The Immortal Venerable Doesn't Play by the Rules [Book Transmigration]

Completed novel: Transmigrating to Another World with a Game System. Available to read now. Preorder: After I Was Forced to Become the World-Destroying Villain's Senior Brother. Please add it to your collection.

Blurb:

As an avid reader who has devoured all kinds of novels aimed at both male and female audiences, Wei Chifeng can get a pretty good idea of what will happen in a book just by glancing at its blurb. Every day, he searches for his own name, then reads and memorizes every novel whose protagonist, supporting character, cannon fodder, or villain shares it.

Then one day, after falling asleep during a class on Mao Zedong Thought, Wei Chifeng really did transmigrate into a book. But nobody had told him that you could transmigrate just because a character's name sounded the same as yours!

Having read every kind of novel trope, Wei Chifeng immediately sensed trouble when he saw his new body: a white-haired, aloof immortal venerable.

According to the usual tropes, if this is a male-audience novel, I'll definitely become a stepping stone on the male lead's path to ascension. If it's a female-audience novel, I'll never escape getting fucked!

To protect my neck and my ass, I have to dye my white hair black. I absolutely won't pick up anyone I see on the roadside. I'll disguise my face to look completely average, too. I won't do anything that draws attention, and the only way to stay safe is to keep away from anyone better-looking than average!

What? You want me to take on a disciple?

How could Wei Chifeng possibly take on something that risky? After making an excuse about going into seclusion, he packed up his little bundle and set off to roam the world.

There's no such thing as an aloof immortal venerable here. A funny guy isn't going to find love.

While roaming, Wei Chifeng also met a funny, ordinary-looking companion, just like him: not gloomy, arrogant, unhinged, or aloof. Their travels went smoothly, and he thought he might finally escape the usual novel tropes. But who could have guessed that his companion was also roaming the world in disguise?

After his companion's secret identity as the Supreme of the Demon Realm was exposed...

Wei Chifeng: ...

How could he have forgotten? Besides master-disciple pairings, good and evil falling in love had always been a common trope, too!

From the love interest's perspective:

Mo Fengpi accidentally acquired a damaged System and learned from it that he was merely a stepping stone on the male lead's path to immortality. In the end, he would die after being struck by heavenly lightning, and after his death, every member of the demon race would also perish by the male lead's sword.

As a genuine loose cannon, Mo Fengpi decided to kill the male lead before he even set foot on the path of cultivation. But the damaged System used up all its energy to place a restriction on him: he could not attack the male lead.

Fine. If he couldn't attack the male lead, he would simply take every opportunity for himself before the male lead could get to it.

The first person he needed to claim was naturally the male lead's strongest backer, who would remain so all the way until the male lead reached the Mahayana stage. In the story, this master, Immortal Venerable Ci Feng, Wei Cifeng, would ultimately sacrifice himself to help the male lead reach the Tribulation Transcendence stage.

But after successfully sneaking into Lingyun Sect's disciple selection ceremony, he discovered that Immortal Venerable Ci Feng, who had taken on the male lead as a disciple in the story after the latter boldly recommended himself, had not even given him a glance this time. After the ceremony, the venerable announced that he was entering seclusion, but had actually concealed his identity and cultivation and gone down the mountain.

Interesting. After having his disguises exposed by Immortal Venerable Chifeng dozens of times, Mo Fengpi finally managed to get close to him with a secret identity whose appearance, name, and even personality were all utterly ordinary.

And then... why was this Immortal Venerable Ci Feng nothing like the one in the story?

Completed novel: Transmigrating to Another World with a Game System

As a healer without a designated DPS, Geng Xinghe often ran into DPS players in random groups who would sprint off at the start like unleashed wild dogs. He had to chase them around the whole field to heal them, only for them to unmute their mics and complain, "This healer hasn't healed me once the whole time!"

After yet another arena match where he chased the DPS around and healed them the whole time, only to be focused down and killed while his teammates complained over voice chat that he was a lousy healer who couldn't even keep someone healed while standing still, Geng Xinghe looked at the DPS players' healing received, over ten thousand per second, and his own arena record, completely in the red. He snapped.

They say the rod spoils the child, and a healer raises their enemies. If he healed those idiots again, he might as well be a dog.

As soon as the match ended, the first thing Geng Xinghe did was strip off his healer gear and message a power-leveling service, asking them to get him a full set of DPS equipment.

But before he could get his gear, Geng Xinghe's computer overheated and exploded, and he transmigrated with his game account.

The good news: all the spirit stones, cosmetic outfits, and life skills in his inventory came with him.

The bad news: his level had reset to zero. Worse, although he'd taken off his healer gear before transmigrating, he'd forgotten to switch to DPS, and he couldn't switch to a DPS cultivation method until level fifty.

Looking at his +233 healing and the -1-1-1 damage from his only attack skill, Geng Xinghe fell silent.

Could he... only find some sucker to be his designated DPS?

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The senior and junior disciples all knew that after the most old-fashioned sword cultivator in the sect, Chi Changye, went to train in the dense forest, he became entangled with a beauty.

The beauty was gorgeous, but not quite right in the head. Every day, he'd spend hours admiring himself in the mirror, muttering, "As expected of my son. He's so handsome." He also spent huge amounts of spirit stones buying all sorts of bizarre outfits. Every time he got new clothes, he would show them off all over the sect's central arena, leaving the disciples to spend their days guessing what the beauty would do to himself next.

Geng Xinghe's response was: My outfit can be ugly, but I can't go without one. Strength only matters for a while, but being handsome lasts a lifetime.

"Right, hubby?" Wearing a newly purchased outfit that left most of his chest and thighs bare, Geng Xinghe straddled Chi Changye's lap and leaned in to ask.

Chi Changye expressionlessly took off his outer robe and draped it over Geng Xinghe, who was barely wearing any fabric at all. "Put on some more clothes, or you'll catch a chill."

A flamboyant, vain bottom who never runs out of dirty jokes x a stoic, old-fashioned sword cultivator top

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After transmigrating into a book, I got saddled with a useless System. Not only did I get no golden finger, but I was thrown a hundred years before the story began by a time-space rift, and even the most important plot details had been reduced to a rough outline.

Sang Jinzhui's target, the great villain Yin Tu, occupied fewer than a hundred words in the outline. He was merely one of the more prominent obstacles in the way of the two protagonists' romance, a love story packed with misunderstandings, stand-ins, amnesia, and the protagonists being willing to overturn the world for each other.

Unfortunately, this obstacle didn't die during the protagonists' romance as the story intended. Instead, he turned evil, took the place of the novel's biggest villain, killed both protagonists, and unleashed the Weakwater to destroy the world.

Sang Jinzhui's mission after transmigrating into the book was to lower the villain's corruption level and stop him from destroying the world.

The benefit of arriving early was that the villain hadn't yet turned evil in a fit of rage after enduring the protagonists' many outrageous antics. Sang Jinzhui got ahead of things by picking up the scrawny little villain and raising him with care. Before long, the gloomy, withdrawn, timid little boy had become a sunny, cheerful puppy-like young man.

Just when he thought the mission was no big deal, the System, which hadn't been online in ages, suddenly let out a piercing shriek.

The world-destroying villain has been reborn! Host, stay alert!

Reborn at fifteen, Yin Tu was filled with murderous resentment and cared only about turning to the demonic path and taking revenge. But the instant he opened his eyes, someone popped a sweet, fragrant pastry into his mouth, while a handsome young man affectionately ruffled his hair.

His body moved without his control. He obediently looked up at the young man and called him "Senior Brother," then expertly acted cute and fawned on him.

Only then did Yin Tu realize that another consciousness existed within this body.

No. Rather than another consciousness, he was the outsider here.

This version of himself had been taken in by the young man before him as a child. He had never suffered a day of hardship, and even his name had been changed to Yin Yuze, a name full of good wishes. He got along well with his fellow disciples, was doted on by his senior brother, and wore a dazzling smile that hurt to look at...

After discovering that Yin Tu existed, he showed no wariness at all. He even listened to the story Yin Tu made up, gave him partial control of their body, and vowed to help him take revenge.

Naive, foolish, and overconfident, yet enough to stir envy and jealousy.

He despised how Sang Jinzhui's excessive protection and guidance had turned the gloomy, loathed person he was meant to become into such a silly, sweet-natured boy. Yet when he used Yin Yuze's body, he couldn't help gradually surrendering to Sang Jinzhui's tenderness and fierce protectiveness, time and time again.

Even though he knew perfectly well that the young man's affection was for Yin Yuze, not Yin Tu, he couldn't stop himself from greedily seeking the young man's love.

He thought he had hidden it well, but he couldn't fool Yin Yuze, who shared his body. After Sang Jinzhui defended him and those hypocrites forced him to have his golden core removed, Yin Yuze took the initiative and offered to merge with him. His only condition was that once Yin Tu regained his power, he would protect his senior brother properly.

He successfully gained full control of the body. But when Yin Tu met Sang Jinzhui's eyes, he carefully pretended to be that silly puppy, afraid the young man would notice the slightest thing amiss.

He used the injury to the young man's eyes as an excuse to blindfold him, then said it was to protect him and locked him inside the demon palace, forbidding him to wander around. He sealed off all the bloodshed and chaos he had unleashed outside, making sure not a word of it reached the young man's ears.

He thought he had kept up his disguise perfectly, but he never expected the other man to have discovered their differences long ago.

He watched the young man pull off his blindfold and look at him, then smile as warmly as ever and say, "Although wolves and dogs are both canines, they're still easy to tell apart, aren't they?"

Theme: Rejecting tropes