After the Transcendent Cast Me Aside, My Exes Went Mad

Charles Baudelaire, France’s top Transcendent, has had countless lovers. He is a playboy of high society, despised by everyone and yet endlessly pursued.

Until one day, he has a prophetic dream.

His student Rimbaud is cruelly abandoned by Verlaine. The Transcendent who should have made a name for himself dies far from home, buried in an obscure village.

When he wakes, Baudelaire is furious.

He flies to Japan, determined to save the student he has carefully nurtured!

But the world’s irresistible forces intervene, and time after time he watches helplessly as his student dies in a sea of flames.

Only then does Baudelaire realize that the world, already written in the Book,

brings together warriors competing for supremacy and a wealth of brilliant strategists, yet the Book has never depicted their love, driven by desire and appetite.

After restarting countless times, Baudelaire changes tack.

If the story’s outcome is set in stone, then he’ll find a clever way around it, using love to capture the world’s design. Like a sharp dinner knife prying into the heart of an oyster,

What Mafia, detective agency, Special Division for Unusual Powers, the Big Three Families, Astrology Cult, or Jujutsu High?

He’ll date them!

That’s right, he’ll date every last one of them!

Baudelaire is reborn again and again, using honeyed words to bewitch people and making romance his lever. He takes the world’s top talents one after another,

then breaks up with them for the same reason every time: “You’re useless. See you in the next world.”

At last, he helps his student change his fate and become a world-renowned French Transcendent.

But once Rimbaud survives, all the worlds return to their proper places and merge,

and his former lovers, all of whom he abandoned, regain their memories!

They cling tightly to this wanton flower of evil and fight each other fiercely, roaring with rage: “As long as I’m the one he ends up with, what does it matter if Charles is a playboy? He’ll come home sooner or later!”

Charles Baudelaire is utterly baffled.

Wait, why has nobody called him a playboy anymore?!

# The more he sleeps around, the more everyone accepts it

▪ The protagonist is the pursuing partner, a heartthrob with an eventual but as-yet-undecided main love interest

▪ The protagonist is a gorgeous, wicked flower, a shamelessly hedonistic, fabulously wealthy top. He thinks he can be either top or bottom, and throws his dignity to the wind, yet everyone insists Charles should be the top...

▪ Basically, it’s a story about speed-running a dating game to unlock plot-kill endings while bringing along his teammates (lovers)

▪ To be clear, “You’re useless” is a genuinely despairing judgment because he really can’t change the plot. In reality, Baudelaire sees everyone as fragile and dangerous, each capable of changing the plot and sending him back home the very next second

▪ Due to content restrictions, the story only involves overseas settings

Theme: Whoever can struggle out of the mud is the one who is good and beautiful