[Scheming, brooding, wife-watching villainous top vs. sunny, cheerful, good-for-nothing bottom]
Love at first sight: My wife is someone I raised myself.
On the first day after he transmigrates into a book, before Xie Yan’s System can even come online, he locks eyes at close range with Wang Gou, the villainous boss who has just slaughtered his entire family.
During those three frozen seconds, Xie Yan nearly faints. Wang Gou, however, finds him amusing and carries him back to Tianmen Sect.
Xie Yan spends fifteen years living in constant fear, serving his lord as if he were a tiger. At long last, the System, which had been playing dead, comes online, only to hit him with another shock.
[Mission: Kill villainous boss Wang Gou.]
Xie Yan: Me, a cannon-fodder nobody, and you want me to take out the strongest villain alone?
System: ...
A villain still has to be killed. It doesn’t matter who does it.
Xie Yan has a good plan: latch onto the male and female leads, then get someone else to do the dirty work. Perfect!
Besides, after leaving Tianmen Sect, Xie Yan discovers there are plenty of powerful people to lean on.
He can get by just fine by befriending any old Xie Wuwang, a character who never even appeared in the book.
If he could find a few more allies like that, finishing the mission would be a cinch.
Except this Xie Wuwang always reminds him of some dark demon...
The first time Wang Gou saw Xie Yan, he glimpsed another complete soul in those innocent eyes. He took him back to Tianmen Sect and watched him grow more and more like that soul, day by day.
Weak, useless, timid, afraid of trouble, and good for nothing but sweet talk...
If someone like that left Tianmen Sect for even one day, the brutal cultivation world would swallow him whole.
He was someone Wang Gou had raised, after all. He couldn’t just watch him die.
That was what Wang Gou thought as he fed him the “Heart-Bonding Pill.”
He had never considered that the pill meant:
One heart,
One life.
