A melodramatic story about redemption, approximately 250,000 characters
Prodigy actor, scheming top / Downcast, unlucky bottom
Fate changes course because of you, returning to the path it was meant to follow
His mother is a marshal of a planet, and his father is a renowned professor.
As their only son, Cheng Lian is, at the age of twenty
A hopeless illiterate.
Cheng Lian grew up aboard the Drifter, where beatings and lashes were an everyday occurrence. He thought that was just how the world worked.
Then a passenger named Cen Xu told him about Tianding Star.
There, people were equal and free. No one would suddenly slap or curse at him.
But he was just a crew member, with no right to set foot on Tianding Star.
By chance, he learned that his mother was Tianding Star's marshal.
And Cen Xu was his mother's adopted son, sitting in the place that should have been his.
There was nothing he could do. All he could do was drown in day after day of pain and resentment.
One day, an accident occurred aboard the ship, and the Star Alliance issued wanted notices for the crew.
He found a chance to hide his identity and go to Tianding Star, where he could experience a brief, magnificent dream before the executioner's blade fell.
A massacre took place aboard the Drifter. Not a single person survived.
Cen Xu was stuffed into an escape pod by a crew member and survived. Afterward, he was questioned again and again.
But he knew nothing, and could only secretly hold a funeral for the person who had saved his life.
A year later, the person who had saved his life became his classmate.
*They have several fights and cold wars. Both have their own bad tempers. Happy ending.
*The space setting has no real-world inspiration. Do not draw real-world parallels or read too much into it.
*The point of view shifts with the story. More from the top's perspective early on, and more from the bottom's later. Not suitable for readers who strongly prefer one character's perspective.
*See the author's note in Chapter One for other content warnings.
Theme: Opportunity knocks but once
