[Complete] What do you do when you accidentally transmigrate into a cultivation novel as the cannon-fodder sidekick of the villainous Boss, envy the male lead but can’t take his place?
Zhang Junren, who spent years slaving away at his company, says, “Being the villain works too, as long as it doesn’t stop me from reaching the top!”
Unable to argue with him, the System pulls out a book titled The Villain Boss’s Guide to Self-Cultivation and slowly hands it over. “This is a secret manual. I don’t share it with just anyone.”
He opens it and reads:
1. Set yourself a lofty ambition, like destroying heaven and earth.
2. Practice a laugh that’s uniquely your own.
3. Get yourself a flashy hairstyle.
4. Make sure the male lead stays alive.
5. Look after the male lead as he grows.
…
n. During the final battle, spout grandiose nonsense with a fatal flaw in it. When the male lead starts lecturing you, listen patiently and don’t attack until he’s finished.
Zhang Junren closes the book. “…Can I fake my death and escape while there’s still time?”
The System says, “Too late. The male lead is looking at you funny.”
What should you do if you accidentally fail your tribulation and are reborn as a lowly slave in the Yin household at sixteen?
After decades of cultivation have gone to waste, Heaven’s Chosen, Linghu Xun, isn’t in the best of moods.
Wait… Something seems different this time.
A nobody who was supposed to die by his arrow not only survived, but became the Demon Lord? And he’s gorgeous, too?
And he treats Linghu Xun well?
And he even secretly helps him, then refuses to admit it?
Linghu Xun says nothing, simply watching him crack jokes and shamelessly stick around. He laughs coldly to himself.
…Later, he thinks this must be what it means to trade sincerity for sincerity.
Until one day, the other man’s knife plunges into his chest.
* The original novel’s reborn, black-hearted top x the transmigrated book character’s dark-to-pure, peerlessly beautiful bottom
* This novel switched to a paid chapter model on 2025-04-08. Chapters from Chapter 20 onward are paid. Thank you, dear readers, for your support!
Cover art by @Medea
My next danmei novel will be The Supreme Immortal. Please add it to your reading list!
When the Nine Revolutions Pill is complete, the supreme immortal treads the clouds beneath a warm blue sky.
He had once been only one step away from that goal.
Li Mingshu was a genius, yet even up to his death, people mocked him as a foolish show-off.
Even his kindest senior brother, Changhe, had only ever pitied him.
“Mingshu, don’t misunderstand. I don’t feel that way about you.”
“Of course I’m on your side, but how can a stubborn stone be carved into fine jade? No matter how hard you try, it’ll only become a slightly prettier stone.”
Changhe reached out with long fingers and wiped away the tear beneath his eye, his voice full of pity.
“The Heavenly Dao is like the moon, beyond the reach of mortals.”
“But it’s all right. No matter how hopeless you are, your senior brother will protect you.”
After he died, the cultivation method he’d left behind, once scorned, became a peerless art that everyone sought to read. People all lamented his loss
No. There was nothing to lament.
Li Mingshu looked coldly at the shining road to immortality stretching at his feet, then turned and entered the cycle of reincarnation.
*
A hundred years later, he was Guang Mofeng. By chance, he entered an immortal sect again, only to slack off, nap, and coast through life.
But someone wouldn’t let him.
The new senior brother, Su Zhi, was frivolous, flirtatious, arrogant, and lazy, yet he was more relentless in pushing Guang Mofeng to cultivate than anyone else.
Guang Mofeng found him annoying, avoided him, and clashed with him at every turn.
Guang Mofeng thought he would live out the rest of his life in peace, until his former-life martial arts were exposed at the immortal sects’ grand assembly, leaving everyone stunned.
Changhe’s dark eyes looked straight at him from across the crowd.
No one noticed that he nearly crushed his teacup.
That night, rain fell through the fog. Changhe had drunk too much and stopped Guang Mofeng under the covered walkway, probing him with questions and inviting him to join his school.
Before Guang Mofeng could make sense of what he was saying, someone behind him draped an arm over his shoulders.
Su Zhi, dressed in flowing white, was as elegant as a jade tree on a jeweled terrace. He leaned close to Guang Mofeng, intimate beyond measure.
“Immortal, there’s something you don’t know. A Feng and I are in love, and we’re used to being together wherever we go.”
“Wherever he goes, I’ll go too. Whether to heaven or the ends of the earth, I only want to stay with him, in life and in death.”
“I ask that you grant us your blessing.”
At the time, Guang Mofeng thought he was only joking around to get him out of trouble.
He never imagined that every word he’d taken for a joke was written in blood and spoken from the heart.
*
Su Zhi was once a demonic cultivator’s spy, a traitorous lackey who sowed discord among the immortal sects with endless schemes, and the most wicked demonic cultivator in the world.
He was also the world’s biggest fool: the man who eventually gave up everything, even his cultivation and his life, to help someone become the supreme immortal.
# A story about a bright moon who was killed simply for hanging high in the sky, and who was reborn after dying with a false accusation upon him.
# A disillusioned immortal-sect bottom, a moon high in the sky x a demonic-path top whom the whole world mistrusts but who truly loves him, his current partner x a noble, radiant senior brother who turned to hatred through love, his former partner
# A sea of bitter love and hate. May they meet again soon.
# Happy ending
Theme: Persevere through every setback and forge yourself through hardship. Even ordinary people can welcome spring.
Congratulations on the completion! I really like the author's writing style, which is delicate and bright. I like it very much. But I can also feel that there are too many things that I want to cram into this book, haha. One is that the copy is too long, and the other is that the progress of the main line cp is a bit slow. The shaping of Zhang Jun and Linghu Xun is complete, but there is a lack of a sense of collision in the cp in the early stage? I often can't help but click on it and be attracted by the writing, and then I feel a little distracted orz when I read it. Originally, the title was intended to be a bloody love story, but I was fed a serious drama, haha. Anyway, I'm honored to see my wife's finished work.
This is the first time I read something written on JJ that is so painful [scared]
Okay, a fire is burning. This wave of resistance is the collusion of the "immortal" sect. The disciples can't distinguish between right and wrong, and they can't tell the difference between immortals and demons. Those who are filled with evil energy are actually kind, and the sand people with immortal energy leave no traces. Jewelry has tattoos on its body.
Little male protagonist, take charge!
Hiss, it's hard to say. After seeing the rebirth for the first time, I felt that my life was worse than before the rebirth.
In this divine calamity... The ones who died the most were "common people" [covering face, laughing and crying] But Xuan is really unlucky
I really hate those irresponsible parents, I hate them for giving birth to a child so casually, and I hate them for blaming their own troubles on their children.
It's so well written, you are a god! !
Su Ling, after killing so many people, I still feel sorry for him. He really can't save me.
The writing is very good, and the ending is hilarious. I was so sleepy that I skipped reading. I will finish [Joker] slowly in a few days. Come on! I feel like the sense of CP between the protagonists can still be polished, but if it really doesn't work, it's okay to sell brotherhood without CP []
Congratulations on the completion! I really like the author's writing style, which is delicate and bright. I like it very much. But I can also feel that there are too many things that I want to cram into this book, haha. One is that the copy is too long, and the other is that the progress of the main line cp is a bit slow. The shaping of Zhang Jun and Linghu Xun is complete, but there is a lack of a sense of collision in the cp in the early stage? I often can't help but click on it and be attracted by the writing, and then I feel a little distracted orz when I read it. Originally, the title was intended to be a bloody love story, but I was fed a serious drama, haha. Anyway, I'm honored to see my wife's finished work.
This is the first time I read something written on JJ that is so painful [scared]
Okay, a fire is burning. This wave of resistance is the collusion of the "immortal" sect. The disciples can't distinguish between right and wrong, and they can't tell the difference between immortals and demons. Those who are filled with evil energy are actually kind, and the sand people with immortal energy leave no traces. Jewelry has tattoos on its body.
Little male protagonist, take charge!
Hiss, it's hard to say. After seeing the rebirth for the first time, I felt that my life was worse than before the rebirth.
In this divine calamity... The ones who died the most were "common people" [covering face, laughing and crying] But Xuan is really unlucky
I really hate those irresponsible parents, I hate them for giving birth to a child so casually, and I hate them for blaming their own troubles on their children.
It's so well written, you are a god! !
Su Ling, after killing so many people, I still feel sorry for him. He really can't save me.
The writing is very good, and the ending is hilarious. I was so sleepy that I skipped reading. I will finish [Joker] slowly in a few days. Come on! I feel like the sense of CP between the protagonists can still be polished, but if it really doesn't work, it's okay to sell brotherhood without CP []