Has the Male Lead Fallen for His Master Today?

Gu Jing transmigrates into a book, becoming Gu Jian, the male protagonist of a once hugely popular x-point-style trope novel.

As the protagonist, he is destined to rise above all and look down on the world.

...But that's the ending.

Unfortunately, when Gu Jian arrives, the protagonist is only five years old. His parents have just been murdered, he's burning with a fever and won't wake up, and the plot hasn't even begun.

In other words, his future holds being ignored by his fellow disciples, framed and forced down the path of demonic cultivation, and betrayed by his first love... If the protagonist hadn't escaped in time, his own master would have ripped out his core and severed his meridians, leaving him in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.

Gu Jian: “...If looking down on the world means going through all that, can I just lie flat and be a comfortable couch potato?”

The answer is no.

His master, senior sister, and senior brother are all more driven than the last. Lying flat among them makes Gu Jian feel like his conscience is about to condemn him.

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Gu Jian initially thinks that, as the protagonist of a power-progression story, he and his master, Xi Weiyang, must be sworn enemies.

But the lingering obsession of the “original” burns like a flame. All the love and hate in his heart have always been tangled up with one person. That person is both the enemy he fights with blades and the beloved with whom he shares a bed.

Gu Jian doesn't like tragic love-and-hate endings, and he doesn't want to fall in love with his master in a world of cultivation, either. So every day, he tells himself that his “feelings” for Xi Weiyang are an illusion, and that he's simply being influenced by the obsession the “original” left behind.

He keeps “brainwashing” himself day after day, until even he thinks it's ridiculous.

“To hell with it being an illusion! I do like Xi Weiyang!”

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Gu Jian: “Watch me tear up the original's tragic ending!”

What? The “original” is also him?

Well, whatever. The script's already been torn up. He gets to try again at the mistakes he made and the pitfalls he fell into. Only an idiot would take the same path twice.

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This novel has a male top. Gu Jian is the top!!!

A vivid imagination, tries and fails to lie flat (then gets back up). Disciple top (Gu Jian) x master bottom (Xi Weiyang), who's top-tier from the start, devoted to his work, and gentle (allegedly).

The cover is a commissioned illustration of the master. The scene is roughly how Gu Jian sees him~

Note: The top really loves imagining things, especially tragic love-story scenarios.

The author isn't a top fan or a bottom fan. Whether a story has a male top or a male bottom is just a matter of perspective. Hope you understand~

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Theme: Steadfastly choosing your own path