I’m Only a Tiny Bit Different from the Male Lead

Next up: Raise a Coffin and Prosper, My Ancestor; A Few Things About Me and My Useless Son; The Haitang-Novel Hero Lands in Jinjiang. Please add them to your want-to-read list. Blurbs are at the end. Song Yuanxi transmigrates into a cultivation novel and becomes the cannon-fodder older brother of the male lead, who dies young before reaching a hundred years old. In the original story, the male lead has a single spiritual root, a talent score of 99, establishes his foundation at twenty, forms his golden core at fifty, and reaches the nascent soul stage at two hundred... Before he turns three thousand, he ascends straight to the Immortal Realm. His older brother, who dies young, is a good-for-nothing with five spiritual roots and a talent score of 55. He's been sickly since childhood. After finally establishing his foundation at ninety-nine, he gets caught in the crossfire during a sect competition and dies on the spot. After becoming the cannon-fodder older brother, Song Yuanxi stays humble and unruffled, never fighting or competing, treats everyone with kindness, and always keeps a heart full of love for life. At one hundred, he establishes his foundation. At two hundred, he forms his golden core. At five hundred, he reaches the nascent soul stage. At ten thousand, he reaches the Mahayana stage... The Song family has two prodigies. For the first three thousand years, everyone knows only Song Yuanruo. As the first person to ascend to the Immortal Realm, he's the pride of the cultivation world and a role model everyone hopes to emulate. But for the next thirty thousand years, everyone knows only Song Yuanxi. Although he has the worst spiritual roots, he always manages to advance just before his lifespan runs out. He lives for more than thirty thousand years, outlasting thousands upon thousands of cultivators and becoming the oldest ancestor of the Xuantian Sect. No one knows how much longer he can live! The Xuantian Sect's ancestor isn't just a good-for-nothing who defied the odds. He's also a man of great virtue who freely shares his cultivation insights at every stage and has written countless books, including but not limited to: Nine Decades of Practice Exams: Establish Your Foundation at One Hundred; How to Form a Golden Core Before You Breathe Your Last; Things I Couldn't Not Mention About the Nascent Soul Stage; Shocking! Cultivation Insights for the Deification Stage You Can't Afford to Miss; The Inside Story of the Mahayana Stage You Never Knew... Song Yuanxi: I never expected to outlast the male lead and become a new guiding light for the cultivation world simply by living long enough! This blurb was first written on June 1, 2022. A screenshot has been saved. Blurb for Raise a Coffin and Prosper, My Ancestor: Jiang Jin wakes up to find herself lying in a coffin, with three hundred years having passed in the blink of an eye. Three people who seem to be tomb robbers are kneeling and sobbing in front of her coffin, calling her “Grandma.” Jiang Jin firmly denies it. “Don't talk nonsense. I'm single.” She learns later that these people were adopted into her family line from her brother's branch because she died young and had no descendants of her own. When she returns to her clan, a crowd of young people, middle-aged men, and old men surrounds her, calling her “Ancestor.” Jiang Jin happily accepts and settles into a carefree, lazy retirement. Until one day, at a family gathering, she sees an unfamiliar face. “Tsk, he sees his ancestor and doesn't even greet her. No manners.” Her little grandson beside her wipes sweat from his brow and says quietly, “Grandma, that's not your grandson.” “Hm?” “That's the ancestor of the Qi family. Um... he's your fiance.” Jiang Jin: “Nonsense. My fiance died three hundred years ago. Wait, what fiance?” At first, Jiang Jin thinks she simply slept for three hundred years and became the ancestor of the Jiang family. Then she meets Qi Sang and his childhood sweetheart, and realizes she's transmigrated into a book. She's the male lead's long-dead first love, as well as the Jiang family's ancestor, who comes back to life only to die within a year. Jiang Jin works out the dates and raises an eyebrow. “Oh wow, I have a hundred days left to live.” What are we waiting for? Let's get up and party!!! After a series of outrageous stunts, the hundred days pass, but she still hasn't kicked the bucket? Jiang Jin: “What's going on? Why am I still alive? What about all the trouble I've caused lately?” Qi Sang: “It's time to settle our accounts. Where should I start?” Jiang Jin: “Don't come any closer!” Blurb for A Few Things About Me and My Useless Son: After working on his graduation project, Zhuo Jiuyuan finally creates a robot to his liking. The moment he succeeds, he points at the robot and says, “Son, I'm your dad.” The robot raises its not-so-nimble left hand and slaps him. Zhuo Jiuyuan: “...It broke in a second? I didn't program that!” Later, he develops a voice function for the robot, and they can finally communicate without any trouble. Zhuo Jiuyuan gives it an order: “Son, get your dad a glass of water.” The robot raises its not-so-nimble right hand and slaps him again. “Get lost! I'm your father!” Zhuo Sanqian sacrifices himself to save a drowning child, then transmigrates into another world of cultivation. After a hundred years, he finally forms a golden core. But as he undergoes his tribulation, his divine sense passes through a rift in space and returns to the modern world, entering the body of the robot his son built. His soul is damaged, and he can't speak. Zhuo Sanqian is forced to start living with his utterly useless son. [1] His old dad starts body cultivation, tempering his skin. Useless son: “Oh no, smoke's coming out around the heart! The internal wiring's shorted out. We need to take it apart and replace the parts.” [2] His old dad repairs his sea of consciousness and gathers spiritual energy in his dantian. Useless son: “Oh no, the body is getting too hot. The CPU can't handle it. Should I replace it?” [3] His old dad consolidates his divine sense and finally manages to speak. Useless son: “Piece of junk! You keep slapping me and still want to be my dad? I'll tear you apart and sell you for scrap!” Zhuo Sanqian is so angry smoke rises from his head, but he does his best to restrain himself. Don't be angry, don't be angry. He's my own son. I haven't seen him in a hundred years. I have to be a good dad. “Yuanyuan, I'm your dad.” “Idiot, I'm your dad!” “Zhuo Jiuyuan, I really am your dad.” “Hey, you piece of junk, I'm your grandpa!” “Bang! Bang-bang! Bang-bang-bang!” Zhuo Sanqian flexes his fairly nimble mechanical hand and finally feels satisfied. When a brat won't listen, you just have to give him a beating. If that doesn't work, beat him again. That night, Zhuo Sanyuan, sporting a pair of black eyes, locks himself in the bathroom and calls the emergency number. “Help, Officer! My graduation project came to life! It says it's my dad and has taken over my bedroom. My dad, I mean, my robot has beaten me three times in a row!” Blurb for The Haitang-Novel Hero Lands in Jinjiang: As the number-one domineering CEO male lead in Haitang novels, Lu Shenting has just one job: day and night, night and day. But one day, the paper character becomes self-aware... “Heavens, Earth, please spare my poor kidneys!” “I quit! I'm running away from home!” Just then, the web-novel world glitches, and Lu Shenting makes his escape to the Jinjiang world... “So novels can have more than one kind of story!” [Farming novel] You can grow anything. Farming is fun, and the more you farm, the more fun it gets. Lu Shenting gazes at the ten thousand mu of fertile fields with satisfaction. “Look at this, the vast land under Heaven that I planted myself.” “Lu Bazong, come home for dinner!” “Coming, Mom!” [Imperial exam novel] Studying is so much fun. The Four Books and Five Classics, vernacular stories and unofficial histories: as long as there are people writing books in the world, you can keep reading until you die. Take the scholar exam, the provincial exam, the metropolitan exam... Anything can be an exam. What, you've reached the end of the exams? As officials serving the people, we'll make a new kind of test. Let's reform the imperial examinations for the good of future generations, starting with me! In his old age, Lu Shenting retires as a high-ranking official who served three dynasties. After he dies, he's enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Lu Shenting: “No, I won't retire! I can still keep working!” [Cultivation novel] “The world is so big. I want to see it. Men and women, stay away from me. Starting today, I'm cultivating the path of ruthlessness!” I have to keep cultivating. Foundation establishment and golden core aren't enough. I still need to work toward the nascent soul stage and deification, then tribulation and Mahayana... What, the road to Heaven is broken? If I can't ascend, then I'll break through the heavens and create a path of my own. Lu Shenting becomes the first person in ten thousand years to ascend from the cultivation world, a powerful figure revered by everyone. But even after becoming an immortal, he still doesn't think it's enough. “There's a God Realm above the Immortal Realm. The path of cultivation has no end. I want to become a god!” [World-building novel], [Inner-court intrigue novel], [Period novel]... The web-novel world glitches again, and Lu Shenting returns to his rightful place, back in Haitang. “Why should the male lead sleep? Get up and party!” “Read more, work more, think more. Sleep less to stay healthy and live longer. We're all going to join me in a massive overhaul!” A group of Haitang novel male leads, gathered together for reasons they can't understand and waiting to be reformed, tremble with fear... Theme: I love life, and life loves me.