After the Foolish Outcast Saw the Plot Outline

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Heartthrob | Awakening to His True Self | Everyone Gets Their Comeuppance |

- Cen Yuchu, the puppet crown prince of Great Liang, is universally despised, yet he was born with a pure and tender heart.

His second brother, Cen Jingyao, is as moody as they come. He gave Yuchu a piece of warm jade just last night, then locked him in a secret chamber and abused him today. Still, Yuchu thinks only of his brother's kindness and cannot forget that snowy day when Jingyao carried him across the palace grounds.

His childhood friend, Xie Jingchou, treats him with cool indifference. Whenever he shows a little affection, it's only to test him. Yet Yuchu has chased after A-Chou for ten years without ever giving up, and has written him countless long letters confessing his feelings.

His minister, Shen Queshu, is a master of both calligraphy and painting. He paints Yuchu's tearful, bashful expression in exquisite detail and circulates the portraits throughout the court. Yuchu, however, believes that being painted means he has caught Shen's eye.

Cen Yuchu has always believed he is the one they cherish most.

He clings to these insignificant gestures of tenderness as if they were sincere. Even when people gossip that he is available to any man, he remains convinced that he is the exception in these men's hearts.

Until, on the day of his coming-of-age ceremony, he saw a crack suddenly split open in midair!

Then a line of commentary appeared inside it:

[The protagonist is disgraced at his coming-of-age ceremony and punished by being made to kneel in a rainstorm for two hours. He coughs up blood and faints. Readers love this kind of angst.]

From that day on, more comments began appearing in his life:

[Xie Jingchou despises the protagonist.]

[Cen Jingyao poisoned the protagonist because he wants him dead.]

[Shen Que is only getting close to the protagonist to use him as a stepping stone in his career.]

Only then did Yuchu realize that he had been fooling himself all along.

He had always been nothing more than a plaything, and every bitter humiliation he endured was just a