After Swapping Systems with My Archrival

My next book, "Do Immortal Scions Have to Go to the Countryside, Too?", is coming soon. The blurb is at the end. Please add it to your collection~

[Outwardly cold, secretly passionate sword cultivator X narcissistic, proud beauty from the Joyous Union Sect]

Gu Yanqing, chief disciple of the Joyous Union Sect, has a System that lets him become more beautiful by winning people over.

The more admirers he has, the more beautiful he becomes. And the more beautiful he is, the more admirers he gets, making him a cybernetic perpetual motion machine of the cultivation world.

An accident causes him to swap Systems with his nemesis, Xie Huaique, who has a cultivation System.

Xie Huaique is the chief disciple of the Sword-Seeking Sect and is hailed as a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius in the cultivation world.

The cultivation System forces Gu Yanqing to practice, or else it will make him ugly. The romance System forces Xie Huaique to win over promising targets, or else his cultivation level will fall.

Driven to desperation, the two have no choice but to grit their teeth and work together.

Before they start working together.

Xie Huaique (expressionless): A frivolous libertine.

Gu Yanqing (sneering with disdain): A rock with no sense of romance.

After they start working together.

Xie Huaique (frowning slightly): Why isn't he flirting with me?

Gu Yanqing (gritting his teeth): I've been throwing myself at him this hard. Is he impotent?

One day, a master from the Joyous Union Sect personally steps in to teach them the art of seduction.

Gu Yanqing leans in, lifts a petal from Xie Huaique's shoulder with his lips, then swallows it with a bob of his Adam's apple. His eyes curve into a smile. "Your turn."

Xie Huaique hesitates, then lifts the silky ends of Gu Yanqing's hair into his mouth and chews expressionlessly.

Gu Yanqing rescues the chewed-to-straw ends of his hair from the dog's mouth. "..."

Only later does Gu Yanqing realize that the coolly abstinent, romantically clueless Xie Huaique in his eyes

was nothing more than a fantasy of his own making.

The other man had already been teased to the point of overheating, nearly exploding.

Unfortunately, Gu Yanqing realized it too late. All he could do was accept being taken with tears in his eyes.

[Coming Soon: Do Immortal Scions Have to Go to the Countryside, Too?]

Bai Jue and a group of other useless immortal scions are kicked into the mortal world by their elders, supposedly for "reform."

When he arrives at the household where he is to stay, the pampered young master is stunned.

There are mud walls with drafts coming through, a thin, soot-blackened quilt, and a whole bunch of little kids with runny noses.

Bai Jue circles the village three times before deciding to stay at the home of Chen Sheng, an orphaned boy. There are few people, and it's clean.

He pulls out a pile of sparkling spirit stones and boasts, "Take good care of me, and I'll make it worth your while."

The mortal Chen Sheng says coldly, "Take your worthless rocks and leave."

Bai Jue: "..." Damn it! What a clueless bumpkin!

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After a full day of labor, Chen Sheng returns, ready to rest, only to find a lump in his bed.

He frowns and walks over. But when he lifts the quilt, his hand freezes.

The arrogant young master from earlier is sleeping obediently in his bed, his fair little face flushed pink.

The next day, Chen Sheng unceremoniously pushes the young master clinging to him away. "I only let you sleep here for one night. Leave at once."

The young master sleepily clings to him again, nestling against his chest. "Don't make a fuss."

The same conversation takes place every morning after that.

Bai Jue is very satisfied with his life now.

While the other immortal scions are still getting filthy as they work in the fields, he lounges in a wicker chair Chen Sheng made, waiting for Chen Sheng to come back from hunting and feed him.

With a full stomach and warm clothes, Bai Jue can't help wanting more. Looking at Chen Sheng's handsome, cold face, he can't resist sleeping with him.

Before leaving, he takes out a jade pendant and gives it to Chen Sheng. "Wait for me, okay? I'll bring you to the cultivation world soon."

The pendant is ordinary-looking, almost like something a heartless playboy would buy in bulk and hand out to all his lovers.

Chen Sheng cherishes it as if it were priceless.

But a long, long time passes, and Bai Jue still doesn't come back for him.

Chen Sheng leaves the village where he grew up.

Later, he kills countless people and faces death several times, but survives to become a notorious demonic cultivator.

Through countless sleepless nights, he runs his fingers over the jagged scars all over his body, getting through one long night after another by clinging to his hatred for that man.

Until one day, he accidentally sees that man's face.

On a notice announcing an engagement ceremony.

That night, Chen Sheng bypasses layer upon layer of obstacles and makes his way to the man's bedchamber.

He is just about to speak words of resentment and mockery when he is interrupted.

Bai Jue: "Could you be my lover from a past life? No wonder I've been dreaming about you so much lately."

Bai Jue: "Take me away. It's already been two thousand years in the Immortal Era, and that old geezer still insists on arranging a marriage for me."

Chen Sheng pauses. He quietly slips the spirit-binding lock hidden in his sleeve into his storage bag. A strange smile appears on his pale face. "All right."

Theme: Love can turn enemies into friends.