I Bent My Rival Junior Brother and Ascended Together

[Coming soon: After My Disciple Mistook Me for His White Moonlight. See the blurb at the bottom.]

--- Blurb ---

Yu Nanyuan transmigrates into a cultivation novel written for a male audience. His original character is a cannon-fodder male supporting character who foolishly covets the heroine and doubles as a tool for giving the male lead his early golden finger.

At this moment, the male lead has run him through the heart with a sword. He's just one breath away from becoming a cripple, losing his family's jade pendant, and meeting a miserable end.

#You're awake! You're about to die!#

The male lead plays the hero, saving the beauty and upholding justice. He won't stop until he completes the face-slapping routine. The original character's reputation is so bad that even dropping to his knees and repenting won't help. It seems his fate is sealed.

With nowhere left to turn, Yu Nanyuan can only cry out to the "love rival" who's come to watch the show: "I pursued Junior Sister only to get Junior Brother Xuezhou's attention. Everything I did was for him."

Wen Xuezhou, who has just realized the drama has made him part of the story: ???

Yu Nanyuan weeps bitterly: "The dozens of portraits in my cave are all proof of my deep and sincere love for Junior Brother."

Wen Xuezhou retreats again and again. "Don't listen to his nonsense!"

Yu Nanyuan lowers his eyes in sorrow. "Junior Brother loves Junior Sister, yet he refuses to look at my heart."

He lunges forward and grabs the hem of the other's snow-white robe, clinging to it like a drowning man clutching his last lifeline.

Bloody handprints stain the white robe, a shocking sight. Wen Xuezhou's lashes tremble, and he forgets to push him away.

The next second, Yu Nanyuan spits out a mouthful of blood and faints in Wen Xuezhou's arms.

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Rumors spread throughout the sect. Everyone says Yu Nanyuan is deeply in love with Wen Xuezhou. Wen Xuezhou grits his teeth, convinced Yu Nanyuan is still in love with Junior Sister and is only using him as a cover.

Afraid Yu Nanyuan will die and take the truth with him, he visits every day, waiting to catch a clue. Instead, while recovering, Yu Nanyuan paints every day, filling his entire cave with "proof of his infatuation."

When Wen Xuezhou sees who is in the paintings, he is overcome with complicated feelings and flees in a panic.

But running away doesn't work. Yu Nanyuan always manages to appear right beside Wen Xuezhou, wherever he goes.

After many encounters, Wen Xuezhou realizes that this disreputable playboy doesn't seem as beyond saving as the rumors say.

It would be even better if he weren't in love with him... Would it really?

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Yu Nanyuan grows stronger and confirms that he has already changed his destined death. He decides to ask Wen Xuezhou to meet, apologize sincerely, and explain everything.

By coincidence, Wen Xuezhou has the same idea. He intends to tell Yu Nanyuan that they might be in love with each other, their hearts beating as one.

The moon rises above the willow tips, and they meet at dusk. The white-robed young man's ears are red, and his eyes shine with unbelievable clarity.

Yu Nanyuan finally realizes: Is something wrong with Junior Brother?

■Reading notes■

☆ Couple: A scheming, shameless dog-like top (Yu Nanyuan) x a self-deluding, innocent cat-like bottom (Wen Xuezhou)

☆ A slow-burn, ensemble-focused long novel, at least 1.8 million words. Romance and plot are in a 3:7 ratio. The protagonist has an overpowered golden finger.

☆ Fake rivals become lovers. The bottom's feelings for the original novel's heroine go no further than a vague crush and receive little attention.

☆ The top hides things at the beginning to save his own life. He's a bit slow and oblivious, and unintentionally turns the bottom gay.

☆ The misunderstanding in the blurb is cleared up in Chapter 163, and they become a couple in Chapter 166. After that, it's sweet all the way, with no more friction.

☆ My own take on cultivation, with countless original settings. Several story arcs in Volume Two contain Lovecraftian horror elements.

☆ Cultivation levels: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Deity Transformation → Great Ascension → Tribulation Transcendence and Ascension

Please add my next novel, After My Disciple Mistook Me for His White Moonlight, to your collection:

[Former leader of the immortal sect, now happily slacking off x carefree white moonlight master top; second-generation god descends to repay a debt and pursue love x devoted, doomed-to-suffer, cold-faced-but-cute disciple bottom]

Pei Lezhi transmigrates as the cultivation world's greatest genius. Just as he's about to ascend, he discovers he's been acting as someone else's stand-in for five hundred years.

His original character was the reincarnation of a wisp of a celestial god's soul. The day the god's true self awakens is the day this incarnation returns to its original form.

He has spent his entire life vanquishing demons and monsters. Everyone in the world knows his name, yet all his efforts have merely benefited someone else.

His cultivation has been tainted, and the Daoist Master Changle is no longer happy. He personally separates his primordial spirit and cuts ties for good.

The god takes his beloved and ascends back to the celestial realm to report in, while Pei Lezhi, drained of vitality, has only three years left to live.

But he adjusts his outlook quickly: life is short, so enjoy it while you can!

He spends all his savings renovating a luxurious immortal palace and hiring servants by the score. He falls from the immortal sect's leader to a cautionary tale for other cultivators, and has a wonderful time living it up.

But his perfect retirement is disrupted by a new disciple.

This young man's talent surpasses everyone in the Nine Provinces. He's even more astonishing than Pei Lezhi was in his prime.

Such an unparalleled genius, one whom every immortal sect would fight to recruit, comes to this cripple and insists on becoming his disciple.

A quick question reveals that they're old acquaintances. At least, they are to the boy. Pei Lezhi has no memory of him.

What does the god's romantic debt have to do with him?

Pei Lezhi politely suggests that the boy choose another master. But the handsome, sharp-eyed youth's eyes turn red at once, like a puppy that's been abandoned.

"Master, it took me so long to find you. Please don't leave me."

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A jiao is not a dragon, but belongs to the dragon family.

Yuan Yao gains a trace of the Heavenly Emperor's bloodline and becomes a jiao, but he's bullied and left to fend for himself as a child.

When the villagers try to beat the "monster" to death, Daoist Master Changle, traveling through the area, recognizes the young jiao's true form and saves him, shielding him from harm.

Daoist Master Changle gives him a name, treats him, teaches him to read and write, and instructs him in immortal cultivation.

Those were the happiest days of Yuan Yao's life as a jiao.

He owes his savior a debt of gratitude, and intends to repay it tenfold.

But when he returns after transforming into a dragon, he discovers...

His benefactor doesn't remember him.

#Master, I'm really not your white moonlight#

#Wait, you didn't mistake me for someone else?#

Couple: Pei Lezhi (top) x Yuan Yao (bottom)

■Reading notes■

☆ Amnesia and dramatic misunderstandings, with a master taming his puppy. The top is frail at first.

☆ The master is a mischievous man who thinks, "What's this? A disciple? Maybe I'll tease him.jpg"

☆ The disciple is a well-behaved little puppy (jiao) who thinks, "Master! I like you! You're the best!"

☆ My own take on cultivation, with countless original settings. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Deity Transformation → Great Ascension → Tribulation Transcendence and Ascension

Theme: Help yourself and Heaven will help you. Stay positive, strive for self-improvement, and never give up.