The Outcast: Pay Your Respects to the Young Taoist

The author's embarrassing high school-era writing. Beginner-level prose.

Tang Mu felt that he had wasted both his lives.

In his first life, he died suddenly. In his second, he met a violent end. In his third, he just wanted to lie flat and spend the rest of his days in peace.

Then a phone call summoned him back to his hometown, and a crack appeared in his tranquil life.

"Great-grandma, you transmigrated too?!"

"My best friend is actually an Other?!"

"Wait... I actually like men??"

As his worldview collapsed for the Nth time, Tang Mu chewed on a foxtail grass stem. "I'm used to it. Whatever happens, happens."

Then one day, the mountain wind lifted the Daoist priest's robes, and when he looked back, the sea of clouds was reflected in his eyes. Tang Mu suddenly understood: after three cycles of reincarnation, was this the breathtaking glimpse he'd been waiting for?

Smooth-talking, shameless old rogue top x laid-back, doesn't care about anything, Wudang bottom

◆ Reader's Guide ◆

1. Top-focused story! Top-focused! An older man steals a younger man's heart.

2. Mutual pining: two wooden blocks each think they're hopelessly in love alone.

3. They like each other from the start, with lots of sweet romance ahead.

4. The top was a Wudang disciple in his previous life in A Dream of Jianghu. You can enjoy the story even if you've never played the game.

"I fell in love with a wild, untamed wind, but the wind stopped for me in this mortal world."

Theme: Entering the mortal world for you