The Prodigy Falls into the Mire [Narcissism]

[Doppelganger Romance / Revenge and Retribution / Feel-Good Power Fantasy]

Shen Qiong is the very picture of heaven's favorite. Born to nobility, gifted with extraordinary talent and a noble bearing, he inspires the envy of countless people.

He gives everyone his whole heart without asking for anything in return, never realizing that behind their envy and gratitude lie hatred and covetousness.

Excellence is a blade that wounds the mediocre.

They constantly belittle him, deny his worth, and isolate him, then tell him that they're the only ones who don't despise him and are willing to accept him.

Shen Qiong should have been dazzling and unmatched, but he doesn't know his own worth, and humbles himself until he is lower than the dust.

On the day of his nineteenth birthday,

a trusted attendant he treated like a brother personally serves him poisoned wine.

"I've had enough of you!"

"Why should you get to stand above me and patronize me? Why did my family have to be destroyed while you built a grand mansion and held banquets?"

His biological father cuts out his spiritual meridians and gives them to his spoiled half-brother.

"My child, you've lost your cultivation and become useless. Those meridians are no good to you now. Let your younger brother use them to bring glory to the family."

His childhood sweetheart, who swore he loved him, severs the tendons in his hands and feet, trapping him at his side like a dog.

"You used to shine too brightly. I was always afraid someone else would take you away. Now, you belong to me alone."

Shen Qiong loses all his cultivation and spiritual meridians, and his hands and feet are crippled. He becomes a useless cripple.

On a bitterly cold night, abused by his childhood sweetheart, he dies in a vast snowfall.

In life, he was as bright and pure as the moon after rain. In death, his fury reaches the heavens.

He becomes a vengeful ghost and returns from hell.

He returns to the time before it all happened, reborn in his own body.

But he discovers...there's another version of himself inside it.

Shen Lizhi has a nightmare.

He dreams that his name is Shen Qiong, that everyone has abandoned him, that he has become a cripple, and that he dies a miserable death.

When he wakes, he realizes with a start that he's drunk a cup of poisoned wine.

His childhood sweetheart is walking toward him, gripping a chain.

His father and stepmother anxiously wait outside, holding a box containing spiritual meridians.

A voice speaks in his mind: "Don't be afraid. Give me your body. Let me handle this."

It's another version of himself from his dream.

From then on, someone else lives inside Shen Lizhi's body.

The other man is wicked and violent, but tender and doting toward him alone.

He will take everything back for him: his dignity, fairness, justice, status, reputation...

[No one in this world deserves my love. The only person who loves me most is myself.]

[Rather than make them repent for hurting me, I'd rather make them regret ever meeting me.]

Bonus Scene:

His former childhood sweetheart is utterly defeated and on the brink of death, kneeling like a dog and begging Shen Lizhi to spare him.

He watches helplessly as an identical man splits off from Shen Lizhi's body.

When the man's knife comes at him, Shen Lizhi stops him.

The childhood sweetheart cries out excitedly, "A Li, you still have feelings for me after all, don't you?"

Shen Lizhi calmly tells the man, "He's my prey."

After enduring endless torment, the childhood sweetheart finally understands that being killed with a single strike by the man back then would have been an act of mercy.

Shen Lizhi returns to his room covered in blood after killing his childhood sweetheart. He takes off his clothes.

"You can have your way with me today. Any position you like."

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

"Don't be mad. I'm trying to make it up to you."

Doppelganger romance! Self-pairing!! Both are virgins.

Shen Qiong, top x Shen Lizhi, bottom

A furious top returned from hell x a brooding, darkened favorite of heaven as the bottom

Everyone gets their just deserts.

At first, the top and bottom share one body. Later, the top gets a body of his own.

They look exactly alike, but their auras are completely different.

Theme: Say no to emotional manipulation, and love yourself.