Reborn as Liu Yanchang: I Won’t Be a Kept Man

Name: Reborn as Liu Yanchang: I Won’t Be a Kept Man
Author: Sleeping to the Rain in the Bamboo Sea

重生刘彦昌，不做软饭王

by Sleeping to the Rain in the Bamboo Sea (竹海听雨眠)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 300k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Eastern Cultivation
Updated: 3mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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The story unfolds at a somewhat slow but deliberate pace, so I hope you’ll read patiently. It won’t disappoint. To me, novels are like wine. I prefer baijiu: the older it gets, the better it tastes. Beer may be easy to drink, but once it’s gone, it’s gone. To each their own.

This is a strange and fantastical world built around The Lotus Lantern, with inspiration drawn from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and The Legend of the White Snake. The protagonist transmigrates and is reborn as Liu Yanchang.

He’s that helpless weakling from The Lotus Lantern, the one who could do nothing but write poems and flirt with women, and in the end relied on his son to split open the mountain and save his mother.

Liu Yanchang looks at his fourteen-year-old status as a young scholar, his mother bedridden with illness, and the medicine shop clerk demanding payment at the door. He takes a deep breath.

“This time, if I rely on a fairy again, I’ll be a dog.”

He’ll pursue an official career, seek the path to immortality, and build up his strength. He’ll make sure the Third Holy Mother doesn’t get trapped beneath Mount Hua, Chenxiang doesn’t grow up without a mother, and the God of Erlang never gets the chance to lord it over him as an uncle.

As for me, I’ll defy heaven and change my fate!

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