Everyone Was Reborn Except Me

[Dropped. Do not read. I'll contact my editor on Monday to remove the paywall.]

[I've gone over the entire story for the Nth time, and the more I do, the more I feel there are too many problems to solve.

The original setting was too frustrating and gloomy, and I didn't set up the romantic storyline well, so there's no way to follow the original outline to the end.

I've tried revising the story from scratch many times, but the original framework still influences me. I get stuck after a few chapters, and despite spending a lot of time on it, I can't rewrite it smoothly. It's also affected the state of my other stories.

I've thought about it for a long time, and I don't think I should keep forcing myself to work on it when I'm not in the right frame of mind.

I'm very sorry, but I'll have to put this story aside for now.

I wish everyone good health and a happy life.]

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The greatest tragedy of Lu Xilan's past life was having a master who treated him like a tool.

He played nursemaid to his fellow disciples and took the blame for his master. In the end, for the sake of the greater good, he was expected to die in place of the master's most beloved eldest disciple.

All Lu Xilan got in return was the loss of his closest friends, the destruction of his family, and a death for the sake of the world that left his soul scattered, never to find peace.

Later, all those people were reborn. Everyone except Lu Xilan.

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That year, Lu Xilan was eleven. His father had just sent him up the mountain, where he ran errands for his master and senior disciples.

Homesick, he hid in the woodshed and cried all night. When he woke the next morning, he found that the whole world had changed...

His normally cold eldest senior brother suddenly hugged him with red-rimmed eyes, as if embracing something he had lost and found again. "I won't let you leave again."

His gentle and refined father rushed up the mountain in the middle of the night, took his hand, and pulled him into his arms. "Xilan, we're going home," he said firmly.

The neighborhood's little demon of a boy trailed behind, smashing up the whole mountainside as he threatened in his young voice, "If you dare lay a finger on Xilan again, I'll flatten your mountain."

Lu Xilan was utterly bewildered. He had no idea why everyone had suddenly changed toward him.

Just as he didn't know how his senior brother had once watched him die in his place.

He didn't know how his father would one day regret his decision.

He didn't know that the boy next door would one day descend into the demonic path for his sake, become a true Great Demon King, and be left with nothing but regret...

Not until they discovered that they had been reborn.

Lu Xilan, the only one who hadn't been given the chance to be reborn, became everyone's precious darling without even understanding how.

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- The CP is not among the people who ignored or hurt the protagonist in his past life.

- The protagonist is the same person as in his past life, but he has lost his memories.

- Everyone regains their memories at different times, not entirely in the order given in the blurb.

- Some comeuppance for the scum. The leads save each other. 1v1. An outwardly warm but inwardly cold, insane, and selectively doting Great Demon top x a saintly bottom with severe self-destructive tendencies.

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Upcoming 1: The Cannon Fodder Cultivates into a Powerful Expert [Book Transmigration]

[Blurb]

Lu Shiyi transmigrates into the body of a cannon fodder character.

The System forces him to follow the plot, making him dance on the male lead's landmines for years, until the male lead breaks through a cultivation barrier and runs him through the heart with a sword.

Unfortunately, he was born into this world, has no golden finger, and is a sickly weakling who could run out of breath just climbing a hill.

To survive until the male lead shows up, he has no choice but to join some nameless little sect and cultivate diligently.

From then on, his daily routine becomes a cycle of cultivating, being bullied by his fellow disciples, being bullied by his master, and then cultivating some more.

At long last, after cultivating enough to beat his fellow disciples, Lu Shiyi figures that his meager cultivation should be enough for a cannon fodder.

So he packs his things, leaves a letter, and goes down the mountain to find the male lead.

Unfortunately, his timing is terrible. He arrives just as the story begins...

The Big Boss, the Demon Venerable, breaks through his seal and returns to the world. He strikes the young male lead, who is just beginning to make a name for himself, planting the seeds of the brief corruption he'll suffer later.

But for some reason, the great villain leaves the male lead alone and charges straight at Lu Shiyi, the cannon fodder.

Lu Shiyi, who isn't supposed to die at this point in the plot, instinctively raises his sword.

And then...

He kills the Demon Venerable with one thrust.

His soul scatters, and the demonic energy vanishes.

All that remains is a cut-off scream that echoes across the world.

The righteous cultivators, prepared to die heroically: ...

The male lead, who hasn't even had a chance to begin his life's work: ...

Lu Shiyi: ...

Oh no. Was the final boss of the whole book really that fragile?

#What do you do when the story ends before it even begins?#

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Golden Wind Sect is an obscure, laid-back little sect where retired hermits can enjoy their golden years. It just happens to shelter the most difficult hidden masters in the world...

The spirit of an ancient divine sword, the former Demon Emperor who faked his death and retired, a human-divine hybrid, a host to a vicious beast...

You'd think it was hard to fit in without a special bloodline or a blood feud.

Until one day, the sect leader brings home a human child.

An ordinary mortal with no special bloodline and a frail body.

He looks like a fragile, pitiful little rabbit.

At first, his senior disciples rub their hands together, eager to give him a rough welcome.

Later, they fight tooth and nail every day, all to win the right to feed their little junior brother.

Later still, the frail little junior brother levels a mountain with one sword strike. The little white rabbit turns into a Godzilla who can pin all his fellow disciples to the ground and crush them.

But this peerless little genius has no idea how strong he is.

The day he left the mountain, he wrote a suicide note, as if the world below were full of ferocious monsters that could easily keep him from ever returning.

The other disciples look at the sect leader, smiling with sinister delight as he makes an exception and goes down the mountain for the boy. Then they think about the little junior brother's terrifying cultivation progress and fall into deep thought...

Does the little junior brother have some kind of misunderstanding about how strong he is and how adored he is?!

Upcoming 2: I Dig Holes to Keep Myself Alive

One-line summary: In the end, I got together with the reader who tipped me half a lifetime's worth of life.

CP: The world's most double-standard Divine Lord x a yin-yang-eyed author who keeps ditching stories

"You and I are bound by fate."

Upcoming 3: My Years Playing a Cannon Fodder Pretty Boy

One-line summary: I kept playing the part until even my employer believed it.

CP: Big boss top with an overactive imagination and endless dirty talk x a former fighter and now temp worker who's great at acting. A silly, sweet story.

"I wouldn't mind calling you hubby instead."

If you're interested, please add these to your reading list. Thanks, love you!

Theme: Life doesn't give you a second chance.