Hated by Everyone for a Day, Hated by Everyone for Life

In his original world, Cheng An was universally disliked. After dying, he transmigrated into a danmei novel about a universally adored protagonist and became the beautiful protagonist Su Xuelan's foot-washing servant. That was when he found, to his bewilderment, that people seemed to like him much more.

The love interests who had once orbited the universally adored protagonist suddenly treated Cheng An exceptionally well:

Love interest one learned that he couldn't cultivate and went to great lengths to forcefully turn him into a single fire spirit root, then gave him an enormous fortune in spirit stones.

Love interest two took him as a disciple, risked his life to save him when he was in danger, and taught him to respect and love himself.

Love interest three was a dashing, domineering demon king. He gave Cheng An a spirit pet and even lowered his proud head, acting cute and coquettish to win him over.

Cheng An's withered heart was gradually nourished. He even dared to dream of going from universally disliked to universally adored.

To repay their kindness, he played the qin for the universally adored protagonist without sleep or rest, served as his human blood bank, and even warmed the bed of the protagonist when he fell to demonic cultivation.

He devoted himself to caring for the universally adored protagonist. The day before the protagonist woke, he overheard a conversation:

Love interest one: Cheng An is just a servant. I forcefully turned him into a fire spirit root only because A Lan has one too.

No wonder his constitution is so weak now. He's out of breath after three steps and coughing after five.

Love interest two: I took him as my disciple as a pretense. What I really wanted was to control him. I ordered him to wear red and carry a red sword because I wanted to find traces of A Lan in him.

No wonder his wardrobe is full of red clothes, he has no freedom to go anywhere, and people say he's like a pet kept in a cage.

Love interest three: I gave Cheng An a spirit pet just to keep an eye on him. He still doesn't know he was nearly violated by a succubus because I dripped my blood on him, does he?

No wonder a succubus kidnapped him for no reason, and he nearly died.

From then on, Cheng An understood: once a person was universally adored, they would be universally disliked for life.

He gave up on every dream and became gloomy and withdrawn again.

He kept to his duties as a servant, numb and unfeeling like a puppet. Whenever he encountered those men, he stayed far away. If he couldn't avoid them, he knelt and saluted just like the other servants, addressing them as "Immortal Lord."

The men began to feel uneasy when they saw him like this.

At first, they thought he was throwing a tantrum. They deliberately treated him coldly, hoping that after suffering, he would give up resisting.

Later, they panicked. They knelt humbly on the ground, regretfully begging him to become his smiling self again.

Even the universally adored Su Xuelan, now awake, cornered him against a wall, eyes red, and said he had been Cheng An's fiance in a past life.

A fiance?

Cheng An remembered returning to his wealthy family in his previous life, only to be despised by his closest relatives, framed by the fake young master, and forced to donate a kidney to him. At the time, his fiance in name only had looked down at him as if he were a miserable stray dog.

He sneered. What gave these people the right to hurt him and then shamelessly come crawling back, begging for his forgiveness? Did they think he was some kind of pushover?

Theme: Work hard and strive for a better life.