Sitting in a Row with A Jiang

Here's the advance notice for my next book, The System Makes Me Follow the Plot, a transmigration cultivation novel with a male lead who is the top. I'm drafting it now, and I'll start posting when I have 100,000 words ready.

Blurb:

Bad news: Jiang Yunyi fell off a rooftop.

Good news: He survived and transmigrated into a book as a minor cultivator.

Bad news: He transmigrated as the cannon-fodder master who lusts after the male lead and wants to turn him into a cultivation vessel, only to be effortlessly killed in the end...

Good news: He's bound to a system. As long as he follows the script, he can stay alive and reap rewards.

This is going to be so easy! But later, Jiang Yunyi discovers that the System can be completely unreliable...

Plot point 1: At the disciple-selection ceremony, the protagonist leads the pack by a wide margin and takes first place.

Reality: Tang Song stumbles along in a sorry state and takes first place... from the bottom.

Plot point 2: After taking him as a disciple, the original owner uses an examination of his spiritual roots as an excuse to grope the protagonist. The protagonist is humiliated and vows to get revenge!

Reality: On the night he takes Tang Song as his disciple, Jiang Yunyi grits his teeth and feels him up all over. Tang Song trembles from head to toe, his ears red with humiliation...

Plot point n: The protagonist, now a powerful cultivator, traps the original owner in a secret chamber, where he eventually dies, leaving behind only a pile of bones.

Reality: Tang Song locks Jiang Yunyi in a secret chamber, chains and all, with his red-eyed disciple saying, “Master... Shifu... You can only be mine...”

How is he supposed to follow the plot like this?! Jiang Yunyi flips the table in fury! The protagonist was supposed to be the hero, so why is he an obsessive yandere?

Good thing he's exactly my type.

System: ...

Serious blurb:

Jiang Yunyi suffers from a serious illness. It's not that bad, at least physically he's perfectly healthy. It's just a minor psychological disorder.

Ever since childhood, he's had a severe aversion to emotional intimacy. To protect himself, he never forms close relationships with anyone. This leaves him increasingly lonely and eventually depressed... After struggling through life for twenty-six years, he suddenly decides that life no longer has any meaning.

He leaps to his death...

And transmigrates into the novel Tribulation Immortal, becoming a trial on the male lead's path to immortality.

He never expected that he, the very embodiment of tribulation, would be saved by the protagonist.

Tang Song has been exceptionally gifted since childhood. He learns everything quickly, whether it's martial arts or scholarly pursuits. He seems to have been born with a natural understanding of the world. He is sensible, perceptive, steadfast, neither arrogant nor impatient, and even possesses the wisdom of a sage.

Full of ambition, he sets off on the long path to immortality, only to remember the many tormented lives he's endured in his past...

Can the glory of one lifetime make up for the suffering of many?

Tang Song can't find the answer.

Fortunately, he meets the master who accompanied him in a previous life once again.

He has been reborn, with an entirely different appearance, but his master is exactly the same as before.

His master is gentle, yet distant, and has never made room for Tang Song in his heart.

P.S.:

1. Happy ending, a capital-H, capital-E happy ending!!!

2. One-on-one romance. Jiang Yunyi, the master, is the top.

3. A transmigrated master who seems normal on the outside but has shut his heart to love (?) and is extremely possessive, top x a sunny, cheerful disciple who gradually turns dark and twisted (?), a faux-reborn, overpowered hero-type bottom.

4. Tang Song lives ten lives in total. The novel begins in his current life, and the previous nine lives appear in flashbacks. The first eight are mentioned only briefly, while the ninth gets a little more attention.

5. I'm drafting it now and will start posting once I have 100,000 words ready. To motivate myself, I'll update the progress at the beginning of the blurb every day!

6. Their feelings for each other are very mutual! The top just hasn't realized it himself. This should also count as mutual salvation.

Here's the blurb for this book:

When a fake Taoist priest meets a real zombie, is there anything he can do besides lie flat and let the other guy take care of things?

Jiang Yinchuan makes a living as a smooth-talking fake mystic, earning just enough to get by while enjoying a fairly relaxed life.

But one day, a blue-faced, fang-toothed monster shows up... No, wait, he's a zombie lord with sharp brows, bright eyes, pearly white skin, and pearly white teeth.

He demands that Jiang Yinchuan find some jade pendant or other, without so much as an explanation.

Someone stole your pendant?

It's a memento from your mother?

The thief used my talisman to suppress you, so you couldn't catch up?

What does any of that have to do with me?

“No thanks, I appreciate the offer, but I'm leaving.” Jiang Yinchuan refuses three times in a row.

“Pfft.” The zombie lord crushes a ghost's head with ease.

“O_O!!!”

“Smack.” The zombie lord slices an evil spirit in half at the waist.

“QAQ!!!”

“Crunch, crunch.” The zombie lord demonstrates how to chew a ghost's head.

“Fine, I'll go, okay?”

He thought it would be a perilous journey, like searching for a needle in the ocean, but the zombie lord turns out to be surprisingly easy to deal with?!

Tell him to go east, and he goes east. Tell him to go west, and he goes west. He even provides 24/7 personal protection.

Even the president's bodyguards don't offer a deal this good!

A story about a man who keeps a zombie with the money he earns by scamming people (not really).

A-Jiang: I'm super scary.

The Taoist (patting the empty spot beside him): A-Jiang, come sit with me.

A-Jiang (grumbling as he walks over): Screw you. You're the one who needs to sit down and shut up. [He learned the swear from a tomb raider.]

The Taoist: You shouldn't swear.

A-Jiang: You... (the next three words are automatically censored) are the one swearing!

A roguish, slick-talking, middle-aged Taoist with a soft spot for easy money x an extremely fierce, very obedient, maximum-strength zombie with a broken thought process.

This is a sweet, everyday story, with a missing jade pendant to find along the way.

The Taoist really is a fake mystic, with no real skills to speak of. When they're out and about, he relies on the zombie to carry him: A-Jiang handles the fights, the tracking and ambushes, and protecting the hostages.

As for the Taoist... his job is to top A-Jiang...

This is a slow burn. I like stories where the leads hit it off in chapter one and get into bed in chapter two, too. I know slow burns are maddening, but... I can't help myself, QAQ.

A-Jiang catches ghosts, suppresses evil, does all the heavy lifting, and looks beautiful while doing it. The Taoist collects the money.

One-on-one romance, male lead is the top, happy ending. There are some author-created details, a mountain of them, but they don't really matter. Just believe whatever I say. [Dog head.]

After much deliberation, as a top-oriented writer, I decided to make the Taoist the top...

A-Jiang isn't the sort of zombie you see in Qing Dynasty stories. He can walk. [Hopping around is so inelegant.]

This novel is also known as:

The Dashing Taoist and His Pretty Zombie

When One Lord Meets Another

101 Ways to Commit Domestic Violence

Breaking: These Three People Set Up a Cross-Species Romance

A-Jiang and the Taoist's Various Adventures in Sneaking Into Tourist Attractions

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