My Childhood Friend Lost to the Newcomer, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Dying?

[One heroine] [No angst, no love rivals] [No magic, sweet romance] “I’m not happy at all.” Lying in his hospital bed with a diagnosis in hand, Jiang Pin was remarkably calm. He seemed to have the kind of life everyone would envy. A loving family, a beautiful and adorable tsundere childhood friend, and a bright future. But only he knew the truth. He was a loser, a stand-in, a brat. His life was damned, steeped in the stench of rotten fiction. In his supposedly loving family, he was only an adopted replacement. His parents never spared him a thought, giving all their love to his older sister and younger brother. As for his bright future, he got into college, but chose an ordinary university for the sake of his childhood friend. Even his beautiful and adorable childhood friend, Yang Xiran, the last ray of light in his life, was taken away by some other man who appeared out of nowhere. No matter how low he stooped or how carefully he tried to please them, he couldn’t change their coldness or indifference. Affection he could never win? The childhood friend beaten out by someone who appeared from nowhere? Then I’m done competing. I’m done fighting! Looking at the three-year critical illness notice in his hands, Jiang Pin decided to let it all go. Instead of turning all that frustration inward, he’d take it out on the world. Rebellion was the name of the game. But once Jiang Pin was gone, they panicked. Without him, his haughty older sister no longer had a younger brother to order around, and his good-for-nothing younger brother had nobody left to take the blame for him. Even Yang Xiran stood in the rain, crying and begging him to forgive her. When they finally regretted everything... Jiang Pin had only one thing to say. “Go to hell. I’ll never forgive you.”