Cultivation? Not a Chance!

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After Pei Jue died, he transmigrated into the novel he had written and was forced to become the male lead Qi Wangming's golden finger.

There was just one little problem: Pei Jue was an ordinary beggar with a mixed spiritual root. He had no identity, no System, and no cheat ability. What the heck kind of golden finger was he supposed to be?!

To complete his mission, Pei Jue picked up the male lead, Qi Wangming, who was still a pitiful (rich-family) child.

Then the two children went begging together.

Qi Wangming (peeking out): "Big Brother, why aren't you coming back to the Qi family with me? Why are you squatting here instead?"

Pei Jue (pushing his head down and stuffing him with a steamed bun): "Don't talk. Eat."

Raising a child isn't easy. After Pei Jue finally helped Qi Wangming join a sect, Qi Wangming hit his rebellious phase.

"Tell me! Did you buy candy for that brat from Wangzheng Peak?!"

"Where did you go yesterday? Why didn't you practice swordsmanship with me?"

"Are you my big brother or someone else's? Why do you look at him and not me?"

Pei Jue: I can't take this anymore.

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Qi Wangming was reborn, but he didn't think his life had been so terrible that it needed a do-over.

Everyone he had met in his previous, short life had been plotting against him. Having his spiritual roots replaced, his golden core carved out, and his meridians shattered had all been part of Qi Wangming's daily life.

But this life was a little different.

Because Qi Wangming met Pei Jue, a skinny, disheveled, yet incredibly arrogant beggar.

As if he knew the script, Pei Jue led him away from the Qi family, a veritable human hell, and took him to an obscure little sect to escape the venomous villains.

Qi Wangming believed Pei Jue was the salvation Heaven had sent him.

Except...

"Damn it, I can't take this anymore! I'll smash the earth to pieces with one hammer!"

"Cultivation, my ass! What the heck is immortal cultivation?!"

His salvation had a rather spectacular mental state.

Short-tempered, hammer-wielding, mentally unstable bottom X jealous, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-inside, faux-younger top

Theme: Grow through adversity and find a way out when all seems lost.