A Redemption Guide for Male Ghost Tops

00 is an anomaly in the World Administration. Compared to radiant, saintly souls with limitless potential, he prefers those muddied and chaotic, the self-exiled who walk the line between good and evil.

His duty is to classify and preserve these souls, educate them, reshape their clay-like forms, and make them anew.

World One: Reborn dark and humble fake young master × dignified, mature head of the family

Pei Shu had known since childhood that his identity as the young master of the Pei family, his enviable status, his comfortable life, and his strict yet caring older brother had all been stolen from someone else.

He was the descendant of a criminal. He had inferior, crazed blood running through his veins. He was born bad.

He put on a sweet disguise, blunted his sharp, poisonous barbs, and burned away all his madness.

He stopped at nothing and begged on his knees.

Unfortunately, a fake was still a fake, and inferior genes were still inferior. No matter how hard he tried, he could never live up to his parents' and brother's expectations. Meanwhile, the real young master, brilliant as a comet, quickly stole everyone's attention.

When the truth came out, everyone felt it was only right.

That night, he knelt miserably in the snow and watched the person he admired most turn away in utter disappointment, leaving with the real young master in his arms.

In the end, he had nothing.

He gave himself over to depravity and became his brother's kept lover, only to die quietly on Christmas Eve.

Then he was reborn, back on the day his identity as the fake young master was exposed.

At the banquet, the guests covered their mouths as they looked at him, some with pity, others with mockery. Pei Shu ignored their gloating gazes, strode toward the seat of honor, and forcibly kissed that lofty, untouchable man.

As the entire hall stared in shock, he whispered in the man's ear, "If you dare reject me, I'll go die."

World Two: Brutal, cold-blooded noble male insect × female insect priest who flies into the flames

Kelvin Phillips was one of the Empire's most distinguished noble male insects. He wielded limitless power and ruled over dozens of star systems.

Tyrannical, cruel, and cold: these were the original sins of his noble male-insect nature. He was known as the "Lord of the Blood Prison."

To quell public anger, he married Hades, a commoner general of the Locust Clan, but deeply despised his female monarch's common birth and ugly wings. Their wedding night became a nightmare Hades would never forget.

In ten years, they produced only one male insect egg. Kelvin was strict and exacting with his only son, determined to mold him into a perfect male insect who met the standards of noble conduct.

But on the day he celebrated his son's tenth birthday, a soul from Earth took over his body.

His family and honor, his lands and power, his female monarch and son: all vanished from then on.

00 raised his blood-red lips and remarked, "Everything has two sides. This is only the surface."

In truth, Kelvin bore the sins of the entire star sector alone. The violent, chaotic mental pollution of the female insects poured into his mental domain, making him increasingly brutal, cold, twisted, and crazed over the decades.

Yet he stood firm, day after day, until his death.

The real him was anxious and terrified from the mental pollution, plagued by constant dread and nightmares, yet his people hated and feared him.

After the Earthling who called for equality and respect took over his body, the entire star sector quickly embraced and adored him. It was everything Kelvin had longed for, yet could never reach.

Kelvin watched coldly as his female monarch, son, and people betrayed him, and grew deeply weary of it all.

But the Earthling knew nothing about mental guidance. The calamity Kelvin had suppressed for years erupted completely, and everything headed toward an irreversible end.

In their despair, the insects of the Phillips star system finally remembered the declaration His Majesty Kelvin had made on the afternoon of his coronation:

"With a thousand years of stars as my witness, I make this immortal vow:

When the stars grow dim, when calamity comes again,

I shall descend!"

World Three: Fake white moonlight who stole another's place × loyal, wicked steward who abets his master's crimes

Ji Huaye had been hopelessly in love with Immortal Lord Yaoguang for years. He boldly stole a spiritual jade, tricked Yaoguang into mistaking him for the white moonlight of his youth, and schemed to force Yaoguang into his bridal sedan.

But a fish's eye could never pass for a pearl, and rough stone could never become fine jade. After three hundred years as Dao companions, the two ended up worse than strangers.

Ji Huaye humbly begged for the love of the one he cherished. Even a fleeting glance from Yaoguang could send him into a frenzy of joy and keep him tossing and turning all night. He fetched kingfisher feathers for him, slew spirit crocodiles, and gathered rare treasures from across the land, only to end up battered and bruised himself.

But none of it compared to a single casual glance from the real white moonlight.

That night, the betrothal jade that symbolized their union shattered into pieces. Yaoguang angrily demanded the truth about what had happened back then, and only then did Ji Huaye realize that the stone had not been impossible to warm. It simply did not belong to him.

00 said, exasperated, "Sect Master, if a man doesn't belong to you, let him go. You can't tame him."

Ji Huaye's face was pale. He let out two bitter laughs. "My heart has chosen him. I would never regret it, even if I died a thousand deaths."

Little did he know that behind him, where he never looked, someone picked up each strand of hair that had fallen across the bed, braided them into a wristband, and tied it around his own wrist. He quietly changed every furnishing in the palace to suit Ji Huaye's tastes, stayed by his side all night when he drank himself senseless over Yaoguang, and kissed his fingertips.

00 let out an "Oh-ho!" and said, "Sect Master, this man is even more devious than you."

Later, that person boldly climbed into his bed and whispered in his ear, "Sect Master, tonight I'll be your Immortal Lord Yaoguang."

World Four: Low-level ability user who is ruthless and throws teammates under the bus to survive × zombie king who returns for revenge after misplaced devotion

Yu Qing awakened as the lowest-ranked E-class ability user in the apocalypse. He lived by a single rule: "Survival comes first." Using his good looks to his advantage, he seduced the base's only S-class ability user and became his partner, sheltered beneath his wings.

But when the base was breached, Yu Qing lowered the gate to save himself, watching helplessly as zombies devoured his partner.

00 smiled. "Karma never fails. You will reap what you sow."

A blizzard raged through the apocalypse for an entire month. A horde of zombies surrounded the building, and the survival team had run out of ammunition and supplies when the zombie king emerged from the horde and pointed at the young man cowering at the back of the group. "Leave him here. One life in exchange for all of yours."

World Five: Ghostlike guide and assassin whose life is worth less than grass × fallen, radiant and saintly disabled S-class sentinel

Guide 0715 drifted through the underground city like a ghost for 23 years, dealing every day with either the dead or those about to die. After a mission, he realized he had offended someone way out of his league, and it was only a matter of time before the people in the underworld killed him.

But before he died, he still craved that little bit of human warmth.

So he spent three bottle caps on the black market to buy a half-dead, disabled sentinel. After taking the sentinel to the brink of death, he left him all his savings and a shabby little tin shack, then went off to die, satisfied.

But a voice suddenly appeared in his mind and reminded him, "You can go get yourself killed, but take the one in bed with you. I'll make sure you get rescued and survive."

P.S. The protagonist is System 00 (Ling Ling). He has an official pairing, but not in the small worlds.

P.S. Each world is told from the gong's point of view. HE/BE/OE is undecided.

Theme: Even moss can grow toward the sun