Rebirth: Design Your Life
By 酒煮核弹头
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Before being reborn, Gao Xi lived happily, freely, with an innocent heart of a newborn, and a warm and pure love.
After being reborn, facing a desperate situation, he counterattacked, retaliated and abused the scum, step by step, but did not dare to believe in feelings anymore.
Then a knight came from the darkness with a light, warming the thousands of miles of ice fields in his heart with love and passion.
And stretched out his hand to him indulgently: Come, let’s take you to see the sun!
This is also a story of mutual salvation.
One thought the other was using him as a substitute, and the other thought he was being used. One forced the other to learn how to love again, and the other led him to learn how to let go.
Beautiful fireworks collided in the dark, and two wrongs made a right.
Overbearing, cold, obsessive gong x milk-flavoured, gentle, black-bellied shou
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This is a “change the gong” type of story. You know how in reviews to every crematorium story there are people who say “I want the MC to drop the ML and fall in love with someone else”. So, this is exactly this kind of story: the MC leaves the previous ML, who has wronged him, and falls in love with someone else.
But wait, why is this “someone else” not much better (if not worse) than the previous ML? I was actually quite choked when I was translating the summary (I forgot about it) and saw the author writing about “the knight coming from the darkness”. Uh oh, maybe... a mediaeval knight? The one that looted, burned and took whatever he wanted?
Anyway, if you expect a story about the MC being comforted and pampered by the new ML, it’s definitely not this kind of story. It’s not a feel-good story either, not for a long time. The author was complaining in her comments many times how hard it was to write it and how she wanted to write about nice and warm things. But I’m really happy she wrote this story, because I loved it very much.
The MC is Gao Xi, a successful designer whose life can’t be more perfect. He has a loving family, a career he loves and a partner, Xu Moran, he’s spent fifteen years with, from the age of seventeen to thirty-two.
Then, trying to give Xu Moran a surprise on his birthday, Gao Xi comes home from a trip unexpectedly.
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And sees Xu Moran in their bedroom, having s*x with their best friend/business partner. Gao Xi drives away in a shock, his car falls into a river - and voila! - he is reborn in the body of Shen Yun, a very young, very poor designer-beginner.
Unlike in many rebirth/transmigration stories where the MC conveniently transmigrates into the body of a person with the same name, here the name is different, and it is for a reason. Gao Xi feels that his good, sunny life full of happy and beautiful things is over. Gao Xi is dead. What is left is Shen Yun, who lives in the darkness, doesn’t trust anyone and the only wish he has in his heart is the wish for destruction.
And probably even more than he wants to destroy those who wronged him, he wants to destroy himself. It seems he accepts the situation and starts acting very calmly, as if there is no shadow left on him, but in fact, everything about Gao Xi/Shen Yun is a shadow. It is like he tries to punish himself for living such a happy life that turned out to be an illusion, and this self-punishment is manifested in everything, from smoking cheap cigarettes, to burning his own hand, to choosing the most disgraceful way to get into the designing project a newcomer like Shen Yun has no chance to get into.
And there where the new ML comes into play, exchanging helping Shen Yun’s career for s*xual services. If you expect the ML to be a paper tiger, demand a payment and then refuse it, then no. He takes everything he thinks he has the right to take, and more than that.
So, the battle of wills starts. The MC, who looks like a weak, young kid, but in fact is absolutely ruthless, first of all towards himself, vs. the ML, who seems to have all the power, but soon realises that having the MC’s body is... having nothing at all. And having the MC’s soul is much, much, much more difficult.
Eventually, what the summary describes does happen - there is mutual salvation - but it actually takes the whole book to get here. The road of the MC and ML to each other is long and difficult. It’s hard to say when the ML’s attitude to the MC starts changing, and when the ML turns from an annoying jerk into the guy you root for... yes, he is a very annoying jerk for quite a while. But the MC gives as good as he gets.
And it takes even longer for something to change in the MC, for him to be able to open his heart again.
Well, that’s what makes the story interesting for me. It was never boring, and the relationship between the MC and ML was the driving force behind it.
If you come to this story for the MC’s revenge, there is revenge too. But it is not the focus of the story. Even though the MC achieves exactly what he wants, if you want an elaborate revenge, it’s not quite that. But I felt it was right to be this way.
I also felt that the fate of the previous ML was right, taking into account everything.
In short, it is quite a concise story, just over fifty chapters. There is a lot of stuff about designing, a strong, smart, ruthless MC, and a lot of pull and push between the MC and ML, no insta-love, no insta-pampering here.
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2023-08-03
Omg. It was so cool that I created a new account to comment. Not much of a romance problem. However, the relationship between the members of Mc's family is an extremely wonderful one despite their extremely limited appearances. Yes, very little. Maybe the author was restrained to accentuate the emotion, which is something I appreciate. Actually I want to rate it 5 star.
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2023-08-03
Omg. It was so cool that I created a new account to comment. Not much of a romance problem. However, the relationship between the members of Mc's family is an extremely wonderful one despite their extremely limited appearances. Yes, very little. Maybe the author was restrained to accentuate the emotion, which is something I appreciate. Actually I want to rate it 5 star.
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2023-08-05
Great translation. Thanks translator.
Now, onto my review. I have to deduct -1 for the lack of creativity for the plot but otherwise, this story is a good read to pass time. It's pretty short too so it's not going to take long to finish in half a day.
The MC in this story suffers a lot but I do not feel sorry for him at all, lol. Maybe a little bit but not much because the problems he brought upon himself is all due to himself. He could have solved all his problems with this one word: communication. Yes, MC has zero communication skill at all. Every time he ran into a problem he could easily solve it by asking questions and talk it out but he doesn't do that because he's a coward. Yes, he afraid since he had a failed relationship before so he would rather play the victim role than ask and talk it out with the ML (and his cheater ex-bf).
ML, on the other hand, is also not a good person so their relationship started on a bad foot. He asked MC to sleep with him first but he also falls in love first so he did have to bare all the consequences. Overall, not a bad story but also nothing new if you read a lot of rebirth stories like me.
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2023-08-03
Great translation. Thanks translator.
Now, onto my review. I have to deduct -1 for the lack of creativity for the plot but otherwise, this story is a good read to pass time. It's pretty short too so it's not going to take long to finish in half a day.
The MC in this story suffers a lot but I do not feel sorry for him at all, lol. Maybe a little bit but not much because the problems he brought upon himself is all due to himself. He could have solved all his problems with this one word: communication. Yes, MC has zero communication skill at all. Every time he ran into a problem he could easily solve it by asking questions and talk it out but he doesn't do that because he's a coward. Yes, he afraid since he had a failed relationship before so he would rather play the victim role than ask and talk it out with the ML (and his cheater ex-bf).
ML, on the other hand, is also not a good person so their relationship started on a bad foot. He asked MC to sleep with him first but he also falls in love first so he did have to bare all the consequences. Overall, not a bad story but also nothing new if you read a lot of rebirth stories like me.
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2023-08-05
