A Socially Anxious Person Transmigrates into a Book as a Powerful Man's Mermaid Steed

Lin Yiran suffers from severe social anxiety, so severe that he doesn't want to say a single extra word even on the phone. And yet he transmigrates into a book, specifically a cultivation story where the characters have to team up to fight monsters and level up.

Luckily, the phone every socially anxious person needs comes along too, and he transmigrates as an egg, not even hatched yet.

Little Lin, the social phobe, decides on the spot to curl up in his little eggshell, cling to his little phone, and never go out. Hatch?

Not a chance. Little Lin isn't curious about the cultivation world at all :)

Socializing with the outside world sounds exhausting. Playing a farming game and developing his own little homestead is much better.

Man proposes, Heaven disposes. The egg is found by the villain, the rich darling of the cultivation world. The villain cuddles him every day and talks to him, which he can put up with. What Little Lin can't stand is how the man keeps wrapping his long legs around him, trying to hatch him that way.

Goodbye! Lin actually starts packing up to run away in his shell, only to get caught by the tail...

The social phobe weeps.

Huo Tingyan's egg glows with a soft, lustrous light at night, so he always thought it was at least a seventh-level bird demon beast. Even if it wasn't much of a fighter, it could still serve as a mount. He never imagined that after keeping it warm for years, what hatched would be a fish demon beast that couldn't be ridden on land.

At least it can be ridden.

Reading Guide:

1. A cultivation-and-farming story that's half-serious and half-comedic, featuring a little merman being raised. An outrageously powerful golden finger makes for a satisfying read. The cover shows the rich darling riding a mermaid~

2. A salty, socially anxious merman who only wants to lie flat but accidentally wins at life (his aloofness is just a cover for his social anxiety) vs. a second-generation cultivator who finds an egg and goes from villain to protagonist (the villainous rich kid in a grass-roots cultivation story, a perfect male idol in public and a clueless landlord's son in private).

3. They won't be running all over the world to clear dungeons. Half the time they'll be cuddled up together, farming and developing their homestead in a mobile game space. An exemplary student in the husbandly virtue class. Both are each other's first and only partner. Sweet romance, tooth-achingly sweet!!

4. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Mahayana, Ascension. Each stage is divided into early, middle, and late phases.

Upcoming story: “The Miserly Slacker Transmigrates into a Doomed Fall-Guy CEO”

1. Sheng Lian comes from a well-off family, but he's frugal to the point of stinginess. He never imagined he'd transmigrate into a book and become a doomed side character who loves playing Santa Claus with his money.

Looking at the million-yuan check halfway out of his hand, he gives a little tremble and pulls it back.

In front of him, the protagonist shou is putting on a pitiful act with teary eyes, ready to take the check. Sheng Lian encourages him expressionlessly: “I believe you can make something of yourself through your own ... hard work!” Then he carefully slips the check into his wallet and tucks it away securely.

The shock of giving money distracts him for a second from the shock of transmigrating. After quickly reviewing the plot in his head, he realizes this character is a sucker of a CEO who gives the protagonist resources, connections, and a fortune just before he makes it big. Sheng Lian hurriedly checks his phone balance.

Seeing all the zeroes in his account, Sheng Lian lets out a huge sigh of relief. He looks at the protagonist shou, who is staring at him in shock, and says earnestly, “Happiness is something you have to create for yourself. If you really need money for your father's medical bills, come work at a convenience store owned by my company tomorrow.” He remembers the other man's middle-school education and figures he probably couldn't even land a job in the head office...

“...” A trace of humiliation flashes across the protagonist shou's face.

2. Sheng Lian sits in his car, looking at the check he nearly lost, and can't help feeling a rush of emotions.

Xie Qijin, passing by, catches the complicated expression on the young man's face: fifty percent relief, thirty percent heartache, and twenty percent confusion.

Since when did this rich second-generation fool get stupid enough to lose his mind too?

Before he can figure it out, the other man spots him first. He smiles warmly and asks, “Little brother, is something bothering you?”

Having recognized the man in front of him as the ruthless CEO and villain of the original story, Sheng Lian hastily puts on a terrified expression. But what he says doesn't match his face very well: “Uncle, did you get the generations mixed up?”

“...” Xie Qijin, now called Uncle, rolls up the window with a cold expression.

3. To keep anyone from realizing he's no longer the old Santa Claus, stingy Sheng Lian diligently cultivates the image of a nouveau riche. Every day, he tries to spend as little as possible while putting on the biggest show. This lifestyle is no less tiring than his old habit of carefully calculating every expense.

But at least no one has noticed he's become stingy.

1. Both are each other's first and only partner, one-on-one, tooth-achingly sweet and hilarious. A cold villainous wolf of an alpha × a stingy, penny-pinching beta.

2. A very, very, very, very, very distant uncle from the wealthy family, five degrees removed.

3. The seme and uke are competing at acting: one pretends to be warm and gentle, the other pretends to be generous.

Theme: Work hard to overcome your own flaws and become a better person.