Dragon Master

[Comments are enabled. I'm working hard to finish this, and I'm nearly five-sixths of the way through. This book is already hundreds of thousands of words long, and writing it has worn me out a little. I will finish it, I will finish it. Note from April 17, 2025.]

[Dear readers, this book is rather long. Please think twice before buying the entire thing at once. It's best to buy chapter by chapter so you can cut your losses in time.]

Yu Xichen transmigrates into the villainous master of the male lead in a misery-lit novel on Qidian. He's a hypocritical, materialistic, sanctimonious, beautiful white lotus.

He has to rest every few steps and gasps for breath every few more. His way of greeting people is to cough up blood. Taking advantage of the male lead's poverty when he first joins the sect, he grievously injures him, steals his treasure, and knocks him into the abyss.

Everyone knows villains never make sure their victims are dead, so when the male lead returns from the abyss, the villain dies.

He dies in pieces.

When Yu Xichen transmigrates into the story, his predecessor has just kicked the male lead off the edge.

Yu Xichen coughs up blood, then jumps after him.

He's going to make sure the job gets done.

*

He never expected that the male lead's true form, which the author only hinted at...

was a black dragon.

The last one in the cultivation world. Precious, elusive, and powerful.

He fails to finish the job and is instead carried off by the dragon the male lead transforms into, back to its lair.

This dragon is... not quite right.

"You look so weak. Drink my blood."

"Why are you coughing again? Lick it."

"You're so cold. Come closer to my body. A little closer. That's right, it's warmest here."

Yu Xichen, picked up by the dragon and placed on its body: ...

*

A legend arises in the cultivation world.

The black dragon has a beautiful, powerful mate who can make it submit and stop its relentless rampage with just one kiss.

At that moment, Yu Xichen stands in the center of a magnificent underground palace. His glossy black hair falls to his ankles, and his complexion is rosy, no longer pale as before.

Hearing a sound, he shifts his golden eyes and fixes them on the dragon at the door. "Yu Lie, behave."

The black dragon wraps its tail around him, holding him tight without hurting him, and says nervously, "Everyone's saying you have a cultivation partner. How could that be possible?"

Yu Xichen cuts it off with a headache. "It's you."

The dragon tilts its head. "...?"

"You're the one they're talking about."

*

Yu Lie knows he's the protagonist of a book.

Everything in this world follows the plot, moving forward predictably and conventionally.

That is, until his bargain-basement master goes against the plot, follows him into the abyss, and uses himself as a sacrifice to tame his true form, the black dragon.

...Master becomes owner.

In black dragon form, Yu Lie has no memories. He can only find out what happened once he returns to human form.

After checking his memories yet again, Yu Lie, who wants nothing more than to pin the black dragon down and kill it, speaks with cutting sarcasm, so jealous that it makes your teeth ache. "Master, you're so close to it? You've never talked to me like that."

Yu Xichen: ...

My good apprentice has such a sharp tongue. I should break it off and make it into a magical artifact.

#Jealous of himself, and not even trying to hide it#

1. One-on-one, happy ending. Ruthless, taciturn, sickly master as the bottom (Yu Xichen) x reborn, world-weary, darkened disciple as the top (Yu Lie). A story about a gentleman who loves a dragon and takes it the proper way (?)

2. There is a secondary couple, but they don't get much page time. All characters are queer men.

3. Please don't mention any real-life people in the comments. No one is based on a real person.

Theme: Love is restraint.