After Saving the Hated, Brooding Bottom

Chu Xinglang was an ordinary working-class man. One day, he received news that his old classmate, Lu Ci, had died. He hadn't known Lu Ci well. He'd only heard from other people that Lu Ci had a strange personality and was apparently a pervert. An indecent video of him had spread all over the internet. His relatives shunned him, netizens bullied him online, and in the end he died by suicide. Out of respect for their shared school days, Chu Xinglang attended Lu Ci's funeral. But he never expected to get into a car accident afterward... and then he was reborn. He returned to the age of nineteen, only to discover that he was merely a minor character in a pornographic comic, and the world he lived in was nothing more than a virtual one. The most shocking part was that Lu Ci, the gloomy boy everyone talked about, was the uke protagonist of the comic, subjected to endless physical and emotional abuse and doomed to a miserable ending. Chu Xinglang didn't care. Given another chance at life, all he wanted was to live it on his own terms. But as he gradually witnessed what Lu Ci went through, he realized that Lu Ci wasn't as frightening and gloomy as he'd imagined. Instead, he was timid and insecure, enduring injustice without daring to fight back. Chu Xinglang admitted it: he did feel sorry for Lu Ci. Finally, one sunny afternoon, he chased away the bullies who had been tormenting him. Afterward, he looked down at the battered boy on the ground and curled his lip. “What's wrong, waiting for me to help you up?” The boy froze for a moment, then lowered his head and got to his feet. He stammered out a “Thank you” before turning and running, as though he'd encountered some terrifying beast. Chu Xinglang watched him flee in a panic and sneered, then sauntered away himself. What he didn't know was that after he left, the boy, still looking battered, was hiding in a corner, staring fixedly at his retreating figure. A sick smile spread across his pale face. Finally, you noticed me... [A spotless young man meets a miserable wretch who has fallen into the mire. Unable to bear watching, the young man gives him a hand. But he never expected the wretch to mistake him for the god who saved him, and even want to drag that god down into the endless abyss.] Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted tsundere uke x “fragile and helpless” fake innocent seme Theme: Stay true to your original aspirations, and you'll see a rainbow after the rain.