[Proud, obsessive, overpowered dragon-protagonist seme x cool, traditional, wifely uke]
Jiang Qingyue is famous in Luoshui Town for his beauty, good nature, and good family background. But his spiritual root is damaged, leaving him unable to cultivate.
Jiang's parents betroth him to Ling Zhaoge, a talented but poor young man, hoping the marriage will bring them the resources to restore Jiang Qingyue's spiritual root.
Jiang Qingyue accepts this readily. Since childhood, he's known this is his fate, so he learns to manage a household, keep accounts, and observe proper etiquette, determined not to bring shame on the Jiang family.
But on the day of the betrothal banquet, Jiang's parents publicly break off the engagement because Ling Zhaoge's cultivation has declined, making it impossible for him to enter a major sect.
Jiang Qingyue sees the young man trying to keep his composure, but unable to hide the ruthlessness in his eyes. He thinks that this is no less than an insult to the Ling family, and feels something is wrong.
That very night, flames suddenly rise. The demon clan invades, and the Jiang family is thrown into chaos. Just then, the "stray dog" the Jiangs had looked down on sits calmly atop the courtyard wall, watching their turmoil with a cold smile.
Jiang Qingyue's parents beg Ling Zhaoge to save the Jiang family and take Jiang Qingyue away.
Ling Zhaoge raises an eyebrow, points at Jiang Qingyue, and smiles with amusement.
"Sure. Promise him to me as my wife."
Jiang Qingyue: ?
*
Ling Zhaoge has transmigrated into a book, cast as a minor character.
Before he can even figure out what's going on, he's forced to give three years of cultivation to a crashed System.
One day, three years later, the System finally wakes up and hands him a script. "Host, follow the plot, and you'll be able to return to your original world."
Ling Zhaoge takes one look and laughs.
In the script, he's nothing but a minor character.
A minor character whose wife is stolen by the male lead, who then kills him.
The original book barely mentions this minor character, but spends plenty of time describing his wife as beautiful, slender, and powder-faced.
In short, she's the most beautiful woman in the male lead's harem.
Ling Zhaoge gets curious about what this wife looks like, so during the betrothal banquet he climbs onto the courtyard wall to get a distant look at Jiang Qingyue.
Ling Zhaoge: The description really wasn't exaggerated.
System: That's right.
Ling Zhaoge: That male lead doesn't deserve him. He should be my wife!
System: ?
*
After their wedding, the two move away from Luoshui Town. For a while, Ling Zhaoge feels as if he's living in a dream.
His wife takes care of his clothes when he goes out on missions. He quietly waits for him to come home late. Even in bed, his little wife never refuses him.
Ling Zhaoge likes his wife more and more, but the love in his heart is too hard to say aloud. He only dares to whisper his feelings in a language from another time. When he puts a storage ring on Jiang Qingyue's finger, he silently recites wedding vows in his mind. He pretends not to care in front of him, while secretly searching for a way to restore his wife's spiritual root.
Ling Zhaoge truly wants to live a happy, peaceful life with his wife. But one perfectly ordinary day, his wife discovers that he's transmigrated from another world!
Not only does he insist on a divorce, he even runs away from home!
After finally finding his wife, Ling Zhaoge is terrified he'll run away again, so he simply locks his beautiful wife inside the house.
Then, just two days later, he sees his wife struck through the heart by an arrow fired by the deranged male lead.
Ling Zhaoge goes mad too, ready to kill the male lead, and the System decides it needs to warn him.
System: This world can't exist without the male lead, or it'll collapse.
Ling Zhaoge looks at the pale face in his arms and decides the male lead of this world needs replacing.
Content warnings: The seme falls for the uke at first sight; the uke falls for the seme over time.
The uke is extremely traditional early on. Influenced by his family, all he wants is to marry a good husband and serve him.
After the uke dies, the seme becomes obsessive, with almost no moral compass. He also has little sense of morality early in the story.
The uke really is killed by the original male lead midway through the story, but is resurrected later.
The seme has transmigrated into a book, but has no attachments to his original world and wants to stay here once he's with the uke.
Theme: Love and redemption
