Back to the Immortal Venerable's Youth [Book Transmigration]

[The physical edition of Volume 2 goes on sale June 1. Its published title is Knowing You.]

Yan Qing transmigrates into a melodramatic cultivation novel as a child: the most popular villain, a beautiful, tragic figure.

As an adult, the villain is a peerless genius of breathtaking elegance. As a child, he is pitiful and nearly starves to death in the bitter winter.

The cultivation world is full of dangers, and to survive, Yan Qing has to pull out every trick in the book. He can act sweet and innocent or play up his misery, and with the pampered young villain whose soul still resides in his body, they go from loathing each other to sharing life and death, surviving through lies and schemes.

Later, they get lucky enough to break their bond, and the two, who can barely stand the sight of each other, immediately part ways.

After Yan Qing dies, his soul scatters. He thinks he can return to the modern world, but instead he is reborn in a minor sect, as the book's vicious, mean-spirited cannon fodder with a tragic fate???

The cannon fodder marries the villain against his will because he is infatuated with him.

The villain may seem like a gentle breeze beneath a bright moon, but deep down he is cruel and ruthless, and loves no one but the protagonist shou.

When the cannon fodder dies in agony from an illness in bed, his husband, the villain, sits in the courtyard playing the zither with cold indifference.

Yan Qing nearly spits out his water. “You little bastard Xie Shiyi! If I'd known you were such a scumbag, I should've used your body as a chamber pot every night back in Blackwater Alley.”

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Xie Shiyi once fell into an abyss, where he knelt and begged for mercy, reduced to a life worse than a dog's, surrendering his dignity for the tiniest chance to survive.

Someone else saw every bit of that wretched sight.

As a boy, he was sensitive and proud. They disagreed and argued constantly, and he swore to himself that one day he would kill him.

But when the other truly disappeared, he sat alone on South Mountain Peak for a very long time.

Only when the plum blossoms had all fallen and the snow had cleared from the clouds did he silently grip his sword and turn away.

From that day on, the world would never again see Xie Shiyi, as lowly as an ant in Blackwater Alley.

There was only Xie Ying, the aloof, desireless, unreachable young prodigy of the Wangqing Sect.

P.S.:

1. Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Great Ascension, Void Insight, Deification.

2. The story begins when the shou is reborn a hundred years after his death. In his previous life, the shou did not know he had transmigrated into a book. They meet when they are both nobodies, and they have a mutual secret crush.

3. [I tried a nonsensical style in the first few chapters and got it wrong. Please stop scolding me, I've learned my lesson (sobbing into my arms). I go back to the old style later. I swear I didn't change writers, sob sob sob. Though whether I change styles or not, my writing's still about the same, so don't believe people when they say the later chapters are good. Really, don't. My over-the-top elementary-school-kid prose never changes. Read at your own discretion. Also, if you drop the book, don't tell me. I don't mind, but I'm afraid my readers will feel bad when they see it. Wishing you all the best and happiness every day, ww.]

5. [Important] Please don't say things like “face-slapping just for the sake of face-slapping” or “the setup feels familiar.” Whether it's “Nightmare,” “Bai Xiaoxiao,” or the “Immortal Alliance,” I've created my own setting for each. I have an outline, and I know exactly what I'm writing. What I want to write is right there in the ideas behind my story. See the author's note in Chapter 11 for details.

Coming next:

My Extra Ex-Boyfriend After I Lost My Memory

After his father dies, Ye Sheng's mother can no longer stand life in the mountains. She sneaks away, leaving her five-year-old son to fend for himself deep in the mountains.

One day, a con man who looks like he's here to swindle people shows up in the village.

“Kid, where's your dad?”

“Dead.” Slowly.

“Kid, where's your mom?”

“Ran off.” Slowly.

The old charlatan's eyes light up. “Then you'll come with me from now on! I can fly through the sky and burrow underground, make flowers fly and leaves dance. I can even walk on water with lightness skills and smash rocks on my chest. I'll teach you how to get by in the martial world. In return, how about you look after me and keep me fed?”

Ye Sheng looks up with dark, damp eyes. “Okay.”

Ye Sheng thinks the old man is a fraud, but it turns out everything the old charlatan teaches him is actually useful.

The old charlatan thinks Ye Sheng is an idiot, but this boy turns the values he's spent years promoting through his scams completely upside down.

[The despair of a martial-world con man meeting a cultivation prodigy]

Ye Sheng cultivates in the mountains until he's sixteen. Then his mother returns. Now an elegant society lady who married into a wealthy family, she holds her nose as she walks up to him, looking down her nose. “Come with me.” The old fraud counts his cash, grinning like a fool. “Oh, Shengsheng, don't be like that. She's your real mother. She's here to take you somewhere comfortable. No need to thank me.”

Ye Sheng feels like there is a gap in his memory, and something is wrong with his emotions. He can't get interested in anything and is always sleepy.

He moves into a wealthy household. His distant mother, sharp-tongued sister, vicious older brother, and snobbish servants never give him a moment's peace. All he wants to do is sleep.

The Xie family takes him in because of his looks. They intend to give him as a plaything to a fifty-year-old CEO as a present to curry favor.

But at the party, someone shoves the slick-haired CEO aside, leaving him behind as an elegant, distinguished young man descends the grand staircase. The sun, moon, stars, and dust fall silent. He walks up to Ye Sheng and smiles faintly.

The mysterious and powerful young master of the Ning family, the most powerful family in the capital, lifts his chin. With red lips and bright teeth, he speaks in a lazy, teasing voice. “Long time no see, my ex-boyfriend.”

Ye Sheng slowly raises his head. So I had a boyfriend before I turned five?

That's quite a bombshell.

Past and present lives, modern cultivation.

In his past life,

You were my childhood friend, you were my first love.

A cute, sleepy sweetheart who's lost his memory and is slow on the uptake X an all-powerful demon king who's utterly devoted to his wife, suave and flirtatious

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In the dust of this world, I would rather love and hate.

Theme: The body is a prison, and love and hate are shackles.