The Villain's Brother Is Scrambling to Survive

1. Chu Ningxu transmigrates into an old-school cultivation novel as the older brother of the second male lead, who will become the future Demon Venerable. He's a thoroughly wicked man.

In the original story, he's a disposable side character who envies the protagonist's extraordinary talent. After joining the Demon Realm, he brings disaster upon the protagonist's whole family and raises his younger brother to become a psychopath. When the truth is finally uncovered, the protagonist and his villainous younger brother join forces to tear him apart, leaving him with a miserable end.

When Chu Ningxu transmigrates, the young protagonist is just about to have his spiritual bones taken from him, while his younger brother eagerly prepares to help him commit evil.

Chu Ningxu falls silent.

...Can he just ditch the plot and run away now?

2. Under the System's threats and temptations, Chu Ningxu is forced to conceal his identity and embark on the doomed path of deceiving the protagonist and spiriting away the villain.

Unfortunately, his secret identity as the man who massacred the protagonist's family is hanging by a thread.

Years later, the truth is finally exposed. The protagonist hates him to the bone, and Chu Ningxu is at a loss. He can think of only one brilliant plan.

At the crucial moment in the plot, he draws his sword, takes his own life, fakes his death, and makes a clean getaway toward a wonderful new life.

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Everything goes exactly as expected.

Years later, Chu Ningxu wakes up reborn, full of anticipation, only to hear as soon as he steps outside that after his "death," the protagonist fell into madness and became enemies with his villainous younger brother. The two have been fighting to the death ever since.

Chu Ningxu: "???" What on earth happened?

3. Xie Linyi is the lofty emperor of the mortal world.

Everyone knows he has a beloved whom no one may touch: his master, who cherished him like a father and brother when he was young.

His master was the moon in the sky and a beauty mark in his heart, but he died young.

Everyone thinks that sooner or later the emperor will forget his old love and marry a beautiful empress.

Who could have guessed that, after all this waiting, no empress would appear? Instead, one day the usually restrained and proper emperor would go mad and bring home a frail young man who gasped after every few steps and insisted he didn't know the emperor.

[Reading Guide]

1. The shou is weaker than the gong in combat, though he isn't a weak shou. Overall, the characters have lower combat power than those in the author's other books. [Emphasis]

2. The story contains a few cross-dressing scenes, involving both the gong and the shou.

3. The gong is completely different from his character in the "original story."

The cover uses a template and does not depict the characters.

Coming soon:

My Villainous Son's Father Tries to Survive

Shen Linzhi transmigrates into a high-risk cultivation-world scenario, becoming the doomed father of Chu Yan, the orphaned dragon who will grow into a villain. He's a disposable sect master who won't survive three chapters.

System: [Mission 1: Raise the villain into an upright young man. Mission 2: Fake your death and escape before he turns eighteen. Reward: A path to ascension.]

Shen Linzhi: Raising a kid is fine. Ascending is fine, too.

But dying is out of the question.

So, by day, he's the gentlest dragon-cub caretaker in the whole sect:

Warm milk in the middle of the night;

Sewing little robes by hand;

Teaching him to write, and instilling the values of "respecting the old, caring for the young, and believing life is worth living" into the villain's very bones.

At night, he sits over his Dragon-Raising Journal, furiously working out the numbers:

"Corruption -5, obedience +10... I'll run on the night his bloodline awakens. Perfect!"

Until one snowy night, the young villain places the tip of a newly grown dragon horn in his palm and murmurs hoarsely, "Daddy, don't leave me."

Shen Linzhi's heart skips a beat, but his fingers move even faster over the abacus: Run away. I absolutely have to run away!

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On the night he fakes his death, he leaves behind bloodied clothes and a fake corpse in the ravine, disappearing without a trace.

In the icy coffin beneath the ravine, Shen Linzhi breathes a sigh of relief: Mission complete. Freedom in the mortal world, here I come!

But in the next instant, a hand with long, elegant fingers lifts the coffin lid.

The young man who was supposed to be transformed into a god kneels beside him, one knee on the ground. His white robes are soaked in blood, his dragon horns drooping, and his voice is as dark as an icy blade: "Daddy, don't you want me anymore?"

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Chu Yan has always known a secret.

He knows that his father protects him and treats him gently, but doesn't truly love him and is always trying to escape.

All he can do is hide his unruly temper and try to be the most obedient adopted son, doing everything his father asks.

But when the day comes, his father still leaves.

So Chu Yan turns to darkness.

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Shen Linzhi has always thought that once his mission is complete, he'll be able to ascend and enjoy his retirement.

But the heavenly ladder collapses. Unable to ascend, he's imprisoned in a tomb of endless darkness.

Shen Linzhi stares blankly. "...What am I supposed to do?"

The System shrieks: [Host data has been breached. The ascension plan is exposed, the villain's corruption has maxed out. Recommended solution: The father pays for the son's crimes!!]

Shen Linzhi: "???"

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Theme: No regrets about the days of youth.