Xiang Jingxing is doomed to die young. In his first life, he lived to eighteen before getting hit by a speeding truck while saving a child.
In his second life, he was born into an ancient world, but only lived to sixteen before falling off a cliff while trying to save a village child.
[Redemption System binding in progress...]
[Host is deceased. Transferring energy... Bzzzt, System entering sleep mode...]
A man-machine System that crackled with static every now and then bound itself to him, and Xiang Jingxing came back to life.
He struggled up from the foot of the mountain. The first person he saw was Rong Nie, a pitiful, scrawny child from the village, abused by his own father and stepmother.
Rong Nie clung to him and wept, tears in his eyes.
As Xiang Jingxing stroked the child's head, he secretly grumbled to himself: "Werwer." It sounded like a donkey braying, but he was small. More like an energetic, destructive little beagle.
Following his original plan, Xiang Jingxing took Rong Nie in without a hitch and gave him the new name he'd thought up long ago: Rong Shiheng (heng).
Xiang Jingxing raised the scrawny, dark-skinned boy Rong Shiheng into a refined gentleman, as gentle as jade.
But as he raised him, Xiang Jingxing kept feeling that a pair of dark, damp eyes was watching him from the shadows.
Then, when he turned twenty, a matchmaker came to propose a marriage. Rong Shiheng sent her away, then tied Xiang Jingxing to the headboard that very day, looking at him with those sticky, damp eyes.
The jade-like beauty, with red lips and pearly teeth, gazed at him with dark eyes and red-rimmed corners. "Brother, I don't want to be your younger brother. I want to be your wife."
Rong Nie was a man who had crawled up from hell, regarded as a sinner from the moment he was born.
His mother died young, and his stepfather and stepmother treated him cruelly in every way. Later, his maternal relatives in the capital took him in, but that only moved him from one hell to another.
The name Rong Shiheng was the only thing the short-lived boy who died young in a fall from a cliff had left him.
Good people die young, while evildoers live a thousand years. Rong Nie lived many times, but Xiang Jingxing died again and again.
Until this time, he was reborn at the age of fourteen once more. He immediately rushed to the cliff, where he saw Xiang Jingxing climbing up from the foot of the mountain alive.
After four years without contact, the System had finally gathered enough energy to wake up.
[Dear Host, your objective is to win over the villain and save the world.]
[Villain's affection level toward you: 100! Congratulations, you have completed your objective. Your final reward: survival.]
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