As a puppet emperor, Xie Jin was destined to take the blame for his fallen dynasty. When the country fell, he bore the guilt and ended up hanged from the city gate, condemned and cursed by the people.
At long last, his absurd life came to an end, only for him to open his eyes and find himself a free young man in the twenty-first century.
Finally, he no longer had to see scenes of people being beheaded everywhere. Xie Jin was moved to tears.
With his good looks, he got by in the entertainment industry, neither a star nor a nobody, but with money and freedom.
Just as he was about to embrace his new life, the internet erupted with a video of him drunk, "rewriting history" and cursing the descendants of the founding emperor of the Sheng Dynasty as a bunch of idiots, while feeling sorry for the useless man who had lost the country.
The torrent of insults felt just like old times. Xie Jin took them in stride. Now this feels familiar.
He was about to keep his head down and behave when the Gu family, the most powerful financial clan in the capital, showed up with the video of him ranting. Who would have thought that such a minor matter would get him dragged before Gu Jinxiao, head of the Gu family?
Rumor had it that he was cold and ruthless, the kind of man who could crush someone without a second thought.
Xie Jin was about to beg for mercy and admit he had a foul mouth when he looked up.
!! Why did the man in front of him look so much like the founding emperor in his portrait?
Standing before him, Xie Jin's legs shook like a sieve. The man was already someone he couldn't afford to offend, and he even looked like his ancestor. That made him even more terrified. "Mr. Gu, I wasn't talking about you!"
Yet Gu Jinxiao acted completely out of character. His gaze held no threat at all. Why did it seem... almost affectionate?
"Tell me, how exactly are my descendants a bunch of idiots? Who bullied you?"
At those words, Xie Jin felt the sky come crashing down.
What do you do when you insult someone right to their face?? And he's really my ancestor!!
Xie Jin leaned against his leg and begged for mercy in the manner of a lowly rogue. "...Great-grandpa, please spare me."
As the head of the capital's business empire, Gu Jinxiao wore reason like a badge. Nothing and no one could stir the slightest ripple in his heart.
Until he happened to see the young actor named Xie Jin. Whether it was his tipsy gaze or his flushed cheeks in the video, everything about him sparked Gu Jinxiao's intense interest.
As soon as he learned what Xie Jin had said, he had the perfect excuse to send people to bring him in.
Watching the boy timidly call him "Great-grandpa," Gu Jinxiao felt a storm of complicated emotions and couldn't help wanting to keep him by his side.
They were more than ten years apart in age. How could Xie Jin keep calling him "Great-grandpa" in front of the servants every day? What would people think!
Everyone: "Mr. Gu, you clearly love it..."
Rumors spread that Mr. Gu had taken in a young actor who called him all sorts of things at home and behaved outrageously.
People scoffed. He was just a plaything Gu Jinxiao had picked up on a whim. Before long, Gu would get tired of him and toss him aside.
But they waited and waited, and what came was an extravagant birthday party for Xie Jin. The young man showed no fear at all. Instead, he even dared to glare at Gu Jinxiao.
The Mr. Gu they all knew was actually willing to lower his head and apologize to a pretty face like this?!
He even cracked down on his own nephew, the one he'd personally groomed, just for the sake of this "plaything," simply because Xie Jin didn't like him.
Xie Jin got his revenge by saying, "He has a face just like the one that hurt me."
Two years later, something big was about to happen in the Gu family. Everyone rubbed their hands together, eager to see Xie Jin make a fool of himself.
Instead, word came that Xie Jin had taken the head of the family seat. The whole vast business empire had changed hands just like that?
Xie Jin was just as stunned. Wrapped in a blanket, he leaned against Gu Jinxiao. "Great-grandpa? You really gave it to me?"
"Tsk! We need to change what you call me. I can't give you the throne, but I can give you the family head's seat!"
P.S. Important!! They are not related by blood, and they have both been reborn!!
Theme: Fate brings people together
