After Awakening, the Dragon-Proud Hero Clings to Me and Wants to Marry Me

Set in an imaginary world, unrelated to reality. Please don't draw parallels with real life.

A collection of stories, one couple per story, one-on-one pairings. The gong and shou generally dote on each other. Readers with extreme character preferences, please stay away...

Story One: The Cultivation World

[Talkative, warmhearted gong Chang Le x serious shou Shen Changqing]

After Chang Le's confession to the arrogant male lead failed, he was expelled from his sect. He promptly joined the Harmony Sect, which had the worst reputation in the region, and became the original heroine's martial uncle.

He didn't want to end up as cannon fodder, so he decided to reform the Harmony Sect.

The heroine only cried and carried on because she wasn't strong enough yet. She thought tears could solve anything. Under Chang Le's tutelage, she eventually became a sobbing little monster who could cry and punch eight ribs to pieces in a single blow.

Chang Le: "Keep it up, darling niece. Only your enemies want you to be weak. Men can't be relied on, love can go bad, and only muscles are real."

His second martial nephew was determined to find a wife. Fourteen years after joining the sect, he was still single and still hadn't found a cultivation partner to practice dual cultivation with. Under Chang Le's guidance, he went ahead and swept the stoic senior brother off his feet.

Chang Le: "Turns out nobody ever graduates from the Heartless Path. Wait, why did you end up with a man? Didn't Master say there weren't cultivators like you?"

Then there was his third martial niece, who was hopelessly love-struck and getting physically and emotionally abused by a scumbag. Under Chang Le's guidance, she finally stopped being a lovesick fool.

Chang Le: "I told you not to be lovesick, not to throw your brain away! Why did you lock him up? Couldn't you find another man to like?"

That one doesn't count. There's also his honest and proper fourth martial niece, who, at a young age, swore to spend her life with just one person. Under Chang Le's leadership, she excels in both academics and athletics, and dates several people at once.

Before her more than forty relationships could blow up in her face, the arrogant male lead came knocking.

Shen Changqing: "Chang Le, I accept your confession."

Chang Le: "Wait, accept what? Your reaction time is way too slow!"

Story Two: Modern Society

Gentle, fatherly gong x gloomy, willful shou

Eight-year age gap, with the gong older.

The shou starts dating after coming of age and pursues the gong. The shou suffers a little. Readers with extreme character preferences, proceed with caution.

Li Dabao awakens and realizes he's the cannon-fodder villain in an arrogant male lead novel.

Before the wealthy woman who had once supported him died, she gave him a hundred million yuan, entrusted him with temporarily running her company, and asked him to care for her sixteen-year-old son until he came of age. But Li Dabao became obsessed with her ten-billion-yuan fortune and started abusing the male lead.

After the male lead returns and seizes control, Li Dabao is the first person he takes down, and he dies a horrible death.

Li Dabao: Isn't a reliable job plus a hundred million yuan enough? There's no point chasing what isn't yours.

Looking at the male lead, who's only sixteen, grew up without a father, just lost his mother, and has greedy relatives eyeing his inheritance, Li Dabao decides to treat him better. He might as well be the boy's dad. That way, maybe he'll survive, and the male lead will remember the fatherly love he gave him and reward him with a few perks.

When the male lead is bullied at school, Li Dabao stands up for him.

When his greedy relatives come demanding money, Li Dabao sends them packing.

When there are parasites in the company, Li Dabao clears every obstacle in the boy's path.

At last, the male lead comes of age, gets into college, and is ready to take over the company. Li Dabao is preparing to bow out, but the male lead corners him.

Gu "Arrogant Male Lead" Xingzhou, as an adult: "Dabao, let's get married."

Li Dabao: "Wait, what do you mean, married? How did your filial affection turn into something else?"

Because he grew up without a father, Gu Xingzhou was bullied from a young age. He always wished he had a father.

When he was sixteen, his mother brought home a young man and said he was going to be his new dad.

The moment Gu Xingzhou saw him, he suddenly wasn't so sure he wanted a dad anymore.

They never married. His mother's illness worsened, and she passed away.

Everyone told him that the man had come to steal his inheritance and that he should kick him out at once.

But Gu Xingzhou clearly heard the man gently tell him, "Once you come of age, you'll get everything. After all, you're the protagonist of this world."

Gu Xingzhou secretly vowed: I'll get everything, including you.

Story Three: Insectoid World

Set in an imaginary world, unrelated to reality. Please don't draw parallels with real life.

[Flexible, cheerful male insect Larserf x gloomy, stubborn female insect Qiaoyatu]

Larserf is a notorious scumbag among the insectoids. He marries Qiaoyatu, the most powerful female soldier in the insectoid world, but after their wedding, he constantly torments and abuses him.

In the end, Qiaoyatu can take no more. He joins forces with other abused female insects to fight back, becomes the new ruler of the insectoid world, and Larserf is the first insect sacrificed.

He is devoured by the lowest-class insects.

When Larserf is bound to the System, he's just about to whip his newlywed female spouse. The abuse hasn't begun yet.

Larserf, who transmigrated here from Blue Star, immediately drops to his knees and hands Qiaoyatu the whip.

He was a good person to begin with. It was only after transmigrating here that he gradually became like everyone else.

He also learns that Qiaoyatu doesn't love him at all, but only sees him as a stand-in for his first love. After Larserf dies, Qiaoyatu will get back together with his first love and live happily ever after.

To avoid his own gruesome fate, he starts trying to become an excellent male spouse.

Qiaoyatu works hard, so Larserf takes care of all the housework.

Qiaoyatu wants to overthrow the current insect emperor, so Larserf helps him plan and scheme.

When Qiaoyatu goes into heat and needs soothing, Larserf immediately bundles up his first love and sends him to Qiaoyatu's bed, proving himself a useless male spouse.

Just as Larserf packs his things and prepares to run away, Qiaoyatu kicks open his door and glares at him with bloodshot eyes. "Do you hate me that much? You even sent that disgusting insect to my bed?"

Wait, which one of us hates the other? Wasn't I just a stand-in?

Story Four: Interstellar

[Unambitious gong Qin Sihuai x driven shou Qi Chenxiao]

Qin Sihuai and Qi Chenxiao are foils at the Federation's First Military Academy.

One is rich and greedy, the other poor but hardworking.

Qi Chenxiao outshines him by far in both talent and ability.

No one remembers second place in this world. In the end, Qin Sihuai turns evil. He doesn't die fighting the beastmen, but instead takes a banned drug, suffers a backlash, and explodes.

After his death, his fiancee takes the billions he left behind and promptly runs into another man's arms.

Meanwhile, Qi Chenxiao uses his talent and hard work to become the highest-ranking commander in the interstellar world.

So after awakening, Qin Sihuai chooses to slack off and latch onto Qi Chenxiao, slacking off while clinging to him. He's already rich, so why work hard?

He begins funding the impoverished Qi Chenxiao, becoming his biggest angel investor.

He gives him star coins to develop new mechs and even helps fend off his unwanted suitors. No one is allowed to get in the way of Qi Chenxiao's future.

Everyone across the stars knows Qi Chenxiao is the apple of his eye, and that he's extremely possessive, won't let him talk to anyone, and even dumped his fiancee for him.

Qin Sihuai: "Stop making things up!"

Qi Chenxiao: "I agree."

Wait, what are you agreeing to?

Story Five: Ancient Times

[Slick-talking gong x calculating, ruthless shou]

Theme: Happiness is within your reach.