If you were the universally hated biological young master who returned to a wealthy family only to be rejected by your own relatives, despised by your fiancé, and forced to give a kidney to the fake young master, would you dream of becoming a universally adored heartthrob?
Cheng An did.
His ending was… quite miserable.
He died on the operating table during the kidney transplant. After his death, he transmigrated into the foot-washing manservant of a heartthrob shou. The moment he arrived, he was nearly whipped to death with a poisoned lash.
At the brink of death, he was rescued by Gong One.
When Gong One discovered that he could not cultivate, he exhausted every method to transform his spiritual roots into a single spiritual root and gave him an enormous sum of spirit stones.
Gong Two did not care that he was a servant. He accepted Cheng An as his disciple and even risked his life to save him when Cheng An encountered danger.
Gong Three was a wickedly charming, arrogant demon king. Not only did he give Cheng An a spirit beast, he even lowered his proud head, acting spoiled and adorable to win Cheng An's favor.
From then on, Cheng An lived inside a beautiful dream in which "the universally hated became universally adored."
But on the night before the true heartthrob awakened, he overheard several conversations.
Gong One: "Cheng An is nothing but a servant. I forcibly purified his roots into a fire spiritual root only because A-Lan also has a fire spiritual root."
—No wonder his constitution was now so weak that he became breathless after three steps and coughed after five.
Gong Two: "Taking him as my disciple was false. What I really wanted was to control him. I ordered him to wear red clothes and carry a red sword only because I wanted to find A-Lan's shadow in him."
—No wonder his wardrobe was filled entirely with red clothes, he had no freedom of movement, and people said he looked like a pet kept in captivity.
Gong Three: "I only gave Cheng An that spirit beast so I could monitor him. He still doesn't know that the reason he was nearly violated by that charm demon was because I dripped my blood onto him, does he?"
—No wonder he had been seized by a charm demon for no apparent reason and nearly lost his life.
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From then on, Cheng An understood that someone universally hated could never become someone universally adored.
He abandoned every beautiful dream and once again became gloomy and withdrawn.
He kept rigidly to a servant's place and grew numb like a puppet. Whenever he encountered those men, he would avoid them from afar. If he could not avoid them, he would kneel and bow like the other servants and address them as "Immortal Lord."
When he became like this, those men began to feel uncomfortable.
Later, they knelt humbly before him, full of regret, begging him to return to the smiling person he used to be.
Everyone revolved around him. Even the awakened heartthrob, Su Xuelan, clutched his shoulders with tears streaming down his face and told Cheng An that he had been his fiancé in their previous life. Cheng An remained unmoved.
Fiancé?
In their previous life, that fiancé had joined forces with the fake young master and left him covered in wounds. What use was regret now?
There was no going back. Nothing could ever go back.
Even though every sign now seemed to indicate that he was the true heartthrob, he no longer dared to believe it.
Content tags: Imperial Court and Nobility; Rebirth; Wish-Fulfillment; Revenge and Scum-Abuse
Protagonist perspective: shou; interactive gong
One-sentence summary: Take revenge on the scum and never show mercy.
Theme: I hope to write the most beautiful story in my heart.