After My Rebirth, I Just Want to be a Salted Fish

 by diāo diāo zi

Year: 2021

Genre: BL, cooking, rebirth, food, culinary, short, business, family issues, set in a novel, 

Novel Status in Country of Origin: 42 Chapters (Complete)

Translator: Addis

Editor:  Karai

~~~~Brought to you by ExR~~~~

SUMMARY:

Li Sinian has been fighting with his brother all his life, with the family fortune, his parents’ attention, and… the one he loves dearly but who does not love him.

Fighting over and over, only to realize in the end that the clown was himself.

Because his brother did nothing to get everything he wanted, while he did everything to end up with nothing good.

Only on the day of his death did he realize that the world he was living in was a novel with a million fans, and his brother was the main character with a million fans, while he was the villainous male counterpart who set up the main character.

Li Sinian smiled bitterly: no wonder…

Li Sinian died, but opened his eyes again the very next moment after losing consciousness.

He was reborn, reborn to the year he just graduated from college, the year when the family property battle just started, the year when all the tragedies had not happened.

Thinking about the end of his previous life, Li Sinian decided to stay away from the right and wrong places, hide far away, and preferably never cross paths with the Li family and everything in it again in his life.

So…

In the study, Father Li angrily threw the papers on the floor, pointed at Li Sinian and said, “You bastard, get out of my sight! From today onwards, you will go to live in the old house in the countryside, and you will not come back without my permission!”

Li Sinian’s head nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and the excitement in his eyes was like rays of light, “Yes, Dad!”

Father Li, who thought Li Sinian would be disgruntled, “???”

Li Sinian pulled his luggage in from outside the house, “Everything is packed, I’m going to the airport now to book a flight!”

Father Li, “？？？？？”

Chapter 1: Rebirth

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Li Sinian died of stomach cancer at the age of thirty-two, and until his death, he wondered: Why? Why was he the better one, but everyone preferred his brother, Li Wenxing?

Later, he learned that it was because the world he lived in was a novel with millions of fans. His brother, Li Wenxing, was the protagonist of this novel, and he was just a malicious supporting character to set up the true beauty of the protagonist. Now those previous grievances make sense. 

Why when Li Wenxing came to this world, he stole all the care of their parents; why the teachers and classmates prefer Li Wenxing when they were in school; why he studied better, won scholarships every year, and managed the affairs of the company better, but his mother and father wanted to give the company to Li Wenxing to inherit, even though he won several orders before graduating from college, and Li Wenxing was useless; why it was obvious that he met Lin Yuan first, but as soon as Li Wenxing appeared, Lin Yuan was so enchanted that he was confused and disoriented and could not even remember who he was.

He spent his whole life struggling with the question of why. Now he understood that there was no reason, the world just revolved around Li Wenxing, so it was only logical that everyone should like him. What used to make him most angry was Li Wenxing’s indifferent attitude.

He had been fighting with Li Wenxing all his life, but Li Wenxing was dim-witted and did not take his jealousy to heart, but also followed his ass every day calling, brother, brother.

Just like a fist on cotton, it made him angry and his heart ached.

Now he understood. Because Li Wenxing’s persona was the true goodness and beauty of the silly white sweet million fans, so he must be innocent and carefree, he must be malicious and jealous of the male counterpart to the protagonist.

The novel gave him the ending of this vicious male match and was also arranged clearly. He still got everything he wanted, as expected. The inheritance, the marriage with Lin Yuan, he wanted to get it all. But what he gained was not as much as what he lost.

His parents and best friends had all left him, and Lin Yuan was outwardly respectful of him, but in reality he stared at Li Wenxing’s picture every day. And… He finally suffered from stomach cancer from the exhaustion of working day after day.

After knowing that the world was a novel, Li Sinian was relieved. Not only did he feel relieved, he also found it very funny. My God, he was a supporting character, but even tried to steal the main character’s things. Is this not suitable to send a rush to people’s heads?

If he could live again, he must be peaceful and self-conscious, no longer to covet things that do not belong to him, no longer so desperate to fight with the protagonist.

Why, what is the use of talking about this now? He was already dead, and as a supporting character, how would the world give him a chance to start over? Thinking like this, Li Sinian completely lost consciousness.

And then…he opened his eyes.

The bright sunlight came in through the gap of the curtain and hit Li Sinian’s face.

Li Sinian was stung by the sunlight when he opened his eyes, and subconsciously raised his hand to rub his eyes, then rolled his whole body on the bed to get away from the light. After doing this series of actions, Li Sinian found something wrong. With his frail body, he could not do such a flexible movement.

The feeling that something was wrong made Li Sinian come to his senses, and he sat up sharply and took a good look at himself. His hands were white and long, clearly a pair of young hands, completely different from his dead hands like an old man’s; his body was not wearing a hospital gown, but a set of homely pajamas.

Looking around, it was not a cold ward, but his familiar and unfamiliar bedroom; the air was not filled with the smell of disinfectant, but a faint rose incense.

Rebirth.

This word came to Li Sinian’s mind at once.

Although everything in front of him was an indication that he was reborn, his supporting role did not let him be overwhelmed by joy. He got out of bed and went to the bathroom to look in the mirror, which showed him the way he looked in college.

His youth had not yet faded, his face still had a little baby fat, and his face was full of collagen, showing off his health.

Of course, this was not enough evidence to let him be completely sure that he was reborn. He picked up the electronic watch placed on the washroom cabinet.

The time on the screen was not 2032, when he died, but 2021, when he had just graduated from college. He had really been reborn!

Li Sinian ran like a madman to the window and pulled the curtains hard to the sides, large swathes of sunlight scrambled in, filling the room with energy. Li Sinian took a deep breath and the fragrant aroma made his sense of smell come alive. Li Sinian couldn’t help but close his eyes and open his arms.

“Young master, what are you doing?”

The voice of Auntie Chen, the nanny downstairs, came, and Li Sinian opened his eyes, pulling on the railing to talk to her, “I’m… I’m feeling the beauty of life.”

“Huh?” Although Auntie Chen didn’t know why Li Sinian wanted to feel the beauty of life, she was infected by Li Sinian’s smile and smiled along with him, “Young master is very happy today.”

“Yes! I’m very happy!” Li Sinian finished and opened his arms for another deep breath.

Fortunately, he was handsome, otherwise if this virtue was seen, some would think that he was photosynthesizing. After feeling life for about five minutes, Li Sinian also completely digested the miraculous thing of rebirth. His adrenaline lowered and some physical sensations came along with it.

For example, hunger.

Feeling the burning in his stomach, Li Sinian panicked, immediately turned around and left the room and went straight to the kitchen.

The first priority after rebirth he had already thought of, nourishing the body.

In his previous life, he was jealous of Li Wenxing and always thought he could be seen by everyone if he was good enough, so he made it his life goal to surpass Li Wenxing, and his efforts were desperate, his diet and rest were extremely irregular, and he was devoted to his work and studies.

At that time, he only put his achievements first, and as a result, he got stomach cancer.

After experiencing the torture of the disease, Li Sinian was afraid. Money, fame, and achievements could be lost, but a healthy body only comes once in a lifetime. Anyway, he could not compete with Li Wenxing anyway, so why fight for it? The most important thing was to take good care of his body. A long life was more important than anything else.

Li Sinian woke up at 9:30, breakfast had been withdrawn, and lunch was not yet prepared. He couldn’t help but feel chagrin.

No breakfast today, no, I have to eat it tomorrow.

Auntie Zhang, the nanny in charge of food and drink, saw him coming down and asked, “Is the young master up? Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?”

Auntie Zhang just casually asked, she knew that the young master was a workaholic, busy, could go a day without water and two days without eating, certainly would not waste time to eat at work.

Who knows that today Li Sinian said, “I want to eat. What is there to eat now?”

Auntie Zhang was slightly shocked, then she reacted and replied, “There is the hen soup boiled from yesterday. Does the young master want to use the soup to cook some noodles to eat?”

Li Sinian thought for a moment that chicken soup was good, but it might be a bit greasy for the first meal in the morning, so he asked, “Is there any congee?”

“No.” Auntie Zhang said, “Would the young master like some? I can cook it now.”

With that she was about to turn around.

“Wait a minute.” Li Sinian called out to her, “You go ahead, I’ll cook it myself.”

It was now 2021, and he had the impression that something rather big was going to happen this year. He was too eager to prove himself, so he negotiated with a partner and traded the company’s secrets for the other party’s orders, but ended up falling into a trap, losing the company’s secrets and the orders, resulting in a large loss of money for the company.

Father was very angry, in order to punish him, let him go to the countryside to reflect. He lived in the countryside for half a year, during which he not only did not have any contact with work, but also did not even have a nanny around.

During that time he had been improving himself and simply did not want to waste time on such trivial things as cooking, so he ate a whole half year of take-out noodles, which was very unhealthy.

In a new life, he was not going to do something stupid like before, for something that wouldn’t even belong to him.

But to be honest, to leave the Li family very completely and to break clean with the Li family’s people, it would be best to have his father kick him out. Because in his previous life, his father had revealed countless times that he wanted the heir of the family to be Li Wenxing, and that it would be better for him, a capable minister, to spend his life without ambition and pulling out everything to assist Li Wenxing.

So if he himself wanted to go live outside, his father would most likely not agree, and even if he agreed, he may still forcefully call him back later. So, the best way was to let his ‘relegation to the countryside’ happen again.

Then this time, he would not come back as desperately as he did in his previous life, he would live a free and easy life in the countryside.

The relegation to the countryside was in June, one month from now. In other words, in another month, he would be living alone. His cooking skills were average, and he didn’t know much about healthy meals. For the sake of his health plan, he felt the need to quickly improve his cooking skills within this month.

Auntie Zhang thought she had heard wrong, “You, what did you say? You want to cook your own porridge?”

The workaholic was willing to spend time on such trivial matters as cooking. Has the sun come from the west?

“Yes, I’ll cook it myself, you go ahead and do what you need to.” Li Sinian said and went into the kitchen. He had downloaded several healthy recipe apps on his phone, and the ones he had downloaded were the ones with paid membership in order to be reliable.The food may not be good for the stomach, but it was certainly not bad.

The rice porridge was relatively simple, Li Sinian also did not check the recipe in too much detail, just look at the ratio, and then started panning rice before putting it in the pot to cook.

In order to eat his brunch quickly, he used a pressure cooker and put the water and rice into the pot in a 5:1 ratio. After the pot came out, he sprinkled a handful of goji berries into it and smothered it for a while.

Half an hour later, Li Sinian served the steaming millet congee. The millet was soft and melt-in-your-mouth, with the unique sweetness of goji berry, not too greasy and not too unpleasant to drink.

Li Sinian looked up after the first bite and heard a noise at the door, he looked towards the door and saw a furry head peeking in.

It was Li Wenxing.

No, not only Li Wenxing, but also Lin Yuan, the husband he forced to get married to him in his previous life. Li Sinian was reborn only an hour ago, and before he could face the person he had hated all his life, the other appeared. He also brought his former lover along with him.

He thought he would be more or less sad, but he wasn’t. In fact, he didn’t even have any mood swings, he felt that those two people at the door didn’t look as good as the golden millet porridge in his bowl.

Lin Yuan saw Li Sinian and looked embarrassed.

Before meeting Li Wenxing, he and Li Sinian were ambiguous for a long time, only last month had it become completely clear: he likes Li Wenxing.

Although there was no one right or wrong in this kind of relationship, with Li Wenxing together with Li Sinian, he still felt a little embarrassed. He was afraid that Li Sinian would look for Li Wenxing to trouble him. But what Lin Yuan didn’t expect was that Li Sinian actually lowered his head and continued to drink his porridge before he even showed his embarrassed expression.

Li Wenxing entered the room with Lin Yuan and ran up to Li Sinian with a shout, asking with great surprise, “Brother, why didn’t you go to the office today?”

Li Sinian looked at him, “I got up late.”

Li Wenxing was even more shocked, “Brother, you can get up late?

It was reasonable to say that, at this age, he worked harder than anyone else and would not be late to get up, but maybe it was because he was reborn, but he didn’t get up until nine o’clock today.

Without waiting for Li Sinian’s answer, Li Wenxing asked, “Brother, what are you eating? Is it millet congee? It smells so good.”

When it came to food, Li Sinian was interested, and his attitude was obviously much warmer. “It’s millet porridge, do you want to eat it?” He smiled and said, “Coarse grains are good for the stomach and the body.”

 

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