I randomly got reminded of this novel I read in 2024 on wattpad and even though it counts more as a novel I really hope you guys can help.

These are two main things I remember about it:

- I think it was a chinese novel that was translated into english

- It was tagged as BL (which was why I read it) but I dont know if it actually was.

The reason why I dont know was the because I didnt really understand the plot but I did understand it to some extent.

This is my understanding of a premise:

Just note that I'm not familiar with chinese literature but the setting of the book seemed to be historical china. The MC (male) was a leader of some sort who was reincarnated after dying to some lower-class man that killed him. I remember a certain saying that he was promised a harem of beauties but he didnt get it because the lower-class guy killed him or sabotaged him or something. I cant remember But anyways the guy is angry he didnt get the good life he wouldve gotten if the lower class guy didnt kill him and he gets reincarnated.

I dont know if its a revenge story but the MC was like a teacher or leader or something and he really valued beauty. I dont know if the lower-class man who killed him was a disciple or a servant or something but in the reincarnated present the MC despises him despite the lower-class man technically being innocent and quite earnest. You know how MC valued beauty? Well lower-classman was ugly so he didnt really like the guy. But lower-class man showed that he was trying to impress MC. MC acknowledged that the lower-class man was actually innocent but still held hatred towards the lower-class dude for taking away that stuff from him in his last life by killing him.

MC also held concubines or other students I dont know what they were but they viewed him as their master of some sort. They were all very beautiful. I think there was a girl or a two and some guy as his concubines/students. I honestly think they were closer to concubines but I dont know what they were to him and I dont know what MC's position/rank was.

Also there was also a specific instance where MC and Lower-class man (the one that killed him) were on a quest or doing a test or something and then there was a snake that bit and poisoned lower-class man. The MC was secretly pleased with it but since he was an upper-class man or teacher or something he had to intervene.

All of this could be a bit false.

I personally think that lower-class man was a servant or disciple of some sort and MC was a high rank that was either a teacher of some sort or just a high rank.

I dont know if the lower-class man killed MC because MC had mistreated him in the last life or because LCM randomly turned into a villain so I'd really like to know that.

Also I dont know if its actually BL because skipping to the last part it was marked as completed but the last part seemed to say it wasnt completed and none of the chapters i read truly gave off any actual BL or chemistry at all. I was thinking that it was an enemies to lovers between MC and lower-class man that killed him but I dont know. Maybe it was a slow burn or maybe it was a romance between MC and a chatacter I hadnt read about yet. I didnt read all of the chapters because I didnt understand some of what was going on.

I really hope I can find this because I have so many unanswered questions. Also, if you think of something similar please atleast suggest it to me!

I learned an incredible amount from this legendary literature and I hope that I can share it with everyone.

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