The First Chancellor Is a Sickly Beauty [Transmigration]

See my profile for the prequel, A Thousand Lanterns in the Night Rain Across the Land, and the sequel, The Mad Villain in My Story Wants to Win Me Over. (^ ^) Xiao Yu transmigrates into a book as Xiao Yan, its most powerful minister, a villain and a ruthless warlord from a time of chaos. Though frail and chronically ill, he is peerlessly elegant and beautiful. Sadly, he is cruel, ambitious, and responsible for persecuting loyal officials and bringing ruin to the country. The puppet emperor Wei Xuan, whom he raised to power, grows up beneath the shadow of his tyranny to become a paranoid, sinister, dark emperor. In the end, Wei Xuan strikes back and has Xiao Yan dismembered alive! After transmigrating, Xiao Yan only wants to stay alive. He does his utmost to support the young Wei Xuan and cares for him in every way, all in the hope that the emperor won't turn evil! Unfortunately, the original owner's scandalous past is so spectacular that even after years of hard work, Xiao Yan can't clear his name. He's still branded a treacherous minister. That's bad enough, but why is he also blamed for Wei Xuan refusing to take consorts? How is that his fault? Why are even his old enemies all trying to win him over? Do they think he's gone soft and easy to bully? Great Scholar Xie: No matter how far the mountains and rivers stretch, I'll always wait for you. Great Khan of the Northern Di: I'll lead the steppe cavalry south to conquer the Central Plains and claim my queen! Stone-Faced God of War: You there, let's settle this in a sparring match. Wei Xuan: Evil Emperor transformation accelerating... Xiao Yan, sensing danger: Your Majesty, I beg leave to retire to the countryside on account of illness... Wei Xuan, fully transformed, smiling in a deeply unsettling way: All under heaven belongs to the king. Where do you think you'll run this time, my dear minister? [Reading Guide] 1. The love interest is the original character. Rebirth and transmigration. 2. This story is part of a shared universe spanning three thousand worlds and contains fantasy elements. 3. Plot-driven overall. Wei Xuan is central to the main plot, while Wei Xiling is central to the romance. See the pinned review for details. My next story will be a fantasy BL novel, The Mad Villain in My Story Wants to Win Me Over. It takes place in the modern world, a thousand years after this story. Synopsis As a veteran writer of melodramatic romance, Xie Younan created the most compelling mad villain in his new novel, Eternal Realm: the demon lord Yin Feiye. Born in a frozen hell and raised amid the fires of war, Yin Feiye endured countless bloody battles to become the demon lord feared throughout the three realms. Sinister and ruthless, he is ambitious, yet obsessively in love with the heroine, Ye Wei. He slaughters the three realms for her, and ultimately meets his end in madness! On the night the novel was completed, readers wept buckets over the tragic end of the beautiful, strong, yet doomed villain. Xie Younan, however, hammered at his keyboard and cheered, “That was so satisfying! What a thrilling ending for the villain!” Before the words were out of his mouth, a bolt of lightning split the night outside. As Xie Younan went downstairs to buy a late-night snack, a bone-chilling cold suddenly crept up the back of his neck. Then a deep male voice rang out overhead through the rain. “My lord, I've found you.” He spun around. A man dressed in black stepped out of thin air, a demonic flame flickering between his brows. The temperature plunged. In the bitterly cold night, the only warmth came from the man's breath against his ear. He smiled ominously. “Have you thought about how you'll repay me?” Xie Younan: ! Is there still time to run? The mad villain he'd written had actually come into the real world to kill him! At that moment, mountains crumbled, tsunamis surged, and thunder crashed overhead. Yin Feiye wiped the blood from his lips and struggled to raise his shattered sword. He refused to submit to fate. He would break free of these chains and this prison! With the last of his strength, he used his remaining demonic energy to tear open space. But he never expected the master who had controlled his entire life, the source of that irresistible power, to be a frail human young man. Looking closer, he saw that the peach-blossom eyes beneath their feigned meekness were slightly upturned, hiding a naturally unruly spirit. Demon Lord: This could be interesting... Forced to flee, Xie Younan soon discovers that things are getting increasingly ridiculous. #Wasn't the demon lord supposed to hunt him down for revenge? Wrapped in his little bunny blanket, Yin Feiye sprawls lazily across half the bed. “Who's that guy next door who keeps pestering you? Want me to kill him?” #Wasn't the demon lord supposed to be obsessed with the heroine? Impatiently, Yin Feiye deletes all the bonus chapters about himself and Ye Wei with a single tap. “You think adding romance scenes between me and Ye Wei will make me spare you?” His face dark with displeasure, he advances on Xie Younan. “I once wanted to kill you and tear apart the story you wrote, my lord.” “But now...” He suddenly leans down, his strong fingers tenderly tracing the lines of the other's face. Xie Younan holds his breath in terror, only to hear the demon lord say, “I've realized that instead of killing my master...” Dark red demonic markings quietly crawl up the pale side of Yin Feiye's neck. His eyes roil with hidden currents. “I'd rather defy him.” Xie Younan: “Help! I never added a BL romance to the story!” (A paranoid, ruthless demon lord seme x a gentle-seeming, secretly sly and seductive uke) [Reading Guide] ★ One-on-one, both characters' first times. Control and rebellion, creation and blowback. ★ Equally matched leads, identities revealed, enemies-to-lovers, and mutual salvation. The seme is genuinely unhinged at first, then falls hard and gets a taste of his own medicine. High-voltage identity reveal for the uke. ★ When a fictional character gains a mind of his own: “Thanks for asking. I'm busy getting revenge on my author and falling in love.” Theme: After half a lifetime on the battlefield, through wind and snow, he returns still a boy, to the land of peach blossoms.