Arrogant, unrestrained general gong x gentle, patient wizard shou
Fake double stand-ins · wife-chasing crematorium · shou gets hurt first, then gong · trapped in an endless dead-end loop · old-school melodramatic angst tropes.
The main story is physically and emotionally brutal; the extra chapters have a happy ending.
Wu Fang transmigrated into the novel he had written. Chu Xuzhou was the story's protagonist, while he was an NPC in this world.
Chu Xuzhou thought Wu Fang loved him so much that he was willing to wait for him, risk his life for him, and become someone else's shadow. What he didn't know was that the person by his side had already written the entire story. Just when he thought Wu Fang would never leave him, Wu Fang suddenly disappeared.
Chu Xuzhou found him, admitted his mistakes, begged for forgiveness, and confessed his true feelings. But Wu Fang seemed like a different person, always wearing a cold expression. Then Chu Xuzhou took out a portrait of someone who looked exactly like him and demanded, "Who is this?"
Wu Fang didn't deny it. Instead, he asked, "You've already guessed, haven't you?"
It turned out that Chu Xuzhou was the shadow, the stand-in for Wu Fang's dearly departed first love, who had died for him.
After all their twists and turns, the story finally reached its conclusion, and Chu Xuzhou, the novel's protagonist, reached the end of his fate. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the modern world, as the person in that portrait...
Their story is a Möbius strip.
Theme: Love is about saving each other.
I finished reading it in one sitting and waited for the sequel.