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“If I make that kid like me instead of yours, how much will you pay me?”

Kimura Yuta makes a bet with his best friend out of sheer irritation toward a certain boy. He decides to make Kirin fall in love with him instead of his friend’s guy, just to prove a point after being insulted by a pretty-faced male model who dismissed him as nothing more than a good-looking but sharp-tongued man. No matter how he looks at it, a kid like that would never like someone like him.

Or so he tells himself. He says he’s only doing it to help his friend, volunteering to act as a “guard dog” by deliberately pursuing Kirin, only to eventually abandon him and leave him begging for love, just for his own amusement.

“Don’t tell me you actually fell for him?”
“It’s just a game between me and him. No matter what, I would never fall in love with my target.”
“….”
“That kid is definitely going to crawl on his knees and beg at my feet.”

But the confidence he declared that day, along with all the plans he carefully made, is something Yuta has no idea will eventually backfire on him, leaving him utterly humiliated instead.

Warning: This story features a “red flag” male lead. It is aimed at readers who enjoy frustrating, arrogant protagonists who gradually turn soft and sweet after trying to trick someone into falling in love, only for the plan to backfire completely and end up ruining themselves instead.