After the Gloomy, Hated One Became Beautiful

I'm busy with my studies, so I'll be taking a break for a while. Sorry.

By the age of twenty-two, Tao Wei was seen by everyone as a useless, clueless fat guy who wasted his life.

He had long hair, but a body as round as a ball. Everyone in his circle mocked him.

Tao Wei was gloomy and timid. His adoptive older brother was an outstanding, disciplined young man who had started helping their parents at an early age. The words Tao Wei's parents said most often were, "Why did we have you in the first place?"

Then, after a car accident, Tao Wei fell seriously ill several times in a row, and his bloated body suddenly became thin. He couldn't even fit into his smallest pair of pants anymore.

His brother looked him over with a subtle expression, and his parents were even more astonished to see him.

Tao Wei gritted his teeth. He strongly resisted his parents' demand that he return to their social circle.

Now that he'd gotten thin, they wouldn't just call him a fatso anymore.

But Tao Wei had no choice. To his surprise, when he returned, the people who used to beat and berate him acted as if they didn't recognize him, and even gave him gifts.

But as soon as they learned he was Tao Wei, their gazes turned strange. Their eyes settled inch by inch on the back of Tao Wei's snow-white neck, sharp as blades.

They had all changed.

Those pampered young masters had never imagined Tao Wei could become like this.

When he lowered his head timidly, his long hair brushed aside to reveal his pale neck.

The red cord he had worn on his slender wrist for so long, and which they had mocked, now hung loosely there, seeming to embody their unspoken fantasies.

By the time they regretted everything and tried to seize the most dazzling flower in the world, they discovered that someone else already held him in the palm of his hand.

That man bent down and held the sleeping Tao Wei in his arms, then gave them a cool look.

He was the Lu family's heir. He was ruthless, but outwardly gentle and normal.

Everyone told Tao Wei that Lu Jueqing had an overpowering need for control, and that he would surely torment Tao Wei.

Tao Wei only half believed them.

When he discovered that Lu Jueqing had saved every one of his voice recordings, and realized how completely Lu's need for control had seeped into every aspect of his life, Tao Wei couldn't help trying to escape.

But when those people tried to help Tao Wei run away, their car was stopped. The engine roared, and the nighttime rain soaked Tao Wei.

Lu Jueqing came before him and said softly, "Tao Wei, I've simply been too soft on you."

Reader's Guide

1. The bottom isn't perfect.

2. From universally disliked to universally adored.

3. The bottom always has long hair. The top is Lu Jueqing.

4. The bottom and his adoptive older brother are not registered under the same household. They have no legal relationship.

Upcoming novel: "The Third-Rate Side Character Is Universally Adored [Quick Transmigration]"

There are always a few third-rate side characters in stories who are malicious, arrogant, and conceited, looking down on everyone but themselves. No one loves them, and they have no admirable qualities. They're third-rate side characters.

As a rookie in the Quick Transmigration Bureau, Shen Ting can only take on these thankless roles. But once he arrives in each world, things somehow turn out differently.

World One: The arrogant, inferior Alpha at school

The original character was arrogant, but despite being an Alpha, he had a congenital gland defect and couldn't emit any pheromones.

Relying on his family's status, the original character bullied and oppressed S-class Alphas without mercy. After his family lost its status, the Alphas he'd bullied played him to death.

When Shen Ting arrived in this world, he followed the original character's role and acted out the plot, waiting to die so he could move on to the next world.

But when he maliciously and listlessly told those S-class Alphas to smell his glands, their eyes grew dark and intense.

Hot breath fell over his glands. The air filled with the intensely aggressive pheromones Alphas unconsciously released when aroused, and a warm, broad hand clamped around Shen Ting's slender wrist.

Making an Alpha smell the glands of a low-class, defective Alpha was an insult. And yet this person was happy to do it.

World Two: A nobody streamer deliberately makes suggestive comments about a famous streamer to get views

The original character was a nobody streamer whose broadcasts never got any traffic, no matter how long he streamed. By sheer coincidence, something he said led netizens to believe he had an improper relationship with a famous streamer.

After Shen Ting arrived, he played along and deliberately said suggestive things in his livestream. His stream got plenty of viewers.

But when the famous streamers came into his channel and saw him, their expressions turned unreadable.

When viewers asked about it, the famous streamer kept his expression mild and his tone calm.

"Is that so, little boyfriend?"

But where the livestream couldn't show, the famous streamer sent him a message.

If you say something I want to hear, maybe I won't hold it against you, Shen Ting.

Other worlds include:

A stupid, meticulous research institute PhD with no achievements is taken hostage by the monster being studied.

A spoiled, lazy man planning to mooch off his parents in a period novel is taken away by a sent-down educated youth.

An ordinary person with no powers but a saintly heart in a world where monsters return.

A smooth-talking lackey at the side of an immortal-cultivation Dragon-Slaying Hero.

Theme: Be brave. The world is vast.