Xie Tianzhu is the villainous antagonist in a novel. According to the original storyline, the protagonist will pierce his heart with a sword, sink him into a freezing pool, kick him off a cliff, cut out his heart and feed it to a dog. Heaven despises him, and everyone abandons him.
Later, System: Can someone tell me who bewitched all these protagonists?
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[The Way There and Back]
The lofty god was majestic and awe-inspiring. Only he was the mud beneath that god's feet.
He was a traitor as beautiful as spring flowers, his dagger steeped in Eden's poison. He defied heaven, blasphemed against the gods, broke his vows, and was doomed to suffer for all eternity.
Many years later, the god remembered the first time he took the hand of his first creation.
That creation said, "This is where I come from."
He had once been the god's beginning.
I have a way here, but no way home.
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Later, a hole appeared in the demon realm's eternal night, letting in starlight and sunlight, all because the god remembered that his first creation had once been most afraid of long nights and darkness.
[The Book of Life and Death]
What good could come from a baby abandoned in a mass grave on a stormy night?
But his adoptive parents refused to believe in bad omens and took him in.
With his dazzling looks, he stole flowers and wine, wandered the streets, and got drunk all night, eventually tumbling into a river.
His younger brother carried him home.
His younger brother took the imperial examinations and came first, only to be hacked to death by bandits on the way home.
"Father broke his leg and needed a new one. Of course I had to find a way to help. My sister was going to marry a minister's son without a proper title. Of course I couldn't just stand by. My younger brother passed the imperial exams and became the top scholar, then turned into a lonely ghost. Of course I had to bring him back."
"Xie Tianwen, you say I'm a mass murderer, that I'm guilty of every evil, that I opened the gates of hell and caused the Sage's family to die, and that I deserve to be abandoned by everyone. But what did I have to begin with?"
"I only had myself to begin with. Now, what sense is there in saying I've been abandoned by everyone?"
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Later, the stairway to godhood descended, but the young man named Xie Tianwen refused to ascend.
He tore up the Book of Life and Death and searched the realms of the living and the dead. Torrential rain fell upon the human world for a hundred days, all so he could see one last wisp of Xie Tianzhu's soul.
[The World Came Too Late for Me]
Childhood sweethearts, young love, riding horses side by side. When he first read those lines of poetry, he was the crown prince's companion, the prime minister's precious daughter, a celebrated beauty of the capital, with a future bright and clear.
"Even lifelong friends still keep a hand on their swords; after a long separation, they are strangers." By the time he reached this part of his life, he had been exiled to the frontier, then trapped in an enemy nation by war. Blind and crippled, he survived by relying on others.
"Some things, in truth, I dared to do long ago, but I still wasn't willing to hate."
"The world came into being several years after me."
Years earlier, when he was young, he had still dared to go to the execution ground he had prepared for him.
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Later, peace returned to the realm, the seas were calm and the rivers clear, but the emperor waged war after war, all to scour the land for traces of one disgraced official.
Today, plum-blossom rain falls. My old friend refuses to appear in my dreams.
[White Stars]
At a key high school in a certain city, one student drew far too much attention. His white hair and frost-colored eyes made him seem like a heavy snowfall that had settled over the world and forgotten to melt.
As a target in the hunt known as school bullying, the boy returned every barb with one of his own. Cold as winter snow, he swept in with wind and rain, leaving everyone shaken.
Among all those in power, only one person showed him kindness and told him, "You were born into this world to be different."
He did everything he could to get close. The things hidden in the deepest shadows always long to draw near the sun.
But even the sun can only illuminate those willing to accept its light.
The noble sun was full of righteousness and believed that truth existed somewhere.
But he himself was already a shattered, endless night, and could only be passed over again and again by the sun's dismissive gaze.
"But how are you any different from him?"
"He yielded to the darkness that already existed, burning himself out like every star before him."
"And you yield to a dawn that has never existed."
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Later, the empire's prosecutor imposed harsh punishments, purged school bullying, and overhauled the law. One shocking bill after another was introduced, fiercely debated, and forcefully passed, all because in his dreams, the sight of those eyes weeping beneath snow-white lashes kept jolting him awake night after night.
Theme: Believe in the light and love life, and things can turn out differently