When Lu Xiaoqiu was alive, everyone hated him.
He had a pretty face, but a cruel, unfathomable heart. His family despised him, his friends loathed him, and his lover rejected him. In the end, he died alone.
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After becoming a ghost, he saw the light.
Wouldn't it be great to forget all that damnable past? Wouldn't it be great to start a new life? Time to reincarnate!
But the underworld's officials told him he still had an important karmic entanglement to resolve, so he couldn't enter the six paths of reincarnation yet.
Lu Xiaoqiu: ... (a listless fish with no sparkle in its eyes.jpg)
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With no other choice, he secretly started observing the people from his past who had once treated him with utter disdain, the ones he was karmically entangled with.
His old nemesis slept clutching a photo of him.
The older brother who had kicked him out of the house spent every day drunk and weeping.
His ex-boyfriend, who had betrayed him, had gone mad and was researching spirit-medium techniques day and night.
Lu Xiaoqiu: ...? Am I seeing things?
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After that, his memorial service descended into even more chaos.
His old acquaintances fought over his urn until they were battered and bleeding, their eyes red with rage.
They exposed one another's secrets, accusing each other of how cold and heartless they'd been to Lu Xiaoqiu when he was alive.
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But no one noticed the beautiful young man on the raised platform, eating the fruit offerings in his hand with a look of utter despair, crunch by crunch.
Could you please argue faster?
I'm in a hurry to reincarnate QwQ.
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Reader's Guide:
1. The protagonist is a love-shy, listless pessimist who was adored by everyone when alive, without realizing it.
2. Very casual first-person narration.
Old-school melodrama, lots of classic cliché landmines, _(√ ζ ε:)_ A story about people who regret too late, but to no avail.
3. An imaginary setting, unrelated to the real world.
Blurb written in May 2022
Theme: Cherish life and the people around you. There is no restart simulator for life.
Don't you want to write this down?
(*￣3￣)╭?? The little flowers will hit you