The Lazy Fish Demon Lord Saves People Online [Book Transmigration]

[Prepublication novel You Were Looking at Someone, link in my profile. Blurb at the bottom, please add it to your reading list!]

After transmigrating into a book, Feng Xiaoyang became the cannon-fodder Demon Venerable in a male power fantasy harem novel.

In the original story, the Demon Venerable was run through the heart by the Immortal Venerable, Cheng Miao, and died without even leaving a corpse. He was just a stepping stone for the protagonist on his path to godhood.

After transmigrating into the book, all Feng Xiaoyang wanted was to follow the script and keep his head down. He didn't expect to open his eyes and find the Immortal Venerable in his room, barely alive and under the effects of an aphrodisiac.

With grievances between cultivators outside and demons eyeing him within, Feng Xiaoyang's vision went dark. I just want to be a good person. Do you think I still have a chance...?

To stay alive, he decided to do one good deed a day, while building up the Immortal Venerable's favor toward him. From then on, he'd walk the broad path of helping the world and saving lives.

System: ?

#The Demon Venerable chooses to save the world. That doesn't add up.

Years later, thanks to the Demon Venerable's tireless efforts, the three realms finally enjoyed peace and prosperity, becoming a wonderful place where cultivators could live and work in peace.

Just as Feng Xiaoyang was preparing to retire after accomplishing his goal, a shocking piece of news arrived.

The three great sects of the cultivation world had been wiped out overnight. The blood-soaked, seemingly deranged culprit was none other than the Immortal Venerable, Cheng Miao.

"You are not allowed to leave. You must never leave me."

Feng Xiaoyang: "...Oh, damn."

Maybe he'd raised the favorability a little too high...

Everyone in the cultivation world lamented that they'd misjudged the situation. The Immortal Venerable had become a bloodthirsty fiend, while the Demon Venerable, denounced as an evil heretic, was actually a kindhearted saint.

But no one knew there had once been a deal between the two.

"I want to be a good person."

"Fine."

"What does the Immortal Venerable want?"

"You."

From then on, whenever the road ahead was rough, his sword would sweep the world clean.

Call me husband and I'll give you my life (x)

An obsessive, cold, and aloof Immortal Venerable gong x a laid-back, sweetly clueless Demon Venerable shou

In our previous life, you deceived my heart. In this one, I'll torment your body and soul.

P.S.:

1. One-on-one romance. I'm jealous of myself.

2. The Immortal Venerable is the gong. The Immortal Venerable is the gong. The Immortal Venerable is the gong. I'm repeating the important part three times, so don't get the pairing backward.

3. There will be a groveling-for-forgiveness arc and scenes involving coercion. Every action has a consequence, and the gong's punishment is the shou.

Prepublication blurb:

You Were Looking at Someone

Qi Duo has lost his memory.

Luckily, the memories he lost are just a few insignificant ones.

He struggled and fought to survive, making his way from a desolate planet to the world of high society. He took any job and did anything for money, becoming the best-regarded beta con artist in the area.

Sang Jiu, the notorious number-one interstellar merchant, is the target of his next job.

Sang Jiu is ruthless and merciless. Qi Duo knows it from the moment they meet.

But things unfold very differently from what he imagined.

Sang Jiu has eyes for him.

Whenever Sang Jiu looks at him, there's always a hazy glimmer in his eyes.

Qi Duo can't help falling for him.

He gives Sang Jiu his body, his love, and even his heart.

Only after his business is seized and he's thrown in jail does he learn that Sang Jiu's ambiguous affection, which had led him to believe he was loved, was all meant for Qi Duo, the former Imperial Marshal, Qi Duo.

Thirty years ago, the empire's only S-class alpha, Qi Duo, betrayed his side on the battlefield. His reputation was ruined, and the entire interstellar network condemned him.

He died in a starship explosion, leaving no body behind. The whole empire recognized him as a traitor.

Qi Duo was Sang Jiu's white moonlight.

Qi Duo was a substitute for Qi Duo.

Sang Jiu admitted that Qi Duo was the traitor recognized by the entire empire, a despicable opportunist and a sinner who deserved to go to hell. And yet he was also the desire Sang Jiu could never banish after waking from his midnight dreams.

He endured the heart-searing pain and waited thirty years for that sinner.

Thirty years. Qi Duo thought, how devoted, how ironic.

He severed the connection to the job and dumped Sang Jiu.

Until the memories he'd lost returned.

He was Qi Duo, and he was Qi Duo. He was once Sang Jiu's guardian, and he was the one who had led Sang Jiu down this path of depravity.

"I will always be loyal to you, my faith."

"Until the stars no longer shine... until my heart stops beating."

"But you don't want me anymore."

#Through my eyes, who are you looking at?

A gloomy, cold-blooded mad-dog gong x a refined, many-faced, fake-substitute shou

P.S.:

1. One-on-one romance. A heart-wrenching fake-substitute story. Qi Duo and Qi Duo are the same person, but in the story their names have different pronunciations.

2. Younger gong, older shou. The shou is the gong's faith.

3. Lots of coercion. Both leads are beautiful and tragic. My take on a sci-fi ABO setting with plenty of original worldbuilding.

4. Both are alphas, pretending to be ABO.

Theme: Whatever your identity, work hard to become the person you want to be.