The Scum's Redemption Plan (Quick Transmigration)

[This is my first story, and it isn't very well written. There was a lot of debate over how the romance developed, so the comments have been closed.]

[Check out my main-top story next door, The Tragic Villain Doesn't Want to Be Saved. Please add it to your collection!]

[My upcoming main-top story, After the Divorce, My Uncle-in-Law Showered Me with Declarations of Love, may also interest you. Go take a look!]

World One: Cold, impoverished substitute top x initially arrogant, later obedient bottom [Complete]

In his past life, Xi Tang was madly in love with Xue Yuheng. To stay by his side, Xi Tang willingly spent more than a decade as his substitute, helping him reach the peak of his career. He worked himself into the hospital several times, yet Xue Yuheng never once came to see him.

But Xi Tang thought, It doesn't matter. If I just work hard enough, one day Xue Yuheng will look back at me.

Then, at a moment of life and death, Xue Yuheng personally shoved Xi Tang forward to take a fatal blow meant for his fiancee. Xi Tang died beneath his enemy's blade, meeting a miserable end. When he opened his eyes again, Xi Tang had returned to the world of the living and was forcibly bound to the Scum Bottom Reform System.

Given a second life, Xi Tang decided to stop treating Xue Yuheng as the moonlight in his heart and his red rose. He wouldn't even spare Xue Yuheng a glance. Instead, he turned to chat warmly with the person who had been Xue Yuheng's beloved in his past life. His normally cool face was full of smiles, and his eyes held the tenderness Xue Yuheng had once scorned most.

System 004 scratched his head in dismay. "Host, don't forget the mission..."

The next moment, System 004 witnessed a sight that left him utterly dumbfounded:

Xue Yuheng strode forward, his face dark with anger, and shoved his beloved aside. He turned and grabbed Xi Tang's hand, only for Xi Tang to pull free. As Xue Yuheng stared in disbelief, Xi Tang stepped back half a pace and unhurriedly wiped his hand before tossing the wet wipe into the trash. He looked up at Xue Yuheng and said, slowly and firmly, one word at a time, "Don't touch me." He paused, then knitted his brows in disgust. "You're filthy."

Everyone thought Xi Tang was about to get beaten to a pulp. But the fearless Young Master Xue, for the first time in front of everyone, had tears in his eyes.

Other worlds to be determined.

Content warnings:

* This is a quick transmigration story. Each world has its own independent storyline and protagonists. The only character who appears throughout is System 004.

* Includes a groveling-ex arc.

* The top is physically abused early in the story.

Upcoming main-top stories in my collection: My Shizun Is as Beautiful as a Flower

When a Male Zerg Is Reborn as a Useless Guide

When Qi Zhexue came of age, he hadn't yet had the chance to marry a female monarch before an uprising for equality, the likes of which came once in a century, broke out.

As the pampered young master of the Kessel family, he became the target of the uprising's leader.

The female zerg, driven mad, shot him through the heart with a photon gun. He died before he could even call for help.

Qi Zhexue: ...I really can't thank you enough.

When he opened his eyes again, Qi Zhexue was astonished to find that he had arrived in a strange world of Sentinels and Guides. After settling in at the White Tower, full of trepidation, he had planned to adapt to local customs. Instead, he discovered that he was a famously useless Guide at the White Tower. His mental power was almost completely drained, and he had nearly played his own spirit animal to death.

Qi Zhexue, receiving a notice warning him that he might be expelled: Can someone save me? QAQ

Later, someone told Qi Zhexue that if he found an S-rank Sentinel willing to bond with him, he could gradually repair his damaged mental space and regain control over his mental tentacles.

Still utterly naive after just arriving in this world, Qi Zhexue believed them. Holding a huge bouquet of Sentinel flowers, he found Xu Tingzhi, the only S-rank Sentinel in the Tower's first-year class, and cautiously asked amid Xu Tingzhi's baffled stare and the onlookers' eager interest:

"Would you let me be your male monarch?"

Xu Tingzhi wondered if he'd heard wrong. "...What monarch?"

Qi Zhexue hesitated for a long time. "Male monarch."

Xu Tingzhi: "...If you're sick, go see a doctor, okay?"

Then Xu Tingzhi, unwilling to deal with the weirdo in front of him any longer, coldly pushed the bewildered Qi Zhexue aside before everyone's eyes and strode away.

After that, Xu Tingzhi thought he would never cross paths with the weirdo again. But during a fierce battle against space pirates, Qi Zhexue strode through gunfire and blinding flashes of blood, casually unfurling his mental power across the sky and instantly crushing every mental attack. With a laugh, he rescued Xu Tingzhi from the enemy.

Xu Tingzhi's mental space was on the verge of collapse. Fighting the irritability of his rut, he cornered Qi Zhexue, the only person with whom he had a compatible match, against a wall. His eyes red, he said in a low voice, "Please. Give me a mental guidance session."

Qi Zhexue folded his arms and narrowed his eyes, looking entirely at ease. He imitated Xu Tingzhi's cold tone from two years ago and said softly:

"Major General, if you're sick, go see a doctor, okay?"

A sweet, naive Guide top at first, then cool and aloof x a cold Sentinel bottom at first, then frustrated and desperate for release

Theme: Everyone encounters difficulties in life. When hardships arise, don't give up. Stay true to your convictions, and you can succeed.