- #26
Sorry, my interest kind of waned. Re-reading after two years made me see how much my taste had change The 5th arc felt the typical world ending to me and everything afterwards felt rushed but here are my quick, unchecked mtl spoilers anyways. Please forgive any mistakes made on my part.
MC- Gu An
ML- Fu Yi
Antagonists- Zheng Bo, Pan He
Grudge- Antagonists killed his parents
Starts out with MC's parents worried about MC because he had a high fever. They called the doctor to visit and the doctor told them to take MC to the hospital because of MC's weakened state and that the hospital would have better equipment suited to take care of MC. Just when they were about to go, MC woke up briefly and told his parents that the world was ending tomorrow and they had to prepare. MC then fainted again.
MC's mind fell into the memories of the original host. The host was called Gu An. He was a sophomore in college, beloved by his parents, and grew up pampered and eating from a golden spoon. Thusly, dorm life was a new experience. Out of all his roommates, the original host most admired Zheng Bo. Where all the other fellow students simply enjoyed college life, Zheng Bo not only went to school, he diligently went to work afterwards, ate modest meals, and put alot of effort into everything he did. Original host really wanted to help Zheng Bo out but feared his intentions would be misconstrued as him looking down on Zheng Bo, so the original host would often either invite the roommates out to eat or purposely order too much food so he could bring it back to share.
Then one day the original host accidentally witnessed Zheng Bo making out with a man (Pan He). Zheng Bo, not wanting anyone to know he was gay or get kicked out of school for his sexual orientation, begged the original host to keep it a secret. The original host had no intentions of saying anything since he was in the closet himself, promised Zheng Bo he would keep quiet, but Zheng Bo started to resent the original host because he felt like the original host could now blackmail him with this secret. Zheng Bo started his one man show of constantly humbling himself in front of the original host and enduring what he felt as the "humiliation" of the original host's kindness towards him.
Truth was that Zheng Bo hated rich people and hated/envied the original host (whom he had despised and looked down upon as stupid and only knowing how to eat and be lazy) even more since the original host knew his secret. Zheng Bo felt that all the times the original host had invited them out to eat was the original host showing off his wealth and looking down on them.
The end of the world happened while the original host was still at school. His parents at home organized an armed group of their home bodyguards to go save him.
People started awakening powers and Zheng Bo happened to awaken a space ability that changed his mentality. He was no longer scared that the original host, who had no powers, would blackmail him. Being a "super power" human, Zheng Bo felt that he now had the ability to take revenge on the original host.
When the apocalypse happened, the original host escaped the school with his roommates but met many difficulties. They would had perished if they had not been saved by Pan He, Zheng Bo's boyfriend and awakened wind ability user. The original host was grateful to Pan He at first but when Pan He started looking at him with lewd eyes, the original host started avoiding Pan He as much as he could. Even so Zheng Bo felt that the original host had seduced Pan He and targeted the original host everywhere they went. Despite lusting after the original host, Pan He was more ambitious and valued Zheng Bo's space ability more so he did nothing to help the original host, making Zheng Bo bolder and bolder in his bullying.
Just when Pan He was going to make a move on the original host, the original host's parents found him. The three family members had no powers and all but two of the family body guards jumped ship to Pan He's group. Pan He treated the parents like his in-laws. While not minding who their son dated, they saw that Pan He was not a good person so they were going to take the original host and leave.
Zheng Bo whispered to Pan He that if Pan He killed the parents in front of the original host, the original host would no longer have any thoughts of running away and Pan He could play with the original host as much as he wanted. Pan He, who had always been the one desired and chased after, tired of playing house and tied up the parents when they were about to escape. The two faithful bodyguards were killed and Pan He used his wind ability to slice and torture the parents in front of the original host until they were on their last breath before tossing them, bloodied and weak, to the zombie hoard.
The original host had always possessed a soft heart, but watching helplessly as his parents were eaten by the zombies, he began to hate. He hated the world they lived in, and despised Pan He and Zheng Bo to the point where he wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood. The strong hatred and resentment awoke his ability, time control. Being weak and having just awaken his ability, the original host only managed to go back to the day before the apocalypse. The original host was dying from the power backlash when the MC took over.
Due the the ability distorting space and time, the memories of the original host was integrated with the MC's memories. Where before it was like watching a movie, this time MC felt as though he had lived all those moments.
Seeing how MC's body had been severely weakened 748 gave MC a thousand cubic space ability, which could also be counted as a reward for getting a top score from the previous world.
Waking up and not wanting to go to the hospital, MC told his parents about what happened before the time jump. To further convince them, he showed them his spatial ability. The parents got teary eyed listening to the story and believed the MC.
As a listed company president, MC's mom was smart and possessed many skills. She sent everyone but the two loyal bodyguards home. Since they were trustworthy, MC's mom decided to tell them about the world ending. At first they didn't believe her but eventually seeing that she was not joking, both swore to protect the family with their lives. MC's mom said she told them not so they could protect them with all their might, but because she trusted them and wanted them to live and help as a family.
MC had to convince his mom and the bodyguards to let him go along to gather supply despite his weaken state by again showing off his space ability to the bodyguards. Going to the warehouses they owned, MC swiped four warehouses of merchandises into his space before becoming tired. Upon sending MC home, MC's mom went out to a secret meeting with the ML, whose family shared a slight connection with hers, to buy weapons. MC's mom's first impression of ML, one Mr. Fu Yi, was that of a young and handsome but dangerous man.
ML told MC's mom he would give the batch of goods to her for free. All he wanted in return was to meet her son because he had something he wanted to confirm. Even though MC's mom knew ML disdained lying and that he would be a good resource for MC when the world ended, she would not bring anyone home casually. Instead, she compromised and allowed them to meet through video.
Through his system, 520, ML learned of the end of the world and as an underground boss with ties to shady things, ML felt that he had the ability in that world to protect that one person he wanted to.
MC's mom called MC saying a friend of hers wanted to talk to him. MC was a little hesitant but was then shocked stupid to discover this friend was the ML. MC wanted to cry. He knew that even though it had not even been a day that they had been apart, it had felt like a lifetime to him. MC remembered asking in the last life if ML would come to the MC in the next life and ML had said yes and now he'd really came like they've agreed. MC was so happy he felt less scared and confused of the apocalypse.
ML could recognize MC with just one glance. Seeing MC's reddened eyes, ML softened. He booped MC's nose on the screen and told MC to wait for him at home. He'll come find the MC right away.
At home, MC was like a pet waiting at the door for its master. His sole attention was on the door, non committed responding to his father. When he heard the sound of a car, MC went outside to meet them. ML picked up the MC and told everyone he wanted to talk to the MC alone for just a while before heading to the MC's room, leaving MC's dad bewildered and confused. (BTW MC's dad is a professor. Just thought I should put that in.)
The moment they were in MC's room, ML put MC on the bed and started kissing him gently and meticulously until MC was breathless. Still not knowing that ML could recognize him, he asked ML why did the ML kissed him. Because if ML didn't recognized him, then ML was kissing someone else! MC ate his own vinegar.
ML laughed and called out the names of MC's five identities, asking which one MC thinks ML should call him by. MC was, again, shocked that ML knew. MC was also relieved. For him there was nothing happier than having a partner in every world and told ML to call him An An. His original name was Ning An.
They cuddled for a while before deciding to go back downstairs. At that moment MC received a call from school asking about why he hadn't gone to classes that day. ML took the phone and told the teacher that MC was sick and would turn in a note the next day blah blah blah. MC, ML, and the teacher thought nothing more of it. The person who was really worried about the MC's attendance turned out to be Zheng Bo, who'd, coincidentally, had been reborn on that day.
For Zheng Bo, even though he was reborn, there wasn't much he could do in the ways of preparation since he was a poor student. Zheng Bo would had sought out Pan He if it had not been that in the previous life Pan He had used and abused and abandoned him. Zheng Bo could not help but thought of the original host who had fallen just like him, but instead of empathizing, Zheng Bo hated the original even more. In the previous life, when he was still of use, his family and group members were nice to him but when abandoned by Pan He, everyone also turned their backs on him. The original host's parents who'd done everything to find him because of love became model parents for Zheng Bo, making him envy and resent the original host for enjoying their love.
Meanwhile, ML carried MC downstairs and straight away confessed to MC's parents about their love, shocking MC's mom and dad.
ML's people gathered at MC's villa. ML carried MC everywhere and while feeding MC food, force MC's parents to frustratingly eat dog food. X'D
Next few chapters are the normal apocalypse tropes. People awakening powers. People gathering resources.
Zheng Bo eventually returned to Pan He's side, reasoning that if Pan He could use him, then he could also use Pan He.
While gathering supplies at a mall, Pan He ran into MC and was instantly smitten by MC's beauty and space ability. He attempted to force MC's side to surrender the MC, and even after seeing the ML, Pan He figured that since MC and ML's side only had three other people he attempted to forcefully grab the MC. Instead, ML appeared in front of MC instantly and power slapped Pan He away.
Seeing MC in the arms of the obviously stronger ML, being taken care of so lovingly, Zheng Bo was instantly jealous, wishing MC dead, wishing to replace MC to enjoy all the pampering of MC's parents and the thoughtful caring of the ML. He took the opportunity to jump ship, offering the supplies in his space if MC would take him with them. Pan He was enraged.
Despite wondering why Zheng Bo, who had been crazy in love with Pan He, would betray Pan He, MC agreed because doing so would drive Pan He and Zheng Bo apart. Pan He reluctantly left the mall but told Pan He to watch his back.
MC asked about ML's ability. ML said his ability was whatever he wanted. Thanks to the bug that was called 520 (his system), ML's could switch to whatever ability he wanted save for healing. ML's ability was just incapable of healing.
Zheng Bo planned to seduced ML away from MC. On the way back to the villa, Zheng Bo played the weak and lonely white lotus, trying to drum up sympathy from the ML. Then at the villa, he played the innocent roommate thinking that MC's parents would naturally take care of him not realizing the killing intent in MC's mom.
MC's dad awaken a mental ability.
Observing this and all the people who'd, in the previous life, had risen to power gather to recognize one man, who Zheng Bo could not find any memories of, Zheng Bo stewed in resentment and confusion over the anomalies.
ML and MC did a little happy happy hand play but did nothing more because MC's body was too bad to do more.
One night Zheng Bo strategically went to visit MC in MC and ML's room when ML went to bathe. He chatted with MC waiting for ML to return so he could try to low-key seduce ML. MC carefully probed Zheng Bo enough to suspect that Zheng Bo had been reborn. ML got out of the bath fully covered so that Zheng Bo wasn't able to sneakily peek and MC kicked him out of the room before he could achieve his purpose of kissing up to the ML.
MC's plan was to use Zheng Bo to gather supplies before tossing him back to Pan He to be tortured physically and psychologically.
A week later when they were going to move to a safer base with the army, MC, ML, a few others, and Zheng Bo left earlier than the others. Stopping near the army group, ML and MC kicked Zheng Bo out of the car and told him they were kicking him out of the group and that they had informed Pan He to come pick him up. Zheng Bo, feeling insecure about his position in the group, had been going around and causing discord amidst ML and MC's people. When Zheng Bo saw Pan He again, he was desperate to return to MC's car but they drove away. Before Zheng Bo could run to join the army group, Pan He knocked him out.
Zheng Bo woke up in Pan He's car, scared but confident that Pan He valued his space ability too much to harm him. Pan He smiled saying he didn't want to hear anything from Zheng Bo before using his wind ability to slice off Zheng Bo's tongue. He told his man to keep the tongue to feed Zheng Bo later, it was the end of days, food was scarce, and even though it was a small piece of meat, it was still meat. Zheng Bo was horrified.
In the convoy, MC accidentally activated his ability to freeze time. If it had not been for ML noticing it and interrupting the release of power, the backlash would had been worst than the three days MC had fallen unconscious.
More zombie tropes, traveling, fighting zombies, learning that zombies were evolving.
Another week later while fighting a zombie wave, MC and ML's group ran into Pan He's group fighting in the same wave. Zheng Bo had changed, losing weight and looking aged, but seeing MC, hatred brought Zheng Bo back to life and before he could even run a few steps towards MC, Pan He cut Zheng Bo's hamstrings, leaving him to die at the mouths of the zombies.
Seeing MC glared at Pan He, ML led MC closer to Pan He. ML asked MC to let him take care of Pan He. MC said yes but do so in a way that would not bring trouble to ML.
Pan He, whose movements had been frozen by ML, found himself free to move again and ran away quickly. Ten feet away Pan He fell down screaming because his wrists and ankles were punctured, blood flowing freely attracting the zombies. At first Pan He's group members attempted to keep the zombies away from Pan He, but after seeing that there were too much, they pushed Pan He into the zombies and ran away. Just as how the original host's parents and Zheng Bo died, Pan He met his death at the mouths of the zombies.
MC and ML's group killed the leader of the zombie wave and the peons became easily taken care of.
A month and a half later they finally reached a secure base. Finding places for themselves in the base, ML sought out healers to heal MC's body. While they could make MC comfortable, MC knew they could not heal him. His weakened body was the result of his time ability.
Vaccine was discovered five years after the apocalypse. MC's body was finally running out of time. He told his friends and family goodbye before ML took him away. In that lifetime, their bodies were never seen again.
In the transit space, 748 was happy about their "S" score.
Knowing he could see ML in the next world, MC told 748 to go to the next world. 748 tried to transport them to the next world but instead was teleported to the system plane.
The system plane was empty but MC was more worried about missing the ML so he encouraged 748 to try again to teleport them to the next world. It still failed. MC was started to panic when arms pulled him into a hug. MC automatically rejected this man who'd appeared out of nowhere. ML slapped MC's butt saying MC couldn't even recognize him. MC took in ML's unfamiliar face but he'd recognized ML's eyes and tone.
In the system plane, there no body for MC to take over so his soul condensed and appeared as how he truly looked.
ML poofed MC to a majestic jade palace where MC saw six other men. One of the man introduced himself as Lord Gong, one of the managers of the system plane, and apologized for pulling them there as it was urgent. MC was introduced to Lord Gong's lover, not a plane manager, Shang (a plane manager), Hao Ritian (ex-host and Shang's lover), and the other two managers of the system plane. MC then learned that ML was also a plane manager.
Lord Gong told them ML and MC they needed to complete the contract ceremony so their collective strength could create the strongest protection for their system plane and so they could retaliate against the group that came from a different system.
ML and MC completed the contract ceremony, which is basically allowing ML and MC to realize the sharing of power and resources that cycled endlessly between the system plane all the small worlds.
The eight people flew to five different directions, to the transit space that belonged to them, made a seal, and created a defense strong enough to shield their space. Then they joined five others from a close by space plane to battle against the triplets attacking them. The battle lasted four short paragraphs before the triplets were suppressed and driven away, losing a portion of their power of luck. The treasure was shared between the allies and each went back to their respective plane.
Lord Gong inserted their portion of the power into the core of their system plane. It caused more tasks to pop up. Being new, MC let ML take care of their portion of task while he became friends with Hao Ritian. MC learned from HR that if not for the urgency of the attack, MC would had only stepped into the system plane after the tenth world.
HR takes MC back to HR's reality to meet his friend and family. 748 learned that HR was the former owner of the "Legendary System" nicknamed Dudu by HR and asked to meet him. Dudu being a more senior system took the form of a ten years old boy while 748 being a new system had the form of baby girl. Dudu indulged 748 as she climbed and gushed all over him.
In the time that MC met HR's family and friends, ten days had passed and ML came to pick up MC. Leaving Dudu to babysit 748, ML and MC leaves for MC's earth.
Du Qisheng (DQS) became popular thanks to the albums of stolen songs from the MC, but struggled to maintain his fame due to the lack of songs being released after the the first album. DQS felt guilty for unintentionally killing MC but knew that he would do it all over again if given the chance because he loved the fame. Not wanting to go to jail, DQS quietly cremated MC's body and told no one.
Hoping to rub some fame from the movie emperor (ML), DQS joined a variety show to sing the new song his manager found for him. There he met the ML and MC. Seeing how similar MC looked, DQS was so rattled he did a poor job singing. DQS became paranoid about the MC.
MC was a singer, songwriter, and composer and managed to complete an album a month later. Movie emperor ML basically became MC's agent and got the company to give MC resources. There were people who were not happy and jeered at MC for entering the back door. Seeing others talk, DQS sought to step on the MC, but with MC's album release, MC became too popular too fast, faster than DQS ever had and he couldn't do anything.
MC started taking jobs away from DQS.
MC met ML's RL family who was very enthusiastic in marrying off the ML.
DQS confronted MC, asking why MC was targeting him. MC asked why DQS was say so. It could all just be a coincidence. Paranoid that MC knew DQS's sin but was looking for proof, DQS ran home. DQS no longer received any resources or jobs, the girlfriend he thought he was using turned out to be the one playing him and had dumped him for younger, fresher meat, and his company practically relegated him to nothing.
On ML and MC's wedding day, they submitted evidence of DQS killing MC to the police and he was arrested. MC and ML lived out their lives before returning to the system plane.
The system plane being on track, MC and ML went to visit the remaining five worlds that MC would had been MC's tasks. Even though seeing that it had been handed to another host, MC felt better. The remaining worlds included a modern world, a vampiric world, an orc world, a cultivation world, and one I'm not too sure translates into. These worlds were new to MC so they stayed for a while in each world before MC and ML went back to the world of arc 3. MC had been worried about the parents there. MC went back to the point right before he'd died and got to experience the confession the ML had planned. Going home to his parents, MC was relieved that his parents would not experience the sad fate they had in the past when MC died.
I thought it was just me. I went through my reading list so many times too!
MC- Gu An
ML- Fu Yi
Antagonists- Zheng Bo, Pan He
Grudge- Antagonists killed his parents
Starts out with MC's parents worried about MC because he had a high fever. They called the doctor to visit and the doctor told them to take MC to the hospital because of MC's weakened state and that the hospital would have better equipment suited to take care of MC. Just when they were about to go, MC woke up briefly and told his parents that the world was ending tomorrow and they had to prepare. MC then fainted again.
MC's mind fell into the memories of the original host. The host was called Gu An. He was a sophomore in college, beloved by his parents, and grew up pampered and eating from a golden spoon. Thusly, dorm life was a new experience. Out of all his roommates, the original host most admired Zheng Bo. Where all the other fellow students simply enjoyed college life, Zheng Bo not only went to school, he diligently went to work afterwards, ate modest meals, and put alot of effort into everything he did. Original host really wanted to help Zheng Bo out but feared his intentions would be misconstrued as him looking down on Zheng Bo, so the original host would often either invite the roommates out to eat or purposely order too much food so he could bring it back to share.
Then one day the original host accidentally witnessed Zheng Bo making out with a man (Pan He). Zheng Bo, not wanting anyone to know he was gay or get kicked out of school for his sexual orientation, begged the original host to keep it a secret. The original host had no intentions of saying anything since he was in the closet himself, promised Zheng Bo he would keep quiet, but Zheng Bo started to resent the original host because he felt like the original host could now blackmail him with this secret. Zheng Bo started his one man show of constantly humbling himself in front of the original host and enduring what he felt as the "humiliation" of the original host's kindness towards him.
Truth was that Zheng Bo hated rich people and hated/envied the original host (whom he had despised and looked down upon as stupid and only knowing how to eat and be lazy) even more since the original host knew his secret. Zheng Bo felt that all the times the original host had invited them out to eat was the original host showing off his wealth and looking down on them.
The end of the world happened while the original host was still at school. His parents at home organized an armed group of their home bodyguards to go save him.
People started awakening powers and Zheng Bo happened to awaken a space ability that changed his mentality. He was no longer scared that the original host, who had no powers, would blackmail him. Being a "super power" human, Zheng Bo felt that he now had the ability to take revenge on the original host.
When the apocalypse happened, the original host escaped the school with his roommates but met many difficulties. They would had perished if they had not been saved by Pan He, Zheng Bo's boyfriend and awakened wind ability user. The original host was grateful to Pan He at first but when Pan He started looking at him with lewd eyes, the original host started avoiding Pan He as much as he could. Even so Zheng Bo felt that the original host had seduced Pan He and targeted the original host everywhere they went. Despite lusting after the original host, Pan He was more ambitious and valued Zheng Bo's space ability more so he did nothing to help the original host, making Zheng Bo bolder and bolder in his bullying.
Just when Pan He was going to make a move on the original host, the original host's parents found him. The three family members had no powers and all but two of the family body guards jumped ship to Pan He's group. Pan He treated the parents like his in-laws. While not minding who their son dated, they saw that Pan He was not a good person so they were going to take the original host and leave.
Zheng Bo whispered to Pan He that if Pan He killed the parents in front of the original host, the original host would no longer have any thoughts of running away and Pan He could play with the original host as much as he wanted. Pan He, who had always been the one desired and chased after, tired of playing house and tied up the parents when they were about to escape. The two faithful bodyguards were killed and Pan He used his wind ability to slice and torture the parents in front of the original host until they were on their last breath before tossing them, bloodied and weak, to the zombie hoard.
The original host had always possessed a soft heart, but watching helplessly as his parents were eaten by the zombies, he began to hate. He hated the world they lived in, and despised Pan He and Zheng Bo to the point where he wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood. The strong hatred and resentment awoke his ability, time control. Being weak and having just awaken his ability, the original host only managed to go back to the day before the apocalypse. The original host was dying from the power backlash when the MC took over.
Due the the ability distorting space and time, the memories of the original host was integrated with the MC's memories. Where before it was like watching a movie, this time MC felt as though he had lived all those moments.
Seeing how MC's body had been severely weakened 748 gave MC a thousand cubic space ability, which could also be counted as a reward for getting a top score from the previous world.
Waking up and not wanting to go to the hospital, MC told his parents about what happened before the time jump. To further convince them, he showed them his spatial ability. The parents got teary eyed listening to the story and believed the MC.
As a listed company president, MC's mom was smart and possessed many skills. She sent everyone but the two loyal bodyguards home. Since they were trustworthy, MC's mom decided to tell them about the world ending. At first they didn't believe her but eventually seeing that she was not joking, both swore to protect the family with their lives. MC's mom said she told them not so they could protect them with all their might, but because she trusted them and wanted them to live and help as a family.
MC had to convince his mom and the bodyguards to let him go along to gather supply despite his weaken state by again showing off his space ability to the bodyguards. Going to the warehouses they owned, MC swiped four warehouses of merchandises into his space before becoming tired. Upon sending MC home, MC's mom went out to a secret meeting with the ML, whose family shared a slight connection with hers, to buy weapons. MC's mom's first impression of ML, one Mr. Fu Yi, was that of a young and handsome but dangerous man.
ML told MC's mom he would give the batch of goods to her for free. All he wanted in return was to meet her son because he had something he wanted to confirm. Even though MC's mom knew ML disdained lying and that he would be a good resource for MC when the world ended, she would not bring anyone home casually. Instead, she compromised and allowed them to meet through video.
Through his system, 520, ML learned of the end of the world and as an underground boss with ties to shady things, ML felt that he had the ability in that world to protect that one person he wanted to.
MC's mom called MC saying a friend of hers wanted to talk to him. MC was a little hesitant but was then shocked stupid to discover this friend was the ML. MC wanted to cry. He knew that even though it had not even been a day that they had been apart, it had felt like a lifetime to him. MC remembered asking in the last life if ML would come to the MC in the next life and ML had said yes and now he'd really came like they've agreed. MC was so happy he felt less scared and confused of the apocalypse.
ML could recognize MC with just one glance. Seeing MC's reddened eyes, ML softened. He booped MC's nose on the screen and told MC to wait for him at home. He'll come find the MC right away.
At home, MC was like a pet waiting at the door for its master. His sole attention was on the door, non committed responding to his father. When he heard the sound of a car, MC went outside to meet them. ML picked up the MC and told everyone he wanted to talk to the MC alone for just a while before heading to the MC's room, leaving MC's dad bewildered and confused. (BTW MC's dad is a professor. Just thought I should put that in.)
The moment they were in MC's room, ML put MC on the bed and started kissing him gently and meticulously until MC was breathless. Still not knowing that ML could recognize him, he asked ML why did the ML kissed him. Because if ML didn't recognized him, then ML was kissing someone else! MC ate his own vinegar.
ML laughed and called out the names of MC's five identities, asking which one MC thinks ML should call him by. MC was, again, shocked that ML knew. MC was also relieved. For him there was nothing happier than having a partner in every world and told ML to call him An An. His original name was Ning An.
They cuddled for a while before deciding to go back downstairs. At that moment MC received a call from school asking about why he hadn't gone to classes that day. ML took the phone and told the teacher that MC was sick and would turn in a note the next day blah blah blah. MC, ML, and the teacher thought nothing more of it. The person who was really worried about the MC's attendance turned out to be Zheng Bo, who'd, coincidentally, had been reborn on that day.
For Zheng Bo, even though he was reborn, there wasn't much he could do in the ways of preparation since he was a poor student. Zheng Bo would had sought out Pan He if it had not been that in the previous life Pan He had used and abused and abandoned him. Zheng Bo could not help but thought of the original host who had fallen just like him, but instead of empathizing, Zheng Bo hated the original even more. In the previous life, when he was still of use, his family and group members were nice to him but when abandoned by Pan He, everyone also turned their backs on him. The original host's parents who'd done everything to find him because of love became model parents for Zheng Bo, making him envy and resent the original host for enjoying their love.
Meanwhile, ML carried MC downstairs and straight away confessed to MC's parents about their love, shocking MC's mom and dad.
ML's people gathered at MC's villa. ML carried MC everywhere and while feeding MC food, force MC's parents to frustratingly eat dog food. X'D
Next few chapters are the normal apocalypse tropes. People awakening powers. People gathering resources.
Zheng Bo eventually returned to Pan He's side, reasoning that if Pan He could use him, then he could also use Pan He.
While gathering supplies at a mall, Pan He ran into MC and was instantly smitten by MC's beauty and space ability. He attempted to force MC's side to surrender the MC, and even after seeing the ML, Pan He figured that since MC and ML's side only had three other people he attempted to forcefully grab the MC. Instead, ML appeared in front of MC instantly and power slapped Pan He away.
Seeing MC in the arms of the obviously stronger ML, being taken care of so lovingly, Zheng Bo was instantly jealous, wishing MC dead, wishing to replace MC to enjoy all the pampering of MC's parents and the thoughtful caring of the ML. He took the opportunity to jump ship, offering the supplies in his space if MC would take him with them. Pan He was enraged.
Despite wondering why Zheng Bo, who had been crazy in love with Pan He, would betray Pan He, MC agreed because doing so would drive Pan He and Zheng Bo apart. Pan He reluctantly left the mall but told Pan He to watch his back.
MC asked about ML's ability. ML said his ability was whatever he wanted. Thanks to the bug that was called 520 (his system), ML's could switch to whatever ability he wanted save for healing. ML's ability was just incapable of healing.
Zheng Bo planned to seduced ML away from MC. On the way back to the villa, Zheng Bo played the weak and lonely white lotus, trying to drum up sympathy from the ML. Then at the villa, he played the innocent roommate thinking that MC's parents would naturally take care of him not realizing the killing intent in MC's mom.
MC's dad awaken a mental ability.
Observing this and all the people who'd, in the previous life, had risen to power gather to recognize one man, who Zheng Bo could not find any memories of, Zheng Bo stewed in resentment and confusion over the anomalies.
ML and MC did a little happy happy hand play but did nothing more because MC's body was too bad to do more.
One night Zheng Bo strategically went to visit MC in MC and ML's room when ML went to bathe. He chatted with MC waiting for ML to return so he could try to low-key seduce ML. MC carefully probed Zheng Bo enough to suspect that Zheng Bo had been reborn. ML got out of the bath fully covered so that Zheng Bo wasn't able to sneakily peek and MC kicked him out of the room before he could achieve his purpose of kissing up to the ML.
MC's plan was to use Zheng Bo to gather supplies before tossing him back to Pan He to be tortured physically and psychologically.
A week later when they were going to move to a safer base with the army, MC, ML, a few others, and Zheng Bo left earlier than the others. Stopping near the army group, ML and MC kicked Zheng Bo out of the car and told him they were kicking him out of the group and that they had informed Pan He to come pick him up. Zheng Bo, feeling insecure about his position in the group, had been going around and causing discord amidst ML and MC's people. When Zheng Bo saw Pan He again, he was desperate to return to MC's car but they drove away. Before Zheng Bo could run to join the army group, Pan He knocked him out.
Zheng Bo woke up in Pan He's car, scared but confident that Pan He valued his space ability too much to harm him. Pan He smiled saying he didn't want to hear anything from Zheng Bo before using his wind ability to slice off Zheng Bo's tongue. He told his man to keep the tongue to feed Zheng Bo later, it was the end of days, food was scarce, and even though it was a small piece of meat, it was still meat. Zheng Bo was horrified.
In the convoy, MC accidentally activated his ability to freeze time. If it had not been for ML noticing it and interrupting the release of power, the backlash would had been worst than the three days MC had fallen unconscious.
More zombie tropes, traveling, fighting zombies, learning that zombies were evolving.
Another week later while fighting a zombie wave, MC and ML's group ran into Pan He's group fighting in the same wave. Zheng Bo had changed, losing weight and looking aged, but seeing MC, hatred brought Zheng Bo back to life and before he could even run a few steps towards MC, Pan He cut Zheng Bo's hamstrings, leaving him to die at the mouths of the zombies.
Seeing MC glared at Pan He, ML led MC closer to Pan He. ML asked MC to let him take care of Pan He. MC said yes but do so in a way that would not bring trouble to ML.
Pan He, whose movements had been frozen by ML, found himself free to move again and ran away quickly. Ten feet away Pan He fell down screaming because his wrists and ankles were punctured, blood flowing freely attracting the zombies. At first Pan He's group members attempted to keep the zombies away from Pan He, but after seeing that there were too much, they pushed Pan He into the zombies and ran away. Just as how the original host's parents and Zheng Bo died, Pan He met his death at the mouths of the zombies.
MC and ML's group killed the leader of the zombie wave and the peons became easily taken care of.
A month and a half later they finally reached a secure base. Finding places for themselves in the base, ML sought out healers to heal MC's body. While they could make MC comfortable, MC knew they could not heal him. His weakened body was the result of his time ability.
Vaccine was discovered five years after the apocalypse. MC's body was finally running out of time. He told his friends and family goodbye before ML took him away. In that lifetime, their bodies were never seen again.
In the transit space, 748 was happy about their "S" score.
Knowing he could see ML in the next world, MC told 748 to go to the next world. 748 tried to transport them to the next world but instead was teleported to the system plane.
The system plane was empty but MC was more worried about missing the ML so he encouraged 748 to try again to teleport them to the next world. It still failed. MC was started to panic when arms pulled him into a hug. MC automatically rejected this man who'd appeared out of nowhere. ML slapped MC's butt saying MC couldn't even recognize him. MC took in ML's unfamiliar face but he'd recognized ML's eyes and tone.
In the system plane, there no body for MC to take over so his soul condensed and appeared as how he truly looked.
ML poofed MC to a majestic jade palace where MC saw six other men. One of the man introduced himself as Lord Gong, one of the managers of the system plane, and apologized for pulling them there as it was urgent. MC was introduced to Lord Gong's lover, not a plane manager, Shang (a plane manager), Hao Ritian (ex-host and Shang's lover), and the other two managers of the system plane. MC then learned that ML was also a plane manager.
Lord Gong told them ML and MC they needed to complete the contract ceremony so their collective strength could create the strongest protection for their system plane and so they could retaliate against the group that came from a different system.
ML and MC completed the contract ceremony, which is basically allowing ML and MC to realize the sharing of power and resources that cycled endlessly between the system plane all the small worlds.
The eight people flew to five different directions, to the transit space that belonged to them, made a seal, and created a defense strong enough to shield their space. Then they joined five others from a close by space plane to battle against the triplets attacking them. The battle lasted four short paragraphs before the triplets were suppressed and driven away, losing a portion of their power of luck. The treasure was shared between the allies and each went back to their respective plane.
Lord Gong inserted their portion of the power into the core of their system plane. It caused more tasks to pop up. Being new, MC let ML take care of their portion of task while he became friends with Hao Ritian. MC learned from HR that if not for the urgency of the attack, MC would had only stepped into the system plane after the tenth world.
HR takes MC back to HR's reality to meet his friend and family. 748 learned that HR was the former owner of the "Legendary System" nicknamed Dudu by HR and asked to meet him. Dudu being a more senior system took the form of a ten years old boy while 748 being a new system had the form of baby girl. Dudu indulged 748 as she climbed and gushed all over him.
In the time that MC met HR's family and friends, ten days had passed and ML came to pick up MC. Leaving Dudu to babysit 748, ML and MC leaves for MC's earth.
Du Qisheng (DQS) became popular thanks to the albums of stolen songs from the MC, but struggled to maintain his fame due to the lack of songs being released after the the first album. DQS felt guilty for unintentionally killing MC but knew that he would do it all over again if given the chance because he loved the fame. Not wanting to go to jail, DQS quietly cremated MC's body and told no one.
Hoping to rub some fame from the movie emperor (ML), DQS joined a variety show to sing the new song his manager found for him. There he met the ML and MC. Seeing how similar MC looked, DQS was so rattled he did a poor job singing. DQS became paranoid about the MC.
MC was a singer, songwriter, and composer and managed to complete an album a month later. Movie emperor ML basically became MC's agent and got the company to give MC resources. There were people who were not happy and jeered at MC for entering the back door. Seeing others talk, DQS sought to step on the MC, but with MC's album release, MC became too popular too fast, faster than DQS ever had and he couldn't do anything.
MC started taking jobs away from DQS.
MC met ML's RL family who was very enthusiastic in marrying off the ML.
DQS confronted MC, asking why MC was targeting him. MC asked why DQS was say so. It could all just be a coincidence. Paranoid that MC knew DQS's sin but was looking for proof, DQS ran home. DQS no longer received any resources or jobs, the girlfriend he thought he was using turned out to be the one playing him and had dumped him for younger, fresher meat, and his company practically relegated him to nothing.
On ML and MC's wedding day, they submitted evidence of DQS killing MC to the police and he was arrested. MC and ML lived out their lives before returning to the system plane.
The system plane being on track, MC and ML went to visit the remaining five worlds that MC would had been MC's tasks. Even though seeing that it had been handed to another host, MC felt better. The remaining worlds included a modern world, a vampiric world, an orc world, a cultivation world, and one I'm not too sure translates into. These worlds were new to MC so they stayed for a while in each world before MC and ML went back to the world of arc 3. MC had been worried about the parents there. MC went back to the point right before he'd died and got to experience the confession the ML had planned. Going home to his parents, MC was relieved that his parents would not experience the sad fate they had in the past when MC died.
I thought it was just me. I went through my reading list so many times too!
