Bai Yu, who had died young, was visited by a System. A villain in a small world had gone on strike, and the System needed Bai Yu to help carry out the villain's original storyline. The reward was a new life. Desperate to keep living, Bai Yu took on the mess.
As a standard little boss, Bai Yu was supposed to become jealous and turn evil, secretly collaborate with the enemy, betray the sect that had raised him from childhood at a crucial moment, and then die by the sword of the protagonist, the sect's senior disciple, who couldn't bear to kill him but ultimately chose the greater good.
But Bai Yu hadn't expected the villain to have gone on strike so thoroughly. When he transmigrated, he was still a baby, and the person looking after him was none other than the senior brother who would one day stab him with a sword.
As he looked at the spoonful of rice cereal being held out to him: "Ahhh..."
Bai Yu, mentally an adult, turned his head away. ...I'm going on strike, too!
But for a brand-new life of his own, Bai Yu eventually kept up his character and diligently completed the villain's storyline. He successfully faked his death and was reborn into a carefully chosen family of nobles.
Why cultivate immortality? You have to get up at dawn, work until nine at night, and you don't even get enough sleep. Being a spoiled young lord is the best! This time around, he was going to drink the strongest liquor and live life to the fullest.
But... why did the tutor his father hired look so much like his former master? Why did the page his mother found for him look just like his senior brother? And why could even one of the lowly servants fly on a sword?
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After the allied sects wiped out the Heavenly Demon Sect, the Qingfeng Sect was left in mourning. Their youngest disciple, the child they had all watched grow up, had died at the hands of one of their own, on top of everyone killed in the battle. Of them all, Gu Zhengqing, the sect leader's eldest disciple, was hit the hardest.
Whenever he closed his eyes, he saw the look of relief on his junior brother's face before he died, as if he had wanted to die all along. The thought filled Gu Zhengqing with sorrow.
So he asked his master not to remove Bai Yu from the sect just yet. After investigating every detail of his junior brother's betrayal, he reached a shocking conclusion: his junior brother had good reason for what he did. The Heavenly Demon Sect had controlled him, and to stop himself from hurting his fellow disciples any further, he had chosen to die by Gu Zhengqing's sword.
The people of Qingfeng Sect were furious, but they could never bring that child back.
Until they noticed that Gu Zhengqing often skipped sect duties to go to the mortal world. His second senior sister secretly followed him and discovered that their senior brother was acting as the page of a mortal boy who looked exactly like their junior brother!
The people of Qingfeng Sect: !!!
Wait for us, junior brother!
Bai Yu: ...Thanks, I guess.
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