My Master Toppled the Male Lead from Qidian

Updates at 4 or 6 p.m. My next book, Dragon Proudheaven, So Good!, is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb: Yan Zuiyu transmigrated into a book and became the evil master who humiliates, bullies, and torments the male lead on his path to greatness. Before the mission began, the System warned him: “Masters in cultivation novels have a high-risk job. There are two common outcomes: One, you’re not fully committed to being evil and keep wavering, so you become the male lead’s beloved yet despised cinnabar mole. Two, you’re too kind and become the white moonlight he can’t stop thinking about. Either way, get the balance right. Don’t kill him, and whatever you do, don’t let him develop feelings for you.” Yan Zuiyu thought it over. Given his personality, there was no way he’d end up as the bottom, so he confidently reassured the System: No problem! He followed the plot dutifully and worked hard to correct any deviations. Only on the rare occasion, when he saw the not-yet-grown male lead crushed beneath the weight of fate, enduring endless hardship and humiliation, would his compassion stir just a little and make him lend a small hand. Halfway through the plot, he realized something was wrong. The male lead didn’t just blush whenever he saw him, he was always pushing his luck, too. Take the matter of Yan Zuiyu accepting another disciple. The very night the news got out, the little madman crept into his bedchamber under cover of darkness, gripped him by the throat, and threatened him with an utterly serious expression: “If you dare take another disciple, I’ll strangle you.” “???” Yan Zuiyu said, “If you strangle me, you won’t have a master anymore.” The little madman considered this. “That’s fine,” he said. “I’ll strangle you, then kill myself for love. We can still be master and disciple underground.” Yan Zuiyu: “...” “You’re done for,” the System declared. “You’ve turned the male lead into the top.” The Venerable Immortal Fuyao of the Ethereal Sect was known for his eccentricity and outrageous conduct. His most talked-about moment was when he stood up for his disciple at the Immortal Selection Assembly, behaving with unrestrained arrogance from beginning to end. “I disagree with most of what you said just now,” the white-robed immortal said, leaning against the spirit platform with a lazy smile. “But there’s one thing I think you got right.” The assembled immortals held their breath and listened, waiting for his wisdom. “Every last thing is your fault. What’s the little madman got to do with it?” “If one day he really does punch a hole in the heavens, then blame the heavens for being flimsy. How can you blame him for having a sword aura that’s too sharp?” “All right, since you’ve realized you were wrong, apologize to our kid, will you? He was terribly upset just now, with tears falling like pearls. I couldn’t comfort him.” He Lou, the one who shed pearl-like tears, pressed his lips together without a word. The hand he kept behind his back was secretly wiping away the blood. Have you ever had someone you wanted to keep with you, no matter what it took? When your life reaches its end... Would you trade anything to give them another chance? A carefree, fearless, all-powerful master who can hold up the sky if it falls, top Yan Zuiyu × a guarded but gullible bottom with a hidden unhinged streak, He Lou Important! Reader’s guide: * The protagonist accidentally nearly kills someone during a competition. Please avoid this story if you have a very strong sense of morality. If he nearly commits murder, then the competition is a mass brawl, and everyone involved should be hauled off to jail. * The bottom isn’t a good person at the beginning. His values are still forming, and he’s a little crazy. Again, readers with a very strong sense of morality should probably skip this. * Fake transmigration into a book, real rebirth. * The System doesn’t have much screen time. This is not a face-slapping wish-fulfillment novel or a comeback-and-level-up story. * The little madman is He Lou. He’s adorable, and gets cuter the more you raise him. * A love story about two people giving their all for each other. * Please don’t read if you’re particular about character preferences. Thanks! * The author is writing with abandon. Feel free to point out any logical errors, but please don’t scrutinize the details. Just have fun. My next book, Dragon Proudheaven, So Good!, is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list! The romance System’s link went wrong, and Chi Lu’s target changed from the originally assigned aloof schoolgirl to a domineering, flashy, and arrogant Dragon Proudheaven. Dragon Proudheaven is male. Chi Lu: “...” I don’t think I can do this. On his first day as a transfer student, he rounded a corner on his way to the student office and bumped into someone. The other guy had golden hair and a defiant look, like a little lion with its fur standing on end. He jumped up and down furiously. “Are you blind?!” The System’s notification chimed in his ear: “Mission target, Sikong Yu. Age: eighteen. Senior at St. Lande Academy. Pisces. A Dragon Proudheaven protagonist in his youth...” Chi Lu looked at Dragon Proudheaven for a while. He thought: He was a Capricorn, a perfect match for Pisces. ...Maybe it wasn’t impossible after all. The connected world was hard to leave. A few days later, the System returned from negotiations and excitedly reported: “Since this mission has gone off track, you can resubmit your romance report, and you can also switch to a brand-new mission mode. I’ve already picked one for you! Your target is now St. Lande Academy. Increase your average grade in every subject by ten points in your first year, and earn 1,000 points; 2,000 in your second year; 5,000 in your third. Points for provincial-level and higher competition awards are calculated separately, as are extra points for group honors.” Chi Lu: “...” Damn it. Chi Lu went from being the protagonist of a melodramatic school romance to an ambassador for nine years of compulsory education. #My idiot System went and ruined my love life without asking. Sikong Yu wasn’t very fond of the new student council president. Ever since he showed up, the school ecosystem had gotten weird. His old crowd of friends had inexplicably started competing over grades. At parties, they no longer talked about sports cars and luxury watches, but about the extra questions assigned in class... Most importantly, the student council president sat next to him. When you’ve got a handsome desk mate, you can’t help but want to see who comes out on top. Less than half a month later, Chi Lu, cool and quiet behind his gold-rimmed glasses and accompanied by the aura of a top student, had surpassed Sikong Yu to claim the title of the campus’s number-one heartthrob. Sikong Yu: “...” Annoying. But having a top-student desk mate did have its perks. For example, if Sikong Yu forgot his homework, all he had to do was threaten Chi Lu in a menacing voice, telling him that if he didn’t let him copy it, the Sikong family would make sure he couldn’t stay at this school... At that point, the cold-faced student council president would frown in irritation, then grudgingly give in to the Sikong family’s overwhelming influence and hand over his homework for every subject. “Copy whatever you need.” Young Master Sikong was pleased by his willingness to cooperate. At the same time: The young lady of the Murong family, sitting in front, had been refused a copy of the last physics problem: “...” The young master of the Duanmu family, sitting behind him, had been refused the answers to the multiple-choice math questions: “...” Annoying! #Good grief! That student council president with the awful temper who never gives anyone an inch actually lent someone his homework! #Are the Murong and Duanmu families not good enough for him?! High-IQ, high-EQ, aloof top Chi Lu × hot-tempered, easily riled, foolish young master bottom Sikong Yu Theme: Longing for freedom and breaking free of constraints