I Got Together with a Soft Dom

[The neighboring novel, written from the gong's perspective, My Coldhearted Scumbag Gong Is Pregnant, is complete. Please add it to your collection!]

[The blurb for the upcoming novel I'm Really Allergic to Money is at the very bottom.]

Gong-perspective episodic story. Expected to go VIP on September 23. Thank you all for your support!

First world: Silly, sweet, kawaii shizun gong x a nurturing shou who wins himself over and turns a straight man gay

[Blurb from the shou's perspective]

After transmigrating, Shi Xunlu becomes the handsome but tragic male lead of a male-oriented web novel.

When he first arrives, to avoid the original story's tragedy of being pummeled by the villain and ground into the dirt early on, Shi Xunlu focuses on nothing but cultivation. His heart is as hard as a rock:

What female leads and love interests? They'd only slow down my sword. Stay the hell away from me!

The women he's cruelly rejected, thinking to themselves: Do you have any manners?

As if answering Shi Xunlu's wishes, the Heavenly Dao arranges for him to cultivate at Youxian Sect. By a twist of fate, he gains a beautiful little shizun. Shi Xunlu is overjoyed. Kneeling before his little shizun, he swears to the heavens: From today on, your disciple will cultivate diligently. If you say east, I won't go west. If I break this vow, may I be struck by lightning.

His little shizun tilts his head and smiles sweetly. "Okay!"

Later...

After finishing his bedtime story for his little shizun, Shi Xunlu looks down at his little shizun, who's holding him around the waist and sleeping with rosy cheeks. In a daze, tears as wide as Lanzhou noodles stream down his face:

I thought I was getting a little shizun. Turns out I got myself an ancestor!

And then

He resignedly tucks the blanket around his little shizun.

[Blurb from the gong's perspective]

Yunting is exceptionally gifted and devoted to cultivation. At sixteen, he is already halfway to becoming a deity and is on the verge of ascending.

One rainy night, while meditating, he dreams of a boy who takes his hand and calls him shizun with great affection.

Yunting smiles and strokes his head. But the next second, a sharp dagger pierces his chest. He looks down in shock as the handle twists, wrenching his heart out.

The boy stands before him, covered in blood, and smiles sinisterly. "My dear shizun, your disciple has done so much for you. In exchange, won't you give me this heart?"

When Yunting wakes, a heart demon takes hold. His cultivation plummets, his spiritual power comes and goes, and cultivation becomes impossibly difficult.

He has no choice but to shut himself away in the back mountains. For a hundred years, he lives alone, never once setting foot in the human world again.

Until one day, he falls out of a peach tree and lands in the arms of a boy, instead of on the cold ground.

From then on, Yunting always has fine wine to drink and sweet pastries to eat. The boy wraps his arms around Yunting's waist, his palm burning hot, and solemnly whispers words Yunting doesn't understand into his ear:

"You're not some cannon-fodder villain. You're the little shizun I love."

"Even if the laws of the Heavenly Dao demand your life, I'll protect you at any cost."

------------[Upcoming Novel Blurb]------------------

1. Blurb from the gong's perspective:

Shen Mingjin is rescued from the seaside. After losing his memory, he forgets his own name and family name.

To support himself, Shen Mingjin drifts from place to place until he finds work at a construction site, where he begins a grimy life hauling bricks.

But on payday, the moment Shen Mingjin's fingertips touch a red banknote, it's as if he gets electrocuted. He falls straight down, stiff as a board, and nearly stops breathing.

His coworkers rush him to the hospital. The doctor diagnoses him with a money allergy. Put simply, touching money makes him nauseated, dizzy, and liable to faint. He'll never be able to count money again.

Shen Mingjin: "…"

You've got to be kidding me.

2. Blurb from the shou's perspective:

On the day Xu Duwan returns to the Xu family as their real son, he sees the aloof heartthrob he once loved but could never have sitting by the roadside, earnestly eating a few yuan's worth of plastic takeaway amid the dust and exhaust fumes.

Remembering how the other man rejected his confessions again and again, even humiliating him in public, Xu Duwan decides to get revenge. He sneers and flings a pile of cash at Shen Mingjin's face, then drawls:

"Shen Mingjin, as long as you agree to be mine, all this money is yours."

Xu Duwan intends to return every bit of the humiliation he suffered, but when Shen Mingjin slowly looks up, his face is bright red, as if he's utterly ashamed. His body trembles, and he seems to be struggling to say something.

Seeing this, Xu Duwan feels even more triumphant. He's about to heap on more mockery when Shen Mingjin sways, then suddenly collapses into his arms.

Xu Duwan: "???"

Is he trying to pull a scam on me?!

Xu Duwan looks down in alarm. Shen Mingjin's breathing is growing weaker, and he starts to panic. He is about to ask what kind of trick the other man is playing when Shen Mingjin grips his wrist tightly, looks up, and weakly manages a few words:

"Give, give me..."

"Give you what?" Xu Duwan had assumed someone as proud as Shen Mingjin would tell him to get lost when offered a kept-man arrangement. Instead, Shen Mingjin slowly leans close to his ear. His hot breath sends a shiver from Xu Duwan's tailbone all the way to his scalp, and his voice is so husky and sexy it's almost unbelievable:

"Give me the money... all in checks."

Xu Duwan: "…"

???

Content warnings:

1. The gong is allergic to money, but only paper bills and coins. Digital payments, cards, and checks are fine.

2. The gong and shou have a serious misunderstanding. This is not a kept-man romance.

3. This isn't pure slapstick fluff. If you've read my other novels, you know there'll be some melodrama mixed in. If you can't handle that, stay away from me, or you might end up unhappy [bitter].

4. More warnings to come if I think of any.

Theme: Strength and weakness are relative. When you are at a disadvantage, hold on to your convictions, dare to strive, and take control of your life