The Lost-and-Found Moonlight [Quick Transmigration]

[All the small worlds are complete. The real world is ongoing.]

Yan Li is an outstanding employee of the quick transmigration bureau.

His job is to travel through one small world after another, helping or accompanying the protagonists, the chosen ones, through the hardest times in their lives. Once they begin to make their mark, Yan Li's task is complete, and he quickly exits the story.

In the first world, he is the chosen one's older brother, destined to die young. Their parents die when he is still a boy, and he raises his younger brother and sister on his own. The strain leaves him with a body riddled with illness.

Just as his siblings finally get into top universities and swear they'll never let their brother suffer again, a car accident takes the life of their beloved older brother.

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In the second world, he is the only young child of a bankrupt CEO couple. He lives with his parents in a leaky rental, scavenging rotten leaves from the market for food.

But just as the company is back on its feet and they're about to move into a grand mansion, the feverish little boy quietly stops breathing in the rental.

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In the third world, he is a young physician abducted from his mountain home by the founding emperor and his men. He braves the elements alongside the rough band of men, who dote on him and make him their emotional anchor.

But when the final battle ends, he drains his blood to save them all.

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In the fourth world, he is the most gifted senior disciple of an immortal sect. But late at night, he turns into a little fox and secretly carries immortal medicine to a boy whose spiritual veins have been destroyed.

When disaster strikes, Yan Li sacrifices himself to the Dao to protect the sect and help the boy ascend.

He accompanies the protagonists through their darkest times, but never stays with them until the end.

According to the plot, after he exits, the chosen ones will grieve for a while, but soon start new lives.

But just as he is about to retire, Yan Li gets word that his previous mission worlds have been judged unsatisfactory. With no other choice, he has to revisit them one by one.

And there, he sees...

A young founder of a business empire, cold and taciturn, with a commanding presence, who keeps getting dead drunk in front of a small gravestone, murmuring the name of his long-deceased older brother.

A fabulously wealthy couple who have been childless for more than a decade. The largest room in their mansion is kept shut, filled with children's toys.

Worse still, when he goes back, even though he's using his own body, everyone who sees him quickly turns red-eyed.

Yan Li doesn't know that the moment they lose him, no matter how much wealth, power, or fame they possess, the people who love him will forever be missing the piece of their hearts called happiness.

He is everyone's...

precious treasure, lost and found again.

Notes for readers:

1. The love interest is the same person throughout. No splitting into multiple selves. 1v1, both virgins. The chosen one in each world may not be the love interest.

2. The protagonist is doted on by everyone. There will be family and friendship storylines, and in most worlds there will be some focus on his frail health, with a bit of emotional angst.

3. The first world has a bad ending; the other small worlds and the main story have happy endings.

4. The logic may be questionable, so please don't hold it against the author.

5. 50% of the story is locked behind an anti-piracy paywall.

"The Pretty Little Beggar Marries into the Villain's Den"

(I)

In the spring hunt of the twenty-eighth year of Qiyuan, Xuan Yao disguises himself as a beggar to carry out a mission.

By chance, he encounters Pei Zhang, heir to the Duke of Cheng's estate, who defies an imperial decree arranging his marriage. The emperor flies into a rage and points at Xuan Yao, ordering him to marry Pei Zhang instead.

Xuan Yao: "???"

Everyone knows the Duke of Cheng's estate is full of demons!

The old duke is cruel and tyrannical, and drinks like a fish. The eldest son wields great power and hides a knife behind his smile. The second son commands the imperial guards and loves bloodshed. Even Pei Zhang, who's only seventeen, is cold-hearted to the core.

Xuan Yao: I'm doomed!

On their wedding night, his husband lifts his veil, stares at him for a few seconds, then warns him coldly, "Two years. Once the court is stable, I'll clear my name and divorce you."

"Keep your head down. If you provoke anyone else, you'll lose your life, and I won't plead for you."

Xuan Yao looks at him, grins, and obediently nods.

From then on, the Duke of Cheng's estate knows no peace.

(II)

Pei Zhang thinks the pretty little beggar is well-behaved and timid. He never imagines how wrong he is!

At the estate, Xuan Yao leads the servants on rabbit hunts and smashes the wine jars the old duke treasured. He grabs the poisonous snake raised by his eldest brother and roasts it to eat, then uses his decisive, ruthless second brother as a pony.

At the Imperial College, he climbs onto the roof and pulls off the tiles, stirs up trouble with the chickens and dogs, plucks the Imperial Academy Director's beard, and leads a group of noble-born students into mischief until their teacher is so furious his beard and eyes are twitching!

At first, Pei Zhang watches coldly from the sidelines. He even thinks that with this little troublemaker around, the estate feels a little less gloomy and lifeless.

But later...

He sees Xuan Yao nestled against his eldest brother, wheedling for pastries, then turning around to put an arm around his second brother as if they were old friends. Outside the wall, his classmates from the Imperial College are lining up to give him the latest novelties...

The boy is carefree and full of life, like a little sun. He never holds back his light, illuminating the whole estate.

Yet with him, his nominal "husband," he is always proper and never crosses a line.

(III)

When the two years are up, Xuan Yao goes to Pei Zhang and hands him a divorce agreement, looking up at him eagerly as he waits for him to sign.

Pei Zhang looks at the line of people following his little wife. Every one of them is watching him like a hawk, just waiting to snatch Xuan Yao away and take him home to dote on him as soon as Pei Zhang signs.

Pei Zhang coldly shuts the door. Then he turns and pins the unsuspecting Xuan Yao against the wall, his eyes red and his voice hoarse. "Xuan Yao, you can be kind to everyone in the world, so why do you have to leave me behind?"

"I'm not divorcing you."

"Please... look at me."

Theme: Cherish the person by your side