Professional Bad Ending Master

[Main story complete, bonus chapters updating]

[Please don't spoil things for anyone rereading!]

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Yu Lian is a master scriptwriter in the Fate Bureau of the Three Thousand Divine Realms, specializing in melodramatic tragic endings.

Angsty romances, replacement love, the white moonlight and vermilion mole tropes, “I love you, but you love him, and he loves me...” He can summon countless classic angst tropes at will. They've become an innate talent of his soul.

Before retiring, Yu Lian picked an extremely dangerous world that fused the settings of several novels, hoping to earn the highest-tier retirement benefits.

Scum Lead One: The foremost cultivator of the Immortal Sect.

Yu Lian is the only personal disciple of the Immortal Venerable. A dazzling prodigy, he desperately suppresses his forbidden love for his master, tormented by it until a heart demon begins to take hold.

His master treats him very well.

Well enough to suffer serious injuries for him.

His master also treats him very badly.

Badly enough to deceive him about his feelings, then, when Yu Lian gives him his heart, tear out Yu Lian's own heart for someone else. It turns out Yu Lian was only raised as a medicinal vessel for his master's true love.

Later, the usually cold and ruthless master returns the heart to him, drenched in blood and cradling it with utmost care. His eyes red, he says, “A-Lian, I've given your heart back. Please love me again...”

But, Master, how can a heart that's been cut out ever be put back? And how can someone without a heart love another?

Scum Lead Two: The Immortal Venerable's sworn enemy, ruler of the Underworld.

The Underworld Lord grips his chin. “Yu Lian, you love him so much you've lost everything. I'll make you forget him. Once you fall in love with me, I'll restore your memories. You'll look beautiful when you fall apart, won't you?”

Yu Lian really does fall in love with him.

The Underworld Lord doesn't know how to love, so Yu Lian teaches him little by little. He gives the Underworld Lord so, so much love.

So when every beautiful illusion is torn away, the tragic beauty born from pain and despair is enough to chill you to the bone.

At last, the Underworld Lord learns how to love.

But the person who taught him will be lost to him forever.

Yu Lian opens their personal profiles and watches their steadily rising fate-repair scores, thoroughly pleased.

Reader's guide:

1. This blurb was probably written in 2022. It feels pretty embarrassing to me now, but it captures the story's style and tastes perfectly, so I'm leaving it as is o.o

There are stretches of one-on-one romance, and each love interest is devoted in both body and heart. The entire process is full of melodramatic love triangles where you love me and I love him. There are far too many potential triggers to list. The main story has a bad ending, with no pairing at the conclusion. After the main story ends, bonus chapters offer alternate happy or tragic endings with different love interests. They're optional and won't affect your subscription.

2. There are love rivals, groveling redemption arcs, faked deaths, and a protagonist who goes mad (or pretends to), as well as a fake pregnancy and miscarriage (no children, it's all an act). If these aren't for you, please move along.

3. The two love interests mentioned in the blurb get plenty of page time, but the protagonist also has many other unrequited admirers. It's not just those two.

4. Read the blurb carefully: this is not quick transmigration. The story starts out fairly slow, and the protagonist is absolutely at the center of everything, with a touch of ensemble cast.

5. The protagonist has genuine romantic relationships with the two characters in the blurb. The other characters who have one-sided crushes on him don't all get a response from him. This story isn't suitable for readers with extreme ship preferences.

6. Anti-piracy setting: 80% of the story is unavailable for purchase.

Theme: Life doesn't always give you a chance to turn back and undo your regrets.