Xun Jing woke up to find himself the village's most notorious scoundrel.
He smoked and drank heavily, bullied the weak, and was nearly thirty with no job and no ambition. The villagers avoided him like the plague.
Xun Jing had no memories of his past, but he heard that a month before his mother died, she had spent the money she had saved for most of her life to buy him a male concubine from the neighboring village.
A few days later, red lanterns hung outside the earthen house. Xun Jing lifted the red veil, only to find a powerful young nobleman from the capital sitting on the bed.
The nobleman was immensely influential and proud by nature. Now, sitting on the worn wooden bed with a touch of makeup, he blushed and said shyly,
"You and I have been married."
Xun Jing had entered the world of a novel and discovered that he was a bit character who died at the very beginning. His character was a mess, and he was doomed by his own actions.
He figured he had less than three days to live.
So he faced reality and chose to lie flat. But how come...
There was always a character who refused to follow the script?
First world: [Lazy scoundrel vs. young nobleman from the capital]
Second world: [Ruffian who breaks into a haunted house vs. the ghost haunting it]
Third world: [Unwanted illegitimate son vs. the favored second young master]
The gong wakes up with amnesia in the first few worlds, then gradually recovers his memories.
The shou is the same person throughout.
Theme: Hold on to the hope of living