After the Tragic Beauty I Was Winning Over Awakened

[Updates are irregular, so I recommend waiting until it is finished to read. Sorry.] In broad daylight, Bai Zhou, the most popular gorgeous yet tragic powerhouse in the hit romance game Paradise, wakes up as an ordinary man down on his luck in a Federation slum. In a world where powerful conglomerates control the government and the class divide is rigid, the only way to reach the upper class is to win the annual Spirit Mech Fighting Tournament and earn one billion support votes. When an unremarkable young man steps into the spotlight, the Star Network is full of mockery: "A piece of trash from the slums thinks he deserves to compete?" "He looks like a total loser. He won't even survive the first round." But once the tournament begins, Bai Zhou defies the odds, makes it to the finals, and shines brighter with every match. Slowly, the netizens change their tune. "Ten wins in a row! He's insanely strong!" "I hereby declare him a god among men!" "Aaaaaah, God Zhou, my husband!" Everyone on the Star Network knows that God Zhou isn't sociable, yet he's always accompanied by a frail mechanic who's blind in his right eye and has a strange tattoo carved into his face. Many netizens are curious about the mysterious mechanic's past. Bai Zhou: I found a poor little thing, so I took him in. Later, the netizens see the "poor little thing" remove his eye patch and wash off his tattoo, revealing a handsome, tall young man. They cry: You call the heir to one of the Federation's top conglomerates a poor little thing? Are you kidding me?!! The poor little thing: Big brother, I didn't mean to deceive you. I just wanted to stay by your side. Boohoo, you're not angry with me, are you, big brother? Bai Zhou: ...Could you put down the knife in your hand first? A green tea, play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger gong with a golden finger X a shuangwen-template godlike shou Next novel: After the One Everyone Hated Was Forced to Marry a Brooding Big Shot In an air disaster, the only son of the Cheng family dies. Half a year later, Lu Xing, an illegitimate son, is brought into the Cheng household. Madam Cheng takes all her grief over losing her only son out on him, beating and berating him at the slightest provocation. His father turns a blind eye, while the Cheng family servants make his life difficult in every way, serving him spoiled food and making him sleep in cold, damp bedding. At school, Lu Xing is bullied and ostracized by the entire class. To survive, Lu Xing silently endures it all. The only way he finds relief is by writing countless diary entries and posting them to an online confession forum. For a while, he even considers giving up on life, until the classmates who bullied him are expelled and his homeroom teacher apologizes. The servants who tormented him are fired by their agency. Even Madam Cheng, who hates him to the core, starts treating him a little more kindly. Gradually, he finds a reason to keep living. Word around society is that after the eldest son of the Cheng family died, the Lin family, the richest family in the country, was unhappy with the illegitimate son who took his place and planned to call off their betrothal. At a party, someone asks when the two families will meet. The tall, handsome head of the Lin family raises his glass and replies casually, "Tomorrow." Everyone applauds, only for the man's low, husky voice to ring out a moment later: "To discuss the engagement." Everyone: !! Before joining the Lin family, Lu Xing hears that Lin Jue is moody, brooding, and violent. So nervous that he accidentally breaks an expensive jade teacup on his first day at the Lin residence. He apologizes over and over, his face pale as he bows his head and waits to be scolded. Instead, the man takes his hand and patiently picks the fragments out of his fingers. Then his pale, thin lips gently kiss the wound. For the first time, light shines into Lu Xing's bleak life. Theme: There's always someone better than the best.