The Ninth Abandoned One

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

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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?

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

If you're reading this, you've made it through the first 19 chapters of The Ninth Abandoned One.


I want to be honest with you for a moment.


The beginning of this story is slow. Deliberately slow. Gu Chen needed to be broken before he could rise. He needed to be abandoned again and again so that when he finally stands, you understand the weight of every step.


But I also know that slow isn't what everyone signs up for.


From Chapter 20 forward, the pace changes.


The foundation is laid. The voices are awake. The clans are moving. And Gu Chen is done being abandoned—he's about to start choosing.


If you've stuck with him this far, thank you. You're the reason this story keeps going.


If you're just starting and wondering when the action hits—trust me. It's coming. And when it does, those first 19 chapters will hit differently.


The Ninth Abandoned One is a tragedy with the pacing of a power fantasy.


Author's Note