Two straight guys + both transmigrate into a book + straight guys fall for men.
Luo Quetan transmigrates while standing in front of a secondhand bookstall he hasn’t seen in ages, the kind that sells three books for ten yuan. He has just opened a pirated novel titled Burning Sword, Surrendering to Passion when he faints after reading only a few pages.
The cheap ink smell still fills his nostrils.
When he wakes up, he has transmigrated into the novel.
He has even become its protagonist, Song Qianxue, a cool and aloof swordsman who has just fainted on the mountain trail while taking part in the sect’s trial.
Luo Quetan doesn’t want to play someone else or follow the plot. (Mainly because he has no idea what happens later.)
He is determined to make a name for himself in the novel under his own name! He’ll become a cultivation expert and make his name known!
“Congratulations on passing the sect trial. May I ask your name?”
“Luo! Que! Tan!”
Xuan Chen transmigrates too.
It starts when he buys a pirated book and reads 80 percent of it, following the two male leads, Song Qianxue and Xuanyuan Fenzhong, as they cultivate all the way to the Supreme Heaven Realm.
At the most thrilling moment, Xuan Chen reads: The two embraced and kissed each other, as lightly as a dragonfly skimming the water.
“Qianxue, to break through to the Supreme Heaven Realm, we must cultivate dual cultivation.”
Xuan Chen: ?
Wait, aren’t you two brothers???
As he wonders about this, everything goes black. When he opens his eyes again, he too has just passed the sect trial.
Looking at his black clothes and the token at his waist in the mirror,
Xuan Chen realizes he has become the other male lead: Xuanyuan Fenzhong.
He’s straight, isn’t he?
To avoid making out with Song Qianxue, Xuan Chen decides to hide his identity and cultivate in low profile.
“Congratulations on passing the sect trial. May I ask your name?”
“I am Xuan Chen.”
Xuan Chen finds the world of cultivation rather dull. There’s no phone to play with, and cultivation is exhausting. Luckily, there’s a senior apprentice brother in his cohort named Luo Quetan. He’s a nice guy, unlike the other stiff senior brothers. Luo Quetan slacks off with him, watches the excitement with him, and gossips with him.
But it’s strange: after five years, why hasn’t he seen Song Qianxue come up the mountain?
Whatever. Cultivating comes first.
Until one day, by a twist of fate, the two discover that they have both transmigrated into a book.
Luo Quetan: Actually... Junior Brother, to be honest, this body’s name is Song Qianxue.
Xuan Chen: ???
Xuan Chen looks at their life-bound swords tied together, their identical pouches, the enchanted artifacts they have each empowered for one another, and the fact that they’re embracing right now to keep warm. He falls silent.
Theme: True love knows no gender
