A cure for the blues.
An outrageously hilarious, stupidly funny story that will have you laughing in half an hour.
Blurb 1:
Just before a car accident, Lu Yanzhao was inexplicably hit with a "Top-Tier Cannon Fodder Stepping-Stone System."
The System was ecstatic. "Come on, young man! Join me in becoming the most uncomfortable stepping-stone ever, and help people ascend to greatness through the most absurd trials!"
Lu Yanzhao stared at his phone like a subway grandpa.
#What's going on??? Am I not even worthy of a decent System?#
The human teenager was listless and uninterested. The System, a corporate drone, was in tears but spoke with conviction:
"As long as you help our Son of Fortune achieve enlightenment and ascend, I'll shield you from the calamity you're about to face."
#Huh??? Now that you mention it, I'm wide awake!#
The two, each with their own agenda, hit it off. Lu Yanzhao finally learned that his main task was to become a substitute for the Son of Fortune's dead first love.
Then he had to keep courting death until the Son of Fortune completely lost faith in romantic love and severed his emotional ties.
Lu Yanzhao was sure he could handle it. He promised to complete the mission.
#After all, the Son of Fortune will only lose his love, while I might lose my life any minute now!#
He was ready to cast aside his dignity, abandon all scruples, and do whatever it took.
But when he opened his eyes, the System had sent him too early. He had transmigrated a thousand years into the past...
#I never saw that coming. Not in a million years.#
Blurb 2:
The System's energy had yet to recover, and its teleportation cooldown wasn't ready for a second jump.
With no other choice, Lu Yanzhaozhou had to make do with the trump card he'd extorted from the old scammer System, then hurry off to a certain immortal sect...
His only goal was to cultivate and stay alive for the next thousand years, so he could become the right person's substitute at the right time...
Before the System had finished repairing itself, his senior fellow disciple fell in love with him.
One day, the old scammer System stared at its Host's latest crush and belatedly cried out in horror, "My dear! Your senior brother seems to be our Son of Fortune!!!"
Blurb 3:
Lu Yanzhao's mind was completely blown.
After a ridiculous mess of sabotaging each other and exposing one another's secrets, the Host and System hugged each other and wept, staying up all night trying to figure out how to clean up the mess.
The useless System clung to his leg, sobbing and sniffling. "Dad, wait for me! I'll ask my superiors for help right now!"
With help from System Headquarters, Lu Yanzhao finally faked his death during the war,
and at last transmigrated a thousand years into the future as he had always wanted.
And became...
his own substitute.
#Breaking news! The dead first love was me all along!#
The love interest's perspective:
After the battle a thousand years ago, Wen Zhi lost the one he loved.
No one remembered that person's name, or what they looked like.
Even all the memories they shared had faded into a blurry shadow.
It seemed that...
the unjust Heavenly Dao had erased him completely.
His very existence became taboo, a secret no one could speak of.
But perhaps the heavens took pity on him, because Wen Zhi could still see him once more in the nightmare that had trapped him for a thousand years.
In that heart-wrenching dream, the shadow whose face he couldn't make out looked back at him. It seemed to shout something, then leapt into an endless abyss.
Wen Zhi pursued that shadow for nearly a thousand years. Only after breaking through layer upon layer of obstacles did he finally hear the young man's last words in the nightmare:
"Idiot! Run! This whole thing's about to go horribly wrong!!!"
#? So what exactly have I been waiting a thousand years for?!#
Theme: Face life head-on. Running away won't help
