Xie Tingyan transmigrated. The good news: he became the son of an immortal, with no worries about food or clothing. The bad news: he had a useless constitution and was a complete good-for-nothing.
System 251, a rookie like him, told him that a bug had delayed his cheat package. However, his reputation as the chosen one had already spread throughout the land, and his mission was to maintain that identity, fight monsters, level up, and eventually save the world.
And so Xie Tingyan entered an aristocratic academy in a xianxia world, all while living up to a reputation he hadn't earned. The System was so worried it couldn't sleep. "What are we going to do, Host? How can you complete your monster-fighting mission with your constitution?"
Xie Tingyan was perfectly calm. "Why not find someone powerful to back me up?"
To be honest, he already had someone in mind: the genius who, like him, lived in legend, the top student in the year, Wu Shanyue.
But before he could even meet Wu Shanyue, he caught a glimpse in the cafeteria of a stunningly handsome boy with an otherworldly aura.
The boy ate plain, meager food, and seemed so poor he could barely get by. The people around him not only offered no help, but whispered about him instead. Unable to bear it, Xie Tingyan casually slid him a spirit stone, quietly doing a good deed. "Classmate, run an errand for me. You can keep the rest."
The area fell silent for a hundred meters around them. Xie Tingyan straightened his back under everyone's strange looks, but the boy didn't take the stone. Instead, he looked up at him expressionlessly and studied him for a long moment before saying coldly, "...So it's you. If you want to compete with me for first place, you can challenge me directly. There's no need to go about it this way."
What did that mean?
Before Xie Tingyan could make sense of it, a passerby with a face pale with fright dragged him away. "Brother Xie, your family may be influential, but even you shouldn't bully Wu Shanyue, the year’s top student, who excels in all ten disciplines, has outrageous combat strength, and is beloved by the elders! This really isn't right!"
Xie Tingyan and the System: "..."
Much later, the two were secretly meeting in a grove when Xie Tingyan asked the question that had been bothering him for ages. "Why did you hate me so much before? Were you just worried I'd take first place from you?"
Wu Shanyue was silent for a moment, then finally revealed the secret he'd kept buried in his heart. "I don't hold grudges, but you've tricked me eighty-seven times in total. The worst was when you'd just learned to ride a flying sword and insisted on showing off by giving me a ride. You flew straight into a stinking ditch. Do you remember?"
Xie Tingyan coughed awkwardly. That had indeed been a miserable experience. He'd limped after Wu Shanyue, apologizing, but Wu Shanyue hadn't even looked back and had ignored him for the whole evening. "I knew it! I hurt you when I dropped you!"
"That wasn't it." Wu Shanyue's face darkened. "Actually, I tore my crotch. I thought you did it on purpose."
Xie Tingyan: "..."
● A school in a xianxia world, fire x lightning, sparks fly, two strong and handsome leads
● A funny, warm, sunny top who seems carefree and easygoing, but is actually sincere and forthright
● A proud, extraordinary and eccentric bottom who is fiercely competitive and considers being number one a matter of life and death
● A bickering couple, not mortal enemies
Theme: The young should soar high, reach for the stars and the moon, and chase the light of the sun.
