The Ninth Abandoned One

"They abandoned me nine times. The tenth time, I abandoned the universe."

---

Abandoned at birth. Abandoned by his foster parents. Abandoned by his first love. By age twenty, Gu Chen has been cast aside eight more times—by masters, sects, blood, lovers, and finally his own children.

But each abandonment unlocks something within him.

A past-life memory. A cultivation breakthrough. A fragment of the hidden Ninth Law: Return—the power to bring back what was lost.

Now, with eight voices living inside his head—an orphan, a beggar, a soldier, a monk, a king, a god, a demon, and a dying universe—Gu Chen must descend into the Void itself to reclaim his original self.

And waiting in the shadows: Su Wan, the woman who loved him in his first life. She has watched him suffer for ten thousand years, bound by a deal she made with the eight immortal clans. She can never interfere. She can only watch.

But when Gu Chen emerges from the Void, holding the power to Return anything—or destroy everything—she will finally have to choose.

What do you Return? And what do you destroy?

---

A 60-year cultivation epic across two worlds, eight past lives, nine abandonments, and one impossible choice.

If you've made it this far — thank you.


Twenty one chapters. Four abandonments. One boy who learned that being left behind was only the beginning.


You've watched Gu Chen survive his birth, his foster parents, his first love, and his first master. You've seen eight voices awaken in his mind, felt the crack in his core, and glimpsed the woman who has waited ten thousand years to touch him.


And now, in Chapter 21, something impossible happened.


A visitor from one hundred eras in the future. A split soul of Gu Chen himself. A gift that changes everything.


That future Gu Chen didn't come to fight. He came to warn.


He spent one hundred eras walking the abandonment path — the same path our Gu Chen is on now. And at the end of it, he realized: there was always another way.


The essence he left behind is not power for battle. It's power for choosing. A seed planted in our Gu Chen's soul. A chance to see the path that was always hidden behind the pain.


· The voices are resting — but not gone.


· Su Wan watches from the shadows, unaware of what just transpired.


· And Gu Chen... Gu Chen has a choice to make.


Does he keep walking the abandonment path?


Arc 1 was slow. Deliberate. A foundation built stone by stone.


Arc 2 will be faster. Stronger. The game changes now.


If you've been waiting for the pace to pick up — it starts here.


If you've been waiting for Gu Chen to stop surviving and start choosing — turn the page.


That future self said something important:


"Find a better future, younger self. One I could not."


This story has four possible endings. I've already written them.


Chapter 22 - Author's Note : End of Arc 1