After Faking My Death, the Protagonists' Top-and-Bottom Personas Fell Apart

On the brink of death, Shen Yu finally learned that he was nothing but a disposable character in the novel Starcatcher.

No one had ever loved him. He spent his childhood carefully and nervously trying to please everyone around him, yet his older brother smashed the wooden carving he'd made by hand, his aunt fed his lovingly prepared pastries to the dog, and his father tossed the first-place certificate he'd worked so hard to earn into the trash.

To cure his older brother's illness, he volunteered for a bone marrow transplant. Just as he was in so much pain afterward that he was about to pass out, he heard his father say,

"Wenyan, when Shen Yu is older, we'll give you his heart!"

Later, he devoted everything he had to the only light in his life, his childhood friend Gu Xinglan. He helped him start a business and become the head of the Gu family.

One day, Gu Xinglan was kidnapped. Shen Yu gritted his teeth, scraped together all the money he could, and rushed to save him, only to have Gu Xinglan shove him toward the kidnappers just as they decided to kill their hostage. A knife pierced a vital spot, and Shen Yu died on the spot.

Then he heard the man who had gently coaxed him just a few days earlier, "Yuyu, once I inherit the Gu family, let's go register our marriage!"

He looked tenderly at someone else and asked, "Baby, are you all right?"

Shen Yu's heart turned to ash.

Unexpectedly, he was reborn in the body of Chen Guoguo, a minor celebrity in the entertainment industry. He intended to cherish this hard-won life and stay away from everything connected to his past.

But Gu Xinglan, once so proud, had gone mad and delirious. He wandered the streets calling out "Yuyu, I'm sorry" to everyone he saw. An Ning, the beloved lead in the novel and everyone's cherished ideal, secretly kept Shen Yu's photo close to his heart, his eyes red and his expression anguished. His older brother, Shen Wenyan, the novel's great villain, began wearing Buddhist prayer beads and abstaining from meat, like a saint, all to pray for Shen Yu's well-being.

When they saw him, their eyes reddened and they went out of their minds, using every means at their disposal to unmask his secret identity.

Shen Yu only smiled and hid in the arms of the person behind him, wrapping his arms around that person's neck and kissing him in front of everyone.

Only after a long while did he say, "Darling, who do you think I am?"

Everyone saw the head of the most powerful Lu family, the madman Lu whom people feared and wouldn't dare offend, clutching the person in his arms. He gave them a haughty look and said, "Get lost!"

Then he lowered his head and said indulgently, "Baby, it doesn't matter who you are. What matters is that you can only be mine."

A little scene:

The first time An Ning saw Chen Guoguo, he thought he was a shoddy imitation.

He leaned close to his ear and said, "Get lost. Don't show your face around me. You disgust me."

Later, eyes red, he begged so carefully for just one more glance from him.

Just one.

Gu Xinglan was pretending to be stupid the whole time. He'd lie on the ground, drooling and chewing on his fingers. He tilted his head at everyone who passed and called out, "Yuyu," then secretly followed Chen Guoguo, who looked like Shen Yu, calling him Dad.

He cried in front of him like a child, clinging to him and trying to win his pity.

After Shen Yu died, the gloomy, sickly Shen Wenyan put on a cheerful mask. He imitated his younger brother and even created a substitute to remember him by.

That substitute was Chen Guoguo.

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Blurb:

By offering [seducing] [enticing] himself [to the gods] [as a sacrifice], Chu Lingyuan clears the game The Fall of the Gods perfectly.

But the next second, he transmigrates into a parallel world, with the pendant from his game, God's Tear, still hanging around his neck.

In this parallel world, gods descend into the mortal realm by possessing humans. Those possessed are known as the Chosen of the Gods.

The great families and financial clans take pride in having a Chosen among them.

The Spirit-Blessed Academy is dedicated to training the Chosen and eliminating the evil spirits that plague the world.

The Chu family is one of the great clans of the Chosen, having sent more prodigies to the Spirit-Blessed Academy than any other family. But this time, it suffers a crushing setback: one of its own has been abandoned by the gods, with a god-affinity score of -1000.

At the Spirit-Blessed Academy's testing site, Chu Lingyuan, who has just transmigrated, calmly walks away beneath the jeers and mockery of the crowd.

Isn't being an ordinary person who can control his own body much better?

Yet overnight, evil spirits erupt across the world. Heavenly graves appear in every region, and evil spirits run rampant from these points. Ordinary people have no chance of survival.

A silver-white light tears across the dark sky. Chu Lingyuan, the good-for-nothing Chu family layabout who usually does nothing but eat, drink, and have fun, tosses out a silver dragon carving he made on a whim.

The carving transforms into a gigantic silver dragon. Everywhere it goes, evil spirits turn to ash.

Chu Lingyuan sits atop the dragon's enormous head, looking down at everyone with lazy elegance. "A Chosen of the Gods? Sorry, I specialize in summoning."

From then on, wherever Chu Lingyuan goes, the evil spirits are plunged into despair:

You never know what Chu Lingyuan will summon.

It could be a dragon one second, one of their own generals the next, and then a Son of Light.

Just as the Evil Spirit King is about to attack and kill Chu Lingyuan, God's Tear shatters. The legendary God of Light, who has been dormant for countless years, appears from within.

The god, wearing the crown of the divine race, lowers his eyes with tenderness and determination.

"Darling, I know that when humans talk about long-distance relationships, they mean divorce is the next step. I refuse."

Theme: No matter how hard things get, keep striving upward.