How Could a Heavenly Dao Cheat Make Me Everyone's Least Favorite?

Upcoming novel: The Overworked Emperor Is Forced to Become a Layabout. Click my profile to see it. A friend's novel: Why Is My Arranged-Marriage Husband Like This? by Zhi Ling Zhu Nanyin is the youngest Golden Core cultivator in the cultivation world, with extraordinary talent and a promising future on the path of immortality. He is easygoing and full of youthful spirit, with friends and confidants all over the world. He has no idea that the junior disciple he trusts most and his close friend have laid countless deadly traps for him, all to steal his good fortune. They almost succeeded. Zhu survives by the skin of his teeth. He loses his beloved master and senior brother, as well as his cultivation, and is left with nothing but a broken body. But he doesn't want to die. He will defy heaven and resurrect the dead. He will also take up his sword and reclaim every bit of sincerity he gave away. But just then, the people who betrayed him all "come to their senses." His aloof fellow disciple, an unruly prodigy, an emperor who seeks only immortality... They break free from other people's lies and crazily pursue the once-brilliant young man. Mountains of gold, jade, and jewels are piled before him, all in the hope that he will look their way. * Zhu Que always feels as if the first half of his life was an illusion. Just a few words of slander from certain people were enough to turn everyone against him. He doesn't know that after he left, those ungrateful traitors were rejected by the Heavenly Dao, with no hope of progressing on the path of immortality. He also doesn't know that the Heavenly Dao kissed the brow of its most beloved being. Please note before reading: 1. Zhu Que = Zhu Nanyin = the cultivation world's one and only beloved. 2. A universally adored beauty shou x a fragment of the Heavenly Dao gong. They are each other's one and only, in body and mind. 3. The gong is dead at the beginning. 4. Updated daily at 9 p.m. Any changes will be announced in advance. Upcoming novel: The Overworked Emperor Is Forced to Become a Layabout After working overtime for a full week, office drone Ming Mu dies and goes to heaven. When he wakes up, he has arrived in a fictional dynasty that never existed in history and is hastily shoved onto the throne as emperor. In theory, with floods and droughts ravaging the country and the Rongdi tribes threatening from beyond the borders, he may not be very capable, but he should still govern diligently, work himself to the bone, and change the state of affairs at court and across the land. But things don't seem to be going the way he expected. The imperial tutor abandons his old cram-school methods and urges the young emperor to get fit every day. The generals are obsessed with conquering the east and west, and track down the finest seeds and crops. The civil officials and eunuch faction even join hands and volunteer to travel to the countryside to teach people to read. Ming Mu is utterly baffled. "Why aren't you urging me to work harder? Why are you all working so hard instead?" The dignified empress changes her ways and twirls a strand of the young emperor's hair. "Isn't this better? You can spend more time with me, Your Majesty." This is the best of times. The newly appointed top scholar has bonded with a nation-building System. The grand marshal has unlocked Huo Qubing's potential. Every official in court has a "loyal to the death" buff. In the same dream, they see the dynasty decades in the future: this magnificent realm has been devastated by the grassland Rongdi tribes, its people plunged into misery and its very existence on the verge of destruction. The ruler they had always looked down on, a king who merely maintained the status quo, has taken his own life for the sake of his people. They are fired up. They will forge their dynasty into an era of peace and prosperity unlike any before, and make the young emperor on the throne a wise ruler remembered for generations. This is the best of times. When Ren Junlan wakes again, he has returned to twelve years earlier. At that time, his young emperor has not yet died early from exhaustion. He still has enough time to teach his emperor how to enjoy life. Overworked layabout emperor, beloved little shou x ruthless, stunning empress gong Theme: Find a way to survive against all odds.