The Most Hated Person's Rules for Being Reborn

Synopsis:

After undergoing memory-recovery procedures again and again, Shi Jinyou came to believe that this was simply what his life was like

As an illegitimate child, even though he ranked among the top students at an aristocratic academy, Shi Jinyou never received any special treatment. Worse still, he had “died and come back to life” three times.

The first time: He was kept behind to clean, and a classmate forced him to wipe the high windows. Someone tripped him, and he fell from the top floor, game over on the spot.

The second time: A traffic accident. He knew it hadn't been an accident, because just before closing his eyes, he saw his disabled half-brother, who shared the same father, smiling with satisfaction from a window in a nearby building.

The third time: A bug in this life made him realize everything was fake, so he chose to kill himself.

The fourth time… That's right, he was alive again.

When he woke up in the morning, Shi Jinyou found himself back at the very first Monday. If nothing went wrong, there would be another prank waiting for him at school.

After everything he'd been through in his first three lives and the forced time spent on autopilot, he knew there was no escaping his inevitable death. He might as well give up trying, while using his limited ability to predict the future to avoid some trouble.

He also knew that the course of events changed slightly with each new life. For instance, a new NPC had just appeared in his class and immediately asked, “Who is Shi Jinyou?!”

A student in the back corner of the classroom: “…Me.”

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Shi Jinyou truly was a heaven-blessed prodigy. After a childhood full of twists and turns, he was sent abroad to grow up. A loving couple cherished him as their own son. As an adult, after learning the truth, he crossed the Eurasian continent to return to his wealthy birth family. His able-bodied older brother, a doting brother who adored him, personally welcomed the second young master home with a bouquet of flowers.

Amid years filled with flowers and applause, the most sincere suitor he met through fate turned out to be someone he'd fallen for at first sight after a single encounter.

He loved snow-capped mountains and longed to conquer them. But in the end, the most vivid life was buried in the very pursuit he'd always cherished. The man rescued from the snow was missing most of his soul, lost in an endless coma.

He was trapped in a world of thoughts, brought back from the dead.

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Xiang Man first met Shi Jinyou in an ordinary little cafe on a London street.

The Chinese man before him wore a simple, open trench coat, yet his wristwatch did nothing to diminish his elegance. Even the newspaper he casually leafed through looked like a prop in a professional photo shoot.

Xiang Man walked straight over. No matter how many empty seats there were, he was determined to meet this oriental beauty.

“How are you?”

The other man caught on to his flirtation and replied, “I’m fine, thank you. And you?”

Xiang Man smiled. He thought he finally understood love at first sight.

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The Everest avalanche buried two hearts full of passion. Every time Xiang Man saw the figure in the intensive care bed, he wished he could turn back time.

Three months after falling into a coma, Shi Jinyou woke up again. Apart from basic life skills and two languages, he had forgotten almost everything about his past.

The aftereffects of a severe traumatic brain injury. Worse still, during the treatment to recover his memories, the injury had, to some extent, awakened painful memories from even earlier in the patient's life, long since forgotten.

Whether he could overcome it… that was up to fate.

Up to whether he had any luck left in him to keep living.

Modern medicine has advanced to the point where there is a treatment that allows a volunteer's consciousness to enter a patient's dreams. The drawbacks are its high cost, the scarcity of cases, and the fact that only a handful have been performed worldwide.

But Xiang Man said he wanted to try.

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A total ray of sunshine · Utterly biased, straight-laced top

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A fake universally hated one · Heaven's favorite, adored by everyone bottom

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· Content warnings in the author's note of Chapter One

· An entirely fictional setting, nonsense from start to finish

· 20250708: The blurb may change, but the central trope will stay the same

Theme: Those who love others are always loved in return