After Being Reborn, I Discovered That I'm the One Everyone Loves

[The story is complete! Extras 1 and 2 are up. Thank you all for being with me! I'm fixing typos, so feel free to ignore updates.] [My next novel is available to preorder: "After Faking My Death and Starting Over, Everyone Thinks I'm a Child." The blurb is at the bottom.] Li Tong was delighted to die. Before her death, she was the real daughter of the Li family, hated by everyone. Her biological parents preferred the fake daughter they had raised from childhood, and her own brother had even fallen in love with the fake daughter. The fake daughter was gentle and considerate, clever and kind. Li Tong, the real daughter, was none of those things. At heart, she was spoiled and nasty. Longing for family affection, after being brought home she tried hard to imitate the fake daughter, only to be told she was a poor imitation. In the end, Li Tong, whom nobody loved, died. · Then Li Tong was reborn. She returned to the time shortly after she had been reunited with the Li family, at the age of nineteen. Li Tong: ... Having died once and now finding no joy in life, Li Tong thought: Nothing matters. Nothing at all. Looking at the Li parents and the fake daughter gathered together like a happy family not far away, Li Tong smiled, utterly indifferent. Why imitate the fake daughter? It was tiring and troublesome. So in this life, Li Tong decided not to work hard at anything. She would be herself and show her true colors. But she never expected... After she was reborn, everything changed. No longer yearning for family affection, Li Tong kept a blank face and, bored and calm, mocked the fake daughter who had taken her place for twenty years, trampling the Li family's dignity. Their reactions, however, were completely different from her previous life. The Li parents repented: "Tongtong, it's our fault we didn't find you all these years." The eldest Li son declared passionately: "Tongtong, you're my only sister." Even the person she'd secretly liked in her previous life said shyly: "Li Tong, you look really cool when you insult people." Li Tong: ... Li Tong watched coldly: A bunch of lunatics. * The heroine has a world-weary face, slanted foxlike eyes, and stunning beauty. She's a glamorous goddess of gloom. Her catchphrase is: "Nothing matters. Nothing at all." Couldn't care less.jpg Everyone thinks she looks especially beautiful and irresistible when she's world-weary. She thinks everyone in this life is crazy and has something wrong with their heads. The story of a stunning, world-weary beauty who gets everything after being reborn and is adored by countless people. #Even when everyone loves the stunning, world-weary beauty in this life, the only person she loves most is herself# Warnings before reading: Not a story about the real and fake daughters becoming close. No sisterly bonding. Across life and death, starting over: If you repay kindness with enmity, what will you repay kindness with? Preorder for a danmei novel: "After Faking My Death and Starting Over, Everyone Thinks I'm a Child" As death approaches, a person's words turn kind. Before dying, the villain said to the upright-faced protagonist, "I forgot to mention, I'm nineteen this year." From close friends to betraying each other, then crossing blades, they had been entangled for ten years. The middle-aged protagonist didn't believe him. Even with death staring him in the face, he still couldn't stop running his mouth. "Why not say you're eighteen this year?" The villain smiled and closed his eyes, leaving behind one last sentence: "Teeth don't lie." An autopsy. Carbon-14 isotope analysis of tooth enamel. Margin of error: within 1.6 years. The protagonist got the results. They said: Estimated age, 18-20. He could barely contain his shock. The young man who had shared his bed ten years ago was only nine at the time? The villain was dead, and the protagonist inexplicably lost his fighting spirit. Thinking back on all the moments they'd been friends, fallen out, and become enemies, his face grew hot and he stared blankly, dazed. Who could have guessed that he'd been squabbling and fighting over things with someone who was practically a "little kid"? · Dong Ji crouched by the roadside and asked innocently, "Uncle System, why is my body so big and tall?" The System, which had accidentally extracted its Host's childhood soul and committed a terrible crime by force-growing his child self into a nineteen-year-old adult: ... It negotiated in a trembling voice: "Dongdong, how about we read our lines from the storybook later, okay?" "I'll buy you a piece of candy for every line you get right." Dong Ji, who had only ever seen candy on television, lit up. He swallowed and happily agreed. For the next ten years, Dong Ji followed the script the System gave him and completed the villain's storyline step by step. Before proudly retiring, he looked at the first person he'd been assigned to and, deeply moved, let slip his biggest secret. The System tried to stop him, but Dong Ji gave it a perfectly reasonable reply: "You used child labor back then, and I didn't report you to the Main God." The System fell completely silent. Dong Ji returned to the Main God's space and lamented, "I never even got to date in that world." His soul was just past nineteen, and his handsome, delicate face, fresh as a young man's, was filled with longing. "Uncle System, can you let me fall in love in the next world?" Dong Ji didn't get a "romance world." Instead, his first world restarted. He crouched in the street, bewildered, and frantically poked at the System. The System was dead. All he heard was the protagonist nearby calling to him, looking deeply conflicted and immensely relieved: "Dong Ji." The protagonist took Dong Ji by the hand. "Do you want some candy?" Dong Ji: ? He heard the protagonist mutter, thinking he hadn't been heard: "Should I have him call me big brother or uncle?" Looking at Dong Ji, the protagonist suddenly made up his mind. "How about I adopt you? You can call me Dad." Dong Ji: ??? = Dong Ji's diary, part 1: Everyone thinks I'm a nine-year-old child. I keep telling them I'm already nineteen. Nobody believes me. Boohoo. Diary, part 2: I want to fall in love, I want to fall in love. I'm nineteen! Why can't I date? (The protagonist uncle passes by, crosses out nineteen, and writes: Dongdong, you're only nine this year. No dating!) = Original setting: A nineteen-year-old adult body, an unscientific product of the System forcing a child to grow up too soon. He looks exactly like a young man. Only his teeth and bones give away the truth. Everyone feels guilty and regrets what they did. After the world restarts, they try to make amends by raising a child. Warnings: The canon couple appears very late. The pairing is undecided, and the main focus is on "everyone raising the child." An angsty, bittersweet story. Theme: You don't need to imitate anyone else. You're already wonderful enough to be loved by everyone.