I Became a God After Binding to a Redemption System

[I'm not entirely satisfied with how the story turned out later on, so I've decided to revise it from the beginning. - September 4]

Check out my upcoming danmei novel next door, "After the Substitute Reborns." If you like it, please add it to your collection~

After dying, Yu Yan was bound to a Villain System and transmigrated into a Western fantasy novel.

In the novel, he was the beloved eldest son of an earl. In a world that worshipped the God of Light, he was born with the golden hair and blue eyes most cherished by the deity. A child of light by nature, he was destined to receive the God of Light's guidance at his eighteenth birthday baptism and go to the temple, where he would accompany the god for all eternity.

Unfortunately, he was a villain. He was hot-tempered and cruel, utterly useless apart from his looks, and doomed to be humiliated by the protagonist.

At the baptismal feast, Yu Yan's universally despised illegitimate half-brother timidly stepped onto the dais. Under the scornful gazes of the crowd, he pressed the testing device. A sea of golden light flared, blinding everyone, and beneath its radiance, the God of Light personally crowned the illegitimate son.

In an instant, everyone's gaze toward Yu Yan changed. They looked at him with contempt, accusing him of pretending to be a child of light and offending the true one.

Under their reproachful stares, Yu Yan walked step by step toward the testing device. His illegitimate half-brother looked delighted yet wore a mournful expression. "Little brother... I didn't mean to..."

Before he could finish, the testing device burst into another sea of golden light. Within the magnificent halo...

A brand-new god was born, with enormous wings of pure white feathers.

Its face was holy and flawless, cool and extraordinary. It gazed upon the people with compassion, yet bowed and solemnly kissed Yu Yan on the forehead.

"I came for you."

Feeling the jealousy of his illegitimate half-brother behind him and the shock of everyone else, Yu Yan, once a summoner, couldn't help but curl his lips.

Didn't see that coming, did you? He had another trick up his sleeve!

·

On this decaying continent, only the God of Light had ever shown favor to anyone.

Four kingdoms waged endless wars to win the god's sole protection.

At his eighteenth birthday baptism, Yu Yan drew the attention of another god from beyond this world.

Everyone wondered what abilities Yu Yan possessed, until a strange nation rose to prominence. Carefree, wicked demons spread delight with every flap of their wings. Beautiful, brutal merfolk sailed aboard ancient ships, singing songs of death. Small, shrewd dwarves crafted cannons capable of taking on a thousand foes. Nimble, pure-hearted elves rescued countless lives with their harps...

They all came from ancient, long-forgotten myths. These were beautiful and powerful species that were said to have gone extinct long ago.

Yet they all came, one after another, for Yu Yan.

And they reverently called him, "King."

"After the Substitute Reborns":

Only after he died did Wen Rujiu discover that he had been living in a tragic BL romance.

The leads came from vastly different backgrounds. After overcoming countless hardships, the pursuer and the pursued finally got their happy ending after hundreds of rounds, while he...

Was the substitute who looked 80 percent like the protagonist.

The protagonist, Gu Yan, was deeply in love with the other lead, Yan Changming. But the gap between their social statuses was like heaven and earth. Gu Yan was merely a self-made upstart. How could he ever be a match for Yan Changming, the legitimate heir of a century-old family from the outskirts of the capital?

Unable to win Yan Changming's heart, Gu Yan indulged his desires by targeting Wen Rujiu, who was working at a banquet, and imprisoning him in a villa as his canary.

In front of Yan Changming, Gu Yan was a cheerful, energetic puppy, loving him with all his heart.

In front of Wen Rujiu, Gu Yan was a demon with a whip. He destroyed Wen Rujiu's student records, forced him to take drugs, beat and verbally abused him, shattering every last piece of his pride. After winning Yan Changming over, he even handed Wen Rujiu to a business associate to toy with as they pleased...

That bleak life only truly ended when Wen Rujiu smashed a bottle over the man's head and leapt out of a window.

Reborn at the very beginning, on the night Gu Yan first caught him, Wen Rujiu never wanted to repeat the same mistakes.

Thinking of the original story, Wen Rujiu gritted his teeth and forced his drugged, woozy body up to the penthouse suite, Room 1987, and rang the doorbell.

The door opened. The man inside, his moonlight, had an air of icy detachment and a face like the bright moon, just as cool and aloof as the story described.

Wen Rujiu raised the face that resembled his by 80 percent and begged in despair.

"Sir, please save me."

·

Before meeting Wen Rujiu, Yan Changming had always thought the world was boring.

People eagerly paraded in front of him with all kinds of ulterior motives, dressing themselves up to look their best in hopes of winning his favor.

Then Wen Rujiu appeared.

Wen Rujiu, who looked 80 percent like him, was humble as dust and so fragile he seemed like he might shatter at a touch. Even as the world threatened to crush him, he still worried that Yan Changming might get hurt too.

He was so beautiful that he made the whole world seem to sway with newfound life.

Even Yan Changming, who had always looked down on everything, couldn't help but stop and gaze at him.

A little scene:

While attending university, Wen Rujiu was known far and wide as the aloof campus heartthrob.

Every new class of underclasswomen arrived with a crush and hoped to win him over, but they couldn't get so much as a word out of Wen Rujiu.

One day, a man who looked a lot like Wen Rujiu came to pick him up.

A young woman from the new class asked shyly, "Senior Wen, is this your older brother?"

The man's cold expression softened. His phoenix eyes glinted as he asked, "Senior Wen, am I your brother or your boyfriend?"

The usually calm and self-possessed Senior Wen instantly turned red around the ears and awkwardly looked away. "..."

"He's my boyfriend."

Underclasswoman: !!! My love story is over!!

Underclasswoman: But I guess I could ship Senior Wen and his boyfriend too!!

Moral: Life takes many forms. Find joy in understanding your own.