The Scum Top Is Reborn in a Forced Love Novel

Advance notice: "The Polished College Student Takes on Fatherhood from Scratch". The blurb is at the very bottom. If you're interested, visit my collection and add it to your favorites!

Male-lead-focused episodic novel. No System, but the protagonist is reborn. (Enter the third arc at your own risk: tragic ending.)

1. Cui Weizhi was born into a noble family. His mother was the emperor's empress's younger sister, and his father was the Marquis of Zhongyong, a celebrated military hero.

The Marquis of Zhongyong had a son late in life, and treasured his only legitimate son, Cui Weizhi, like the apple of his eye. He was so doting that he was afraid the boy might melt if he held him in his mouth. As a result, Cui Weizhi grew up spoiled and became a notorious young wastrel in the capital.

He enjoyed cockfighting and dog racing, and kept handsome young men. He had no interest in poetry or books. Usually he was full of energy, but the moment studying came up, he would become "frail and sickly," with dizziness and blurred vision. At sixteen, he was practically illiterate, and even the tutor at a school for young children would sigh at his poetry.

Yet this hopelessly ignorant wastrel fell for Qiao Yunshang, the legitimate daughter of the Crown Prince's tutor and the celebrated beauty of the capital.

To win Qiao Yunshang, Cui Weizhi even climbed over the Crown Prince's tutor's wall in the middle of the night. The servants on night watch mistook him for a sexual predator and beat him out of the place. He couldn't have looked more pathetic.

When word got out, the whole capital laughed at Cui Weizhi, while the proper and virtuous Qiao Yunshang became the subject of gossip as well.

Despite the rumors, Cui Weizhi didn't know enough to keep his distance. Instead, he kept showing up in front of Qiao Yunshang. In front of a crowd, he even pulled off Qiao Yunshang's veil, kissed his face, and loudly praised how fair his feet were, like cream.

Qiao Yunshang was both furious and humiliated. His reputation was ruined overnight, and when the emperor arranged their marriage, he reluctantly "married down" to Cui Weizhi.

Their relationship remained bitter after the wedding. They turned against each other and were like enemies. Once Cui Weizhi had gotten what he wanted, he no longer cherished Qiao Yunshang, spending his days seeking pleasure elsewhere. After several years, Qiao Yunshang still had no children. Unable to bear the gossip, he took his own life at home.

Not long afterward, the Marquis of Zhongyong and Cui Weizhi's mother died in turn. Cui Weizhi was used by others and falsely accused of treason and colluding with the enemy. The emperor flew into a rage and imprisoned him, ordering his execution after the autumn harvest.

The executioner's blade fell, and Cui Weizhi's head hit the ground. He thought he was dead for sure, but when he opened his eyes, he was back at the moment he had harassed Qiao Yunshang in the street. Qiao Yunshang's eyes were red as he raised a hand and slapped him.

Cui Weizhi dropped to his knees with a thump. Ignoring the crowd, he clung to Qiao Yunshang's leg and wept until the sky seemed to darken: "Wife, save me! I don't want to die!"

Qiao Yunshang: "???"

#The story of an uncultured wastrel who is reborn, clings to his wife's leg, and rises to become a powerful official#

2.

Jiang Jinyuan coasted on his rich-kid status, shirking his studies and doing whatever he pleased. He ignored other people's wishes and forcibly kept a college student as his lover. He even drove the student into depression, but still refused to let him go.

Then his family went bankrupt. With an empty head and no way to turn things around, he was penniless and froze to death on the street. In his hazy final moments, he saw that college student pull up in a Rolls-Royce, coming from a luxury residential complex. The student stopped in front of him, polished leather shoes touching the ground just before his face. Looking down at him, the student's distinguished bearing was as far above him as the clouds were above the mud.

Only then did he learn that the college student was the long-lost son of Jiangcheng's richest man. His family had gone bankrupt because he had nearly played the heir to the richest man to death, provoking the man's father to take furious revenge.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back at the bar, harassing the college student. But he didn't dare splash a drink in the student's face and humiliate him. Instead, he carefully helped him up. Unable to suppress his lust, he touched the student's hand while nervously asking, "How much are you short on tuition? I'll pay it."

He paused, then added, "You don't have to sell yourself."

The college student: "?"

#After going broke, the uncultured rich kid can only rely on his wife to support him#

1. Before being reborn, both male leads were scumbags. After being reborn, they're 100% well-behaved. The reborn one is an uneducated, sunny, happy puppy who wants to live off his wife but has to pull himself together.

2. Both leads are each other's only partner.

3. There may be childbirth.

4. The blurb has been replaced. I left the previous one up for too long and ran out of inspiration.

5. I'll try to avoid melodrama and write something sweet, but my hands have a mind of their own, so I might not be able to resist.

6. This is a quick transmigration writing exercise. It may not be very long. Thanks for reading and for your understanding.

-------Advance Notice Blurb----------

In his previous life, Lin Qishui abused his power and committed countless misdeeds. He took his elder brother's wife for himself and got his future sister-in-law pregnant when he was only eighteen.

His future sister-in-law endured the humiliation and married him, giving birth to twins. But Lin Qishui resented her for still caring about his dead brother. Once he had taken her for himself, he stopped cherishing her. He also neglected his own twins, barely ever raising them.

When the two pairs of twins grew up, he broke up the twins and their lovers for the sake of power, arranging the wrong couples. The twins grew to hate him, and in the end, they could no longer stand it and cut ties with him. His wife had also lost all hope in him and asked for a divorce.

In the end, Lin Qishui spent his old age in misery.

His friend betrayed him, his wife and children left him, his sons treated him as an enemy, his wife looked at him with nothing but disappointment, and his enemies mocked him for being so clever in his schemes that he had only ruined himself.

At last, Lin Qishui killed himself in despair. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to his university days.

At the time, his wife had just given birth to twins, and the birth had left her in poor health. She was weak from childbirth and suffering from depression, while the twins had been left alone and forgotten at kindergarten, with nobody coming to pick them up.

After being reborn, Lin Qishui hurried to the kindergarten after class. The twins clung to their teacher's legs and tried desperately to hide behind them. He struggled to force a "kind" smile:

"Yunyu, Hanzhu, how about Daddy takes you home?"

The two little ones stared at Lin Qishui's "ferocious face," trembling with fear. A moment later, they burst into tears and scattered, shouting as they ran:

"Security guard! A bad man is trying to kill me!"

Lin Qishui: "?"

#Reborn at twenty-one and raising kids#

#Baby, Daddy really isn't a bad man#

Theme: Work hard at life, and live with confidence and spirit.