Transmigrated as a Cultivation Master, but Now I’m Running a Seminar

The protagonist of this story is transported into a dark cultivation novel and becomes the unlucky, aloof master who will one day be killed by the protagonist, his own disciple, to prove his Dao. His death is gruesome. Very, very gruesome. To make matters worse, he is bound to a System that keeps insisting he must play the role of the aloof master, redeem his disciple and protect the world, or kill the disciple and escape. The darkened male lead won’t arrive at the sect for another twenty years. The protagonist pays no attention to any of this. Under the System’s surveillance, he stares at his roster of disciples for the time it takes an incense stick to burn... then decides to hold a group meeting. Next, he opens the sect’s library. Then he has every disciple enter the library and divide up all the texts to read within five years, submit a progress report at a weekly group meeting, and write a review paper every month. Each disciple gets a scholarship based on their evaluations. If they fail to complete their tasks, they have to stay in school longer. There are twenty years until the male lead arrives. During that time, the protagonist speculates in land around the sect, builds some houses, and promotes the benefits of home ownership, so the male lead will take on a mortgage as soon as he enters the sect. Then he can work for his advisor to pay it off. In three years, the protagonist reads every book in his sect’s library. In five years, he establishes the sect’s academic journal. In ten years, he encourages every major sect in the cultivation world to start a journal. In fifteen years, he establishes the first periodical in the history of the cultivation world, Science. In eighteen years, academic conferences and journals are springing up everywhere in the cultivation world. The protagonist seizes the moment to establish a patent office. After the male lead joins the sect, he even orchestrates a massive bout of inflation and launches a futures market. Two hundred years later, everyone is horrified to discover that as long as you cultivate and use a registered patent, you have to pay intellectual property tax to the patent office. Even demons are hunted down across borders. Whether they’re lunatics or geniuses, everyone is studying, paying taxes, pursuing higher education, and trading stocks. No one follows the original male lead to form an evil organization anymore. Dating is nothing compared to becoming a doctoral advisor. The protagonist is determined to save the cultivation world... by ruling it through knowledge. The only thing he’s still pondering is what new method he can use to make the male lead stay in school for another twenty years. Before the male lead sees a chance to get away from him and starts causing trouble again. After all, the male lead is very good at getting work done. Couple: The original story’s reborn true villain male lead × the protagonist, an evil advisor In this world, the male lead is reborn. After being reborn, he first uses a secret identity to stir up trouble, then fakes his death under that identity and returns to his original identity. Original identity: Lian Chengyue, a diligent, scholarly disciple who knows how to play the part Amnesiac secret identity: Qi Miancheng, the hypocritical sect leader whose research funding is exploited by the protagonist A recommendation for my completed novel, After a Reborn Obsessive Ghost Became Entangled with Me In her second year studying design, Chi Lanyi thought she had found the perfect older boyfriend. Gao Rong was assertive and dependable, rational and devoted. He gave Chi Lanyi access to the best fashion resources and dealt with every classmate who was jealous of him. He calmly stood up for Chi Lanyi’s image as a genius in the business world, yet in bed he could gently kiss away every one of Chi Lanyi’s vulnerable tears. Chi Lanyi thought no one in the world could be luckier than him. He was grateful to Gao Rong and wanted to spend his whole life with him. Until he realized Gao Rong wasn’t who he’d imagined. Gao Rong had been watching him all along. * Gao Rong was reborn from the darkness of betrayal. In his previous life, Chi Lanyi used his genius, neuroses, and deadly beauty to make Gao Rong fall hopelessly in love with him, and ruined the life Gao Rong should have had on a normal path. Gao Rong should have become a great entrepreneur or a successful politician, not ended up like this: after building the myth of Chi Lanyi as a fashion genius, he was divorced and thrown out by the person he had loved his whole life. After being reborn, Gao Rong looked at Chi Lanyi and thought, In my last life, I spoiled him. This time, he would make Chi Lanyi incapable of looking after himself without him. He would use a gentle trap to make the genius his alone. He drove out the professor who had framed Chi Lanyi and locked Chi Lanyi in the greenhouse of an incubator project. He negotiated the best possible contract for Chi Lanyi, but also sent away Chi Lanyi’s friend, who had kissed his cheek. He would make Chi Lanyi a canary in his glass cage: admired by everyone, perfect, yet able to flutter only in his hands. He would keep Chi Lanyi immersed in warm water until he drowned without realizing it, becoming his possession alone. He wanted Chi Lanyi to love him madly, stay by his side, and never want to escape. * Gao Rong had always thought he was doing a good job. He arranged for Chi Lanyi’s malicious parents to go bankrupt, cutting off Chi Lanyi’s last escape route. But he never expected Chi Lanyi, whom he had laid down to sleep on a velvet cushion, to be standing behind him, his face deathly pale as he listened to that phone call. Gao Rong thought Chi Lanyi was lost in a beautiful dream. When morning came, he would give Chi Lanyi a tender good-morning kiss and continue enjoying each happy, passionate day with his little prey. Gao Rong didn’t know that, hiding behind the curtains, Chi Lanyi had only one thought amid his endless terror. He wanted to escape. Reborn obsessive male lead with possessiveness as strong as his protectiveness × proud genius designer with depression Both are reborn. The male lead is reborn first, and the other lead recovers his memories later. Content warnings: 1. Includes elements of coercive love. 2. They both love each other intensely, to the point that they’re both possessive to an extreme. If you prefer light, sweet romance, this story probably isn’t for you. 3. They are each other’s only one emotionally and physically at all times, but there is a period when they are apart. Author’s note: We should love scholarship sincerely, from the bottom of our hearts.