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An Jiu was the “vile cannon fodder” in a cultivation novel.
Driven by a desperate need to no longer be looked down upon, he believed he could sacrifice anything for status. He plotted against his own biological brother, An Yunge, stole his sect recommendation letter, and assumed his identity to become a personal disciple of the Sect Leader of the Wan-yan Sword Sect.
Even after his amnesiac brother joined the same sect, An Jiu repeatedly attempted to assassinate him to protect his secret. Eventually, his schemes were exposed by the protagonists. In a state of panic, An Jiu made one last fatal mistake: he attempted to seduce the man he had secretly loved his master, Sword Deity Weiyue.
In the end, his master personally extracted his spiritual bones to repair An Yunge’s damaged cultivation base. Stripped of his powers and reduced to a cripple, An Jiu was humiliated by An Yunge’s admirers and cast back into the mortal world, where he ultimately starved to death on the streets.
In his final moments, he wept and whispered that he no longer wanted anything. He didn’t want the identity, the status, or the love.
An Jiu never expected that after dying without even a grave to his name, he would be reborn! Upon his rebirth, he realized he was merely a cannon fodder character in a storybook. He returned to the exact night he attempted to seduce Sword Deity Weiyue.
Thinking of his past life, how he had spent his entire existence struggling just to escape a lowly status only to end up as dust in the mud, he decided that if this was his fate, he simply wanted to end it early and seek reincarnation. Since everyone already knew he had harmed An Yunge and his master was destined to abandon him, what was the point of trying again?
He gave up the struggle, waiting only for death so he could reincarnate. However, the subsequent events began to diverge from his previous life.
Why are his senior brothers sending him top-tier healing medicines?
Why is his martial uncle fighting his master to take him as a disciple?
Why does An Yunge claim he doesn’t blame him for the poisoning?
And finally, why does his master say such things with bloodshot eyes?
“Didn’t you say you loved me? Yet you turned around and climbed into someone else’s bed is this how you show your love?”
An Jiu was first confused, then shocked. Wait, did I actually sleep with the wrong person on the night I was reborn?
Later, he prepared a path of no return to fake his death. But before he plunged into the abyss, he saw them rushing toward him with faces full of terror. Their agony did not seem faked.
That day, someone asked him: “Why are you crying?”
An Jiu had always been prone to tears; in the past, he had wept and begged them not to bully him, but everyone had looked away. Now, his face was expressionless, so why did they insist he was weeping?
An Jiu gazed at them with vacant eyes, remaining silent.
