The Son of Heaven Has Been Replaced

In his youth, Dong Jianhe was brimming with youthful pride, his brilliance impossible to hide.

He was an impoverished mortal who had clawed his way out of the mud, a carefree, unconventional rogue cultivator who had turned the tables against all odds time and time again.

In an era of brilliant stars, he was the most dazzling, a peerless genius without equal. Rejected by the Heavenly Dao, he defied fate and climbed step by step to the pinnacle of power, becoming the world's savior.

Everyone admired and revered Dong Jianhe, longing to follow in his footsteps.

Ji Ling, however, thought nothing of it and simply laughed.

He was born into a prestigious family, gifted with extraordinary talent from childhood and adored by countless people. The first in a hundred years to survive the tribulation, he was unmatched in his age. The greatest setback in his life was eventually defeating Dong Jianhe, whom everyone believed to be omnipotent and invincible.

To him, everything in the world was within easy reach.

Dong Jianhe was nothing more than a defeated opponent.

Until one day, someone told him:

You stole everything.

He dismissed the claim, but as if bewitched, he opened the book.

-

Dong Jianhe's story ended with the final stroke of the last chapter.

It was the masterpiece that made its author a legend, and a mere foil for the new protagonist of the sequel.

With a few casual strokes, the author turned Dong Jianhe into an ordinary mortal, shattered his pedestal, crushed his pride, and weakened him in a way that was all but humiliating, just to pave the way for Ji Ling's ascension to godhood.

Back then, Ji Ling had been utterly indifferent. He never cared about rumors that he was "unworthy of his position," nor did he ever spare a glance for the defeated opponent.

But he could never have imagined that, through countless nights to come,

he would steal glances at that retreating figure again and again.

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A thousand years ago, during the battle against the foreign race, Dong Jianhe suffered an irreversible hidden malady. His cultivation stagnated, and he fell back into the mortal world. The Son of Heaven's Will of the new era began a new chapter. The world lamented Dong Jianhe's decline and declared the old era over.

Dong Jianhe, too, believed that this was the end for him.

On the day his life was about to end, he tidied his cottage, said goodbye to old friends, and left the place where he had lived in seclusion for many years. He hoped to return to his hometown and die there.

However... he seemed to run into a little trouble along the way.

[Warnings]

1. The protagonist is the strongest, and the whole world sees him as their precious moonlight.

2. No CP: the old-era savior x the protagonist of a Jinjiang-style everyone-loves-him novel

Theme: Learning never ends