[Transmigrates into a book, cheat-wielding, scheming-tea younger disciple top × righteous-to-the-core, single-mindedly devoted-to-the-Dao senior disciple bottom]
Also known as My Harem-Protagonist Senior Brother
When Chen Yang rescued a boy while descending the mountain after destroying his thirtieth demon crystal, his junior disciple became the second thing he cared about most, after sword practice.
For this junior, he halted a beast tide in the forest, overturned the old rules of the immortal sect, and even endured tribulation lightning twice on his account. He became the senior brother every sect elder held up as an example to others.
His cultivation was exceptional, he was a fierce demon slayer, he made money for the sect, and he could even look after his youngest junior disciple on his own.
But as he raised him, Chen Yang began to think there was something wrong with his junior.
He insisted on holding hands during meditation, demanded hugs during sword practice, and, once they were back in their cabin at night, wanted to discuss dual cultivation with him.
Fortunately, the sect was harmonious, and Chen Yang didn't cultivate the ruthless Dao. As long as his junior didn't go astray, he was willing to indulge him, even if he didn't quite understand.
That is, until three hundred years later, when Chen Yang reached the Void Refining stage and experienced his first inner demon.
In the illusion, the world was torn apart, and his junior disciple vanished into the sky.
So he really hadn't learned a thing.
Chen Yang pushed open the wooden door and stared expressionlessly at his junior, who was putting on an act outside, then drew his sword.
"Want to practice swordsmanship with your senior brother?"
Nangong Fu had read a harem-protagonist novel.
In the book, everyone knew the protagonist, Chen Yang. The light of his Zhaoye Sword reflected his chivalrous heart and unparalleled swordsmanship. His future was limitless.
Though tossed about like a duckweed, he still rose to great heights, slew dragons in the deepest seas, and struck down birds on sheer cliffs. Wherever his sword flashed, demons and monsters were nearly wiped out.
The world admired and praised him, but could only watch from afar.
Nangong Fu scoffed at this unrealistic character.
There was no such thing as a true savior who wanted nothing for himself.
So when he died, he readily agreed to the System's offer: kill the protagonist in exchange for his own life. He became Chen Yang's junior disciple.
It wasn't until their sect grew from a small, obscure school into a place all cultivators yearned to join that he belatedly realized...
He might have truly become unable to live without his senior brother.
Chen Yang's sword-callused hand was warm, and the back that carried him home was as steady as a pine. So he grew even greedier, wanting to coax Chen Yang into kissing him, to find out whether his senior brother's lips, pressed tight during meditation, were just as soft.
Chen Yang really was that good, a senior brother who belonged to him alone.
At last, he admitted that, like everyone else, he had fallen in love with his senior brother. He no longer wanted to make a deal with the System.
But things didn't go as he wished.
Reading guide:
1. Younger top and stronger-than-strong pairing. The second half of the blurb is the junior disciple's memories of his previous life.
2. At its core, this is a wish-fulfillment story about falling in love while fighting monsters and leveling up. The senior brother is a growing harem-protagonist type, but he doesn't inherit his previous life's cultivation or most of his memories, so he has to start over. His real strength lies in an unwavering core: nothing and no one can change what he strives for.
3. The youngest junior has a System. In his previous life, he truly loved his senior brother Xiao Yang, but he also had selfish motives. He's neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and he'll grow. He only pretends to be a delicate tea-drinking schemer to soften his senior brother. He's not actually weak; he's ruthless and even more calculating. This has nothing to do with a weak top.
4. Attacks against either the senior or junior disciple in any form are not welcome, so readers with very extreme character preferences should take note.
Theme: Never forget your original intentions
