-This is my first novel, and it has its flaws, so please bear with me!-
[In a nutshell: Raising kids + fluffy pets + everyone adores the protagonist + a whole bunch of scheming black lotuses + unconventional business management]
1.
When the interstellar age arrived, strange pollution and abnormal phenomena began breaking out across the world. People's perceptions became distorted, their mental states grew precarious, and they sank into madness and despair.
Ning Xuan, the owner of a teahouse, transmigrated by accident and became the only healer in the entire galaxy.
With the help of the System, he could see people's spirit forms with his own eyes. By keeping them company, raising them, and caring for them, he could purify those suffering from pollution in the real world.
At first, his adorable little pets were all a bit off. They were insecure, manic, violent, depressed, or insomniac... and would even scratch people if they didn't get their way.
But under Ning Xuan's healing care, they all became radiant and docile.
They even started bringing in business for him, helping turn his shabby, desolate teahouse into an adorable pet cafe where people could pet cats and tease birds. Before long, business was booming!
Patient A: Have you heard? There's an adorable pet cafe on a commercial street in Binhai. The owner is a miracle doctor!
Patient B: He's the only person in the entire galaxy who can treat pollution. He's the world's treasure. I love him so much.
Patient C: I saw him kiss my spirit form. He's my wife!
Patient D, Xie Yan, crushed the teacup in his hand, then raised his eyes with a smile. "I didn't quite catch that. I think I heard someone mention my husband. Would you like to say that again?"
2.
Ning Xuan felt like the unluckiest man alive.
The spirit forms he'd raised were all so adorable they practically glowed: a short-legged cat that mewed, a round, weepy curly-haired bear cub, a singing cockatiel, a docile white snake coiled around his wrist, a loyal golden retriever...
They even helped him serve tea and water, and everyone worked together harmoniously to run the adorable pet cafe.
If only he'd found out sooner that all those cute little pets were actually the big shots' "children"!
And those big shots were all seriously messed up, okay?!
The First Pollution Control Officer was highly poisonous, killing anyone who touched him, and took revenge for the slightest offense.
A ruthless, scheming younger brother who wanted to kill his older brother for revenge.
The owner of a mysterious agency who couldn't walk away from money and loved using other people.
A self-conscious, sensitive, yet incredibly powerful stalker who had become twisted and gloomy after being abandoned.
All kinds of warped and unhealthy love were quietly closing in around Ning Xuan.
His clothes mysteriously disappeared. As he walked down the street, he always felt someone watching him. Sometimes, strange packages would show up at his door.
They were all insanely possessive and controlling, and each of them wanted to keep him by their side... where only they could look at him.
Ning Xuan just laughed coldly. Relying on his genius business sense, he became the richest man in the galaxy and struck back hard. "Lock me up? In your dreams! Don't get in the way of me making money!!!"
Did they really think that just because he looked like a pretty ornament, he was one too?!
3.
Xie Yan had thought he was destined to be alone for the rest of his life.
His body had been born carrying a deadly poison, and the curse of being unable to touch anyone had imprisoned him forever.
Until he met Ning Xuan, who could embrace and kiss him.
At first, he scoffed. "Liar. How could anyone touch me without dying... What? You can heal me?"
Later, deeply in love, he pinned Ning Xuan against the wall. "Husband, you said it yourself. You kissed me and raised my child, so you have to marry me in this life. Are you going to seduce me and then abandon me?"
Watching him change his tune in an instant, his amorous eyes fixed on him as he kept teasing and tempting him, Ning Xuan regretted it so much he could have kicked himself.
He'd judged him all wrong. At first, he'd thought he was just a bad-tempered little cat, but it turned out he was a thousand-year-old fox who'd never had a taste of love and had been ravenous for ages!
This was a scam!!!
[Dangerous personality early on, then a lovesick, scheming green tea later; gorgeous, long-haired top with overwhelming strength x irritable, devious slacker in public, gentle mom-friend in private, fragile bottom with zero fighting ability. The top has skin hunger.]
[Content warning] The bottom has an everyone-loves-him trait, and several characters have one-sided crushes on him. His appeal mostly comes from his personality, though his looks play a part too.
Reading Guide:
1. This story features adorable pets, running a business, transmigrating into a book, and all kinds of strange settings. The daily-life plot and the wild plot twists run side by side, with plenty of both plot and romance. If you prefer one of those storylines, give it a few more chapters and see how you feel. (Love you!)
2. There are lots of characters, and most of them have one-sided crushes on the protagonist, but this isn't a ship-selection story. The ending is one-on-one, and Xie Yan is the top.
3. There are a lot of lunatics in this story, so please don't let them scare you, sweet readers!
4. Some settings are inspired by the Foundation and the Cthulhu Mythos, with a small amount of cosmic horror.
[This story will not be abandoned! Readers, feel free to dive in.]
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After the Villain's Memories Were Exposed, He Became Everyone's Favorite
1.
I am the greatest villain in the world.
I've done plenty of bad things, so everyone hates me and wants to kill me.
But when Heaven entrusts someone with a great task, it first tests their resolve. Maybe I'm just too beautiful, so the Heavenly Dao chose me to save the world. I got the golden finger [Death Rewind].
Honestly, I never wanted to save the world. I only wanted to protect my sect, the only home I had.
What do I care if other people live or die?!
But isn't the damn Heavenly Dao being a little too unfair? You didn't tell me I'd have to die more than three thousand times to get a happy ending!
Fine, dying more than three thousand times isn't such a big deal. I just started having trouble remembering things. I thought the leader of the Immortal Alliance was still my good friend, so I eagerly went to ask him to drink with me, only to get run through with a sword.
I went to Penglai Island and tearfully begged the Medicine Sect's leader to treat me. He cursed me for killing hundreds of his medicine people and asked how I could still have the nerve to come to him!
Then he ran me through with a sword too.
The pain made my vision go black, and I could barely think. In the end, I ran back to Kunlun Mountain. Like before, when I was hurting, I wanted my Eldest Senior Brother to hold me.
But I was covered in blood. Would I get his clothes dirty? Would he find me disgusting?
When I saw him, he was just as he had always been: ethereal and elegant, a paragon of grace, the best senior brother in the whole world.
Only this time, he wasn't my senior brother anymore, and he was getting married tomorrow.
Who was he marrying? I was bewildered, until I heard him say coldly, "The devil Xie Shu is a bloodthirsty fiend who has committed every evil. He is a disgrace to the cultivation world.
"He secretly practiced Kunlun swordsmanship, bringing shame upon my sect. I will personally bring him to justice."
He really did find me disgusting.
But the Heavenly Dao said my task was complete. So I leaped into the swiftest part of the River of the Underworld, kicked a little kid who had fallen in by accident back to shore, then sank beneath the water.
It was dark down here.
But I didn't want to come back up.
2.
After the devil Xie Shu vanished while gravely wounded, everyone assumed he was dead for good and clapped their hands in celebration.
"A heretic like him deserves to die! He should die! Good riddance!!!"
Then one day, everyone was suddenly drawn into his [Memory Corridor].
Xie Shu's life played back before them like a movie...
As the truth gradually came to light, they finally understood that Xie Shu had already died for them...
More than three thousand times.
The sinner whom everyone had condemned... was actually the true hero.
Everyone went mad.
The leader of the Immortal Alliance was consumed with regret. He went to the Buddhist sect, bowing his head at every step, leaving a trail of blood on the long staircase.
The Medicine Sect's leader went white-haired overnight and refined countless expensive pills for Xie Shu, at the cost of his own lifespan.
The Kunlun Sect Master, eyes bloodshot, cut down the "beloved" who had impersonated Xie Shu and pretended to be his savior.
He desperately gathered the young man, limp as a rag doll, into his arms. For the first time, he realized how small and frail he was. At last, he fell to his knees, weeping tears of blood. A blood-red mark of the heart demon appeared on the forehead of the once universally praised paragon of righteousness.
"I'm sorry... Little Fourth... Senior Brother was wrong... I was so wrong."
He murmured, "Let's go home. We're going home."
"Could you... wake up and look at me?"
Look at me.
Theme: Strive onward and heal others.
Let me think about it The first world line: The two gods played chess and chose Xuan and Lian. Lian won. Xie Yan and everyone chose to protect Xuan. Everyone died and only Xuan was left alive. He and the good god (system) chose to try their best to reopen at the cost of their lives. Second world line: Yi Xuan designed Er Xuan's death and time travel, and conveyed the information in a subtle way in the form of a novel. Er Xuan opened a teahouse and met everyone. Yi Xuan and Yi Xuan died, and the memory of the first world line returned. Er Xuan ended the pollution of this world with death, but completed the system's mission before death. After Xie Yan escaped with the body, the system arrived late, and she made a wish to take him home. At the same time, when Xie Yan came to the second world line, he turned into a black cat to accompany Xiaoxuan, which was Xiaoxuan's salvation. He also made an agreement with Xiaoxuan to open a teahouse because he missed the teahouse. The fate of the Möbius strip. Xie Yan Maomao returned to their original world after their lifespan ended, and everyone in the second world line was also waiting for them to go home. Overall, that's right (rubbing eyes), I was a little confused when I cried...
! There are spoilers below!!!
WwwI knew this cat was Xie Yan!! (Suddenly I thought of the puppy's ball of thread whining)
OK OK! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Xiao Xie, your mother is here to satisfy you (???)
Although there is no extra story about everyone, they will definitely live happily together in that world. The business of the teahouse is booming, and I really can't get out.
I'm getting goosebumps, this logic closed loop is so well written, wow wow, the author is so nb!! It's the black cat, the cat who has always supported him and accompanied him in the second world line!! The black cat who gave him a second life after jumping off the building——! I like it very much, I like it very much... (Nonsense)
So sweet hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
My wife wrote it very well!!!! Although I have commented before that I thought it was the trend of group favors like Tiantiantian (I personally understand orz (I also eat the knife written by my wife)), but it is also good to write like this! (I just hope that everyone in the article will live happily in the future, hahahahahahaha)
Wuwuwuwuwu, it's gone now?!! It's too short!!
The ending is pretty good, but the first timeline is too cruel and made me cry a lot.