After Transmigrating into a Book, I Saved the Cheap Shou - Chapter 1

September. The sun blazed fiercely.

Gu Jingning stood at the entrance of Qingyang High School, staring at the school’s massive gilded signboard. Students in uniforms streamed past him on both sides. He nervously adjusted the strap of his schoolbag, took a deep breath after mentally preparing himself, and stepped into the campus.

Today was the first day of school. He found his classroom, picked a random seat, and sat down. His classmates were enthusiastically chatting about what they had done during summer vacation.

Qingyang was one of the top two high schools in the city. Those who got in through exams were all top-tier scholars, but there were also quite a few students whose parents had bought their way in with money.

Sitting at his desk, Gu Jingning rested his chin on one hand and glanced out the window at the bright sunlight. In contrast, his mood was far from sunny — it was downright terrible.

He was not a person of this world. This world was a book, and he was merely a reader who had transmigrated into it.

In his previous life, he had been an orphan. He was in university when he read this book. The day he died was a rainy one — he was hit by a car that had skidded on the wet road.

The world he crossed into was an ABO campus abuse novel. The protagonists were the classic scumbag gong and cheap shou pair: an overbearing, arrogant, tyrannical gong, and a shou who, no matter how badly he was abused, still treated the scumbag like his first love.

The protagonist shou, Su Chen, came from a poor family. He worked several part-time jobs every week and barely managed to get into the city’s best high school through sheer effort, with a bright future ahead. However, because he caught the eye of the scumbag gong, Pei Yuanqing, he ended up enduring three miserable years of high school.

At the opening ceremony at the start of the school year, Pei Yuanqing noticed Su Chen, who was standing on the stage as the freshman representative giving a speech. Su Chen’s eyes looked very similar to those of his white moonlight who was abroad. From that day on, Pei Yuanqing began to pursue Su Chen frantically. However, Su Chen remained completely unmoved by his advances.

The more Su Chen rejected him, the more interested the domineering Pei Yuanqing became. Feeling irritated after being repeatedly rebuffed, the people around Pei Yuanqing who wanted to please the young master came up with a rotten idea: have everyone bully Su Chen, then let Pei Yuanqing swoop in like a savior to rescue him from the misery.

The method was trash, but it worked surprisingly well.

Those people genuinely hated Su Chen. What they did went far beyond ordinary pranks. Having his seat splashed with paint or his homework and textbooks torn up were considered minor things. They would drag Su Chen to remote corners of the campus and beat him up, always hitting places where bruises wouldn’t show. This campus bullying lasted for a full year. Later, they even went to the street stall run by Su Chen’s family to cause trouble, forcing Su Chen to kneel and beg for mercy before they stopped.

But the family’s stall was smashed by that group of people. Customers became afraid of getting into trouble and stopped visiting. On top of that, they also went to Su Chen’s part-time job sites and forced him to quit. The Su family lost all sources of income. Their previous savings had already been used to pay off debts. The worsening financial situation caused Su Chen’s mother to fall seriously ill from the stress.

Pei Yuanqing knew about all of this. Otherwise, how could he be called a scumbag gong?

Su Chen’s mother’s illness was severe and required a large amount of medical expenses. With no income, Su Chen tried borrowing money everywhere, but no one was willing to lend to him. At this moment, Pei Yuanqing finally made his move.

He paid for Su Chen’s mother’s medical bills, taught the bullies a lesson, and showed a mix of gentleness and dominance. Su Chen completely fell for him, and the two entered a passionate relationship.

If this were a sweet campus romance, the story would have ended here. But this was an abuse novel.

After they had been dating for a year, Pei Yuanqing got tired of him. Coincidentally, his white moonlight who had been abroad returned and transferred to Qingyang. The scumbag gong immediately dumped Su Chen and confessed to his white moonlight instead.

Devastated by the abandonment, Su Chen went to confront Pei Yuanqing, only to witness him kissing his white moonlight passionately. The blow was too much. From then on, Su Chen lived his life in a daze.

Without Pei Yuanqing’s protection, Su Chen once again became the target of the same bullies from a year ago. The once sharp-edged Su Chen had been deliberately spoiled and smoothed out by the scumbag. Now bullied at school, his grades plummeted from first place in the entire grade to rock bottom. When he entered his third year of high school, he was transferred from the elite Class 1 straight to the worst Class 15 — the same class where his bullies happened to be.

Even when Su Chen told the teachers, they only told him to endure it, because those people’s families were too powerful to offend.

Su Chen’s grades became abysmal. In the end, he could only attend a third-rate university. His life was completely ruined.