My Childhood Friend Is a World-Weary Male Lead

Gu Xi, the only son of the leader of the greatest sect in the cultivation world.

Bright and gifted, doted on by both his parents.

Until...

On the day of his fifth birthday banquet, a voice told Gu Xi that he was the second male lead in a transmigration novel, and that the protagonist, He Chengyuan, would kill him in the future.

He Chengyuan: the textbook definition of a beautiful, powerful, tragic, obsessive yandere.

Having endured all kinds of inhuman torment since childhood, he loathes the world. That is, until he meets the healing female lead and makes her the only light in his life.

Unfortunately, the female lead is already engaged, and her fiance is Gu Xi.

Five-year-old Gu Xi tilted his head in confusion, his big eyes filled with puzzlement.

Transmigrate into a book?

Male lead?

Yandere?

Those all sound so delicious!

To taste these incredible treats, Gu Xi set off in a flurry of excitement, taking tiny steps to find He Chengyuan.

According to the book, He Chengyuan is trapped in a cellar and will be blinded by smoke in a fire, setting him on the path to darkness and hatred for the world...

As transmigrating into books becomes a trend.

As beautiful, powerful, tragic male leads and tool-like second male leads become staples of romance novels.

A childhood of misery and despair.

Oppression that never ends.

A path of slaughter that is destined to turn them into broken, bloodless, tearless monsters.

Freedom and love, the most precious and beautiful things in the world, which they have never seen with their own eyes.

They are fictional characters created on an assembly line to improve the experience of those who transmigrate into books.

Paper figures with shallow appearances and one-note personalities.

They were meant to obey the author's will, their necks mercilessly snapped by the great hand called fate.

But hot blood still flowed through their hearts, and an unquenchable light still shone in their eyes.

#You are the joy of my youth, the love I could never stop feeling, no matter how long I lived#

#You are the most beautiful proof that I exist in this world#

#You are my freedom and love#

[Content warning: The worldbuilding is extremely bleak and dark]

Theme: No matter how much suffering the world holds, love and courage can help us overcome it all