Surviving Under the Original Villain

[Main story complete, bonus chapters updating]

[Couple: original host x transmigrator]

1,

After Lin Shu died, he transmigrated into a cultivation novel as its villainous Big Boss. His mission was to reform the villain and earn the protagonist’s favor.

The System thumped its chest and promised, “It’s easy! Just don’t oppose the protagonist, and lend him a hand when he needs it~ Once you’re done, you can come back to life in your original world. You’ll have a house, a car, and plenty of cash, too~”

Since he was already here, Lin Shu decided to make the best of it. He closed his eyes and recalled the plot. When he opened them again, he nearly jumped out of his skin.

The villainous Big Boss’s ghost sat by the bed, watching him with a smile that held no warmth. His thin lips parted. “Hello, transmigrator.”

Lin Shu: “…”

Crap, crap, crap! Whose transmigrated-into-a-book character still has the original host hanging around? Is nobody going to do anything about the fact that the original host isn’t completely dead? And he knows I’m a transmigrator? That’s a core secret leaking! System

The System gave no response. The original host leaned over and looked at Lin Shu, the usurper in his body. Cold fingers gripped Lin Shu’s chin. The smile remained, but his voice was icy. “Do you like using my body?”

Much later, after Lin Shu had been worn out so badly he couldn’t get out of bed for days, he remembered Xie Jinglan asking that question when they first met. Suppressing his hoarse, trembling gasps, he dug his nails into Xie Jinglan’s back.

“Your body is way too good!”

“Mine’s the one that’s about to break!”

2,

Xie Jinglan knew he lived in a book destined to have someone transmigrate into it. He was the original host, the one who would be replaced. The transmigrator would take over his identity, use his resources, and do whatever it took to win over his enemy, Lian Wangchuan, the protagonist of the original story. In the end, he would die taking a blade for Lian Wangchuan, reach 100% protagonist favorability, and achieve the “reform the villain” ending.

Once Xie Jinglan learned all this, he curled his lips into a smile. What was reforming the villain? He didn’t need that.

Time and again, he took his body back from the transmigrator, killed the transmigrator, and killed Lian Wangchuan. He varied his methods each time and thoroughly enjoyed getting his revenge.

That is, until the ninth time, when a transmigrator unlike any other showed up.

When Lian Wangchuan was dumped and cried out the classic line, “Don’t look down on a poor young man,” the transmigrator was supposed to comfort him, lend him a hand, and quickly raise his favorability.

But Lin Shu just kept crunching sunflower seeds. Instead of going over to console him, he clicked his tongue and commented, “You and that girl are in a purely political marriage, buddy. You’ve got no feelings and no power. Why would she marry you? Wake up! Childhood betrothals are so outdated. People believe in dating for love now!”

Then he pressed a hand to his forehead and shook his head. “I’ve always said I don’t like harem novels. Every woman has to fall for the guy. Talk about an ego.”

Xie Jinglan, watching from the sidelines: “…”

When Lian Wangchuan tried to get his hands on a top-tier immortal treasure, the Immortal Spirit Fruit, the transmigrator was supposed to help him defeat the guardian demon beast, then refuse Lian Wangchuan’s offer to split the fruit, proving his selflessness and indifference to rare treasures, and quickly bringing them closer.

Lin Shu crouched off to the side, staring at the Immortal Spirit Fruit with such envy he could practically bleed. He urged Xie Jinglan on frantically. “Boss, let’s go! Why should we let him have something this good? Damn it, if we don’t get that fruit today, I’ll wake up mad in the middle of the night!”

Xie Jinglan: “…Wait here.”

3,

Lin Shu knew that sooner or later, Xie Jinglan would drive him out of this body that wasn’t his. If Xie Jinglan was in a good mood, he might leave Lin Shu to fend for himself. If he was in a bad mood, he might casually kill this foreign soul who had usurped his body. But Lin Shu’s nerves were rock solid. Every extra day alive was a bonus, and either way, he had nothing to lose.

He wandered around the cultivation world, enjoying the show, and figured he’d die when his time came.

But he waited and waited, and no execution ever came. Instead, Xie Jinglan kept pulling out one dazzling rare treasure after another, his dark eyes fixed on Lin Shu as he explained their uses in a low voice:

“To rebuild your body.”

“I want to touch…the real you.”

#Let’s be clear: what kind of touching are you talking about? We’re not interested in the censored stuff on Green JJ!# Everyone transmigrates into books, except the original host in this one is still alive #The years spent adventuring through the cultivation world with the villainous original host #System rewards are nice, but the villainous Big Boss is even better #Transmigrating Into a Book and Falling in Love with the Original Host

Reading guide:

1. Go-with-the-flow, fun-loving, walking punchline, professional wisecracker, occasionally chuunibyou, occasionally unhinged, occasionally sharp-tongued, occasionally melodramatic, but all around sunny, cheerful, optimistic, and honest bottom & gloomy, smiling-fox villainous Big Boss top

Lin Shu is the bottom & Xie Jinglan is the top

Don’t ask why the bottom’s description is so long. His personality is complicated, and before we knew it, the summary got this long. The author’s helpless too. Anyway, click in and see for yourself. Phew, the top and bottom are locked together, and the author melted the key (as usual _(:з"∠)_)

2. Cultivation ranks:

Mortal Tempering Realm: First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Stages;

Heartlamp Realm: First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Stages;

Mystic Insight Realm: First Stage, Entering the Dao; Second Stage, Breaking the Dao; Third Stage, Uniting with the Dao.

Above the Mystic Insight Realm is ascension to godhood.

Title: My Childhood Friend Transmigrated Five Hundred Years Before Me

1,

When the car came hurtling toward him, the only person Jiang Zhi worried about was his childhood friend, Qin Xu.

Neither of them had parents who cared about them. They had relied on each other for years and had long since become indispensable to one another.

But Jiang Zhi didn’t die. When he opened his eyes, he was standing on an old-fashioned street. Before he could figure out what was going on, he noticed the notice board by the roadside.

A fresh issue of the Cultivation World Daily was posted there. A brief missing-person notice took up half the page, written in simplified Chinese:

“Jiang Zhi, find a way to leave a drop of blood on my name. I’ll come find you. Don’t be afraid of the pain. I’ll buy you candy.”

It was signed Qin Xu.

Jiang Zhi froze for a long moment, then followed the instructions. He bit his finger and dropped a bead of blood onto the name Qin Xu.

Nothing happened. Someone nearby noticed what he’d done and sneered. “That missing-person notice has been up for hundreds of years. Why would the Sword Venerable be looking for a snot-nosed brat like you?”

Hundreds of years? The Sword Venerable?

Before Jiang Zhi could process any of it, the heavens and earth erupted into a storm. He looked up and saw Qin Xu tear through the sky and pull him into a fierce embrace.

2,

After Jiang Zhi died, Qin Xu lived for just one more year. After sending the driver responsible to prison, he set a fire, then walked into the flames with Jiang Zhi’s ashes in his arms.

But he didn’t die.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a strange world where everyone sought the Dao and hoped to become immortal. It was said that immortals could live as long as heaven and earth.

Qin Xu had no attachment to life, but he couldn’t let go of Jiang Zhi.

He had transmigrated. Could Jiang Zhi have transmigrated too?

Clinging to that thought, Qin Xu traveled across the Nine Provinces and, without realizing it, became the youngest Sword Venerable.

But even after five hundred years, he still hadn’t found Jiang Zhi.

He had given up hope and was preparing to search for Jiang Zhi in the underworld when a ward he’d left in the Cultivation World Daily long ago was suddenly triggered.

He tore through the sky and found Jiang Zhi standing dazed on the roadside, wearing his school uniform and looking exactly as he remembered.

3,

Jiang Zhi didn’t know how to cultivate. At his age, it was already considered very late to draw spiritual energy into his body. But he wasn’t worried, because the greatest genius in the Nine Provinces was personally teaching him.

Qin Xu sat behind him, one arm loosely around him. His cool fingertips rested on Jiang Zhi’s dantian as a stream of pure, gentle spiritual energy slowly entered his body.

“Ah Zhi, can you feel it? Just like this.”

The chill of Qin Xu’s fingers made Jiang Zhi tremble. He couldn’t calm himself down, and hesitantly asked, “Qin Xu, do other people’s masters teach their disciples like this?”

As soon as the words left his mouth, an arm clamped around his waist. The hand that had been lightly pressing his dantian now held him tight, and a solid, powerful body pressed against his back.

Hot breath brushed his ear. The man spoke in a low, even voice that somehow made Jiang Zhi’s heart skip. “Ah Zhi, am I just anyone?”

Jiang Zhi shivered and sighed silently.

They hadn’t seen each other for five hundred years, and Qin Xu seemed to have gone crazy.

Reading guide:

* A possessive, obsessive, post-trauma, crazy, doting childhood-friend top & a healing, strong-minded, gentle-as-jade bottom.

* Qin Xu & Jiang Zhi

* They were the same age before transmigrating. Afterward, the top is hundreds of years older than the bottom. Older, doting top; the couple is locked in.

Thesis: Strive tirelessly and take control of your own destiny.