The Real Young Master Won't Be Everyone's Least Favorite

Everyone knows Xie Mi has a beautiful face, but he’s greedy, petty, malicious, twists the truth, and lies through his teeth. He’s all looks and no substance.

Xie Mi was only recognized as the real young master of the Xie family at seventeen. Before that, he’d been wallowing in the mud of a hard life. Afterward, he had a mansion, luxury cars, and more money than he could spend, yet his vicious nature ruined the winning hand he’d been dealt and earned him the hatred of his parents and brothers.

Everyone who knew his sordid history had no doubt that one day Xie Mi would be kicked out of the Xie family. When that happened, he’d be better off dead.

Yet at some point, Xie Mi suddenly changed. He stopped making a scene and using exaggerated, cutting remarks to get his family’s attention. He stopped attacking his adopted older brother, who still lived at home, with vicious words, and stopped leading his younger brother astray with lies.

He stopped driving recklessly, cut ties with his bad crowd, gave up smoking and drinking, dyed his hair black again, picked up his books, and started taking his classes seriously.

Everyone told him, “Xie Mi, stop pretending. We know what kind of person you are.”

Xie Mi only smiled and didn’t explain.

His parents and brothers didn’t believe him. They mocked him and watched coldly as he “put on an act.”

Only after Xie Mi got into a good university and became more and more exceptional and radiant did they realize they had been wrong.

Xie Mi really had changed.

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Xie Mi has a secret: he is reborn.

In his previous life, his family finally couldn’t take it anymore and confiscated his mansion, luxury cars, and money, exiling him to a remote city.

He had briefly experienced heaven, only to spend decades wallowing in the mud of the mortal world.

He learned self-discipline, restraint, and everything a life of poverty could teach him.

After being reborn, he no longer sought attention or love. Like a craftsman, he was willing to spend as long as it took to polish himself into a masterpiece.

Yet once he stopped seeking them out, everyone who had hated him in his previous life came rushing back, desperately hoping to earn even the slightest bit of his attention. Even Pei Yunshen, the mysterious man he’d never interacted with in his previous life, quietly offered him a ticket to the opera.

Reading guide:

1. Bottom-centric. A composed bottom who loves dry jokes and deadpan humor x a steady, powerful top

2. A touch of narcissism. The bottom is intensely self-reflective and is his own muse. A composed sort of character

3. From universally disliked to universally adored

4. Please bookmark~

Theme: Being willing to change is a new beginning