In other people's eyes, Lin Fuyu is a lowly servant, doted on by the pampered Second Young Master, yet ungrateful and using that favor to bully the Young Master at every turn.
He is so vile that a livestream from another dimension sets its sights on him:
"Ugh! What a scumbag! The Young Master is so delicate, and he even bore this servant a child, yet the guy can't even remember his birthday!"
"Tip 99 Regret Coins! Give this scumbag another lightning bolt! Strike him dead!"
After being struck unconscious, Lin Fuyu realizes that the Young Master has been bound to a livestream System from another dimension. The viewers watching the stream are furious at him for callously abandoning the Young Master and his child. They tip huge sums of money to buy punishments for him, including lightning strikes, drowning, and burning.
He tries to explain to the comments that the Qin family is a living hell, but discovers that he cannot.
As the punishments intensify, he suffers beyond measure. After exhausting every means to climb into the Ninth Prince's good graces, the comments come flooding in again:
"This scumbag is pretending to be the heir of a rich family so he can marry into royalty. He tricked the Ninth Prince into sleeping with him! Tip 999 Regret Coins to buy the fire punishment. Burn him!"
Only then does Lin Fuyu learn that the Ninth Prince looks down on people of low birth. He let Lin Fuyu touch him only because he thought Lin Fuyu came from the fabulously wealthy Qin family.
After his right hand, the one he used to write, is broken, he is driven out. There, he takes in a homeless young man.
As their feelings grow, the young man's father, the prime minister, arrives on their wedding day.
It turns out the young man is the prime minister's household's impostor son. When the real son returned, the young man was neglected, lost heart, and ran away from home.
Afraid the prime minister's household will cast him aside, the young man tearfully claims that Lin Fuyu seduced him and tells the story of how he became pregnant.
Lin Fuyu is relentlessly persecuted by the prime minister's household. To make matters worse, the comments come after him again:
"Disgusting! This scumbag is ruining someone's life again. He's even gotten a boy who's barely a teenager pregnant! If he doesn't go through the whole win-back-your-wife-and-atone-for-your-sins routine this time, I'll tip 9,999 coins and have the System punish him to death!"
Lin Fuyu lives in torment every day, yet cannot die, because the comments won't let him.
To die as soon as possible, he has no choice but to swallow his humiliation and begin his long, painful quest to win back his former lovers.
As he kneels outside his former lover's door, frantically slapping himself and repenting for his sins, everything that happened in the past is brought to light.
The Young Master's sister-in-law: "He was my classmate. He was a top scholar and could have entered the civil service, but my second brother-in-law couldn't bear to be without him. So my husband forced him to kneel at my brother-in-law's feet and serve him every day, and to tell him he was willingly serving as a servant."
A Qin family attendant: "I can testify that Lin Fuyu never claimed to be a young master of the Qin family. The Ninth Prince's people misunderstood!"
The prime minister's true son: "So when I was lost outside the household, he supported me and my younger siblings so we could study. I mistook someone else for my benefactor and repaid his kindness with cruelty. There must be more to the story of my third brother being forced to get pregnant."
The comments fell silent.
Later, the viewers began desperately making amends, tipping huge sums of money just to give Lin Fuyu a good life.
Lin Fuyu's former lovers also reflected on their actions and did everything they could to make it up to him.
But Lin Fuyu, who had set his heart on dying, no longer needed any of it.
He jumped off a cliff.
Twelve years later, when he was found again, he had become a farmer who carried a hoe over his shoulder and lived the life of a hermit, "picking chrysanthemums beneath the eastern fence, gazing leisurely at the southern mountain."
Looking at his hands, rough with furrows and covered in scars, the viewers and his former lovers regretted everything. They wished they could cut out their own hearts to repay him.
Theme: Don't pay attention to other people's put-downs
Gone? (Despair) 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
. . . . . Why is Gong Bao so pitiful?