The Shocking Eunuch, Reborn as a Literary Girl

Chapter 1 Return from Hell

'Renci' is perhaps one of the most well-known online novelists in 21st-century China.

Solid and elegant writing skills, imaginative and highly engaging plot creation, and relatable classic character designs.

He rose to fame at a young age and reached the peak of his career right from the start, creating classic works such as "Eight States" and "Phoenix Clan" on the Zhongdian Chinese website.

Its writing is elegant yet profound, and its plot is full of twists and turns and great tension, immersing countless readers.

The work has a very wide reach.

From elementary school students who have just learned to read to college students who spend all their time online... almost everyone has read or at least heard of his books.

Especially "Phoenix Clan," which is known to almost everyone among young people.

During our school days, a physical copy of "Phoenix Clan" circulated among the entire class, and the scene of everyone reading it and then discussing it enthusiastically became a shared memory for those born in the 90s and 00s.

With the immense popularity of "Phoenix Clan," he once became one of the most sought-after writers in the country, making it onto the list of China's richest writers and becoming a successful person in the eyes of many.

The most commercially successful author of Generation Z.
The youngest billionaire writer of the 21st century.
The author with the greatest potential for IP adaptation.
He has a series of well-known titles.

Without a doubt, "Renci" is one of the most commercially successful online novel and bestselling authors in China.

However, on July 21, 2024.

A news story spread rapidly online.

[Shocking! Renowned online novelist 'Renci' died suddenly at home late at night! His representative works include 'Phoenix Clan' and 'Eight States']

As a memory of youth for a generation, and as one of the most influential online novelists of our time, his passing should have evoked mourning among netizens, and many readers should have been reminiscing in the comments section about the joy they experienced reading his works.

This was supposed to be a farewell filled with sorrow.

But the reality was quite the opposite.

There is no such thing as "forever remembering".

There was no mourning.

The mainstream comments were almost endless curses and insults.

"I would feel sorry for other authors who have died, but for this one, I can only wish him well."

"Good and evil will eventually be rewarded. BYD's books with 10,000 subscriptions are cut off, and the books are rescheduled. In more than ten years since its debut, it has cut off more than a dozen books, and not a single one has been completed normally."

"Not long ago, he was arguing with readers on Bilibili, saying that those who criticized him were idiots, and now he's dead. It just goes to show what karma is all about."

"Alas, it is indeed good that he is dead, but the only pity is that the Phoenix Clan may never publish a fourth volume."

"Don't worry, even if he were alive, he wouldn't be able to write a fourth volume, and given his skill level when he was alive, it would be garbage anyway."

"It's not like he didn't write the fourth volume. Didn't he write it repeatedly, delete it, and rewrite it two or three times? Every time he wrote a pile of crap and then took it back to start from scratch."

"He had run out of ideas, and it's too late for him to die now."

"That's true. If he had died of illness after finishing the third volume of Phoenix Clan, he would have been considered a contemporary Cao Xueqin. But he had to die now."

"The Venus de Milo with the missing arms."

It seems unbelievable that a web novelist who was a part of the memories of almost a generation would receive such a reputation after his death.

However, anyone who knows what he has done over the years will not be surprised at all why he has this reputation.

As the creator of popular serialized novels, his popularity and public opinion were directly proportional when he first debuted.

He is a gifted and brilliant author.

Readers believe he is destined to create a masterpiece that will go down in history, and his works are so popular that it is only a matter of time.

However, things soon took a turn for the better.

In 2012, after the peak of his popularity with the third volume of "Phoenix Clan" ended, "Renci" suddenly announced that he "needed a period of rest and reflection to carry out subsequent creations" and suspended the serialization of "Phoenix Clan".

At first, readers didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

After all, good works naturally require time to polish.

As a result, this wait lasted for nearly 5 years.

During this period, the first three volumes of "Phoenix Clan" were adapted into comics and anime. Although the quality was terrible, they achieved great commercial success thanks to the fans' nostalgia.

He, on the other hand, has written quite a few other novels and started many other projects.

The results weren't too bad, and most of them had at least 10,000 subscribers on the Jidian Chinese website.

But without exception, he cut them all out, usually with the simple reason that he 'didn't want to write anymore'.

At this point, readers had begun to have some reservations about his character as an author, but they were still able to tolerate it.

After all, the fourth volume of Phoenix Clan hasn't been released yet.

The Phoenix Clan represents everyone's greatest expectation of 'benevolence' and their last remaining thought.

No matter how many books he ruins, as long as he occasionally posts something like "The fourth volume of Phoenix Clan is currently researching and creating content," people can tolerate it.

But as the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

The much-anticipated fourth volume of "Phoenix Clan" turned out to be nothing more than a laughable farce after a five-year wait.

Excessive and meaningless textual descriptions.

The plot development is ambiguous, ruins character development, and is unacceptable to the audience.

Compared to the first three volumes, which are classic in both plot and writing, the fourth volume of "Phoenix Clan" is a complete disaster that even the phrase "a dog's tail sequel" cannot adequately describe it.

From this point on, his reputation for kindness plummeted.

The criticisms of Volume 5 of "Phoenix Clan" are a reckoning with his incomplete book streak over the past five years and a denigration of his recent creative state.
All the pent-up dissatisfaction from readers and fans erupted at this moment.

A series of negative comments followed, causing his various social media accounts to be flooded with criticism.

Under immense public pressure, Renci had no choice but to announce that the fourth volume of "Phoenix Clan" would be rewritten. And then, this rewriting process took several more years.

During this period, he continued to create many new works, but almost without exception, they were either left unfinished or discontinued.

Not only did the quality of the new work decline sharply, but the promised rewrite of the fourth volume of "Phoenix Clan" was still unsatisfactory, leading to a second and third rewrite.

The original work has never had a satisfying sequel, but related IP licensing and adaptations have been making waves with fans.

Over time, readers' resentment towards him grew day by day.

In this situation, he also has a particular fondness for arguing with readers and colleagues.

He once publicly declared online that all the books written by his peers were garbage, while his own books were art, saying that others could not become popular by writing about the same topics, but he could.

The strong always seek to humiliate the weak.

If he had said this during his creative peak, many fans might have defended him.

However, in today's world, it would inevitably be questioned and ridiculed.

Faced with readers' questions, he responded by constantly engaging in online debates with everyone on social media platforms.

In the process, many interesting stories were revealed.

"So what if I cut up a book? People will still read it. Even if you write 300 million words, you're still a flop."

"You say my writing gets worse and worse, so how come every book I write consistently gets tens of thousands of subscriptions?"

"My novels are adapted into comics, animations, games, and TV series, while you are nothing. Only by going up against me here is your only chance to be on equal footing with me."

In the eyes of most readers, he is an extremely arrogant and conceited author whose creative output is declining and whose character is also despicable.

He's a genius who doesn't write books properly but spends his days online debating popular classics.

He's a villain that everyone used to like, but now everyone wishes he were dead.

And so he died.

Instead of blessings and remembrance, they received curses and insults.

However, even for an author who is always making outrageous statements, has a penchant for cutting off books, and is utterly devoid of integrity, such a malicious comment section seems to have crossed a line.

Some people say, "Even if he was outrageous in life, at least he should have some decency after he dies."

But some people say that "even the merciful person himself did not say he had any objections."

Yes, what objection could he possibly have?

After a person dies, they cannot speak and can only be judged by the world.

And this is the evaluation he received after his death.

Two days later, in an ordinary apartment in Tokyo, Japan, across the ocean.

A girl in pajamas was lying lazily on her bed in her room, taking small bites of potato chips with one hand.

With his other hand he held the phone, staring intently at the content on the screen.

However, what she was looking at was not in Japanese, but in Chinese.

And it just so happens to be the news that reads: "Shocking! Famous online novelist 'Renci' dies suddenly at home late at night!"

The girl's fingers swiped incessantly, quickly searching for information in the comments section below the news article.

As she watched, the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

Even the potato chips I was holding suddenly didn't taste so good.

In the end, looking at the line that "even Mercy himself didn't say he had any objections," she could only grit her teeth and sigh:
"Indeed, I have no objection."

"Because I have returned from hell."

That's right, the petite and cute Japanese girl in front of you, with a slightly sullen expression, is actually the reincarnated "Kin-Ci" herself.

Or to be more precise, her current name is "Umehara Chiya".

She was actually quite astonished when she first transmigrated here.

She didn't know why she suddenly died, nor did she know why she suddenly turned into a young girl.

The current developments are completely unexpected and inexplicable to her.

After spending more than a day and finally managing to integrate the body's memories and understand the current situation, and recovering from the dizziness that had rendered him unable to move...
The first thing she did was tentatively search for information about her past life on her phone.

Then, she got so angry at the comments section that she fainted.

What angered her most was not that she was dead.

It wasn't that I was the one who got scolded.

After all, she was used to being scolded.

What really upset her was that she was insulted but couldn't talk back.

"Kindness" is dead.

Therefore, it is only natural that I cannot confront these people who dislike me with a "merciful" stance.

The girl gritted her teeth and rolled around on the bed several times with her phone in hand, wishing she could transform into a crocodile and give these trolls a death roll.

but
Before that, she has other troublesome things to deal with right now.

after all
"I am no longer Gao Yexing."

She got up, looked at her pretty and lovely self in the mirror, and sighed with mixed feelings.

(End of this chapter)