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Also known as "I'm the Short-Lived White Moonlight the Handsome, Strong, and Tragic Male Lead Saves While Turning His Life Around"
In some no-romance novels on Dianjia, where the male lead spends the entire story building his career, there is usually a top-tier short-lived white moonlight. They can serve as the perfect excuse for the male lead to fend off admirers and stay single, while also giving him the drive to seek revenge, defeat enemies, and eventually reach the pinnacle of life.
And now, Nan Qing has transmigrated into all those stories as their shared short-lived white moonlight.
[World One: The future business tycoon, an illegitimate son raised in poverty, from a business-war novel x the frail little moon who dies of illness in a slum]
The tycoon had neither father nor mother. Before building a business empire with his own hands, it would be no exaggeration to say that he grew up fighting stray dogs in the slums for scraps.
He never denied or concealed his past. But whenever someone interviewing him asked what had driven him to claw his way up from the bottom, step by painful step, and build his great enterprise, he would only smile faintly and say nothing. His subordinates would promptly step in, quietly signaling that the interview was over.
No one saw the pain and regret almost breaking through the smile at the corner of his mouth as he turned away.
Lying in a cold hospital room, he signed his will, donating all his wealth and the world-class medical industry he had built to the country. Alone and facing death, the tycoon recalled neither his glorious past conquering the business world nor the people outside the hospital praising and praying for him. Instead, he remembered clattering up creaky, mold-scented stairs, entering a cramped, dim room full of the smell of medicine, and taking the money he had earned by selling an empty water bottle he had viciously wrested from other street kids. He had bought a handful of cheap candy, peeled off the wrappers, and carefully fed it to the beautiful doll-like child on the bed, whose body was covered in IV tubes. He had waited until he heard the child's frail yet sweet, considerate voice: "Big brother, you have some too..."
The tycoon clenched his teeth, silently swearing with fierce resolve: If he could live again, just once, just one more time, then this time he would definitely...
And as soon as he opened his eyes, a piece of candy was placed in his mouth. Its sweetness burst across his lips along with the soft voice from the hospital bed: "Big brother, is it sweet?"
[World Two: The poor young male lead from an imperial-examination novel, destined to rise to the highest office and defend the realm x the blind little moon killed by foreign invaders and bandits]
[World Three: The gloomy young male lead from an apocalypse novel, destined to build humanity's last line of defense x the little moon with heart disease who dies in a zombie horde]
[Sweet little moon x powerful men who dote on their wives]
1. In the first world, the male lead and love interest are adoptive brothers, though not related by blood.
Theme: Love is the answer to everything.
