I Stole the Tragic Hero's Script

[My next novel, I Choose a Carefree Life of Cultivation Despite My Immortality, is now available for advance reservations. The blurb is below. If you’re interested, come take a look~] Lu Zhuo is an esper who grows stronger by absorbing pain. Any torment inflicted on him turns into a pleasurable delight. Then he is selected by the Male Lead Rescue System, which has mistaken him for someone else, and sent to play a cannon-fodder character whose clan is wiped out, so he can save the male lead from turning evil. System: Hello, dear Host. Our mission is to save the male lead from turning evil. If we can’t set him back on the right path, he’ll destroy the entire world. Lu Zhuo: Let it be destroyed. I’m not saving him. System: ...The System recommends taking the [White Moonlight Route]: take a blade for the male lead, suffer in his place, become his salvation in the darkness and the only light in his life. The process might be a little unpleasant, but the System has a pain-blocking feature that can spare you the pain. Lu Zhuo: Now that you mention it, I’m wide awake. It turned out that the person he had to save was the male lead of a story full of angst. His fate was utterly tragic: he suffered both physically and emotionally, was ultimately betrayed by those closest to him, fell into darkness, and destroyed the world. Seeing all the scenes in the plot where the male lead suffered minor and serious injuries, lost consciousness, and came close to death, Lu Zhuo silently swallowed. So it’s a corruption arc? Leave it to me! · Ji Fengwu had a miserable life. As a boy, his own mother sold him to the Blood Prison, where he was drained of blood and had his marrow refined as ingredients for pills. He endured suffering and torment beyond measure. But on the day it all began, someone broke in and took the fatal blood spike meant for him. “Don’t be afraid.” The other person’s voice was so gentle, like something out of a dream. “From now on, I’ll help you through every hardship...” He wasn’t afraid anymore, because he had found his light. · Legend has it that a benevolent beast called the Zhuolu deer often bears the suffering of all living things. Even when reduced to ashes, it stands silently, without so much as a whimper. Only Lu Zhuo knows that the Zhuolu deer isn’t silent because it can’t speak. It’s because he’s afraid that if he lets himself react, he’ll die of embarrassment in public... P.S.: 1. Lu Zhuo is the bottom, Ji Fengwu is the top, and they have an age gap, with the top younger. 2. Lu Zhuo’s ability means he isn’t afraid of pain. In fact, he finds it especially pleasurable, so he’s particularly eager to experience Ji Fengwu’s plot, and his fate. 3. The top has memories of a past life, but they appear in his dreams. All he can remember is the suffering he’s about to endure. Outwardly gentle, inwardly dark and obsessive top X masochistic, nonhuman powerhouse bottom Also known as I Took the Beatings You Were Destined to Get, I Took the Path to Your Demonic Transformation and Left You Nowhere to Go, Three Years and Three More Years, and I’m Almost the Demon Venerable, and My Beloved Is Trying to Get Himself Killed Every Day. [Please add my next novel, I Choose a Carefree Life of Cultivation Despite My Immortality, to your reading list! Click the author's profile to find it!] Xu Feiguang transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a menial disciple of the declining Jiushan Sect. His lifespan is fixed at the moment he transmigrated. He is immortal, with an endless lifespan. But in the cultivation world, lifespans are short and the path to immortality is hard to find. Within, the great sects scheme against one another, fighting over opportunities for advancement. Without, monstrous beasts and demons lurk, ready to devour anyone at any moment. As a pitiful little cultivator with shallow cultivation and no powerful backers, Xu Feiguang decides he must keep his head down. He won’t leave seclusion until he becomes a powerhouse! Ancient secret realms, sect tournaments, battles between righteous and demonic factions, contests for immortal artifacts... None of it has anything to do with me. I’d rather farm, fish, and tend to flowers and plants, then cultivate my way to immortality in peace. Yet a thousand years later, Xu Feiguang discovers that the farmland he tended has become an ancient secret realm, the grass carp he raised have transformed into golden dragons, and the flowers and plants he cared for have become the future kings of the demon race. And now they want to repay him. P.S.: 1. A slow-paced, long-form cultivation story about gaining immortality by keeping a low profile. The protagonist is immortal and leisurely farms his way to becoming an immortal. 2. The protagonist is the bottom and has a love interest. The top is the one who wants to repay him, but his true form isn’t actually a flower or a plant. 3. Updated daily at nine each evening. Theme: Saving and redeeming one another.