Luo Yunhuang came from three generations of domineering CEOs. His great-grandfather was a domineering CEO, his grandfather was a domineering CEO, and his father was one too. He thought he would carry on their glorious legacy.
Instead, he spent five of the most unforgettable years of his life studying in Germany, which somehow felt like seven. By the time he was about to return home, the CEO position had already gone to his brainless little brother. In a fit of rage, he died of a heart attack and transmigrated into a brainless, wish-fulfillment harem novel.
The book followed the usual satisfying face-slapping formula of web novels: anyone who fell off a cliff would stumble upon a rare opportunity and obtain an unrivaled treasure; anyone who went out to gain experience would tame rare spirit beasts; and every villain was merely a stepping stone on the protagonist's path to leveling up and slapping faces.
Of course, this arrogant, heaven-defying male lead also loved building a harem, with consorts by the dozen, and even killed his master to prove his Dao.
Just as Luo Yunhuang was condemning the story's brainless plot, he realized he had transmigrated as that very harem-seeking protagonist. And the master standing before him was no white-haired old man like the one described in the original novel. He was a transcendent, otherworldly beauty, the sort none of the three generations of domineering CEOs in Luo Yunhuang's family had ever seen.
Luo Yunhuang thought, Forget this lousy cultivation. Who needs to kill his master to prove his Dao? Get out of here!
So...
While everyone else went out on adventures, he watched from the sidelines, occasionally going over to share his thoughts with his master.
While everyone else trained hard, he slept. He even made a set of soft bedding and shared it with his master.
While everyone else scrambled to collect treasures and tame demons, he picked up the leftovers behind them, then put them in a box decorated with ribbons and bows and gave it to his master.
Even though he was slacking off this badly, his protagonist aura still shone brightly. No matter how much he wanted to slack off, the plot kept pushing him forward.
Until one day, he reached the plot point where he was supposed to be drugged with an aphrodisiac. The person waiting for him, who was supposed to be one of the original novel's harem members, had become his usually stern and expressionless master.
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After that night, Luo Yunhuang resolved that he would take responsibility for his master.
But his master acted as though nothing had happened.
From then on, Luo Yunhuang pulled out all the stops, showing off in front of his master with the domineering CEO catchphrases and behavior passed down through three generations of his family.
But his usually icy-faced master always looked at him as if he were an idiot.
Luo Yunhuang began to doubt his own abilities, so he cultivated day and night, pushing himself to the limit. By the time his cultivation was nearly on par with his master's, that man tossed him a sword without changing expression.
"Come on. Kill your master and prove your Dao."
Luo Yunhuang: "?"
#So it turns out that this domineering CEO is gay#
#I only wanted to work hard to win my beloved, but now he wants me to kill him#
#Does this plot really have to happen?!#
Reader's Guide:
▶ Told from the gong's perspective. Disciple gong x master shou, mutually exclusive partners, 1v1.
▶ The pairing will not be broken up or reversed. Not suitable for readers with extreme preferences. No dream pairings or third-party love interests.
▶ This blurb is the best the author could manage. If it isn't to your taste, don't force yourself to read it! Take my advice and run!
orz: I'll add more if I think of anything.
A preview of my upcoming novel, The Wicked Supporting Character Is Possessed:
Xiao Wanfeng was possessed on the eve of his wedding.
The possessor rejected the gifted and powerful genius who was about to become his cultivation partner, then turned around and fell in love with a lowly cultivator who looked as though he wasn't fit to tie his shoes.
The possessor even had the nerve to call it redemption.
From the possessor's words, he learned that he was a wicked male supporting character in a book. The lowly cultivator the possessor was redeeming was the book's male lead. Because Xiao Wanfeng had thoroughly humiliated the male lead before the wedding, the male lead would take revenge once he achieved the Great Dao, turning Xiao Wanfeng into a prostitute ridden by thousands before he died a miserable death.
The possessor used his body to get along splendidly in this world, while he could only watch as that despicable thief used his body to touch one person after another, all of them unworthy of tying his shoes. The possessor even shamelessly said, "I changed your miserable fate. You don't have to thank me, but why are you cursing me so viciously?"
Xiao Wanfeng hated him so much his teeth ached.
What made it worse was that not a single person around him realized he had been possessed. Finally, after failing to reclaim his body time and again, he went mad. To get his body back, he joined forces with the lowly demon he despised most and did the very things he looked down on.
*
In this world, only a demon named Lou Chongming could see Xiao Wanfeng's soul.
Lou Chongming was a wretched, powerless demon. Other cultivators had beaten him until he was covered in wounds just for a few scraps of spirit stones. To fill his stomach, he had fought the wild wolves in the mountains for food. Ever since that wisp of soul appeared beside him, he had been able to use it to fight and seize what he wanted, doing whatever it took to destroy this man's lofty air of superiority.
Lou Chongming thought that even as a wandering soul, this man was impossibly fussy. Either he complained that the spiritual energy Lou Chongming gave him was too impure, or he grumbled that the places Lou Chongming took him to sleep were too dirty.
Every day, the two of them woke up and immediately started arguing, unable to stand one another. Even so, that wisp of soul never left Lou Chongming's side for a single step.
Whenever Lou Chongming saw that wisp of soul forced to humble itself before a lowly demon like him in order to reclaim its body, he couldn't help feeling a little pleased.
So even a lofty immortal could fall this far. But after that wisp of soul failed to reclaim its body again and again, it begged him to hurry up and destroy its physical form. For some reason, Lou Chongming's heart turned bitter and troubled.
*
Later, the fussy soul that had chattered in Lou Chongming's ear every day finally disappeared.
Lou Chongming couldn't get used to it.
He went mad and slaughtered his way through the seventy-two cities of the Demon Realm, becoming its supreme ruler. Yet he often wandered along the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, and whenever he encountered a ghost, he would ask in a daze:
"Have you seen him? He likes wearing red. He's fussy and pitiful, stubborn and unwilling to give up."
Reader's Guide:
🍁: 1v1, mutually exclusive partners. They go from disliking each other when they are young to becoming deeply devoted.
🍁: Neither lead is perfect. They will grow step by step. Readers with very high moral standards for protagonists should proceed with caution.
🍁: The shou remains a soul for the early part of the story. The fiance in the blurb is not the gong.
🍁: I'll add more if I think of anything...
Theme: Life offers many choices. If time turned back and I could live my life again, perhaps the present-day me could make better choices for my past self. But back then, I would still have made those same choices.