Todos os capítulos de He Steals Every Girl I Date: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

No wonder the graceful Natalie Pearson, the cold and stunning campus queen, Valerie Cross, and today's freshman, Annie Porter, had all inexplicably fallen for Blake Ramsey after going on a single date with me.The comments kept scrolling, full of praise for Blake and insults aimed at me.[The villain, Mack Sheldon, is still trying to fight it. He doesn't even know he's just a tool.][Right? The harder he tries to be charming, the more the female leads fall for Blake. I'm dying laughing.]I drew a deep breath and forced down the shock and anger rising in my chest. If that was how it worked, then I wanted to see whether this system was truly unbeatable.I refused to believe my charm fell short of his. No trashy system was going to win against an all-out pursuit.Blake pulled out that dating booklet again to console me."Mack, that freshman didn't know what she had. She's the type who falls for whoever's new. Just keep putting yourself out there and you'll find your true love!"Th

They were the graceful Natalie, the cold and stunning Valerie, and Annie, the adorable freshman who used to follow me around campus while calling me her favorite upperclassman.They were shielding Blake, who stood in the center, and looked at me like I was garbage.Natalie pushed her wire-rimmed glasses up her nose, her tone heavy with disappointment. "Mack, how did I never see how awful you really are? You're harassing Professor Beaumont and trying to frame Blake on top of it!"Valerie let out a sharp laugh, twisting a hair tie between her fingers. "Country boys will always be country boys. No matter how clean you dress, you can't cover up the cheapness underneath."Annie took a visible step back, her face twisted in revulsion, as if standing too close to me might be contagious. "Mack, stay away from Blake from now on. Don't drag us into your disgusting little games."Blake hid behind them, biting his lip like a wounded puppy. "Don't say that about him. He only did it because he'

"Blake Ramsey! You're a student. Why would you show up to class looking like this? And on top of that, you're trying to shift the blame onto Mack?"[System Warning! Helena Beaumont's affection filter toward the host is cracking! Charm conversion efficiency reduced by 30%!][Oh no! Mack's the one who looks terrible, so why is the male lead taking all the heat? Professor Beaumont, please stop yelling at him!][The male lead's image is completely destroyed in Professor Beaumont's eyes. I can't take this!]Blake had no answer. His mouth hung open, but nothing came out. That face, once smoothed over by the system's filter into something refined and flawless, now looked painfully ridiculous with its real acne scars and its panicked expression."I... I'm not..." He tried to defend himself, but it was useless.Helena did not want to hear it. She picked up her lecture notes from the podium and glanced at her watch. "You've truly disappointed me. The person standing here right now is nothi

I ran up to Valerie while gasping for air and pointed at an empty water bottle lying on the ground a few feet behind her. A greedy look spread across my face. "Valerie... That bottle. Can I have it? I... I want to turn it in for the deposit."The entire gym went dead silent. Valerie and her teammates stood there with their mouths hanging open wide enough to fit a volleyball inside.What she used to find most irresistible about me was exactly this kind of image—broke but tough.I used to work part-time jobs like handing out flyers and washing dishes in the cafeteria for extra cash, and she had found all of it impossibly attractive. To her, I was like a blade of wild grass bending in the wind but never breaking.Yet now, in front of the entire school, I was standing barefoot, asking to pick up an empty bottle for pocket change. This was not toughness anymore. This was just shameless.[Fatal error! 'Scrappy underdog' persona module has detected behavior exceeding acceptable threshold

Every last drop of color drained from Blake's face.I stepped forward and leaned close to his ear, speaking in a voice only the two of us could hear."Maybe what they fell for was the mask. But underneath that mask, I am still a real person with real value. You, on the other hand, the second that mask gets ripped away, all that is left is an empty, crude, lazy shell."We were never the same."I turned and walked away without another look at him. He stood there, rooted to the spot, unable to move.[Holy... Mack actually convinced me...][That hit different. He's absolutely right. If you're going to fake it, you'd better have the substance to back it up!][So what women really fell in love with was never any one person. They fell in love with the idea, the perfect symbol that checked every box in their fantasies. Whether it was Mack or Blake behind that symbol didn't even matter.][I get it now. I completely get it. Why should any man twist himself into a character just to impres