I'm Going After the Big Shot, Is This for Real?

How Do I Deal with Being Reborn as My Own Substitute?

A Starting Point Male Protagonist Is Reborn, Only to Find He's Unluckily Landed in a Haitang Story

A classic male-protagonist story, focused on career first and romance second: first he'll get thoroughly laid, then he'll win hearts.

My favorite things: an authentic Starting Point male protagonist + authentic Starting Point plotlines + authentic Starting Point male supporting characters + the protagonist topping a male supporting character.

This story may not have the right moral values. Readers under eighteen are forbidden from reading it. Readers looking for moral guidance in a novel are also forbidden from reading it.

As the Long family's illegitimate son in name only, Xie Jingyu has never had a good day in his life.

He grew up hungry half the time and full the other half. When his father, worth billions, died, he was stopped at the Long family gates and mocked as a bastard.

He used the money he'd saved to start a business, working day and night with the hope of building a better life. He could have saved enough to marry his fiancee, but his business partner betrayed him. His once-promising venture suddenly collapsed, costing him dearly and leaving him tens of millions in debt.

Only after being dragged deeper and deeper into the abyss, on the verge of death, did he finally learn the truth:

His childhood friend, who had been by his side all his life, had been luring him into a trap all along.

The gentle, handsome school heartthrob, whom everyone at school gossiped about alongside him despite the two of them never interacting, seemed to be deeply involved in the whole affair.

The corporate CEO, who appeared willing to help, also seemed to have played a part in everything.

And his rival, who always seemed calm and controlled but had a mad, ruthless glint in his eyes, had a hidden identity...

His life was slowly drained away, and in his despair, he never even learned who the real culprit was.

After his death, things that made no sense began to happen one after another:

His childhood friend, whom he thought hated him to the bone; his former classmates; and the men he'd asked for help, who refused to lend a hand, all knelt beside his body for a long time, fighting over who would get even a handful of his ashes.

Xie Jingyu, a straight man with a gorgeous face and nothing else to recommend him, was utterly stunned. Then he was reborn...

His childhood friend held him close, sobbing as he whispered, "Jingyu, now you finally understand how I've felt about you all these years..."

The princely school heartthrob followed close behind, eyes full of despair as he begged Xie Jingyu not to leave.

The cold-faced CEO grabbed his wrist and buried his face against Xie Jingyu's neck, his breathing unsteady.

Even though he still couldn't understand them, they were all lovestruck over him.

And he became his own substitute.

The rose, its thorns broken off, withered in the greenhouse. When it awoke, thorns began to grow wildly.

When the predator becomes prey, the beautiful, snow-white rabbit opens its crimson eyes.

Sooner or later, he'll break through every trap and escape.

After all, he was never born to be prey.

He will take back what was his all along.

Driven careerist, frail but hard to kill, cold and cunning beauty gong x steady and tolerant, decent, truly powerful, older cool-guy shou

(The shou is none of the four men above. In his previous life, he was overseas.)

Theme: Do it yourself, and you'll have enough to eat