[No System, no formulaic tropes, plot-focused, explores human nature, coming-of-age, technology and cultivation, can become invincible or attain immortality]
Hello, my name is Xu Eyan. E as in misfortune, Yan as in growth. I was just a poor boy who did well on his exams, a top scholar. When I was little, a fortune-teller said I was the reincarnation of Wenquxing, the deity of literature, and that I had limitless prospects. Nobody believed him. Only I did.
But after I started high school, my life was no longer in my hands. When others held my life in their grasp, I still believed the fortune-teller. I paid for that belief in blood. Countless people died for me in that great fire, and I never believed in that damn Wenquxing again!
From then on, I believed only that the knife in my hand could turn my fate around and overthrow this filthy world!
[Ensemble cast, with every supporting character given care and attention. Of course, the protagonist matters most.]
Just because I turned down a confession, the great families began targeting me. After I was forced to say yes, they tried to kill me because I was going to college. So I turned around and became an inspector. The little cat I rescued by the roadside led me to become the great families’ nightmare.
Romance: Tears dampen my hand. You say I’m a lovesick puppy?