Stop Me! I Want to Change Majors!

Xie Bishang was a cultivation-world big shot who worked himself to the bone every day. One day, he died while undergoing tribulation.

Then he transmigrated.

The good news: it was another cultivation continent.

The bad news: this cultivation world seemed to be all kinds of wrong.

Here, you had to take exams to choose your sect and major, with admission based on scores and a single round of applications.

Xie Bishang: I don't get it. Don't stop me from cultivating and ascending to immortality!

He took the cultivation world's once-in-a-century grand exam and, without meaning to, came in first.

When he opened his eyes again, disciples and elders from all the sects were crouched outside his thatched cottage, holding Immortal-Binding Cords and laying down spirit-binding formations as they shouted, "First come, first served!"

Xie Bishang: ...

In the end, the Six Realms Enforcement Bureau had to intervene before things calmed down.

Xie Bishang skimmed through over a thousand sects and hundreds of "majors" in the cultivation world.

With a grand wave of his hand, he chose the Heartless Path at Xuanxiao Sect.

On the day he enrolled, he arrived on his flying sword and took three strikes from the Heartless Path elder at the sect gates. His white robes fluttered amid gilded clouds and mist, his slightly upturned phoenix eyes filled with proud detachment.

Beautiful, cool, powerful, like frost and snow beneath the first faint light of dawn.

The Heartless Path elder, eyes practically glowing, immediately posted an announcement in the courtyard group chat:

Lock the Heartless Courtyard gates! Especially keep those lechers from the Dual Cultivation Courtyard out. Not a single one gets in!

Disciple A: Got it!

Disciple B: Got it. Rose.jpg

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Deep in the night, silence enveloped Xie Bishang's residence as he devoted himself to drawing talismans.

Three knocks sounded against the window frame.

Xie Bishang gripped his sword, drawing it halfway from its sheath. His beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.

The window was pushed open, and a flash of red vaulted neatly inside.

The newcomer had red hair tied in a high ponytail and pure silver bracers cinching his sleeves at the wrists. He wore a smiling expression, a fine young man brimming with confidence.

But when he opened his mouth, he said, "Beauty, want to cultivate together?"

Xie Bishang: ...

After a night of fighting, he learned that the lecher's name was Feng Changliu. He was the top senior disciple of the neighboring Dual Cultivation Courtyard, and the latest sensation at Xuanxiao Sect.

The next day, Feng Changliu took the initiative to apologize at the new students' ceremony and made the head of the Dual Cultivation Courtyard give him a jade slip for remedial ideological instruction.

Feng Changliu explained, "A fortune-teller said I'm destined to suffer a romantic tribulation."

The disciples: So?

Feng Changliu: I'm returning to the sect to start a sweet campus romance with him.

The Dual Cultivation Courtyard disciples: YES!!!! Seal clapping.jpg

The Heartless Path disciples: Don't you dare come over!! (Even if you throw money at us... fine, that works.) P.S. Junior Brother Xie is training in the snowy mountains today.

After pursuing him to no avail time and again, Feng Changliu refused to sit around and wait. He switched to the Heartless Path, determined to chase his darling junior brother!

At the courtyard's tournament, Feng Changliu dressed like a peacock and made eyes at Xie Bishang, winking and flirting from across the room.

Xie Bishang: ...

My eyes hurt so much.

Change majors... I have to change majors!!!

Xie Bishang, top student of the Heartless Path, dove headfirst into the Spirit Sword Courtyard and became a sword cultivator. He had barely enjoyed a few peaceful days when Feng Changliu showed up again. "Beauty, want to cultivate together?"

Xie Bishang: ...

After completing the Spirit Sword Courtyard's curriculum, Xie Bishang switched to the Formation and Talisman Courtyard with top marks.

Xie Bishang sat cross-legged on his bed, meditating in peace, when Feng Changliu climbed through the window, a roguish smile on his lips. "Beauty, want to cultivate together?"

Xie Bishang: ...

He runs, Feng Changliu chases. He changes majors, Feng Changliu follows. Feng Changliu will pursue him even if he changes majors ten thousand times.

Xuanxiao Sect Confession Wall:

1. Looking to meet this handsome guy: Who is this handsome guy in white? He's so gorgeous I'm stunned. Is he even real? Posting anonymously.

2. Confession Wall, a message for the Dual Cultivation Sect: Shameless lecher, who exactly dragged our junior brother from the Spirit Sword Courtyard away to hit his year-end KPIs? Smile.jpg

3. This is shocking: I heard Junior Brother Xie has changed majors three times... Is this what it means to be a cultivation prodigy...?

4. Xuanxiao Sect genius: @Xie Bishang, buddy, come to the Xuanxiao sparring grounds and fight me!!!!

Feng Changliu, after following Beauty Xie through three major changes: Bro, send me your location. I'll let you experience the bite force of Beauty Xie's number one puppy.

A peerless beauty of cool elegance, unrivaled in strength, with a constitution that brings bloodshed VS a clingy, devoted admirer, the founder of absurdist comedy, Xie Bishang's number one puppy, a seemingly sweet but secretly calculating top

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Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads are each other's first and only, in every sense. Happy ending.

2. An unconventional, absurdist story with some internet memes. Not a traditional cultivation novel.

3. The setting is still a cultivation world, but with modern elements such as spirit-net and food delivery. Think an ancient-style cultivation university.

Please check out the upcoming novel "The Sickly Beauty Held Hostage in an Enemy Kingdom" too. Please add it to your collection, mwah mwah!

Chu Huaian, the legitimate son of Marquis Dingyuan of Great Sui, is as bright as the moon and as refined as jade. Yet after the spring imperial exams, he is ambushed on a busy street and falls into a coma for an entire year.

In a long dream, he sees the Crown Prince, whom he had regarded as his closest friend, ascend the throne. The new emperor accuses Chu Huaian's father, who was sent on a distant campaign, of treason and collusion with the enemy, exiles the entire Chu clan to the frontier, then issues an imperial decree stripping Chu Huaian of his title as top palace graduate and forcing him into the palace as a consort.

His elder brother dies in a pool of blood on a flower-strewn street trying to save him. For decades afterward, Great Sui is ravaged by constant warfare, with suffering everywhere, until Northern Yan's iron cavalry breaches the palace gates. At last, Chu Huaian falls asleep forever on a snowy night.

When he wakes from the dream, Chu Huaian ignores his illness. With his dark hair hanging loose, he walks into the palace through the falling snow. His delicate features cannot conceal his frailty, yet even with his sickly, fragile body, his beauty is peerless.

He kneels before the emperor's sickbed and begs for peace talks. At that time, war rages along the borders, Great Sui is under attack from both sides, the court is in turmoil, and Northern Yan's armies are at the gates. Everyone is on edge.

No one knows what happened inside Xuanzheng Hall, but the next day an imperial decree is issued, sending the legitimate son of Marquis Dingyuan to Northern Yan as a hostage. The imminent crisis is resolved at once.

*

Yan Suiyuan, emperor of Northern Yan, is ruthless and a master strategist. He drives Great Sui's army into retreat, taking dozens of cities. Everyone thinks he will refuse Great Sui's offer of peace, but he accepts...

The hostage arrives at the royal court, bringing gold, silver, jade, and crops from the Central Plains. Yan Suiyuan holds the gift list and sits regally on his throne. Looking down at the handsome young man kneeling perfectly straight below, he is suddenly overcome by a cruel impulse. With a mocking curl of his lips, he says, "Is Great Sui sending us a hostage, or marrying off a prince?"

Chu Huaian can no longer make out what the man is saying. The taste of blood rises in his throat, and he closes his eyes and falls straight to the floor.

Yan Suiyuan: ...Did I anger him to death?

*

The little hostage from Great Sui is beautiful, frail, clever, and kind. The desert winds and sand can take half a person's life, but Yan Suiyuan is not a particularly attentive man, and he keeps the boy in a half-dead state.

Even his subordinates, who have always hated people from Great Sui, send memorials condemning him.

Yan Suiyuan: ...

The emperor, usually so ruthless and decisive, begins learning how to care for someone. He makes the long nights less cold and the desert winds less fierce. Until he has given away his whole heart, he holds the other's hand and swears a solemn oath to the Eternal Heaven: he will make the spring breeze gentle, keep the land and rivers safe, and be with him for all eternity.

After five years as a hostage, Chu Huaian becomes Yan Suiyuan's most special person, and the people of Northern Yan even revere him as a divine son.

But on the night before Northern Yan's iron cavalry breaches the palace gates of Great Sui, Chu Huaian, already poisoned, calmly burns everything connected to himself. He changes into the white robes he wore when he first arrived in Northern Yan, finds a secluded place, and falls asleep forever...

He dies.

At least, that is what everyone in the northern frontier believes. They all grieve and mourn him.

But Yan Suiyuan refuses to believe it.

His cavalry scours the desert for one person alone. Even the highest snowy mountains in the northern frontier have heard Yan Suiyuan's prayers.

After that, the lone column of smoke rising from the desert can no longer hear the voice of the one he loves.

After three years of sleepless nights and lonely vigils, the emperor sitting alone on his throne is little more than an empty shell. Numb, he guards the royal court that no longer has Chu Huaian, and also the place Chu Huaian once called home... Huainan.

Later, when floods strike Huainan, Yan Suiyuan travels incognito to investigate. Outside Chunfeng Hall, crowded with sick people, he catches sight of a handsome, graceful figure. His heart, long since stopped beating, suddenly aches.

He stubbornly steps forward, trying to catch a sleeve, but the person moves quickly, avoiding him as if he were a scourge.

Yan Suiyuan's eyes redden, and his voice turns hoarse. "Are you still going to leave...?"

A sweet, gently unhinged beauty who knows how to draw people in VS an older, dominant, calculating, utterly unhinged top

Theme: Find a way to live, even when all seems lost.