The Gloomy Outcast Was Gagged by the Top Star!

[Blurb captured on 2024.9.4] [A 100,000-character short story]

◆ Gloomy, universally disliked bottom lead & arrogant, privileged top lead

◆ Hate-sex literature | Cultivation furnace | Dark, angst-filled melodrama | Status gap | Bittersweet

Before my mother died, she told me that only by gritting my teeth and standing tall could I keep this world from crushing me.

She also said I had a rare dual spiritual root, unlike anything she had ever seen. I would surely join the greatest sect of the age, study under a Mahayana Venerable, and become the peerless first disciple.

Climb higher, Chao Zhou, she said. Climb higher, and never stop!

I listened.

I did everything in my power. I swung my sword fifty thousand times a day, bleeding and battered. After ten years, I finally reached the starting line that others had been born at.

As a menial disciple.

I wasn't qualified to compete for the position of first disciple or even to meet the Mahayana Venerable. The dual spiritual root I had once been so proud of turned out to be an unremarkable four-element root.

Dao Tan, the first disciple, was as radiant as the moon, a prodigy far beyond my reach.

The distance between him and me was probably greater than the gap between an ant in the sect and him.

My fellow disciples said I was a mad dog who only knew how to practice swordsmanship, a lowlife deluded enough to think he could crawl into the inner sect. They said I had an unseemly, seductive face and might be a spy sent by the demon clan to beguile people.

They laughed at me, cursed me, and humiliated me as if I weren't one of them.

Perhaps I had only qualified for promotion to an outer sect disciple by flirting with the first disciple and currying favor.

"..."

That night, after seeing these words, I wordlessly used the method I'd just learned to forward every one of these so-called "Dao Discussion Records."

[Chao Zhou]: "Dao Discussion Records"

[Chao Zhou]: @Dao Tan, this month's food bill comes to 183 low-grade spirit stones, plus 94 for packing your meals to go. Since you taught me to use the water mirror and we're roommates, I'll give you a 30% discount.

[Chao Zhou]: When does the first disciple plan to settle the above charges? [/smile]

[Reading guide]

* Contains forum-style posts and content about pursuing someone who has humiliated you

[The blurb may be revised from time to time, but the core idea won't change. Feel free to add it to your collection (=^▽^=)]

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