Even Being a Backup Lover Is Hard (Quick Transmigration)

(Click through to my profile and save the third novel in the devoted-pursuer series, I Just Want to Be a Devoted Pursuer (Quick Transmigration). ? The first novel in the series is also complete: After My Pitiful Backup-Lover Persona Backfired (Quick Transmigration). It's finished and ready to read!) Blurb: One day, a joke went viral. It went like this: You people don't understand the joy of being a devoted pursuer. The person being pursued never knows whether they'll keep getting pursued, so they feel insecure. When they finally lose it, they'll fall apart. But we devoted pursuers? Whether we pursue them or not is up to us! If we're feeling pathetic today, we can go after them. If we're in a bad mood tomorrow, we can say to hell with it and hold back. It feels great to be in control! If Xie Yiyan saw that joke, he'd probably relate. He really is that kind of devoted pursuer. Xie Yiyan is a quick transmigration agent who specializes in winning people over, but he's also a lithromantic: he only likes people who don't like him back. The moment someone he likes falls for him, he loses all feelings for them. So the colder and more disdainful his targets are, the harder he pursues them. But once he wins someone over and they confess to him, his passion abruptly dies, and he goes looking for his next target. However, while receiving his year-end commendation, he is suddenly sent back to worlds he visited before. To leave, he has to collect his former targets' "heartbreak points (scumbag-punishment points)." And it seems that the targets in every world he visited have turned dark. Xie Yiyan: Ugh, what a pain. You people I won over and who then fell for me, I'm not interested in you anymore, okay? Can you stop keeping me from finding someone new who couldn't care less about me? First world: After the scumbag dumped me, he became my cat (Cultivation arc): Xie Yiyan becomes a wandering cultivator at the Deity Transformation stage and finds Lu Lian, whose entire clan has been slaughtered and whose meridians are completely severed. Xie Yiyan falls for Lu Lian at first sight and goes out of his way to help him, searching for medicine to mend his meridians and doing everything he can to help him cultivate. Lu Lian, hoping to use this Deity Transformation cultivator, doesn't deny it when Xie Yiyan calls them partners. Later, Lu Lian becomes the most powerful person in the cultivation world, kills all his former enemies, and embraces the old flame he has always cherished. He gives Xie Yiyan countless treasures and tells him to leave. Xie Yiyan had suffered countless hidden injuries while finding herbs for Lu Lian and fending off his enemies. His body was already at its limit, but he never told Lu Lian. But now Lu Lian wants to sever their ties, and Xie Yiyan is determined to get an explanation. Lu Lian avoids him, and his old flame seizes the chance to destroy Xie Yiyan's cultivation and spiritual meridians, then casts him into the mortal world. With his body failing, Xie Yiyan scrapes by in the mortal world. Near death, he adopts a cat to keep him company for what remains of his life. What he doesn't know is that the cat is Lu Lian, who is undergoing a heart-demon tribulation and has lost all his spiritual power. ...Other worlds to be decided. A few things to know before reading: 1. This is immersive quick transmigration! Most of the story is told from the perspective of the characters the protagonist plays, with a little from the protagonist's own perspective and thoughts. 2. The love interest is an unconventional masochistic bottom, and the top is a classic scumbag. In other words, the top is genuinely awful, while the bottom is pathetic in his own unique way. Basically, it's lowbrow fun. Expect scumbags, masochism, and melodrama. I'm only looking for readers who enjoy this kind of thing, so please don't force yourself if you don't. 3. The joke at the beginning of the blurb came from Weibo. 4. No logic, and the characters' values don't represent the author's. 5. The blurb is still subject to change (first draft: October 7, 2020; last revised: January 25, 2022). Please add my upcoming novel to your pre-save list! It's the third book in the devoted-pursuer series (also known as the pitiful backup-lover series). Please save it if you like melodramatic, deliciously angsty stories like this~ Title: I Just Want to Be a Devoted Pursuer (Quick Transmigration) Synopsis: The Quick Transmigration Department has all kinds of people: some are there to earn points, others have no choice. But Yu Zhuo stays there purely for the experience. As the young master of a prominent family in a higher-level plane, he treats the Quick Transmigration Department like a virtual reality game. When he's assigned to the devoted-pursuer group, everyone else complains, but Yu Zhuo gets hooked. This feeling of giving everything without getting anything back, while always staying in control, is amazing! No matter how much his targets look down on him or torment him, they can't hurt his real body. The experience is top-notch! Then one day, the young master is suddenly sent back to the worlds where he had pursued people before. P.S. 1. I lost my phone, and all my ideas were on it. I can't remember them right now. Anyway, it's the usual melodramatic, angst-filled fun. This is the third book in the devoted-pursuer series. 2. There should be some angsty scenes where the tops realize the bottoms were treating it all like a game. 3. Blurb subject to change. Theme: Giving always brings a reward