Everyone knows that scum cannon-fodder Gongs never meet a good end. They either fade into the background or get trampled underfoot, making way for someone else's glory and happiness.
But scum Gongs have pride and obsessions of their own. Why should the script shove them headfirst into an abyss like this?
They shouldn't be defined by others or have their stories hastily wrapped up.
He is free, takes pride in himself, and never lets his ideals die.
World One: Arrogant cross-dressing Gong VS classmate Shou
At Thirteenth High, academic performance and fighting ability are two timeless tickets to success, and Su Jue happens to have both.
His overly delicate looks and love of cross-dressing earned him plenty of criticism when he first enrolled. Later, those critics paid the price, literally having their teeth knocked out and swallowing them whole.
With his striking looks and proud, uninhibited nature, Su Jue attracts attention wherever he goes, and attention is where countless stories begin.
The quiet top student hands him his notes. "I wanted to get close to you."
The earnest class monitor kneels after Su Jue gives him a hard time. "Please, I beg you, give me the homework."
The carefree rich kid skips class to buy him milk tea. "It's my pleasure to spare you from the flavors you don't like."
The boy who was supposed to die on a cold night before the college entrance exams in the original story never had his pride broken. Instead, he set out for a wider world.
World Two: Lackey Gong VS heir Shou
In the original script, Su Jue is a greedy, lecherous lackey who deceives his superiors and subordinates. After he gets handsy with the student the heir has a crush on, he is cast aside without mercy.
Given another chance, Su Jue decisively changes sides and focuses on building a career, drawing a clear line between himself and the heir.
But the heir refuses to accept it. He stops pursuing the student and going to drinking parties, insisting on introducing Su Jue to useful connections instead.
"What, do you think I'm no longer useful to you?"
"Just say the word, and I'll give you anything."
World Three: Original protagonist Gong VS Heavenly Dao Shou
Su Jue is a chosen-one hero, but the kind who exists in a transmigrate-into-a-book cultivation novel to serve as a stepping stone for the real protagonist.
His opportunities are stolen, his fortune seized, and his meridians crippled. The transmigrator, whose golden finger is bigger than anyone else's, mocks Su Jue: "You're nothing without your cheat."
But he doesn't know that every time Su Jue struggles on the brink of death, the Heavenly Dao, silently watching over all things, sees it.
Without realizing it, the Heavenly Dao develops feelings it never had before.
From then on, no one can take Su Jue's glory away.
World Four: Campus heartthrob Gong VS top student/school bully Shou
In the original story, the school bully has a crush on Su Jue and recruits the top student as his strategist. But the two end up together behind Su Jue's back, then viciously disparage the person who used to be their idealized first love.
But in this life, Su Jue shines too brightly.
The top student and the school bully can no longer stop loving him, and even turn against each other because of it.
With a priceless gem before you and a bright moon overhead, who could still see the light of rubble?
[Reader Advisory]
1. The number of worlds may change. The plot serves the author's ideas, and the blurb is only a guide. The story itself takes precedence.
2. The Shou is sexually inexperienced, pursues the Gong, and spoils him. The relationship is unequal.
3. The Gong is an immersive method actor, but at his core, he will always love himself.
Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.
