The Tragic Beauty of a Beautiful, Strong, and Doomed Character

★ Check the featured comments and long reviews for recommendations. ★ If you create fan works, please credit the original author and don’t post or repost large numbers of screenshots or content from the paid chapters. 【Recommending my friend’s completed novel about a tragic, powerful character with multiple secret identities: Global Ascension by Zimu Tao, ID 5520005】 Blurb: Gong Du is the least popular god in the Three Thousand Divine Realms, with dominion over disease. Every world has a protagonist team, and the team gathers the world’s fortune. His job is to keep the team safe while also putting them through enough hardships to win that fortune. Gong Du pours his heart and soul into the task, creating obstacles for the team while also acting as their teacher, senior, or comrade-in-arms and guiding them. But his ending has long been decided. He is destined to die. World One: 【A federal general overthrown by revolution. Role-playing side effect: stomach trouble】 Gong Du plays a gentle, cherished teacher while using his identity as a federal general to put the protagonist team through trials. Later, as the federal general, he kills his own beloved teacher persona, forcing the team to work harder and overthrow the Federation. But… on the verge of death, Gong Du looks at the protagonist team, all of them weeping, and falls silent. World Two: 【An esper world. Role-playing side effect: Capgras delusion】 Golden sunflowers follow the sun forever. A flamboyant young man cradles a flower and disappears in the sunlight. “I died in the past, so I could watch over your future.” World Three: The Treacherous Minister of Ancient Times “Spring in Jinling is beautiful.” 【Anti-piracy requirement: 50% for ten days. You may not purchase the novel if you don’t meet the requirement.】 Words from the protagonist teams: In countless worlds, there is always someone like him. Sometimes he walks alone along a path thick with thorns. Sometimes he dies in the darkness before dawn. Sometimes he grovels and fawns, only to straighten his back just before he dies. Sometimes he spends his whole life unable to grasp the light he swore to protect. He is their teacher, senior, or companion; a guide to many, and the regret they dare not face. P.S. The protagonist is not a good person. He’s extremely awful, an acting genius and master of scripts who never gets found out. He’s also very good at playing the victim without giving himself away. All relationships are platonic, either friendship or familial. P.P.S. For specific content warnings and a reading guide, see the author’s note in Chapter One. * Recommending my friend’s novel: Global Ascension by Zimu Tao, ID 5520005 Blurb: Chu Zaizhou was a gaming legend known for his grind. One day, he stumbled upon a game called Savior. To unlock every hidden achievement and side quest, Chu Zaizhou created hundreds and thousands of alternate accounts and played through the story with them all. #I’m the one who destroys the world, I’m the one who saves it, and I’m the one who loves and fights myself: D# Chu Zaizhou: This is awesome! Then one day, he woke up to find the game had become reality. 【What should I do after waking up as the savior?】 【I never put any points into my main character’s skills!】 To keep his utterly powerless main character alive and save the world, Chu Zaizhou announced the founding of an Esper Academy on the spot. Every student, teacher, and even the janitor was one of his alternate accounts. Chu Zaizhou: Clutches his liver.jpg Paranormal incidents are running rampant in Plane D619. Just when everyone is losing hope, an Esper Academy suddenly appears! Its people are incredibly powerful and thoroughly practiced at dealing with the bizarre. Chu Zaizhou: That’s just muscle memory from grinding. They stand united against outsiders. No matter how many spies go after them, none make it back alive. Chu Zaizhou: A light bulb among a bunch of alternate accounts? Hah, get lost! Among themselves, they’re at each other’s throats. The cold, aloof 【Sage】 keeps watch over the gentle, compassionate 【Prisoner】; the 【Twins】 are cursed to never meet; the 【Oriole】, who sang for his ideals, dies at the hands of a companion’s thorns… Chu Zaizhou: They’re just random character settings … Passerby A: So this ancient school has been protecting us for all this time… Passerby B: Oh my god, oh my god! I’m going to bang my head against the wall for Teacher Lu! Why is he locked up when he’s so gentle? Passerby C: Don’t go! He’ll smile while taking your kidneys! Passerby D: Check the trending posts! The backgrounds of these big shots… throws up blood.jpg As the world got better and better, people began to speculate about the identity of the principal, who never showed his face. Before long, rumors began to spread: To help the world survive its ordeal, the principal sacrificed himself and merged with the school. He is the leader who lights the torch at night, a god who walks among mortals. 【Congratulations! You’ve achieved the ultimate personal achievement: Ascend to Godhood!】 Chu Zaizhou: …Is it possible that I’m just a shut-in playing games? Theme: See people in their entirety