The Cat in the Dark Alley

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Jiang Xunyan, the legendary top student of Qinchuan No. 1 High School.

He always sits in the front row during exams, and his grades are so good that teachers give him all kinds of special treatment.

And yet he also has a face so stunning it offends both gods and men, with exceptionally fine bone structure, a tall, long-legged, slim, fair appearance.

He is the kind of person ordinary people feel inferior just standing near, and to top it off, he has a sharp tongue.

Everyone wonders who could ever be good enough for him, and who could possibly put up with him.

Just when everyone was delighted that this aloof beauty would forever remain perched high above them, he came down to earth.

A photo of him carrying a girl on his back on the way home from school spread like wildfire across the campus.

After asking around, everyone identified the girl as the utterly unremarkable Wen Tangzhi.

A short-haired girl who looked small and frail, docile and sweet.

If there was anything special about her,

it was that she was rumored to have taken a notorious delinquent and academic failure in their grade as her "underling."

But nobody thought much of it. Everyone agreed that Wen Tangzhi was the one who had attached herself to Jiang Xunyan. After all, it was obvious at a glance who was above and who was below.

Only later did they learn that Jiang Xunyan was the one who had been scheming to cling to her all along.

Except his scheming really was "scheming."

He plotted to win Wen Tangzhi's sincere affection, to make her fall for him.

Then, at the proudest moment of her life, pop! He would burst her dream.

He wanted to see her cry, to see her suffer, to see her crying and begging him not to leave.

Everyone thought he was a real man, tough and unyielding.

But no one knew that in the end, he was the one who cried, the one who suffered, and the one who tearfully begged her not to go.

The day Jiang Xunyan learned the truth, he was so furious his eyes turned red. He called Wen Tangzhi over and over in all their shared group chats.

But she had vanished from the face of the earth, without a single reply.

Wen Tangzhi, a super-disguised black lotus who sees through everything but says nothing, and goes after whatever benefits her

"It was just for fun. How did you end up taking it seriously?"

Jiang Xunyan, convinced his plans were flawless, but actually a stubborn, softhearted, arrogant Persian cat desperately starved for love

"It was just for fun. Why can't we keep playing?"

Two equally matched schemers, each trying to lure the other in. Which one is the real master hunter?

Theme: May no deep love from our youth ever go unreturned.