[The Grave Robbers' Chronicles] Straw Dogs

My name is Zhang Qiling, the last patriarch of the Zhang family.

Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not the Zhang Qiling you're thinking of. In my timeline, he is called Zhang Haiyue, and he's currently madly in love with Wu Xie, a young man from the Old Nine Gates. Right now, he's locked in a battle of wits with his old friend Wu Laogou, who's old enough to be his grandfather.

It all began when that bastard Ji Man had me cut out of my mother's womb.

In short, I'm the baby in the stone coffin and jade suit, the one who lived for 3,000 years.

...And I'm also a transmigrator.

Everything was perfect. The happiest of happy endings, until the world's will shoved me back through the Bronze Gate. Then, with a bang, history reset.

My Zhang family was torn to pieces. My friend Zhang Haiyue became a patriarch in name only and was repeatedly wiped clean. His boyfriend is now the next unlucky fool to enter the Bronze Gate. In your terms, the story shifted from a "fanfic timeline" to the "original timeline."

And while I suddenly became an undocumented nobody, I also lost my memory.

Oh, I forgot to tell you. My name now is Zhang Xiangxue.

Note:

The setting is extremely indulgent, maybe too much so, seriously. But please believe me, Big Zhang will always be the most impressive! I'm really not bashing him!

I welcome all criticism, but please don't drag the author's family into it. And to reiterate:

The protagonist's combat ability is on par with Zhang Qiling's. (I know that's presumptuous, but please, I'm really a fan. I won't put down anyone from the original, and there won't be any scenes where the protagonist trounces Xiao Ge.)

The protagonist's happy fanfic timeline is gone because this is all one world, so there's no option to transmigrate back.

Ping Xie is included. Black Flower is up to your interpretation. I won't change the tragic ending for Pangzi and Yun Cai. As for the protagonist's pairing, we'll see. There might not be one, or there might be one, and if there is, it'll be with a man.

And there are lots and lots of personal interpretations. (Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to write this at all.)

Theme: A flight of fancy.