The Cannon Fodder Scumbag Can Still Be Saved

[Important] Xiao Zhong is the gong!

This story is told from the gong's perspective. Just as a cute gong is still a gong, not every gong has to be stoic, cold, and powerful. He can be a human complaint machine too _(:з"∠)_

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[Blurb]

01

Zhong Yu transmigrates into a sprawling, messy, melodramatic harem romance novel with a tangled cast, a plot that throws the martial world and the imperial court into one pot, and hundreds upon hundreds of chapters without an ending in sight.

He becomes a cannon-fodder character who doesn't survive thirty chapters.

Cannon fodder Zhong Yu comes from a respectable family. He's the eldest son of the Zhong family, one of the four great martial families. Unfortunately, his parents are both oddballs. Because of a promise made years ago, they force two men to marry each other, and the man he's supposed to marry is ugly, too.

"Zhong Yu" falls in love with the heroine at first sight and completely loses it, drinking himself into a stupor every day.

He's both a terrible drunk and a lightweight. When he drinks too much, he either pesters the heroine or smashes everything in his room like a maniac. Worse still, he even goes to the villa in the back hills and beats up Young Master Jiang, the man forced to marry him.

Zhong Yu: ... OMG.

02

Since the heroine has four powerful men pursuing her, cannon fodder Zhong Yu lusts after her. As a result, within thirty chapters, the century-old Zhong family is wiped out by the Demonic Sect.

The corpses of more than a hundred people lie strewn across the ground, and "Zhong Yu" is hung from a pole by the Demonic Sect Leader and left on display.

The Demonic Sect is so powerful that none of the martial arts sects dare speak up. They all keep to themselves and watch from the sidelines, afraid of getting dragged into trouble.

The only one who isn't afraid of the demon and steps in is Mr. Jiang, the man "Zhong Yu" beat up earlier. He trades a pill that can cure any poison for the Zhong family's pitiful remains.

Zhong Yu: ...

Zhong Yu: ?!

Can someone tell him why this "Young Master Jiang," who wasn't even given a full name in the original novel, is so incredibly powerful???

03

Zhong Yu works out when he transmigrated and figures there's still hope for him.

No matter how beautiful the heroine is, she has nothing to do with him. Staying alive by keeping his head down is what matters most!

Zhong Yu decides to hurry to the back hills and try to cling to the thigh of "Young Master Jiang," the mysterious big shot with no name.

What if the guy is ugly, you ask?

Zhong Yu is unruffled: What's the problem? The experts in the top web novels are usually unremarkable old men. The rougher they look, the stronger they are. I'm clinging to his thigh, not trying to date him!

04

But...

The whole point of making a flag is for it to get knocked down.

Jiang Li is nothing like the way the original owner's memories and the novel describe him. Far from ugly, he's so handsome you could call him a celestial being.

If Mr. Jiang has any flaw, it might be his taste in looks.

Zhong Yu can't make sense of it. The scar on Jiang Li's forehead could easily be hidden with a little powder. Why go to the trouble of disguising his face?

Also known as:

The disciple who disappeared for years is back, but he's wearing a secret identity

Things have changed.

Even if we meet again, we may not recognize each other.

A lazy gong who complains all the time but occasionally turns the tables x a shou who's impossible to describe, but adorable all the same

Well, through Xiao Zhong's level-ten filter, everything his wife does is cute.

And although it's tagged as wuxia, there are some weird cultivation techniques in the story... so don't be surprised. It's all to help the leads fall in love [not really].

Neither lead is perfect. They both have strengths and flaws.

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[Blurb]

Gu Jing gets into a car accident. When he wakes up, he discovers that he has transmigrated into a once-popular formulaic novel he's read, becoming the male lead.

As the male lead, he's destined to rise above everyone and look down on the world.

...But that's at the end of the story.

Gu Jing doesn't transmigrate to the ending. Instead, he is unlucky enough to arrive at the start, when the male lead Gu Jian is five years old and has just accomplished the glorious feat of getting his whole family killed.

After that, he will be ignored by his master, humiliated by his fellow disciples, betrayed by his first love... and finally framed for joining the demonic path. His master will then kill him in the name of righteousness, and only after he narrowly survives and is brought back from the brink of death will he be able to start cultivating again from the bottom and slowly rise to power.

Gu Jing: ... This is terrifying.

If rising above everyone means suffering all that, can he just choose to be a lazy fish lying flat?

*

After Gu Jian recovers from his injuries, no matter how much he doesn't want to, he still has to kowtow and offer tea to the master who supposedly will one day kill him in the name of righteousness.

Gu Jian trudges there, already prepared to be treated coldly.

But the master who lets the protagonist fend for himself for years in the original novel, and then punishes and exiles him without mercy, is almost "gentle" when he sees Gu Jian?!

Something's wrong. Given how dangerous it is to be a master, Gu Jian reasonably suspects that his master might be from the same world as him.

*

Gu Jian keeps trying to exchange secret signals with his master, Xi Weiyang.

But Xi Weiyang clearly never completed nine years of compulsory education. He doesn't know the periodic table or the rule about even and odd functions.

Gu Jian: ...

Fine. So what if his master is a native of this world?

Does that make being a "master" any less dangerous? Not at all!

*

Before falling in love with Xi Weiyang, Gu Jian thinks he's just an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud.

After falling in love with Xi Weiyang, Gu Jian wonders how anyone can be so cute even when they're being stubborn.

There's just one huge problem.

Gu Jian keeps finding "solid evidence" that his dead, useless father, Gu Yan, was Xi Weiyang's first love.

Everyone knows that his father, Gu Yan, was a rebellious, carefree man. Even when he went from being a young nobleman to having nothing at all, when he decided to leave his family, he did it. Back then, whenever people in the cultivation world mentioned Gu Yan, they all shook their heads and sighed. Everyone who once gathered around him scattered like clouds, but Xi Weiyang, his sworn elder brother, remained as close to him as ever.

Following all sorts of "clues," Gu Jian's suspicions grow and grow until he imagines a complete, melodramatic tragic love story. It includes a gay man falling for a straight man and longing in vain, close friends separated by death, and... a replacement romance, among other painful tropes.

Gu Jian, who's fully cast himself as the little replacement raised by Xi Weiyang, can't take it anymore. With red eyes, he climbs through the window in the middle of the night and gets into his master's bed. "Tell me! Have you always treated me as a replacement for my dad? QAQ~"

Xi Weiyang: ???

This is a gong-centric story.

The shou really is a native of this world!!!

In short, this is a melodramatic little story about a transmigrated disciple who reads the so-called "original novel" and thinks his master is cold, only to discover that his master is actually very loving. The disciple just isn't very filial~

A gong (Gu Jian) who fails at being a lazy fish x a shou (Xi Weiyang) who's always been dutiful and diligent

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