but walked away with all four cards.

He ignored the increasingly heated gazes around him...

2.

Heir B invited Xiao Ling to a pool party.

The memories he'd retained happened to include the original owner being thrown into a pool and toyed with for amusement. He might as well get revenge first.

He pressed B's head underwater. As B struggled, splashes soaked Xiao Ling's white shirt, making it translucent. Xiao Ling didn't notice the dark gazes around him at all.

He let go, and B surfaced, coughing twice. But his smile only grew wider. "Is this revenge?"

Xiao Ling slapped him without changing expression. "We're even."

Who knew B would grab his hand and gently place it against his other cheek? His eyes sparkled. "One slap isn't enough to make us even, is it?"

3.

Heir C invited Xiao Ling to a private conversation.

C had never directly clashed with him, but nearly all the targeting at school stemmed from the student council president fanning the flames. Xiao Ling decided to let him taste the shame of being disgraced.

So he posted the entire conversation on the forum. Ten minutes later, he got his wish: the other heirs and C were fighting like rabid dogs.

The perfect, noble student council president, the future hope of the royal family, actually liked a man...

Xiao Ling turned and walked away smugly, completely unaware that the fight behind him had stopped at some point.

The more chaotic the campus, the better.

Xiao Ling's life calmed down. Every day, he fed stray cats and dogs, rescued the protagonist bottom, and took his capricious, overbearing persona to the extreme. He didn't notice the changes on the forum.

Naturally, he also failed to notice that people at school were acting more and more strangely.

Until one day, he was invited to a party. Strangely, every heir had gathered there. As usual, he hid in a corner and browsed the boring forum.

Just as he was complaining about how dull the forum was, his wife sent him a picture and asked him about it.

It was the Levenna forum, and it wasn't the same one he used.

His full name was in the post, followed by countless obscene insults and even pictures. When he zoomed in, he saw that the location in the picture was where he was standing.

Xiao Ling followed the direction of the camera and met the heirs' eyes

1. A nasty beauty bottom, vengeful and quick to retaliate whenever he's wronged. A bit of a troublemaker, at first only concerned with his own fun. When things fall apart later, he quickly changes tactics and keeps playing around. (See the author's note in Chapter One for content warnings.)

2. An all-boys aristocratic school, fictional setting, all tops are virgins (there are more than four), no official main pairing (marked clearly), nontraditional, changing one-on-one pairings by stage.

4. I'm out of the hospital and back at school! Thanks for waiting. I'm truly grateful to everyone.

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