A Bard’s Journey to My Home [Western Fantasy]

This novel will be completed on Thursday, November 16, and will go behind the paywall. The locked chapters are 17-91, so readers who have already read them won't need to purchase them again. Thank you for your support so far, and please continue to support me in the future.

A pre-release title: Revive, My Favorite Character. The blurb is at the end. Rolling around and begging you to add it to your favorites!

A Ballad to My Home:

Prince Louis, a member of the royal family of Scoman, a knight commander, and the amnesiac object of everyone's affection, has always believed he is either a minor character or the villain in the love story between Emperor Novend of the enemy nation and his beloved.

He thinks he's the sort of minor character who gets mistaken for a dead lover's replacement, loves without being loved in return, and ends up losing his memory, not even knowing who he is.

He thinks minor characters should focus on their careers, so when Novend comes to him, he firmly rejects the emperor's confession.

But Novend brings him a truth that shocks him: he is Novend's true beloved, the one he has always treasured. They were secretly in love with each other all along.

Louis: "This is a bit of a problem. I've already started focusing on my career, and it's going wonderfully. I don't really want to go back to playing the knight and king in a fairy tale where they live happily ever after. But I can't say I've stopped caring about you, either."

Novend replies gently, "A knight and a king don't have to star in a fairy tale."

"Our story could become a legend passed down through the ages, a ballad sung by wandering poets."

"Whenever people speak of one of us, they will have to speak of the other. We will always be together."

Louis nods. "Lovers whom neither time nor death can part. I like that."

"But I still want to focus on my career. To balance work and love, Your Majesty, my dear enemy, would you marry me to unite our nations?"

Where should I go? Where is paradise? I will sing my way back to you, for you are my home.

A story of mutual pining and rekindled love, full of melodrama, fake scum and fake love rivals.

The scum and the love rival are both fake. Only their love and the melodrama are real.

Both leads undergo personality changes.

Present: Gentle, melancholy, scheming top x flirtatious, scheming bottom

Past: Sunny, outgoing top x gentle, kind bottom

One-on-one romance. One-on-one romance. One-on-one romance.

The top and bottom love only each other, from the past to the future.

A self-indulgent story written for fun. Please check the warnings.

Coming soon: Revive, My Favorite Character

Original title: After I Was Reborn, My Rival's Affection for Me Went Through the Roof

Wen Chumo is reborn.

Only after being reborn does he learn that his world is nothing more than a novel, specifically a powerful transmigration-into-a-book story about two rivals who fall in love.

He is the popular side character who hopelessly loves the original male lead, suffers both physically and emotionally, and eventually dies for him.

Wen Chumo: ...Fine.

Only he knows that it was all a misunderstanding. He isn't in love with the original male lead.

Wen Chumo has no intention of repeating his past mistakes.

Just as Wen Chumo is preparing to escape the original male lead, a young man named Jiang Li transmigrates into his world. Wearing the handsome face of Wen Chumo's "rival" from his previous life, he rushes over to meet him.

Wen Chumo is on high alert.

Jiang Li's eyes light up.

Wen Chumo is about to speak when Jiang Li grabs his hand. "Chumo, I'm your biggest fan!!"

Wen Chumo: ?

Jiang Li: "You're my favorite character! I'm the head of your fan club! I'm your biggest fan!!"

Wen Chumo: "Thank you, thank you. I'm so honored... Would you like an autograph?"

After successfully winning over his favorite character, Jiang Li receives a banner from Wen Chumo: "Transmigrating into a book to save someone is a boundless good deed."

Signed: Your beloved.

Little hearts suddenly pop up above Jiang Li's head.

Wen Chumo: ...Why do you look like a border collie wagging its tail?

Jiang Li: "Do you want money? Fame? A company? Help? I'll give you anything!"

Wen Chumo: "Thank you, I'm touched, but right now you really look like an ancient emperor who can't do anything without his favorite concubine."

Jiang Li: "That's nothing. I've got a whole room full of your merch. I set it all up for your birthday every year, and I run 24-hour events for every holiday. Now that I've transmigrated into a book and met you in person, I'll devote my whole life to you!"

Wen Chumo: ...Is that what being a superfan is? I don't need any of that, though.

He watches Jiang Li's nonexistent ears droop as he turns listless.

Wen Chumo smiles. "But there's something else I want that only you can give me."

Jiang Li: "What? Tell me!"

Wen Chumo: "I want you to be my boyfriend."

Jiang Li: "!!! I can do that!!"

"Puppy" describes his personality, not his species. The top is human!

Sunny, cheerful, secretly scheming puppy top (Jiang Li) x gentle, carefree, occasionally snarky, scheming beauty bottom (Wen Chumo)

Theme: Keep striving and never give up.