A gentle on the outside, ruthless apocalypse powerhouse bottom x a self-made, fiercely protective top
Chen Jinli fought through mountains of corpses and seas of blood for ten years in the apocalypse. After his ability was exposed, his companions betrayed him, so he detonated his core and perished alongside the Zombie King.
When he opened his eyes again, he had fallen into the resource-scarce 1980s and transmigrated into the body of a doomed supporting male character in a period novel.
The original owner, supported by his family's frugal sacrifices, had passed the normal school entrance exam and become a teacher at the town's middle school. But after witnessing the principal's affair, he was framed, branded a hooligan, and reviled by everyone in the village.
After that, he never recovered. A few years later, he accidentally fell into a reservoir, bringing his brief life to an unceremonious end.
After the original owner fell into disgrace, one misfortune after another dragged his whole family into the abyss.
His father worked in a quarry until his health was ruined, but they had no money to treat his illnesses.
His mother was tormented by gossip until she fell ill with sorrow, then drank pesticide in despair.
His second younger sister hastily married to scrape together money for lifesaving treatment, only to suffer endless hardship after the wedding.
His third younger brother dropped out of school to work, was tricked into a dangerous coal mine, and was left permanently disabled.
His youngest brother and sister were forced to be given away. They were beaten and abused every day, and had to serve the whole family before they could even walk steadily. Their lives were worse than livestock's.
In the original owner's slender, scholarly-looking body, Chen Jinli took over his thorny life and shouldered the burden of a family battered by hardship.
He used food stored in his spatial dimension and jade-marrow liquid to slowly nourish his family's weakened bodies. They managed to get enough to eat, but poverty remained hard to overcome.
Their earthen house leaked whenever it rained, and his parents didn't even have a decent set of clothes. Chen Jinli touched his younger siblings' faces and resolved to make money.
He took rare supplies from his spatial dimension to sell on the black market, where he ran into the villainous big shot Zhou Chengshen, the character who had kept him reading the original novel.
Zhou Chengshen was shrewd and sharp-eyed, always able to spot business opportunities amid chaos. He was used to weighing the pros and cons of everything, but he never schemed against those he trusted.
To raise money for his paralyzed mother's surgery, he took dangerous risks and operated in the gray areas, building a vast power in the shadows. In the end, the male lead brought him down, and a generation's ambitious leader met his end.
Chen Jinli looked at the man's deep-set eyes and tall, straight figure, and his heart stirred. Zhou Chengshen had both courage and strategy, making him the perfect business partner. He could become Chen Jinli's greatest ally and help pull him off the path of no return.
The Chen family, once so poor they couldn't afford a meal, was finally starting to turn things around.
The smell of meat drifted from their home every day. Everyone had new clothes and shoes, and they'd even bought bricks and hired workers to build a new house.
The neighbors bullied the weak, and troublesome relatives kept showing up to make things difficult. Everyone thought Chen Jinli was mild-mannered and easy to push around.
They had no idea that beneath his gentle exterior was a ruthless heart tempered by the apocalypse.
He dealt with the wicked neighbors, put the troublesome relatives in their place, and cleared the original owner's name.
Little by little, he changed the grim fates awaiting the people around him.
But why was Zhou Chengshen looking at him in an increasingly strange way, making his scalp tingle and his heart race with unease...
Theme: Study hard and improve every day.
