The Tyrant's Greenhouse

The teacher said from the front of the classroom that the world was material and did not change according to anyone's will.

By the window, Su Shixiu secretly put a question mark in his notebook.

When he was seven, his alcoholic adoptive father smashed a bottle over his head. Two criminal police officers chasing a fugitive happened to rush in from outside, subdued his father, and got him sentenced to life in prison.

When he was twelve, an older student bully dragged him into an abandoned restroom. The municipal inspection team happened to take a wrong turn and open the door, and the school expelled every bully after announcing it to the whole school.

At thirteen, a huge sum of class funds went missing, and all the fabricated evidence pointed to him. Just as he was about to become a thief despised by the entire school, the old security camera that had been broken for three years miraculously started working again, recording the entire frame-up.

At seventeen, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. With the exorbitant treatment costs leaving him with nowhere to turn, the province's only grant for rare diseases landed in his lap the very next day...

Su Shixiu had always thought of himself as lucky. Though life sometimes threw obstacles in his path, he always made it through unscathed.

He worked hard to grow into a kind and sincere young man, hoping to repay the world that had treated him so gently.

In the future timeline, the world was destroyed twice.

The first destruction came with the arrival of an unstoppable disaster civilization from the abyss. The second was caused by the ultimate Awakened being, who stood above the disasters: [The Tyrant] Su Shixiu...

He was invincible, and nothing could kill him. The only chance of survival was to return to the starting point.

When the surviving powerhouses of the Alliance joined forces to tear through time and return to twenty years in the past, they faced a cruel paradox:

If they killed Su Shixiu, humanity would be wiped out by the disasters twenty years later. If they let him grow up, he would retrace the old path of betrayal, abuse, and finally becoming consumed by despair and turning evil.

So the powerhouses who had returned first signed an agreement. They took on new identities, disguised themselves as ordinary people, and swore to clear every dead end from his path before he fell into the abyss.

...Until this morning. Lu She, an S-rank ability user who had fought Su Shixiu to the bitter end in his previous life, had finally arrived and been reborn.

Lu She still had a sea of blood and vengeance burning in his eyes. He drew his blade, murderous intent surging, and headed straight for the not-yet-awakened seventeen-year-old Su Shixiu.

He would eliminate the future threat once and for all before the demon could grow powerful!

Before he could draw his blade, the middle-aged woman running a street stall on the corner, the disabled man repairing bicycles by the roadside, and even the high school principal passing by suddenly sprang into action together. Several future top powerhouses joined forces, pinned the bloodthirsty war god to the ground, covered his mouth, and dragged him into the underground command center.

The command center was bustling. A giant screen overhead broadcast Su Shixiu's daily life around the clock.

"Report! Someone stepped on Su Shixiu's shoe on the bus just now and got off without apologizing!"

"Oh no, those were the shoes Shixiu just bought. He looks a little unhappy!"

"Have Agent Three pretend to drop their wallet, then have Su Shixiu find it and get thanked to his face for half an hour. Raise his positive mood score! Hurry!"

"Report: Su Shixiu went to an internet cafe this afternoon to check the university entrance exam cutoff scores. He seems worried about tuition..."

"Where's the logistics team? I told you to set up a financial aid channel the day before yesterday. Why are you so slow? Do you want to get us all killed?"

"Have the owner of the bookstore where he works part-time raise his hourly wage to 150. Let him experience the joy and dignity of labor!"

"...Watch your limits. Don't make it look too fake. The kid is clever."

"Which action team is in charge of bringing him soup tonight? Buy some fresh ribs. Be kind, smile, and don't wear a face like a coffin!"

"Have you all gone crazy?!"

Lu She struggled, bound hand and foot. Everyone looked at him with pity, but nobody paid him any attention.

Three days later, Lu She had been forced to join the organization. With a blank expression, he stood in front of Su Shixiu, dragging a suitcase.

Sunlight streamed through the mottled stairwell. The pale, slender young man stroked a stray cat curled up beside his feet. Hearing footsteps, he lifted his face, his eyes clear.

"Are you the new neighbor?"

Lu She: "..."

Why was he kind of cute?

Theme: Never give up in the face of adversity.