Lu Chengyan awakens just before getting engaged to the protagonist, the scum gong He Yaoming.
It turns out he's the substitute shou, a cannon-fodder character in a book.
He is the real young master, switched at birth and raised in the slums.
At eighteen, he returns to his biological parents' home, where everyone is still reminiscing about the adorable fake young master.
Furious and resentful, he finally manages to get engaged to He Yaoming, only to learn that the other man sees him as nothing more than a substitute for the fake young master. He abuses him physically and emotionally for three years, forces him to donate his corneas to the fake young master, and then gets a happy ending with the real protagonist shou, the fake young master.
Lu Chengyan: ???
What the hell?!
I'm not putting up with this god-awful melodrama.
At the engagement negotiations, Lu Chengyan abruptly changed course. “I fell in love with him at first sight, and the second time I saw him, I was completely smitten. Today, I want to formally propose to him, He... Xiao.”
He Xiao, the original novel's big villain, had been sitting silently in the corner. He raised his eyes in surprise. “?”
In the original novel, He Xiao is crippled, sinister, and vicious, and his world consists of nothing but darkness and hatred. Yet when He Yaoming forcibly imprisoned Lu Chengyan while waiting to take his eyes, He Xiao couldn't stand by and let him escape.
Of course, thanks to the villain's plot armor, the escape failed.
Lu Chengyan resolves to repay the only kindness he's ever received, unaware that He Xiao has awakened too.
In the original novel, He Xiao felt nothing but pity for Lu Chengyan. After awakening, he focuses on his career and revenge. At first, he only keeps Lu Chengyan around as a little pet on a whim, but before long, he falls for him.
Later, for the sake of that love, he climbs out of the darkness.
A story where both leads awaken.
One-on-one, happy ending, a story of healing each other
Completed novels: The Boy, a story about a delinquent school bully and a gentle boy, and the first meeting between the boys Li Qinghai and Zhuang Yichu.
Breaking the Habit, a reunion between Li Qinghai, a successful and promising young man, and Zhuang Yichu, an obscure actor, seven years after they parted.
Theme: Even in the depths of darkness, someone will come bearing starlight.
