After the Tragic Beauty Awakens

A short-tempered, domineering school bully gong who picks fights with the whole world x a delicate, frail, scheming top student shou

Only after dying does Si Ran discover he's living in a book, cast as the tragic shou whom "the whole world can hurt."

Just how tragic is it?

At the age of three, his half-brother abandoned him, leaving him to wander outside and live on scraps for twelve years.

At fifteen, his family took him back. The first thing they did was make him donate bone marrow to the mistress's illegitimate son, the very child who had caused his mother's death!

Si Ran: What kind of sucker am I? Is my entire purpose in life to be a walking bone marrow bank for some brat who's only half-related to me?

After the mistress used him, his green-tea younger brother framed him for having illicit sex, nearly getting him sent to jail.

Si Ran: Author, do you have a heart? I'm only fifteen!

At sixteen, he was kicked into an elite academy, where the domineering, cool, and arrogant male lead fell in love at first sight with him, a weed growing wild and stubbornly.

But instead of a mutual rescue and happily-ever-after ending, the male lead started bullying him at school under the excuse that "if I love him, I should pick on him."

Si Ran: Just keep smiling and get through it.

The male lead regularly cornered him behind the school to tease and humiliate him. He even changed Si Ran's college entrance exam choices, sexually harassed him, and forced him into marriage!

And through it all, Si Ran was supposed to be strong, hardworking, optimistic, and stupidly follow the plot as a tool character, then end up with a happy ending, gratefully letting his kindness reform the violent, brooding male lead so they could live happily ever after!

Si Ran: Author, are you an idiot?

What did I ever do to you? Aren't I your own son?! Why are you putting me through all this?

Don't I deserve a male lead who's healthy in both body and mind?

Reborn into a new life, Si Ran awakens to the truth, gets his hands on the script of fate, maxes out his dark side, and takes revenge on scumbags while crushing his enemies.

His older brother sells him out?

Si Ran: "Hello, 110? I want to report my brother for child trafficking!"

And then his brother ends up at the police station.

His stepmother guilt-trips him and forces him to donate bone marrow?

Si Ran: "The law says minors under eighteen can't donate bone marrow. I'm a law-abiding citizen. When my brother dies, I'll set off firecrackers at his grave and wish him a quick reincarnation. In twenty years, he'll be a hero all over again."

The male lead bullies him at school?

Si Ran: "Hello, officer? There's a group fight and a student is being bullied."

And then the male lead ends up in jail too.

Years later, the male lead tries to force him into marriage again.

Si Ran takes his soft and adorable deskmate's hand, their fingers interlacing. "Sorry, I'm married. Let me introduce you to my wife."

Reading guide:

1. The gong is tough on the outside but weak within; the shou is weak on the outside but strong within.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only.

Theme: People can overcome fate and become the masters of their own destiny.