Chronicles of Defying Fate was, without exaggeration, an out-and-out power-fantasy novel. To put it bluntly—it was absurdly long, riddled with ridiculous plot armor, and boasted a harem bordering on triple digits. Nearly every female character in the book would develop an irrational crush on the protagonist without fail. It was the most popular power-fantasy novel of the year, bar none. The protagonist's name was Lu Yuan. He didn't follow the "arrogant young master" trope, nor the "trash-to-peerless" underdog arc. Yet he still dominated the charts of Terminal Literature Network, spawning countless imitators. Why? Because he took the dark route. And before his complete descent into darkness, his story was a textbook tale of suffering and woe. Now, allow Gu Lin, a veteran reader of this novel, to skip all the filler chapters and fanservice detours, and summarize this multimillion-word behemoth as concisely as possible. Lu Yuan was abandoned at birth. Wrapped in white cloth, placed in a wooden basin, and set adrift on the river. It was the depths of winter, the coldest days of the year. Had a fisherman not pulled him from the river, he would have frozen to death in infancy. Named for the Hanxi River where he was found, and the thin ice covering its waters at the time, he was given that name. As a child, he wandered the streets, starving and poorly clothed. A laundress from a wealthy household took pity on him. Childless herself, she took him in and raised him as her own flesh and blood. The pair lived in poverty, dependent on the wealthy family's charity, enduring endless contempt and humiliation. That deeply toxic upbringing laid the groundwork for Lu Yuan's twisted personality: petty, vengeful, seething with bloodlust beneath a gentle smile. For a single bowl of lukewarm meat porridge, he endured brutal beatings from the household's young masters. Yet he was still too late. His adoptive mother died before he could bring her even one bite. By a stroke of fate, Lu Yuan was selected by Taiheng Sect—one of the four great cultivation sects of the era—and taken as a disciple of the Qingheng lineage, under Peak Lord Gu Qingheng. He thought he had finally stepped onto the right path. He could not have been more wrong. Gu Qingheng was a fine façade hiding a rotten core, a man of deplorable character. Jealous of Lu Yuan's unparalleled talent and terrified by his rapid cultivation progress, he mocked and degraded his disciple openly and in secret. The other disciples followed suit, looking down on and bullying Lu Yuan. Years of schooling passed in silent endurance, another chapter of bitter tears and blood. Against all odds, Lu Yuan reached the age of seventeen, when the grand event of the cultivation world—the Convocation of the Realms, held once every three years—finally arrived. It was at this very convocation that Gu Qingheng betrayed him, casting him into the rift between the human realm and the Other Realm: the Abyss of Severed Causality. And yes—this was where the story truly began. Lu Yuan did not perish. Instead, within the Abyss, he obtained a peculiar artifact and learned the truth of his origins. He was the offspring of Cangming Jun, Sovereign of the Other Realm, and a human woman, carrying both Other Realm and human blood in his veins. His father had been sealed beneath a towering mountain, trapped for eternity. His mother, once a disciple of a prestigious orthodox sect, had been expelled for her forbidden love. She died of blood loss after giving birth, but not before placing her infant son in a small boat and setting him adrift, granting him a slim chance at survival. In the Abyss, Lu Yuan broke the seal on his bloodline, cultivated in darkness for years, and returned. From that moment, he walked a path with no return. Every enemy of the past met a gruesome end. Every debt, kind or cruel, was repaid in full. With ever more sophisticated disguises and schemes, feigning obedience while plotting betrayal, Lu Yuan advanced step by step—gaining trust, seizing power, and unleashing a storm that swept across all realms. As the story unfolded, his darkness deepened. He returned to the Other Realm and inherited the sovereign throne, yet still hungered for more. He launched purges against the major sects of the human realm, erasing all dissent. In the end, the legend Lu Yuan unified all realms, laying claim to ten thousand li of mountains and rivers. He kept countless lovers and sired countless descendants. "Trash author. Trash novel." Those were the last words Gu Lin snarled before he drew his final breath. A paying subscriber who had followed the story to the end, he was rewarded with a novel bloated with filler, incoherent worldbuilding, and countless plot holes left unfilled. How could he not curse it? Chronicles of Defying Fate, Author: FateNeverFillsPits. Even the pen name reeked of unreliability. Shallow writing, endless red flags, contradictory worldbuilding. Cultivators who rode horses and carriages all day, enlightened beings who still ate and slept; basic and advanced realms mixed up at will, logic in shambles. Every character seemed to lose their mind the moment they stood before the protagonist. Especially the protagonist's master—Gu Qingheng. A first-class idiot, the epitome of scumbaggery. His only reason for existing was to court disaster, then be eliminated by the protagonist. So the question remained: why had Gu Lin forced himself to finish such a novel? There was only one answer—the book was packed with foreshadowing and massive plot holes, yet not a single one was ever resolved. Mystery after mystery was raised, only to be dropped abruptly at the end. It was enough to make someone spit blood in rage. Gu Lin nearly came back to life from sheer anger. In the endless darkness, a cold, distorted voice echoed in his ears. [Anomalous statement recorded.][Classification: High-frequency negation source.][World stabilization mechanism initiating.] "…Who are you?" Gu Lin found himself floating in a formless void, unable to see his own hand in front of his face. [Welcome to the narrative structure.][Objective: Deviation correction.][We wish you a smooth experience.] Amid the dizziness, a gentle voice suddenly sounded beside him. "…Junior Brother Qingheng? Can you hear me?" Gu Lin snapped his eyes open. White gauze hung low, incense pouches swayed gently. He lay on an antique wooden bed, a folding fan resting quietly beside him. Beside the bed, a young man in dark Daoist robes watched him with concern. "Junior Brother, you're finally awake. Do you feel any discomfort?" Gu Lin lowered his gaze, opened the fan, and hid the cold sweat on his forehead. —I'm screwed.
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Synopsis
The wildly popular YY wish-fulfillment novel Chronicles of Defying Fate took the internet by storm with its protagonist Lu Yuan’s dark counterattack story. Enduring hardship and lying low, he was framed by his master and cast into an abyss. After unlocking his foreign realm bloodline, he turned completely dark, slaughtering all his enemies, and ultimately became the overlord unifying all domains. His master Gu Qingheng, however, was the most tragic villainous sacrifice in the book—tortured in captivity for three years before being shot dead with an arrow.
Gu Lin, a long-time devoted reader, finished the novel only to be infuriated by the author’s padded plot, botched ending, and collapsed characterizations, dying from choking in a fit of rage. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into the body of Gu Qingheng, the villainous master fated to a brutal death.
In the original novel, Gu Qingheng was a scumbag who envied his disciple’s unparalleled talent and humiliated him at every turn, a mere stepping stone on Lu Yuan’s path to darkness. After transmigration, Gu Lin’s only goal was to defy fate and escape the ending of being tortured and shot to death. He cast aside the original body’s malice, abandoned his cold demeanor, and raised the young Lu Yuan with a protective, doting attitude. He exposed the conspiracies hidden in the original work and fixed its broken plot logic.
But he never anticipated that his mere desire to survive had derailed the novel’s dark main storyline entirely: the mad disciple who was supposed to kill his master cold-bloodedly became his loyal, ever-present companion; the forces of various domains that should have been his enemies turned into his protectors; and a bond transcending master and disciple quietly blossomed between him and Lu Yuan.
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