Archery: I Have a Crush on You

[Main Story + Extras Complete] [Please note: This is not a power fantasy. It focuses on personal growth and has an extremely slow start. Feel free to skip around based on the chapter summaries to sample it, and stop if it isn't for you. The author has put together a very detailed guide below the blurb, so please be sure to read it before starting. There is also a very long review from a reader who bought the whole novel in the comments. If you don't mind spoilers, it may help you decide. Thank you! Wen Sui made a name for himself as a boy. His peerless archery could split a willow leaf from a hundred paces, striking fear into the hearts of the barbarians. Unfortunately, though war and upheaval could not shake the armies of iron and steel, factional strife in peacetime cost him his life in vain. When he awoke again, a thousand years had passed. Sixteen-year-old Wen Sui drew the unfamiliar bow to its full length. Someone came to stand beside him. When their eyes met, they asked, “Do you like archery?” Much later, Wen Sui asked Xi Zhou in return, “Why did you choose me?” His answer was, “Because your eyes look beautiful when you shoot.” At last, Wen Sui leaped down from the podium, where he had stood in the spotlight before the cheering crowd, and gave Xi Zhou an especially tight hug in front of countless cameras. To outsiders, it looked like gratitude toward a respected senior. Only the two of them knew that wasn't the case. “Someone asked me how I won this championship. I think you of all people know the answer.” Your target is over there. My perfect score is for you. “The moment I first saw you, I knew that if I were a broken old bow, you would be the arrow that made me strong again.” Meeting you was fate, and loving you is the joy of the rest of my life. 1. A cool, brave beauty of a shou × a gentle, steady older gong. Eight-year age gap. The shou is an adult when they get together. 1v1, both are each other's first and only, HE, mutual healing and mutual devotion. 2. Not a power fantasy. A slow-burn story about growth, with a gentle, steady pace. There isn't much to write if the protagonist starts off crushing everyone and shooting nonstop; archery isn't the most exciting sport to watch, so don't approach this as a typical sports novel. That said, once the shou regains his former form, he'll be very strong. He was a general, after all. He needs time to shift from an ancient person's way of thinking to accepting the spirit of modern competition. Archery is a sport with a strong psychological component, and the story also explores archery culture. If slow pacing frustrates you, this may not be for you. Feel free to skip around by chapter title to sample it, and stop if it isn't for you. No cheating or love triangles. 3. There is a reason for the transmigration. Readers familiar with the author's work should know that the protagonists don't transmigrate into other people's bodies for no reason. The whole novel is written, and every plot thread will be resolved. 4. Except for the country, all provinces, cities, and characters are fictional. The protagonist starts out using a traditional bow, then learns to shoot the modern recurve bow. The story mainly features modern competitive recurve archery. 5. There are no terrible parents. The family and friendship subplots are warm and healing. If you find the protagonist's mother strange or the early chapters too oppressive, you can skip to Chapter 31 if you don't mind spoilers, though I still recommend reading in order (hides face). 6. Since the protagonist thinks like an ancient person, the narration in his point-of-view chapters deliberately mixes classical and modern language. As he gradually adapts to modern life, the narration becomes more natural. 7. The cover features the shou. It looks even better if you zoom in! New novel: My Yandere Butler Awakened for Me A young master who thinks he's a yandere villain, beautiful and formidable shou × a butler who really is a yandere villain, a gong driven mad by love “Heaven or hell, this world came into being with a single thought of you.” Reborn from hell, Le Han learns that he's the yandere villain in a melodramatic story about a wealthy family. He has switched lives with the protagonist shou, becoming one half of a pair of supposed and genuine young masters. He has an unhealthy possessiveness toward the protagonist gong, and even deliberately cripples himself to win his attention. In the end, after plotting and scheming, he jumps from the roof of a hundred-story building to end it all. Back on the day he wakes up with broken legs, Le Han looks up at the skyscraper where he died in his previous life. He feels dizzy. What kind of terminally lovesick idiot would do that? Isn't it better to be alive? And besides, making money while sitting in a wheelchair, (crossed out), is even better~ Later, a legend begins circulating about Satan, the post-apocalyptic mecha game that takes the internet by storm. The champion of both the Hongmeng ladder and the arena, and the data whiz who tops the dungeon first-clear rankings, are one and the same person. The big shot is happily counting his money when he accidentally appears on camera. A young man in a butler's uniform lifts him out of his wheelchair. But the lower half of his face is still visible... From then on, Le Han's image as a “determined, disabled beauty with a tragic past” takes root in everyone's mind. His fearsome reputation drops, his popularity soars, and the prize pool goes through the roof. The big shot is no longer scary. The mysterious NPC at his side is. He never gets into a mecha, yet somehow manages to terrify everyone. Le Han: “Could you stop following me around? They won't even fight me when you're here.” The refined butler carries him into the bathtub and tenderly helps him undress. “You've forgotten, young master... Wherever the master goes, the shadow follows.” Then one day, after someone confesses to him, Le Han has a dream. He dreams that the person who confessed is lying amid the desolate ruins of the game, their body in pieces. Le Han wakes with a start and sees the butler who has been by his side since childhood, standing silently beside the bed. “Young master... are you afraid of me?” The man's white-gloved hand brushes Le Han's lips. The blood-red eyes behind his glasses slowly turn dark gold. He looks just like the final boss of hell, the fallen angel who lured him astray and shared his descent among the black roses of the Lust dungeon: Satan. Legend has it A steel beast clad in black armor, with six wings, tears off its own wings. Then it kneels on one knee and offers its mechanical heart to its supreme pilot. “I want to be by your side. Any form is fine, any world will do. Alive or dead, it doesn't matter. As long as you're there, anything is fine.” 1. The shou's legs will recover later. He's the strongest and most beautiful character in the whole novel, and something of a heartthrob, but all he wants is to make money. 2. All the contenders in the love triangle are devoted in body and heart. It's obvious that the butler is the main gong. 3. A mecha game novel featuring plot, dungeons, and arena fights. For special reasons, the shou has two accounts in the game, one male and one female. These are the two identities mentioned in the blurb. 4. The protagonist pursues both his career and his love life. He's career-minded, pursuing a lie-flat life of earning enough to retire (and then getting dragged back into work). Pre-order 2: The Ancient Danmei Novel I Transmigrated Into: I Refused the Ruthless Dao and Became Everyone's Favorite Ming Shi transmigrates into an old-school cultivation novel as the background-character uncle-master of the protagonist gong. This uncle-master barely appears in the story, but he has an extraordinary identity: the first person in the world to master the Ruthless Dao. His role in the plot is to kill his “wife” to prove his Dao, then persuade the protagonist gong to cultivate it as well, ultimately becoming an unexpected matchmaker. Ming Shi arrives at a rather awkward moment: he's pointing a sword at the heart of his cheap Dao companion. His companion is blind in both eyes and wears a veil of blue gauze. His left arm is missing, and he looks frail and listless. He even seems like a delicate scholar. Ming Shi immediately lowers his sword. But he won't cultivate the Ruthless Dao, and he won't be married to a man. He wants to leave, yet for some reason can't bring himself to. So he earns enough to support his poor wife for two lifetimes and leaves it all to him. To show his sincerity, he even writes a divorce letter. Better to be a heartless cad than a murderer. The cultivation world is full of dangers, so Ming Shi sensibly decides to rely on the protection of his sect's powerful backing. He searches for a way home while continuing to play a background character. But after a while, he realizes something is off His martial nephew, a bright young man, gives him the sword pendant that was supposed to go to the protagonist shou. The protagonist shou, his cool and aloof senior brother, says they should cultivate a technique together, but his gaze is full of hidden longing. Even the novel's greatest villain drops his benevolent mask and reveals his bloody fangs, determined to make Ming Shi his own. Using his knowledge of the plot, Ming Shi gathers rare treasures and works hard at cultivation, terrified that before he can find a way back, some strange people will do all sorts of things to him. But who could have expected that too much of a good thing would be dangerous? One day, after advancing too quickly, his meridians reverse, leaving him burning with fever and desire... After a night of wild, unspeakable passion, he wakes to find an immortal in green standing tall before him, his white hair cascading like a waterfall. Amid the drifting clouds and mist, the divorce letter lies before Ming Shi. ...It's his cheap Dao companion. Not only has his eyesight returned, but judging by last night's performance, his physical stamina is extraordinary. Several people who hurried over come to a halt at the mouth of the cave, their expressions frozen. Ming Shi watches his senior brother bow respectfully and grit out, “Master.” Legend has it that the Immortal Venerable Langhuan spent three hundred years in seclusion. It turns out he had descended to the mortal world to undergo a trial. Another legend says he mastered the Ruthless Dao and entered the Deity Transformation realm. #The CP is the master: older master-and-disciple romance# #Transmigration into another body. The shou is a beauty who seems gentle but is actually cold-hearted, powerful, and a natural heartthrob. Everyone except the main gong has one-sided feelings for him. There are love triangles.# #The gong is domineering in every way. As everyone knows, most versions of the Ruthless Dao on JJ are fake: ruthless to everyone else, but devoted to the shou, without realizing it. The gong and the original character were not truly Dao companions.# Theme: People and lives need dreams to be complete. No matter how many times you fall, get back up and never give up.