After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Fed the Tragic, Powerful Male Lead

My new novel in the same death-faking series, "The Villain's Older Brother Is Just Trying to Survive," is out now. Check my column!

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Lin Cang read a danmei novel. The story's protagonist had a built-in everyone-loves-him cheat and became an Immortal Venerable by relying on his overpowered abilities.

Lin Cang liked another character, one who was both tragic and powerful, but the author forcibly tied him to the protagonist as the male lead. He gave up his own opportunities for the protagonist and ended up with a miserable fate.

By the end, Lin Cang was so furious he felt sick with rage.

When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the novel.

The future male lead, Chang Qiuli, was right in front of him. After his family was wiped out, he'd escaped by entering the body of a white dog at the door. Now he was a dying, emaciated puppy.

Lin Cang looked down at the fluffy puppy before him.

He fell silent for a few seconds, then thought, breathless: "He's so cute!"

In the book, after lying low for years, Chang Qiuli would bite through the throat of the demon who abused him, absorb all his cultivation, and step over the demon's corpse to become the ruler of the Demon Realm.

Lin Cang was that doomed demon.

But so Chang Qiuli could thrive on his own in the future, he summoned his courage, kept feeding him, and taught him to stay true to himself and steer clear of cheat-code infection.

The young boy thought the monster before him would abuse and torment him from then on.

But instead, the monster lowered his head amid a stream of muttering...

And buried his face in the boy's fur, completely entranced.

Chang Qiuli: "…"

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Watching Chang Qiuli grow more and more obedient and aloof, Lin Cang was finally content. He willingly sacrificed himself and made his glorious exit.

But after returning in a remade body, he heard that Chang Qiuli had been wounded by love, his temperament had changed, and he'd turned the Demon Realm upside down.

Lin Cang: "?"

Who had hurt his precious boy? And how?

Lin Cang flew into a rage and vowed to find the bastard who'd taken advantage of the situation and teach him a harsh lesson.

He never found Chang Qiuli. Instead, he ran into a cultivator of celestial beauty who let himself be scolded and beaten, clinging to Lin Cang and refusing to leave.

The cultivator was a good person, but rather gloomy, and there was something strange about the way he looked at Lin Cang.

Lin Cang had already planned to run, but under the moonlight, the man shed his disguise and stared at him with bloodshot eyes, smiling as if in mockery. "A Cang, are you going to abandon me again?"

Chang Qiuli's gaze darkened as he drew closer and closer.

Lin Cang: "..."

...His puppy hadn't been like this before!

Fluffy puppy in his youth x a receiver obsessed with fluffy things.

[Reading Guide]

1. Updates at 9 p.m. The author usually fixes typos, so it's best to read after 9:10.

2. Slow burn. The early chapters focus on raising a child. The receiver starts out looking like a child, and the male lead is a puppy.

3. Later on, the male lead drinks the receiver's blood for him. The receiver is also bitten by a supporting character in Chapter 25. Please avoid if this isn't for you.

4. The author is a typo magnet, and there will still be grammar mistakes even after I proofread. There's no avoiding it. Readers who point them out will get corrections and a red envelope, but please beware if this bothers you.

5. Daily updates. No need to tell me if you drop the story. That way we're both happy.

Blurb for "The Villain's Older Brother Is Just Trying to Survive"

1. Chu Ningxu transmigrated into an old-school cultivation novel as the older brother of the second male lead, a future Demon Venerable who does nothing but evil.

In the original, jealous of the protagonist's extraordinary talent, he joined the Demon Realm and ruined the protagonist's whole family, turning his younger brother into a psychopath. In the end, the truth was exposed, and the protagonist and his villainous younger brother joined forces to tear the skin from his body and strip away his bones. He met a miserable end.

The moment Chu Ningxu transmigrated, the little protagonist was about to have his spiritual bone taken, while his younger brother looked excited and ready to help him commit evil.

Chu Ningxu fell silent.

...Could he just throw out the plot and run away right now? Would he make it?

2. Under the System's threats and tempting promises, Chu Ningxu was forced to hide his identity and set out on the road of deceiving the protagonist and abducting the villain.

Unfortunately, his secret identity as the one who destroyed the protagonist's family was on the verge of being exposed.

Years later, the truth finally came out. The protagonist hated him to the bone, and Chu Ningxu was at a loss, with only one brilliant idea left.

At a key plot point, he drew his sword, killed himself, faked his death, and decisively set off for a beautiful new life.

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Everything went according to plan.

Years later, Chu Ningxu woke up reborn, full of anticipation, only to hear as soon as he stepped outside that after his "death," the protagonist had fallen into madness and become mortal enemies with his villainous younger brother, fighting to the death.

Chu Ningxu: "???" What happened?

3. Xie Linyi, the lofty Emperor of the Mortal Realm.

Everyone knew he had a beloved whom no one was allowed to touch: his master, who had doted on him like a father and elder brother when he was young.

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

Everyone thought the Emperor would eventually forget his old flame and marry a beautiful Empress.

Who could have guessed that, after waiting and waiting, they would see no Empress, but instead watch the Emperor, usually so disciplined and proper, go mad one day and bring home a young man who gasped with every few steps, claiming not to know the Emperor?

Theme: Face adversity without fear, stand firm in your convictions, keep moving forward, and strive toward your goals.