After the Scummy Bottom Dumped a Powerful Bigshot, He Traveled Back in Time

A peek at my upcoming novel next door: "After Reincarnating as a Cannon Fodder, I Redeem the Obsessive Protagonist"

"After I Betrayed the Big Shot, I Traveled Back Again" [Quick Transmigration]

Blurb:

Gu Ran was bound to a System. The System told him, "Your job is to make the male lead fall in love with you, betray him, and serve as the whetstone that helps him reach the pinnacle of life. After that, you can return to the real world."

Gu Ran was delighted when he heard that. Wasn't this just the cliched tale of betraying a mighty protagonist? Gu Ran had been living it up while betraying male leads in countless worlds. Just as he was finally about to return to the real world, the System suddenly told him that the male lead's corruption level was too high and the plot had gone off track, so the world needed to be reset.

Later, Gu Ran learned that resetting the world meant sending him back to wash away the male lead's corruption.

World One:

Rumor had it that the Demon Venerable, Chong Min, had originally been a nine-tailed fox. Early in his cultivation, however, he trusted his master and had eight of his tails brutally cut off so his inner core could be refined. After enduring forty years in Yuan Lin, Chong Min returned, consumed by darkness. He plucked out the inner core of his sanctimonious master and crushed it, his eyes bloodshot and trembling. "Master, don't you like my tails? Then you'd better bear them well."

Gu Ran curled up in defeat. I feel like a rag doll that's been played with until it's broken.

World Two:

The regent had always admired the Imperial Tutor, only for the latter to destroy his family and leave every one of his meridians shattered. After clawing his way back to power, he locked the Imperial Tutor in the Palace of Joy, his peach-blossom eyes steeped in blood. "Does the Imperial Tutor like this palace? I had it built especially for you, on my orders, day and night."

Gu Ran looked at the chain on his hand, thicker than his finger, and his gaze gradually turned perverse.

World Three:

Betrayed by his lover, the empire's marshal endured accusations of treason and a manhunt that nearly killed him before making a comeback. He threw his lover into the dungeon, his phoenix eyes filled with deep, violent rage. "You like the dungeon, don't you? Since you took the rebels away from me, you'll stay here in his place."

Gu Ran glanced at the rack, thicker than his waist, and his face gradually turned pale.

Other worlds to be decided.

P.S. 1. Expect a battlefield of romantic rivals and a redemption arc after heartbreak. The top is the same person in every world.

2. Published on August 9, 2020.

3. Content warning: The top is extremely unhinged and mentally ill, and the author likes to torment him, causing his descent into darkness to spiral out of control. If you have a low tolerance for this, stop here and click away.

Please check out my upcoming novel: "After Reincarnating as a Cannon Fodder, I Redeem the Obsessive Protagonist":

1. Xu Qingshu woke up one day to find himself inside an old-fashioned angst-filled redemption novel.

The protagonist, the bottom, was not only the real young master who'd been switched at birth and saddled with a pair of awful fake parents, but also had a kidney removed by a scumbag he'd fallen for early on to save the fake young master, Qiu Baiyue.

Then the protagonist met the proper top, a domineering CEO who could make the whole world tremble with a word. The two powerful men joined forces, building a business empire that spanned half the globe and crushing everyone who had ever bullied the protagonist into the dirt.

Readers who finished the story all said it was immensely satisfying.

But none of that had anything to do with Xu Qingshu.

He had become the lunatic scumbag who not only rescued his beloved white moonlight during a kidnapping, but also took the protagonist's kidney and ended up dying horribly.

Looking at the protagonist, who couldn't even get enough to eat and was beaten every day, with not a shred of ability to fight back,

Xu Qingshu made up his mind: From now on, he'd cling to the protagonist's coattails, act like a lovesick puppy, and care for and comfort him!

He'd be the protagonist's life mentor, the only ray of sunshine in his darkness!

That way, he could keep himself alive.

But how did his role suddenly change while he was just trying to stay alive?

Xu Qingshu: Wasn't he supposed to be the protagonist, the bottom...? QAQ

2. Everyone at Seventh Middle School knew that Yu Sifan from Class Three was aloof and desireless, eerily beautiful and cold. When he fought, he was ruthless and reckless. No one had ever seen him show even the slightest kindness to anyone.

Until one day, someone saw Yu Sifan pinning Xu, the young master of the Xu family and the school heartthrob from Fifth Middle School, against a stone pillar. His eyes were bloodshot with repressed emotion as he rasped, "Why don't you want me anymore?"

3. Ever since he was six, Yu Sifan had the same dream every night. In the dream, a sinister, terrifying figure repeated three things to him:

Study hard.

Don't love your parents.

Stay away from Xu Qingshu.

Those three things were engraved into his bones, and he never dared forget a single one.

Until he saw the little toddler from the villa district, wobbling as he walked, a snot bubble at his nose, sweetly offering him a lollipop as if to win him over.

From then on, the mountain winds blew and the road stretched far, while daylight shone bright.

Gloomy, unhinged, obsessive top x self-righteous, actually clueless, fake-straight bottom

"The Sickly Scumbag Bottom's Redemption"

An unhinged battlefield of romantic rivals and a redemption arc, all simmering in one pot.

Ran Ran took on a downright outrageous mission: become the villain's lackey, toy with the male lead's feelings, betray him, and play both sides as the male lead's whetstone.

Ran Ran diligently betrayed the male lead in every world. In one, he won the male lead's trust, then cut out his heart for the Demon Venerable while the male lead was undergoing a tribulation. In another, he tricked the male lead into dying for love, then turned around and sold the man's company to a competitor...

Until one day, the male lead's corruption level got too high, and Ran Ran had to go back and bring it down.

Ran Ran: I think you're trying to get me killed. QAQ

World One: Heartless and carefree x Reborn phoenix

Rumor had it that the youngest son of the Heavenly Emperor was persecuted as a boy and survived in Qingqiu only thanks to a fox spirit who had cultivated for a thousand years. Later, heavenly fire blazed into the sky and the tribulation clouds changed. The fox spirit he trusted and loved most cut open his chest and took his heart. Glazed jade shattered, and a phoenix cried through the nine heavens, its mournful, lingering cry lasting ten days without end.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, all spirits came to congratulate him. The first thing he did was pin the faithless one to the bed, his eyes bloodshot and the tips of his pale fingers stained with the blood of the other's forced surrender:

"Ran Ran, does it hurt?"

"I forgot. You don't have a heart. You can't feel pain."

World Two: Down-and-out young master x Financial tycoon

When he was young, Ran Ran, the youngest son of a bankrupt business magnate, fell for a refined, handsome, poor student. He was spoiled, willful, and stubborn, using a contract of servitude to imprison the student at his side. He secretly paid for the student's education and supported his business ventures. Even when the student gained power and began humiliating him with barbed insults, Ran Ran endured it silently and meekly.

Then he watched that student become one of C City's new elite, sitting high above him with a lover in his arms as he coldly watched Ran Ran get beaten by his enemies. Ten years of hatred twisted in the student's eyes like a wolf. At last, Ran Ran let out a bitter laugh. With his frail body battered and covered in bruises, he quit his day-and-night part-time jobs, left behind every humiliation the man had dealt him, and went to die alone in a run-down rental apartment where no one knew him.

But he never imagined that just as he had lost all hope and no longer wanted to forgive, the person he had spent ten years failing to warm would read his medical records with bloodshot, trembling eyes. The man bent his back and fell to his knees on the hospital's marble floor, a harsh, furious rasp tearing from his throat:

"Ran Ran... Ran Ran... How could you be so cruel?"

"You don't love me, Ran Ran. You don't love me anymore."

World Three: Faithless and treacherous x Powerful vengeful ghost

The fake young master, Ran Ran, tricked the real young master into promising to die with him. The real young master died, but Ran Ran survived and naturally inherited his business empire. Yet every day, someone followed him. A shrill voice always called his name from the attic. At midnight, someone pressed close, smiling with a rich, nightmarish malice as Ran Ran watched, eyes reddening, choking and gasping in terror.

He heard the obsession, suppressed but growing wildly, and the possessiveness twisted to the point of death:

"Today, I saw you smile at him again."

"Ran Ran, you've been naughty."

World Three: Money-loving and status-seeking x Obsessive senior

World Four: Cold physician x Violent emperor

World Five: Gloomy traitor x Imperial marshal

Theme: Take control of your own destiny!