Although Xu Yanshen often got into fights in high school, Song Yiming always knew that Xu Yanshen was not a hopelessly bad student in the strict sense.

When Song Yiming first entered high school, his health wasn't as good as it is now. Because of his bad temper and straightforward personality, he offended the older students. Those older students were the real school thugs. They would find opportunities to bully students who didn't obey them. The school wasn't very good, and the teachers were all self-protective and didn't pay much attention to school affairs, which made these people even more arrogant. Fights would often break out on the playground whenever there were no teachers or school leaders present.

Song Yiming couldn't win fights, had few friends, and was often bullied. He would go home bruised and battered with no one to care for him, but he didn't care. He was in a daze and tried everything to fight back, but was only met with even more severe punishment.

Those bandits formed a school hierarchy indiscriminately, and even good students were afraid of them. Some students with really good grades were afraid that their learning environment would be disturbed, so they took the initiative to give money, saying it was protection money.

When the school bullies heard that they could extort protection money from the school, they started demanding money from students both openly and secretly. The teachers would pay some attention to the good students, and the dean of students had warned them that these people wouldn't dare to go too far and would just give them a token amount. But students like Song Yiming, who didn't do well in their studies and were neglected by their teachers and families, became the targets of their extortion.

Song Yiming's condition persisted for quite some time.

Until Xu Yanshen appeared.

Xu Yanshen hadn't come to school at first due to some personal reasons, and it seemed like he had dropped out. Later, for some reason, he came back to school and was in the same class as Song Yiming. At first, he was a loner and was targeted, but because he seemed to have learned some martial arts and was very strong, those who surrounded him were beaten badly and almost had their parents called, so no one dared to mess with him.

Xu Yanshen helped Song Yiming after school one day when Song Yiming was surrounded by people. Xu Yanshen and Song Yiming didn't have much interaction at first, at most they were classmates. Xu Yanshen walked away expressionlessly after seeing Song Yiming, but he somehow came back when Song Yiming was beaten black and blue.

After that incident, Song Yiming realized what true ruthlessness meant. He would beat people to death, making them bleed, and then calmly wipe away the blood with a tissue and ask, "Want to do it again?"

Back in his first year of high school, Song Yiming jokingly said that he had specifically checked and that it was basically not illegal for someone his age not to beat them to death. If they dared to call their parents, he would find a way to stop them and not let any of them go.

"Don't forget, you guys started this thing first."

The school bully has changed.

Because the group of students under the school bully had been beaten so badly by Xu Yanshen, he was encouraged to stand up for Xu Yanshen and said he would teach Xu Yanshen a lesson. Xu Yanshen beat the students so badly that they ended up in the hospital with broken bones, nothing serious. The parents demanded money back, but the school bully cried and begged for mercy, saying that he had hit the students first, and that he was trembling all over when he saw Xu Yanshen.

The parents were furious and verbally abused Xu Yanshen, calling him a social poison.

The school only gave Xu Yanshen a major demerit, without actually punishing him. But after that, the school behaved much better. Xu Yanshen never involved good students when he caused trouble. He knew that the circles were different and he didn't let anyone touch those good students. He kept the distinction very clear. It was still those high-achieving female students who came to approach Xu Yanshen.

Xu Yanshen is notorious at school for being a troublemaker, a brat who beats people up to the point of hospitalization, a good-for-nothing with terrible grades, and a student that teachers have given up on. But he's good-looking, and all his behavior is like that of a male protagonist in a campus novel. Too many girls fantasize that they can save Xu Yanshen and urge him to study hard.

The top ten students in the grade from the best classes would come over to explain problems to Xu Yanshen.

Annoyed, Xu Yanshen threw the test paper away. The girl's eyes reddened as she asked Xu Yanshen, "Can't you study well? If you keep doing this for the rest of your life, you might be ruined."

Xu Yanshen laughed, "Don't you understand that I'm hopeless? Why do you care so much?"

The girl ran away in anger.

He's so sharp-tongued. He's rude to girls who like him, often ignoring them and just sitting there sullenly. Sometimes, when he gets annoyed, he'll say really hurtful things. Girls would run away crying, but a few days later they'd come back crying, and they'd reconcile under everyone's knowing gazes.

Xu Yanshen can be described as both a scumbag and a non-scumbag. He tends to accept all comers without taking initiative, refusing, or taking responsibility. If the other party tries to control him, he will decisively sever ties. In reality, he has not actually been intimate with many of those girls; most of them are the ones who come to him on their own.

He didn't like studying and would smoke during class. When the teacher got angry, he threw chalk at him and told him to leave. He left without arguing. Actually, the teacher knew that although Xu Yanshen was bad, at least he wouldn't do anything to the teacher. If it were those hooligans from before, even the teachers wouldn't dare to do anything to them. There were cases where teachers who offended those people were put in sacks and beaten up. Most of the teachers who were beaten up resigned.

For Song Yiming, Xu Yanshen was actually his savior. He went from being a victim of school bullying to a troublemaker that no one in the school dared to mess with. He was no longer bullied. Xu Yanshen would also teach him to exercise and play basketball. Later, he grew much taller and became more muscular. If the current Song Yiming were to meet the former troublemaker who used to bully him, it would be hard to say who would win.

Song Yiming didn't care about what people said online, and he thought Xu Yanshen didn't care either. They were both from the bottom of society, abandoned by the world. What kind of nasty things hadn't they heard? Even the teachers who didn't have to live in fear at school anymore because of Xu Yanshen used very harsh words to describe them.

They didn't encounter any good teachers or any turning points. After graduating from high school, Xu Yanshen's grades were actually good enough to get into a junior college, but the tuition was quite expensive, costing more than 10,000 yuan a year. Xu Yanshen was too lazy to go, saying he wanted to make money. He didn't even apply for a college and started working.

While Song Yiming and Shen Heng were still the same arrogant, domineering guys they were in high school, Xu Yanshen had matured a lot through the trials of society. He had even learned to make girls happy, because sometimes his work required him to tease girls. However, he still didn't mess with nice girls.

He would take the initiative to draw a clear line, just like this time. Perhaps it was because he hadn't been able to repay the money after the car accident that Xu Yanshen was holding a grudge. Xu Yanshen was just preparing to repay Ye Yingying's favor completely.

When the live stream started, Xu Yanshen was thinking about whether to spend money to buy a trending topic, but as soon as the live stream platform tagged him with the label of Ye Yingying's rumored boyfriend, his popularity immediately jumped into the top 20 of the live stream rankings and was still increasing rapidly.

Originally, everyone was criticizing Xu Yanshen for being a bully, a troublemaker, and a troublemaker in school, but he gradually changed his ways, and some people started praising Xu Yanshen for being handsome.

People started flooding the screen asking what the relationship was between Xu Yanshen and Ye Yingying.

Xu Yanshen clarified: "I have no relationship with Ms. Ye. The incident that the marketing accounts stirred up was just me wanting to repay a favor. Moreover, the photos of me and Ms. Ye were taken maliciously and misled. There are also rival agencies on the internet trying to follow suit and smear me. I also have a recording of an agency privately trying to contact me to smear Ms. Ye. As for which agency, I will not disclose it."

He played the recording in its entirety without hiding anything.

This kind of attempt to clarify rumors is really not fun.

After a brief silence, another netizen asked: "So, do you like Ye Yingying? Don't all you guys like this type? You're just pretending to be friendly; you're really just trying to pick her up."

Xu Yanshen raised an eyebrow and replied: I don't like this type. She's really not within my aesthetic range.

Upon hearing this, Song Yiming couldn't help but click his tongue: This is a blatant lie. Ye Yingying's appearance is clearly the type that Brother Shen likes. I guess whether it's her looks or her personality, she's definitely Brother Shen's type. He didn't even know how to be gentle with other girls before, but when it comes to Ye Yingying, compared to before, he can only be described as attentive.