Chapter 1: Transcendence

This is a world that values appearance. If you are ugly and poor, you might not even have the right to reproduce.

And if you are exceptionally ugly, you won't have a girlfriend even if you are rich.

And Shen Lang is a man so ugly that he doesn't even have the right to reproduce!

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Of course, Shen Lang wasn't born ugly!

He used to be incredibly handsome. From elementary school, girls had secret crushes on him and pursued him passionately. But he, being serious and proper, only wanted to focus on his studies. He arrogantly handed over the love letters from girls to the teacher, shared the chocolates girls gave him with the boys in his dorm, and threw the 999 paper cranes girls folded for him into the trash.

Perhaps because so many girls liked Shen Lang from a young age, his parents also became reserved and pretentious, repeatedly educating him to stay away from those girls, telling him that his task was to study well.

This situation continued until he was 18, when he was a freshman at the best medical university in the country. He was still a virgin, had never kissed a girl, and had never even held a girl's hand.

One day, perhaps he accidentally saw a pure love action movie on his roommate's laptop, or perhaps he accidentally saw a female teacher squat down in a very short skirt. He developed and awakened, filled with a desire for the opposite sex, and decided to fall in love.

For him, falling in love should have been the easiest thing. Such a handsome and excellent man only needed to pick the prettiest girl and ask her to be his girlfriend.

Yes, choose the prettiest one.

He was only 18, and it was still hard for him to recognize interesting souls, so of course, he could only choose the prettiest appearance and the hottest body.

As for the possibility of being rejected? Impossible, Shen Lang was so handsome! Boys who are handsome to an almost supernatural degree can't be rejected by girls; even Xiao S, who has a husband, almost lost control when she saw Kim Chengwu.

But at that moment, a terrible accident happened.

While doing an experiment, a bottle exploded, splashing concentrated sulfuric acid on his face and half of his chest.

His once handsome face was destroyed. He turned from an angel into a devil, so ugly that no one dared to look at him a second time, uglier than Quasimodo from "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," a face that could almost give you nightmares.

Shen Lang went from being loved by everyone to being feared by everyone. Almost no girl dared to look at his face for more than two seconds.

Thus, he lost his right to mate!

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Mr. Zhao's "Animal World" often says: "Spring has come, and it's mating season again." Watching this program gives the impression that all animals strive their whole lives just to mate. When Shen Lang was young, he scoffed at this.

But as he grew up, he realized that this was the truth of nature. Not only animals, but humans too!

Shen Lang had already lost his handsome appearance. To regain his right to mate, he chose to become a noble soul.

After graduating from his master's program, he did not continue to pursue a Ph.D. or stay at the university's affiliated hospital. Instead, he went to the most arduous border region.

Supporting the border for ten years, he saved countless lives and received numerous honors, but no woman liked him.

He felt that what he had done was not enough, not enough to shine brightly.

So, he decided to become even more noble, noble enough to make people forget his ugly and terrifying face. He chose to go to Africa, a war-torn country, and worked in a tent hospital without even an operating room.

He stayed in a war-torn African country for ten years.

He received even more honors, awarded by the United Nations. Every day, he treated patients and performed surgeries.

He became famous both domestically and internationally, a symbol of struggle, sacrifice, and dedication.

His ugly face appeared in many newspapers and magazines. Many women admired him, but no woman liked him. In his forties, he was still alone.

When his parents passed away, he became even more lonely.

He still worked over ten hours a day, saving lives out of habit.

His superiors were very concerned about him. To solve his lifelong problem, they arranged for him to date a beautiful nurse from a poor area. This nurse was very simple and also admired Shen Lang.

In this era, housing prices had skyrocketed, and the allocation of housing was almost impossible, but the organization still provided a house for the nurse's family and found them easy and stable jobs.

The purpose was only one: to let Shen Lang find love.

So, at 45, Shen Lang was finally going to get married!

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A week before the wedding, the beautiful nurse came to Shen Lang, knelt before him, and wept bitterly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really can't do it, I really can't do it, I have nightmares every day!"

Shen Lang looked at her tear-streaked beautiful face, his gaze twitched slightly, and he nodded, saying, "I understand."

The nurse cried even more sadly, sobbing, "But... but..."

Shen Lang said, "I'll tell the leadership that it's my own reason, that I don't want to get married, and it has nothing to do with you."

Then, the nurse left, expressing her gratitude profusely.

The numb Shen Lang then performed surgery for 27 hours straight, like a robot.

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It had been almost 20 years.

Every day, he saved lives and worked tirelessly, almost without rest, like an iron man.

In these 20 years, the surgeries he performed and the people he saved probably exceeded what other doctors could do in over a hundred years.

It was proven that being noble alone does not grant the right to mate. The story in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" is unlikely to happen in real life.

He didn't blame the nurse. Even female lions know to choose a strong male lion to reproduce, let alone humans?

His face, corroded by sulfuric acid, was so ugly and terrifying that he shouldn't scare people. Wanting a woman to love his noble soul and ignore his terrifying face was too much to ask.

Shen Lang meticulously performed a leg suturing surgery for a refugee, without any slack or roughness, even though he was extremely tired.

"Whoosh..."

A whistling sound came from afar, accompanied by the trembling of the air.

Shen Lang clearly knew it was the sound of a bomb, and it was heading straight for his head. But he felt no fear or desire to dodge; instead, he felt a sense of relief and liberation.

"So tired, but it's a bit of a pity to die without ever sleeping with a woman!"

"If I could live again, I promise to live the most comfortable and leisurely life, with everything handed to me, and I won't work so hard anymore."

"If heaven could give me a handsome face again, I promise to use it to seduce the prettiest women!"

Shen Lang made a solemn vow in his heart.

"Boom!"

The bomb landed in the temporary hospital and exploded next to Shen Lang.

Instantly, his body was shattered into pieces, along with the X-ray machine and the laptop nearby.

Then, a vortex of light and shadow appeared in the air, engulfing everything.

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