Su Zhi grows up pampered by his adoptive parents, beautiful and adorable.
The young master of the Zhu family gives him a sweet smile. "Zhizhi, you're so cute. Can I hold your hand?"
His sickly younger foster brother puts on a considerate look. "Big brother's going away to university by himself. Sniff... Can I have a hug?"
The aloof top student, a young man of noble status, says nothing, but leaves his assignments on Su Zhi's desk.
The school bully is even more openly affectionate, ruffling his hair. "If anyone gives you trouble, tell me and I'll beat them up!"
His adoptive parents hold his hand too, fussing over him and asking after his health.
Everyone loves and cares for him so much.
Sure, Su Zhi has terrible luck. He bombs his college entrance exams and can't get into the university he wanted. A dog chases him when he goes out, he trips on flat ground and breaks a bone, and while everyone else is having fun over summer vacation, he spends a month in the hospital--
But so what?
Everyone dotes on him so much.
He's already the luckiest person in the world.
*
And everyone who loves him, without exception, enjoys good luck.
A classmate with terrible grades suddenly gets a recommendation to a university, something he'd never been able to obtain before.
His sickly younger foster brother gets better.
His adoptive father closes a huge business deal.
His adoptive mother wins a huge lottery prize and is overjoyed.
Until one day, Su Zhi learns the truth.
It turns out he's naturally lucky, and anyone who touches him can take some of his good fortune. His adoptive parents have known this all along. They deliberately switched him with the Zhu family's child so their own son could live a long life.
They even treated it as a juicy bit of gossip, telling all kinds of powerful and influential people in hopes of gaining fame and favor.
*
So it turns out...
All that affection was a scam built on good luck.
After learning the truth, Su Zhi dies in a car accident because of his bad luck.
He is eighteen that year.
*
Su Zhi opens his eyes again. He's reborn.
On the bright campus of his high school, the young master of the Zhu family, who took his place, smiles at him warmly. "Zhizhi, you're so cute. Can I hold your hand?"
Su Zhi hides the coldness in his eyes and smiles faintly.
"Sure."
Theme: Love is a lifelong lesson.
