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After that secret realm, Si Qi’s status underwent a dramatic overnight reversal, transforming from a despised waste into a revered powerhouse.

Everyone admired him, not because he received the legacy of a Holy Realm Master and might become one in the future.

But rather, they admired his talent, his wisdom, and his abilities. 

Whether it was the exquisite techniques beyond the imagination of the magic warriors of this era, or the complex and profound magic tools that could greatly enhance the combat power of the magic warriors, these were all things that only Si Qi could accomplish.

Even the Holy Realm powerhouse from a thousand years ago, or the current Chu Feng who accompanied Si Qi, could not compare to him.

Because the former only represented the strongest combat power of an era, while the latter could influence an entire era, even leading the people of that era to achieve leapfrog progress.

Many people subtly and indirectly made requests to Si Qi, expressing their desire to follow and learn. Si Qi was very generous in his actions; he was willing to teach everyone everything he knew. He even stated that mortals could come here to learn because carving and drawing magic circles could be done by anyone, not just magic warriors.

Si Qi’s philosophy had always been this way: the greater the world’s progress, the better it was for him, and the more world power the small world would feedback to him.

This selfless attitude made all the magic warriors around the world rush to praise Si Qi’s greatness, genuinely worshiping him and considering him as selfless and just as a saint.

Overnight, Si Qi and Chu Feng became the two most watched people on the continent, receiving attention from all over the world.

The life stories of the two, as well as their encounter in the secret realm, were also dug up, and many people were amazed by them.

They originally thought that Chu Feng’s life experience was already very inspiring and quite moving.

Who would have thought that Si Qi’s experiences were even more extraordinary? 

He was the product of a family alliance, and from a young age, he had never experienced parental affection. When he was six years old, he was identified as a mortal and was further despised by the entire family. For the next ten years, he grew up like a ghost, ignored by everyone.

Just because he was a mortal, everything he did became a target for attack and disdain. Playing with jewelry was wrong, liking to read was wrong, and even wearing a few nice clothes was wrong!

Clearly, the jewelry Si Qi was currently handling was a magical tool that the entire continent was chasing after, yet the Si family still thought he is uneducated.

Clearly, the knowledge in his mind allowed him to easily overcome the challenges in the secret realm, but the Si family just scoffed at it. 

They still forced Si Qi, a mere mortal, to walk outside in the freezing winter wearing a short-sleeved shirt, not allowing him to embarrass the Si family. They made the six-year-old child witness the scene of a living person being brutally disemboweled, and when he fainted in disgust, they called him spineless…

In the end, they even planned to take him to a secret realm and have a group of monsters devour him alive! All because his continued existence would make it hard for the family to explain why they broke the marriage agreement, wanting him to make way for his younger brother!

The promise made during the arranged marriage was clearly stated by these elders themselves. Now, they wanted to break the agreement and make the innocent junior, Si Qi, bear the consequences, using his death to escape the dispute! Such a heartless act was simply outrageous.

It’s no wonder Si Qi hated his family so much that he said he would kill anyone from the family he saw. If it were someone else who encountered such a situation as Si Qi, they would probably even have the heart to seek revenge! How could anyone be so magnanimous!

However, even if Si Qi didn’t take action, those around him who wanted to curry favor with him would inevitably cause trouble for the Si family. The Si family, once a top-tier family that everyone respected, suddenly became a dog that everyone wanted to kick when it was down.

And if anyone regretted it the most, it was definitely the Si family themselves.

Not only did they miss out on such a powerful family member like Si Qi, but they also offended him terribly!

Now they were filled with countless regrets, unable to understand why the Si family, being so wealthy and powerful, couldn’t afford to raise one child, especially since this child was the offspring of the head of the Si family and the legitimate daughter of the Qi family! How could Si Qi have done anything so heinous? He only read books and tinkered with gems in the family, so why did they have to despise him, belittle him, mock him, and ultimately kill him?

Wasn’t he a member of the Si family? Didn’t he have the blood of the Si family running through his veins? It was not like they couldn’t continue to support him, so why did they have to kill him?!

They carefully recalled the reasons and quickly found the problem.

—It was all because of the current head of the Si family and that damned Si Wu!!

If the head of the family hadn’t always favored Si Wu, repeatedly scolding Si Qi in public, making those around them unwilling to treat Si Qi well, how could they have hated the younger generation of the family so much?

If Si Wu had come out of the secret realm and immediately stopped them, clarifying all the ins and outs of the matter, how could they have said so many cold and cruel words to Si Qi in front of him, and how could they have tried to kill Si Qi with a single strike!

Wasn’t it all because Si Wu deliberately sowed discord, watching coldly as Si Qi and the Si family turned against each other! He was afraid that the Si family would treat him as a pawn to please Si Qi, so he used this method to bind the Si family to himself!

This damned ingrate!

“If it weren’t to get the inheritance for you, how could we have had a conflict with Si Qi!”

“It was all for you that we used such underhanded tactics to frame our own descendants!”

“You and your mother are both despicable and shameless! Your mother wanted to rise to power, and you wanted to drive away our rightful heir to take over the Si family! You are truly your mother’s child!!”

The elders roared in anger, and the head of the Si family, who always cherished his wife, was furious and got into a heated argument with them, insisting that the wrongdoers were never them, but Si Qi!

If Si Qi truly cared about the Si family, he should have informed them about the magic tools early on; he did it on purpose!

The elders were furious, their faces turning pale with anger, pointing at the head of the Si family and cursing loudly, “Who do you think you are? Which fool would still come to curry favor with you after being treated so harshly by you? Si Qi is now seventeen years old. How many times have you seen him and called his name since he was born?! Why should he offer you the magic tools? After offering them, will you just give all the good things to your illegitimate son?!”

“You only care about your mistress and your illegitimate child, and the Si family has been ruined because of you! Just a few days after the legitimate wife died, you couldn’t wait to bring them home. Who wouldn’t feel cold-hearted? Huh? Si Qi calling you ‘father’ is already giving you face!”

“Back then, you caused trouble, and we had to bow down and apologize for you. Now you bring your mistress and your illegitimate child over to kneel and apologize to Si Qi! Admit your mistakes! Ask him to come back!! Otherwise, don’t blame us for being ruthless! We won’t show you any mercy!!”

The head of the Si family angrily said, “Let me go to that little brat and admit my mistakes! You must be dreaming!”

“Then you shouldn’t be the head of the Si family!” a group of people immediately threatened.

The head of the Si family sneered repeatedly in anger, “Do you think I care about this position? I know what you want. You want me and Wu’er to be in trouble, you want Si Qi to feel your sincerity! You want him to return to your Si family!”

He pointed at the elder in front of him, whose face was dark with anger, and shouted, “Let me tell you, Si Qi will never forgive you. Each and every one of you is no better than me! Those words you said outside the secret realm weren’t forced out of you by me, were they? Si Qi heard them loud and clear, and won’t forget a single word!”

“You think embarrassing me will solve the problem? Ridiculous! What is Si Qi planning? He wants to drive the Si family to despair and death! He wants to watch the Si family fall apart

“Do you think humiliating me will solve the problem? Ridiculous! What is Si Qi planning? He wants to drive the Si family to despair and death! He wants to watch the Si family fall apart piece by piece, to see all the Si family members suffer misfortune! Apologize? Ha! Dream on!”

The head of the Si family straightened up defiantly, bringing along his son, who had not yet fully recovered from his injuries and was left with lifelong disabilities in his left leg and right shoulder, and said coldly, “Wu’er, let’s go.”

Si Wu stood up with a cold expression and said to the family head, “Father, I will not admit defeat. No matter how capable Si Qi is, I will definitely avenge the humiliation! I will take revenge on him!”

The family head nodded with satisfaction and patted his son’s shoulder. The elders beside them looked at him with disdain, “You want to take revenge on him? He hasn’t even sought justice from you yet!”

“Our Si family will not protect a jinx like you. Get out of here! The farther, the better!”

Si Wu looked around at the group of people in front of him coldly, his eyes full of hatred, and said in a firm tone: “Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west, don’t look down on the poor young!¹“

The head of the Si family looked pleased and said, “My son is extraordinary; he will surely get his wish and kill that wretch to avenge his grievances!”

The elders gritted their teeth in anger. Upon hearing that these two not only refused to admit their mistakes but also intended to cause trouble for Si Qi, fearing they would bring more trouble to the Si family, they directly drew their weapons and rushed forward to kill these shameless individuals.

“Take your corpses to see Si Qi. Even if Si Qi doesn’t accept them, he will know our Si family’s sincerity!”

The head of the Si family turned pale and quickly fled with his severely injured son, the two sides fighting from within the family to outside. Si Wu’s mother, unable to catch up with her husband and son during their escape, was directly captured by the elder of the Si family and killed in front of them. The roars of Si Wu and his father echoed for miles around, vowing to avenge this grudge.

However, before they had a chance to put their plan into action, all the magic warriors who heard the news came to join the commotion, tracking down the whereabouts of Si Wu and the former head of the Si family from all angles, intending to chop off their heads and present them to Si Qi as a gift.

Si Qi was unaware of this matter, and even if he knew, he would only applaud and praise it. He had been quite busy lately, dealing with various major forces on the continent after coming out of the secret realm, and he had been doing exceptionally well.

He didn’t even need to deliberately do anything against the Child of the World. As long as he gained more fame on the continent and allied with more forces, the Child of the World would naturally become more unfortunate, and the world’s power within him would soon drop to the 10% threshold.

Once it fell below 10%, the Child of the World would be captured, and might even be killed directly.

At this point, there would be no need for Si Qi to waste any more energy on the Son of the World. Instead of dealing with this defeated person, revitalizing the magical and martial powers of the entire world and promoting a leap forward in an entire era was far more important.

Of course… There was another important matter.

Si Qi smiled at the lover guarding him beside him and said, “You hypocrite, acting as if nothing happened. Do you think I don’t know that you secretly kissed me last night while I was drunk?”

Chu Feng’s expression slightly changed, and his eyes darted away.

“How did you know…”

Si Qi was clearly asleep at that time, right?

Si Qi chuckled, “Of course, I have my ways.”

Xiu Xiu flew around in the consciousness space: [Because the clever Xiu Xiu witnessed all of this with his own eyes! And even recorded it!!]

Si Qi slowly wrapped his arms around Chu Feng’s shoulders and said to him, “Before, I asked you to kiss, but you didn’t. Now you have to sneak a kiss…”

His face got closer and closer, so close that the air he exhaled could brush against Chu Feng’s face, their noses almost touching, and his lips seemed to be just a slight movement away from kissing directly.

He looked at his lover’s increasingly uncontrollable eyes and said with a smile, “I—”

Si Qi was pushed onto the bed by a sudden force, and his mouth, which had been relentless, could no longer say anything else.

Xiu Xiu shyly covered his eyes, which weren’t even being blocked by his claws, wiggled his little tail, and hid back in his little black room: [Xiu Xiu~ Don’t peek~~]

Si Qi was kissed for a long time, and only after a few minutes was he finally able to catch his breath. Laughing heartily while being held in his lover’s arms, he mischievously said, “You dead tease, just a little lighter… I’m still a mortal…”

Chu Feng, breathing heavily, looked at his beloved below him with bright eyes, “I know.”

This was the most unforgettable mortal he had ever seen in his life.

Just this one.

……

Many, many years later, the always beautiful and handsome Si Qi sat in a reclining chair, next to him was his lover who silently gazed at him, eyes full of tender affection.

The lover was still as handsome as in their youth, but unfortunately, he was just a mortal, and his lifespan could never compare to his lover’s.

Si Qi’s voice was very soft as he smiled and said, “It’s time to say goodbye again…”

He held his lover’s hand tightly, “I’m old now, not as handsome as I was when I was young. In the next world, I’ll appear before you looking handsome, and you must fall in love with me early.”

Chu Feng gently stroked Si Qi’s face, speaking softly, “You have always been the most beautiful in my heart.”

Feeling Si Qi’s life force gradually fading, Chu Feng said, “If you’re tired, just rest.”

Si Qi’s eyelids grew heavier, and his voice gradually became weaker.

“Mm… I’ll sleep for a while.”

Watching Si Qi slowly close his eyes, his breathing becoming weaker and weaker until it completely disappeared at some point. Chu Feng’s heart trembled, and after a moment, he slowly revealed a loving smile.

He reached out and tucked the hair from Si Qi’s forehead behind his ear, making sure that the person he loved remained elegant and beautiful even in the end.

As usual, he sat beside Si Qi, holding his hand, and slowly closed his eyes.

Outside the door, hearing the news that the teacher’s health was deteriorating, the disciples and others waiting outside looked anxiously towards the door with sorrowful faces.

They hadn’t heard any movement from inside for half a stick of incense.

Could it be that their master…

One disciple, pale-faced, could no longer endure the inner turmoil and pain. Saying “Forgive my rudeness,” he pushed open the door.

Inside the room, a ray of sunlight streamed in through the window, falling on the two who were embracing each other.

One person was old, while the other remained young. The young person quietly embraced the one dressed in splendid robes, their face full of calmness and tenderness, yet they remained motionless.

How could the disciples not notice that the two had lost their vitality? Their body went limp on the spot, sorrow flooding their mind, and they knelt on the ground, tears streaming uncontrollably.

The crowd that had rushed in behind them looked at the scene before them, their eyes instantly turning red, and sobs began to sound one after another.

The long-lived Master Chu should not have died; he just, he just couldn’t bear to leave the sect leader alone.

This pair of lovers, who loved each other for a lifetime, never let go of each other’s hands until the very end.

Just like those rings that shared magical power, when you disappear, I will not exist either.

……

Si Qi was sent to the next world.

He was eagerly thinking about seeing his beloved soon, using his incredibly handsome appearance to attract their attention, and continuing the romance from the previous life.

However, after the sensation of weightlessness faded, he found himself still surrounded by darkness.

Si Qi was momentarily stunned, then realized it wasn’t complete blindness; he could vaguely see some things, probably because the lights were off.

The light bulb here was a smart device that could be controlled via the internet. Xiuxiu helped Si Qi turn on the light, and the brightness was a bit blinding, making Si Qi involuntarily close his eyes and cover them with his hand.

Just a moment ago, Xiuxiu, who had been busy helping its master, suddenly fell silent, curling up in its consciousness space, feeling guilty.

Si Qi didn’t notice Xiuxiu’s change and cheerfully asked, [Where’s Chu Feng? I want to see him soon.]

Then, feeling that his eyes had almost adjusted to the light, Si Qi slowly opened his eyes, preparing to take a look around.

The next second, he saw a pair of chubby, plump, pig-like hands blocking his view.

Si Qi, who had been delicate and beautiful all his life, was instantly filled with horror: ?!!!

What was this claw? It couldn’t be connected to him, right?!!

He couldn’t believe this fact. In a panic, he lowered his head and felt his body with his hands, only to see a round belly, dirty clothes, and a room filled with garbage that faintly emitted a foul smell…

Despair instantly appeared on his chubby face.

—It would be better if he were blind, ah ah ah!!!

“uh… Huh…”

Si Qi took several deep breaths, mentally preparing himself before daring to open his eyes and look at his reflection in the mirror.

As expected, the person staring back was a… very messy big fat man.

Si Qi covered his face with his hands, unable to look directly, and let out a long, despairing groan from his throat.

The fat guy was one thing, but the key issues were that scruffy stubble, the messy hair, the dark circles under the eyes, and those clothes stained and unchanged for who knows how long. Each detail reflected in the filthy mirror across him, as if it had fallen into a muddy pit, was challenging Si Qi’s visual nerves.

Xiu Xiu, feeling guilty, said to Si Qi: [Master, I haven’t yet helped you implant memories and emotions into the body…]

Si Qi’s forehead bulged with veins: [After implanting them, will I also become like this? Hmm?]

Xiu Xiu chuckled awkwardly: [No way… Xiu Xiu believes in the master’s self-control, you definitely won’t be affected…] Probably.

Si Qi’s expression changed repeatedly, his face alternating between green and white, thinking about the person in the mirror, then recalling the last time he saw Chu Feng in his previous life, those gentle and affectionate eyes.

He really… had ten thousand grass mud horses galloping through his mind.

Si Qi sighed, suppressing his emotions: [Forget it, just implant it.]

Xiu Xiu said apologetically: [Okay, Master… In the next world, Xiu Xiu will try to help people find a good body.]

Si Qi paused for a moment, shook his head, and said: [No need.]

Si Qi had only been delicate and beautiful for a few decades in his past life. At this moment, suddenly becoming like this, he was a bit startled by the contrast. Now that he had more or less come to his senses, he said to Xiu Xiu: [The original owner must have become like this for a reason. The more someone is like this, the more they need my help.]

Xiu Xiu smiled and flattered: [Master is truly beautiful inside and out~~]

Si Qi’s face darkened: [Beautiful inside and out???]

This little guy really knew how to hit the nail on the head!

Xiu Xiu awkwardly coughed twice: [Then Xiu Xiu will help the master transfer the memory~~]

Si Qi got ready, and with a flash, a memory appeared in his mind.

Only then did he realize that the original owner wasn’t like this before.

He had a happy family, with parents together and relatives living in harmony. At school, he excelled academically, loved sports, and was exceptionally handsome, known as the school heartthrob and a model student in the eyes of teachers.

Unfortunately, such a happy and beautiful life came to a sudden end when he entered his second year of high school. A truck lost control on the highway and crashed into his family. In just a few seconds, his life was completely turned upside down.

He fell into a coma due to the car accident and only woke up after lying in the hospital for several months. When he woke up, his parents were gone, reduced to two urns of ashes. If he hadn’t been lucky enough to be sitting in the back seat of the car, he might have gone with them.

The car accident left him with severe injuries; his right leg was fractured, and his sternum was cracked. After waking up, he had to continue lying in the hospital for over two months for rehabilitation. During these two months, the physical pain and inner torment made him feel worse than dead. Countless times, he lay in the hospital at night, staring at the white ceiling, having dark thoughts, and desperately wishing his parents could come back.

But what is lost is lost. The original owner spent two months like a walking corpse. After recovering, he walked through the bustling streets with a blank mind, dazed and numb.

He missed an entire semester of classes, and when he returned, his grades had plummeted. Coupled with the immense blow he had received, he often sat in his seat, lost in thought and daydreaming, making it difficult to regain his previous state. The girls who once liked him and had a crush on him felt pity for his confused and fragile state, and under the pretext of helping him catch up on his studies, they surrounded him.

Just as the original owner wanted to find a way to stop constantly thinking about their deceased parents, he urgently wanted to confirm that someone cared about them, that he was not alone. So, he accepted the girls’ advances, no longer deliberately keeping his distance from the opposite sex as he had before. He made an effort to build good relationships with them, even willing to say sweet words and heartwarming phrases to make them feel better about themselves.

This kind of open-door policy, where he is surrounded by admirers wherever he went, naturally caused some boys’ dissatisfaction and the jealousy of others’ eye-rolling.

Especially a girl who had a pretty good relationship with the original owner, who had just started dating a boy from his dormitory not long ago. Now, their relationship had become very awkward because of the original owner’s appearance, with constant bickering and almost reaching the point of a breakup.

This caused the roommates, who had already formed a brotherly bond over two years, to have a lot of objections to the newcomer, the original owner. A group of them mocked the original owner coldly, ostracized him behind his back, and even banded together to use emotional abuse against him.

The original owner had never lived on campus before; he only did so because there was no one to take care of him when he returned home. Facing an empty house alone after going back would only increase his sadness, so under the teachers’ persuasion, he stayed at the school.

He was well taken care of by his family in the past, with no worries about food or clothing, and lived a carefree life. Now, he was somewhat unaccustomed to the independent life at school. Suddenly, there were three more people in the bedroom that was originally just for him, he might fall off the single bed if he turned over carelessly, he couldn’t sleep well, the air conditioning was too cold, and he had to adapt to the feelings of those around him instead of deliberately adjusting the temperature higher. He could only take a shower at a designated time; otherwise, he had to wash in the dark after the lights were out.

Because of the nightmarish situation he found himself in after waking up, he already had a mild case of depression. He would occasionally zone out, staring blankly into space, unresponsive to his surroundings. Now, he had to adapt to the new environment of living in a dorm and share a space with a group of unfamiliar people, which was very detrimental to his mental state.

To make matters worse, he was unjustly targeted by three people in his dorm after a breakup with his partner, who constantly schemed against him in secret.

When he finally came to his senses, he was bewildered to find that all the boys in the class were staring at him with hatred, ignoring him completely, and even hurling insults.

During gym class, the boys were divided into two teams to play basketball. The girls around were cheering for him, but his teammates didn’t pass the ball to him at all, treating him like he was invisible.

Some girls noticed something was wrong and protested against those teammates, so the ball was directly smashed into the original owner’s face, making his head buzz. He fell to the ground with blood gushing from his nose, and around him, a more intense argument between the boys and girls erupted.

The blood stained his clothes, and when he got up from the ground, he could only go back to the dormitory to change. After taking a shower, he came out to find that all the clothes in his wardrobe were soaked, leaving him with nothing to wear.

And the three malicious roommates next to him didn’t care at all about his questions. They pushed, cursed, and beat him, cornered him in the bathroom to bully him, even filmed a video to threaten him not to tell anyone about it.

Next came the beginning of a nightmare.

He was ostracized, and instinctively sought comfort, but the better the teachers and girls treated him, the more the boys hated him and the more he was targeted by his roommates.

In such a state, he couldn’t study properly at all. The key issue was that his mental state had deteriorated more and more, often zoning out, his mind a complete mess, feeling as if he were living in hell, even breathing became difficult.

A few months later, summer vacation arrived.

The original owner, who had done terribly in the exams, returned home to an empty house. There was no one to comfort him, let alone be his emotional support. He spent the two-month vacation in a daze, doing nothing but zoning out, then binge-eating as a form of revenge, and sleeping day and night.

After the summer vacation ended and the new semester began, the original owner, who had gained a lot of weight and was in a state of mental decline, carried his backpack and realized he couldn’t muster the courage to return to school. Thus, he missed the start of the semester.

Three days later, the teacher, unable to reach the original owner by phone, found his home using the information provided. He refused to open the door and stood behind it, telling the teacher that he wanted to drop out. The teacher couldn’t pry open the door or drag the original owner, who was unwilling to go back to school, so the matter ended in this awkward situation.

The original owner dropped out of school, feeling relieved, and unilaterally extended his break to a year. A year later, all his familiar classmates had finished their college entrance exams and left the school, but he no longer had any intention of returning to his studies. He was afraid of that environment, genuinely afraid.

So he hesitated.

But hesitating for too long was not an option. He had no education, no family, and no money. His survival instinct and basic instincts made him realize that if things continued like this, the situation would only get worse. So, a year later, he mustered the courage to leave his house and go out to find a job.

At first, just communicating with people could make him break out in a sweat. He would muster up the courage to go into a store and apply for a position with the store owner, only to be scrutinized with disdainful eyes and then coldly rejected.

After countless attempts, failures, and retries, he put in a lot of effort and finally found a job as a warehouse worker at a supermarket.

But even if he found a job, it was useless; going to work every day felt like going to prison. Just making eye contact with others was as torturous as being skinned alive. However, for the sake of making a living and earning money, he had to grit his teeth and go to work.

Until one day during lunch break, two colleagues were watching a game live stream. One of them said the streamer wasn’t good at playing games, so why did so many people like him? The other replied that the streamer had a pleasant voice and was good at talking; just listening to him could make you eat two more bowls of rice. Who cares if he plays games well or not, as long as you like him.

The two of them started arguing about the usefulness of having a pleasant voice, and neither could convince the other. They then asked the original person sitting nearby for his opinion.

The original owner was quite gloomy at the time and absent-mindedly replied with a perfunctory remark, not knowing that this single sentence would bring a moment of silence to the scene.

The deep and rich voice was both magnificent and mysterious, like a cello slowly resonating in a hall of music, leaving an unforgettable impression.

The two people who were originally discussing something in front of him suddenly lit up and simultaneously said to the original owner, “How can your voice be so pleasant to listen to!!”

The streamer on the phone was still talking, but the voice that was once highly praised by colleagues now seemed dull in comparison. She directly brought the phone in front of Si Qi, and the screen was filled with fans praising the streamer, calling him a “god of voice,” saying he was “so charming it makes you want to get pregnant,” and so on.

With a hopeful look, she said to the original owner, “Just say a word, it will definitely sound a hundred times better than him.”

The colleagues around him who were eating saw this and joined in, urging the original owner to say something. The original owner felt uncomfortable being the center of attention and reluctantly said a few words to try to end the farce. However, as soon as he spoke, the people around him widened their eyes and became even more excited than before, eagerly encouraging him to say more.

The colleague who liked watching game live streams even joked, “Why don’t you become a streamer too? Even if you’re bad at games, with that voice, you could become famous.”

This remark quietly settled in the original owner’s heart. He looked at the screen and had a thought.

In his perception, the profession of a streamer only required playing games on the computer, with no educational qualifications needed. Moreover, he didn’t have to interact with people directly through the screen, yet he could still be liked by a large number of people.

This seemed to be…

The ideal profession that fitted his current situation perfectly?

After work, the original owner spent the entire evening understanding the situation of game live streaming. The more he watched, the more he felt that he could do this job too. A few days later, he bought the necessary equipment and did a trial broadcast. Before long, a viewer accidentally stumbled in. Within seconds, they typed, “Oh my god, what’s up with this voice? So soothing.” Moments later, another comment appeared, “Is the host a newbie? Followed!”

This sentence gave the original owner, who was still quite uncertain at the time, a huge boost of confidence. He recalled the long, long ago days when he was adored and pursued by everyone in school, remembered how he interacted with people back then, and tried his best to maintain that feeling while interacting with the audience.

In just one night, a short two-hour live stream brought him over a thousand new followers.

This number was absolutely a dream-like achievement for many new streamers, and ninety-nine percent of it was due to his voice.

Just like that female colleague said, even if he was terrible at games and a newbie, just his voice, which could make people swoon, would still attract countless fans.

Looking at the number of followers, the original owner felt a heart full of happiness.

Fans will pay attention to him, which showed that everyone liked him, and he wanted to be liked by more people. He wanted to prove that he was not a lonely person, that he was accepted by this world, and that he had a meaningful existence!

He decisively quit his job and practiced game skills day and night. Every day after waking up, he would turn on his computer and start playing games, striving to become a gaming master as soon as possible, rather than just a vase that attracted people with his voice. He hoped to become better and better, to attract more and more people to like him.

And his efforts finally paid off. Because of game streaming, his life, which had hit rock bottom, finally took a turn. He found a reason to keep living, instead of being a soulless zombie, drifting through each day without anyone caring. He poured everything he had into it and found his life’s purpose!

Even if it was just game streaming, a small seasoning in someone else’s life.

It was also his lifeline, the oasis in his desert of survival.

He tried every possible way to win the audience’s favor. If they thought his voice was pleasant, he would talk more. If they praised him as a “male god,” he would mold himself into one.

He did his best to shape his image to match everyone’s preferences, instinctively fighting to hold onto it all.

In his heart, being a streamer was no longer about making money, but for something much more important.

Without the fans’ love, he felt he would surely die, unable to live on, and would painfully end his life. Game streaming was everything to him.

Under his belief, his efforts eventually paid off. Because he had a pleasant voice, a well-packaged persona, could speak well, and was good at gaming, he quickly became popular and increasingly so, swiftly becoming the most dazzling internet star of this era. Even those who had never watched game live streams had heard his name or given him a positive comment like “good voice, nice person” in various news articles.

The original owner just looked at these comments, relying on this spiritual sustenance to get by. Abandoning social interactions, not making friends, spending all day holed up at home, his physical condition deteriorated, and his body became as robust as a mountain of flesh. His life revolved solely around playing games, honing his skills, and streaming, nothing else.

Unbeknownst to him, his mental state was becoming increasingly pathological. His obsessive desire to be liked, his binge eating as a form of revenge against the looks that had once made him a target for bullying, his refusal to face reality, and his immersion in a false online world.

He thought this life was perfect and didn’t want to make any changes.

Until one day.

He went out to renew his ID card and was recognized by a classmate working in the agency.

That classmate looked at the old photo of Si Qi on the ID, then looked at Si Qi’s current appearance, compared the name and the age with his own, and immediately recognized Si Qi’s identity.

After all, he was an adult now, and so much time had passed that the childish jealousy from back then was long gone.

While chatting with his wife, he casually recorded a video of Si Qi renewing his ID card, reminiscing about how things have changed and how the once idol had now become a greasy fat man.

A few days later, at a class reunion, he brought this up with a few close friends. He said that the campus heartthrob back then had now turned into a hideous, overweight pig that people would disdainfully avoid on the street. It was truly unexpected.

The person who took out the video was indifferent, and not many around were particularly paying attention. However, one boy present, who was in the same dormitory as Si Qi and had once bullied him on campus, Zhou Qi, frowned as he listened to the voice in the video.

Zhou Qi was also an online game streamer, somewhat famous after two years in the industry, and considered a potential rising star in the streaming world, though it was hard to say when he would really make it big.

After becoming a streamer, he naturally sought out videos of the top streamer “47” to watch, wanting to learn and see if he could gain something from it.

Now, upon hearing the sound of Si Qi talking to the staff in the video again, Zhou Qi immediately recognized Si Qi’s identity.

One was called Si Qi, and the other was called 47. Who would believe they were not the same person?

All these years had passed, and Zhou Qi had never felt that he did anything wrong back then. In his impression, he thought the original owner’s decision to drop out was well-deserved. He even joked with his roommates for a long time, saying the original owner was too cowardly and useless, and that the original owner dropped out too early, causing him to lose a lot of fun.

Now, seeing the original owner appear again after many years, memories from back then surged forth, and many thoughts naturally emerged in his mind.

He was jealous that the useless person from back then was elevated so high. He just wanted to see him fall from grace, to see him have bad luck, to see him exposed by his fans and pointed at by everyone. Just thinking about it felt very satisfying.

Coincidentally, his career was at a bottleneck, and he needed a sensational event to completely ascend to the top tier of streamers.

Thus, a conspiracy against the original owner was born.

He first claimed online to be a classmate of 47, attracting a wave of traffic, and then publicly attacked the original poster, saying he was a playboy who had ambiguous relationships with many female students during his time at school and was expelled because the school couldn’t tolerate him any longer.

He also bluntly stated that unlike the scholarly persona of 47, who graduated from a prestigious foreign university, he had only a middle school education and had never even graduated from high school, with no real education to speak of.

In short, he almost directly wrote “47 is a liar who speaks nothing but lies” in the live stream title.

This kind of behavior naturally sparked protests from many of the original fan’s followers. They all accused Zhou Qi of being a trashy streamer trying to pull a stunt and frame their “God 7”, leading to Zhou Qi facing a lot of public criticism during that time, and his follower count dropped significantly.

However, Zhou Qi was not in a hurry to explain. Observing 47’s continued silence after hearing these comments, it was confirmed that 47 was indeed Si Qi, the same idiot who didn’t dare to speak up even when his head was stepped on by him back then.

Because, just as he thought, the cowardly original owner didn’t dare to recall those things from school back then. Just thinking about it would make him feel breathless and see black spots in front of his eyes.

He had been famous for many years and couldn’t bear to disappoint his fans. If he saw fans saying they didn’t like him or hated him, he would be so sad he wished he could die! He would constantly think about whether he wasn’t doing well enough, whether he had no value, whether he was really that terrible.

Nowadays, as people recognized his identity, his fans, seeing others attacking him, spontaneously ran to Zhou Qi to protest, angrily accusing him of being crazy.

He hid behind the internet like a turtle, not daring to speak up or refute, pretending he hadn’t seen anything, just hoping the matter would pass quickly.

But this incident was aimed at him from the start, how could it possibly go away?

Zhou Qi was very cunning. After being accused, he didn’t rush to defend himself but instead waited for the heat to rise. Once he attracted more and more attention, and everyone was pointing fingers and cursing him, he then made a particularly innocent and helpless explanation, saying, “I didn’t want to go this far, but you forced me to provide evidence, so I had no choice but to prove myself.” He then presented a bunch of photos from the original video where the person looked terrible, along with his ID card.

In an instant, public opinion on the internet exploded.

The fans refused to admit that the unattractive, overweight person in the photo was the idol they had sincerely loved for so long. They desperately questioned the original owner in the live stream, insisting that it must be fake and that the original poster couldn’t possibly look like that.

The original owner looked at the flood of comments on the screen saying “No way,” “Impossible,” “Fat pig,” and being naturally timid and fearful, he didn’t dare to admit that it was him.

This would expose the lie he had been telling about being handsome and popular. More importantly, fans could never like such an ugly person as their idol. The sweet words he had said in the live stream, which had gone viral and even been used as ringtones, would instantly turn into nauseating remarks, like a toad trying to eat a swan, ridiculed by countless people.

So when faced with the fans’ inquiries, he panicked and reflexively said, “That’s not me.”

The fans naturally believed his words, concluding that this was an attempt to frame their idol. Enraged, they once again attacked Zhou Qi, accusing him of having ulterior motives and using such ugly photos to slander their idol.

Zhou Qi, however, was not flustered. Looking at the increasing popularity of his post, he cheerfully said, “If you want to prove I’m not the person in the photo, then let your idol go live on camera.”

Hearing this, the fans indeed felt a strong urge to see the original owner’s face to ease their minds, so they kept requesting the original owner to go live on camera to prove his innocence.

But how could the original owner dare to open it?

He fell silent once again.

But this time, the silence was not as easy to brush off as before.

More and more fans felt that they had been deceived after despair. What academic god, what male god, it turned out to be all lies! Looking at the man in the video that was simply eye-irritating, recalling the gentle and sweet words he said in the live broadcast room over the years, they were angry and hateful, and instantly turned into black fans to step on the original owner, accusing him of deceiving their feelings and being a liar full of lies! Bastard! Dead fat pig! Disgusting ghost! They wanted the original owner to return the money they spent, and even posted photos of burning his surroundings on the super chat, scolding the original owner for not dying.

One attack after another, one insult after another, coming from fans who once loved him.

For the original owner, who cared the most about all this, there was no greater torment in the world.

Watching the number of fans plummet from tens of millions to just half in a matter of days, and seeing his videos and the lies he had told over the years trending on hot searches, the original owner hid at home, crying endlessly, drinking, while the company he was signed with kept calling to ask what was going on.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was going to collapse. After getting drunk, he looked at the provocative private message from Zhou Qi, who said that he deserved the bullying he received back then and that he would never let him off easy. The original owner grew angrier and angrier; he didn’t understand how he had offended the other person so much that they wanted to drive him to death. In a fit of impulse, he took a taxi to Zhou Qi’s house, as mentioned in the private message, and yelled at Zhou Qi, his emotions breaking down to the point of almost going insane.

His voice was sharp and piercing, his expression ugly and twisted, screaming desperately, just wanting to vent the emotions of being driven to a dead end. But all of this was broadcast live by Zhou Qi, exposed to the eyes of millions of viewers, causing a huge uproar.

So, after waking up from the drunken state, the original owner once again faced a reality even more devastating than before…

Originally, he only had half the audience left, not because of his looks, but purely because of his gaming skills and voice. However, due to his behavior, which was as petty as a shrew, and his constant lies that were exposed but still denied, people were completely disappointed in him.

One by one, rational and well-founded accusations revealed just how disgusting the original owner was. These remarks were seen by countless onlookers, a group of people gathered here to gloat, mock, and kick him while he was down, saying only fools would be deceived by online streamers, and even calling this fat pig a “male god,” which was simply laughable.

And those loyal fans who had accompanied him for many years wrote long blog posts detailing how their feelings had shifted from love to hatred, declaring a complete severance from the original owner. Those words were like sharp blades, cutting into the already fragile heart of the original owner, causing it to bleed profusely, making life feel worse than death.

In his most helpless moments, no one came to his aid, because those who once loved him became the very ones who rejected him. He was pushed into the abyss of despair by the very people he valued the most.

The once-great streamer, who had been popular for so many years, fell from grace, giving rise to the new sensation, Zhou Qi.

On an otherwise unremarkable day, the original owner, who had reached a breaking point and lost the will to live, put down his phone filled with mocking and disdainful comments and ended his life with a rope.

His body was discovered by neighbors a week later after they called the police. The news of the once-great figure’s death trended online, and the original owner became the center of discussion among netizens once again. Just when people started to feel guilty and debated whether they had gone too far, thinking they shouldn’t have treated the original owner this way, countless photos of the filthy, cluttered garbage-filled house, posted online under the guise of the neighbors by Zhou Qi, were uploaded.

Those kitchen scraps infested with maggots that weren’t thrown away, the yellowed and wrinkled bed sheets that hadn’t been washed for years, and the heaps of garbage that made people frown just by looking at them, all came into the eyes of netizens, who were filled with disgust and mockery.

They said that living like this, it would be better to die early.

Even if the original owner committed suicide, he wouldn’t be able to escape the blame.

……

Si Qi looked at his chubby hands and the room that reeked of a strange odor, and sighed.

Alright, he accepted this body.

He rolled up his sleeves and bent down to tidy up the room.

This place was really messy; it took Si Qi a full three days to finally clean it up.

Those dirty pieces of furniture and clothes were all thrown away, and new items were purchased online.

The master bedroom was transformed into a gym, filled with all kinds of fitness equipment.

The weight-loss pills from the interstellar world preserved with the leaves of the World Tree and the beauty-enhancing pills refined by the immortal method worked wonders here. Combined with Si Qi’s professional and targeted continuous training, he managed to lose several pounds in just half a month.

The once-rounded facial contours began to show their originally beautiful curves, and his already good-looking features appeared even more eye-catching, making people feel a sense of fondness upon seeing him.

The most direct proof was when he opened the door to get the package earlier. The delivery guy across the street showed a look of astonishment on his face, couldn’t help but steal a few more glances at him, and there wasn’t a trace of disgust in his eyes.

Behind him, the room was clean and bright, with a bottle of pure white lilies placed in the living room, filling the air with a faint, elegant fragrance.

Anyone who saw this scene would only find it pleasing to the eye.

Notes

1. It means: It is better to look down on a penniless old man than to look down on poor young people, because young people have unlimited future. ↩︎