I Disguised Myself as the Immortal Venerable's Villainous Male Sidekick

Dark, obsessive, forceful top x gentle, slow-to-catch-on, homophobic bottom.

The homophobic master, leader of the gods, reincarnates and enters the story as a villainous male supporting character to stop his two disciples from destroying the Three Realms over the same man!

Jiang Su is reborn three months before his two disciples, the Demon Venerable and the Immortal Venerable, start three wars between gods and demons to destroy the Three Realms over marrying the same man. And the body of that talentless man is using Jiang Su's superior spiritual root!

In his previous life, Jiang Su was framed by a traitor during the second war between gods and demons. His spiritual root was torn out and his cultivation destroyed. In the end, he had no choice but to abandon the Twelve Heavenly Dao Courts he had founded and flee the battlefield, leaving his enemies in power and his disciples behind. Not long after he went into seclusion, the enemies who had slaughtered the Void Spirit Clan framed him for their crime, and he was reviled by everyone.

He had planned to shut out the world and enjoy a life of quiet solitude among the mountains. He never expected his two disciples, who had gone their separate ways, to pull this stunt!

Jiang Su was so furious he died on the spot...

Reborn with a script that had fallen on his head, Jiang Su reads through its absurd, overwrought love triangle, filled with succession disputes, betrayal by everyone, one misunderstanding piled on another, a groveling pursuit of the wife, forced love, amnesia, a hero saving a beauty, and all manner of ridiculous tropes. His eyebrow twitches, and even his hands are shaking. And on top of that... he learns that only by breaking up the love triangle can he save all living beings!

The stupid book: Your little Immortal Venerable disciple is in a rather serious situation. Go win him over. Bat your eyelashes at him and call him "husband." Once he's devoted to you, you can die and have your soul vanish. I'll take care of everything afterward!

Jiang Su narrows his phoenix eyes. "For the sake of all living beings, I'll do it!"

So he disguises himself as his little disciple's fiancee, taking on the role of the male supporting character who did nothing but evil in his previous life.

But he never expected his flirtatious words to come true. His little disciple falls for him with scorching intensity, as if it had all been planned from the start!

Jiang Su, so thoroughly teased he's practically dead, angrily cries, "What do I do? A single handful of glutinous rice isn't going to solve this!"

The stupid book: Keep pursuing him, keep dancing! If you don't get close to him, where will you earn Affinity Stones? Without Affinity Stones, how will you buy the next chapter? If you miss the plot and your deviation score doesn't reach 60, you can't save the world!

The unfortunate Jiang Su gets angry for a moment. "But I'm hom... Never mind. I'll just be gay, okay?"

Jiang Su is gradually forced into a relationship, and the more it goes on, the more miserable he feels. Eventually, he goes on strike. He's starting to... dislike his little disciple. Nearly driven to depression, he just wants to escape the forced relationship. And he feels that his disciple's love for him is deeply strange! He thinks the plot must have changed completely.

But his disciple's gaze grows even more suspicious.

"Giving up, Master? Or do you want to abandon your disciple and run away again?"

Until one day, Xuanling Sword Venerable, who holds power over the Upper Realm and whose name makes everyone tremble, corners him step by step. With a doting look, he kisses Jiang Su and says, "Naughty master. If we go through the plot, your disciple will only give you a score of 59."

Only then does Jiang Su realize he's been set up! The so-called mission, the Three Realms being destroyed over a man, it was all just a ploy by the disciple he'd abandoned to lure him out of seclusion and force him to become his wife! The Demon Venerable fighting him for a man in his previous life was just one enormous misunderstanding!

Xu Huaiqing separated his master's soul, making the different incarnations of "Jiang Su" fall in love with him, then forced the main soul to submit. He sealed his life-soul inside the ancient artifact Heart-Testing Stone, forcing Jiang Su to accept his true feelings. He used the red thread of fate to bind them tightly together. He diligently built up his spiritual power so he could transfer it to his master when he fainted during dual cultivation, helping him hold on for a few more days...

Whenever Jiang Su held meetings with his souls, who Xu Huaiqing had coaxed to the brink of betraying the main soul, the Spirit Mountain would also hold emergency meetings late into the night to discuss countermeasures.

In the end, Jiang Su, who had always been terrified of homosexuality, starts to hear a voice in his heart.

"Forget it. Let's take him home and hide him."

"Wait... Can I marry him?"

But when he finally admits that he's fallen for his little disciple and turns to accept him, he's subjected to inhuman torment under that obsessive love!

He really is trying to kill me!

[Short Scenes]

1.

Jiang Su returns to the mountain after exorcising demons and falls into deep thought at the sight of the layers of Heavenly Rank, Spirit Rank, and Earth Rank barriers.

He pushes open the door, ignores the mountain of wedding invitations on the table, and glares at Xu Huaiqing. "Are you worried your Demon Venerable senior brother will come beat you to death in the middle of the night? Why did you set up so many barriers?"

Xu Huaiqing doesn't get angry. He simply gets up, silently closes the door, and answers seriously, "To keep Master in."

Jiang Su gets even angrier. "Why keep me in?"

But when the other man starts circulating spiritual energy and corners him, intending to practice dual cultivation, Jiang Su finally understands. This bastard really is stopping him from leaving! That wicked disciple has even put off several days' worth of his duties for him...

2.

On the Qixi Festival, faced with a nasty flirt who dares to pick on Jiang Su and a crowd who think Jiang Su isn't worthy of being the Sword Venerable's spouse, Xu Huaiqing doesn't hesitate to pull Jiang Su close and kiss him.

His homophobic master pushes him away with a sullen look.

Xu Huaiqing cups his master's face and presses their foreheads together, saying coldly, "I'm the one who forced myself on my wife. And there will be more between us: soul testing, soul cultivation, dual cultivation, and even..."

He goes on and on until Jiang Su rises onto his toes and forcefully shuts him up with a kiss.

3.

Today, Jiang Su finally tells his little disciple why he doesn't like him.

"I'm only not homophobic with my master," Jiang Su says firmly.

Xu Huaiqing is silent for a moment, then says with a teasing smile, "Du Yuan? He's one of my split souls. I took him back after the second war between gods and demons."

"But if you like him, my husband, I can let you go inside and play with him for a while."

Sensing the gloomy edge in Xu Huaiqing's words, Jiang Su fearfully takes a few steps back.

"N-no, that's fine..."

Reader's Guide:

1. 1v1, both are devoted only to each other, and a happy ending!

2. Handsome top and beautiful bottom, sweet and angsty in turns.

3. Not mindless, with a bit of an ensemble cast. The fate of the world isn't treated as a joke. A little melodramatic at first, with more comedy later. Lots of unhinged characters. Lighthearted writing. Romance and plot are in a 6:4 ratio.

4. Not a transmigrate-into-a-book story. Includes Chinese-style horror dungeons.

5. The top has an extremely strong one-sided crush! Fasten your seat belt before reading.

6. The story includes forced confinement, infidelity (not by the protagonists), Jiahao, transferring affections, rapid-fire flashing, forced marriage, twisted relationships between supporting characters, flashbacks presented as a script-based game, cross-dressing (a supporting character, purely for laughs, not romantic), the law, split souls... and other offbeat, extremely melodramatic plotlines. Uh... well... proceed with caution if any of that bothers you.

Theme: Hard work pays off