I Think I Might've Picked Up a Fake Villain

Yage thought his greatest virtue was keeping calm.

Even when he was hit by a potted lotus and transmigrated in his previous life, Yage only wondered why some lunatic had planted a lotus in a flowerpot.

Even when he later discovered he had become a truly poisonous flower demon, Yage calmly plucked a few poisonous herbs and started munching.

Even when ordinary people came to call him Yage, the karma demon who devoured people without leaving a trace, Yage calmly chewed on a candied fruit.

Even when, after stumbling around for ages, Yage discovered he had transmigrated into a book, and, even worse, arrived a hundred or so years before the plot began, he only made a funny face before deciding to go with the flow.

It wasn't until Yage learned that the boy who had followed him around, and whom he'd been messing with for years, was actually the villainous boss from the book that he finally lost his cool. Thinking back on all the dumb things he'd done over the years, Yage realized that he was the one who had turned the villain dark, step by step!

A-anyway, first I need to calm down and find a time machine!

Content warnings:

① This is a one-on-one story with a male bottom. There will be a secondary couple, and the main couple is Li (Luoyin) x Yage (Xuanshang). The top goes from loyal puppy to loving, mutually antagonistic, stoic clingy type; the bottom is calm, chatty, face-blind, and genuinely hooked on drugs. Mutual pining + negative emotional intelligence = you'll be dying for them to hurry up.

② Neutral evil x chaotic good. Li is good, while Yage turns dark later. Ever since waking up, his sense of right and wrong has been crooked. Readers who can't accept killing, please take note.

③ This isn't orthodox cultivation. It's an everyday, lighthearted, sarcastic story dressed up as cultivation, with romance, leveling up, and dungeon runs. No research, no logic, so don't overthink it.