I Am the Black Lotus Master of the Dragon-Prince Male Lead

Blurb:

Qian Yeli is the villainous master in a power fantasy novel. After committing countless evil deeds, he gets skinned and dismembered by his own disciple.

When Qian Yeli opens his eyes again, he discovers that he has been reborn to the time before he met his disciple. His soul is bound inside his body, while someone else is in control of it.

He watches that person use his body to flatter his disciple and cling to his favor, then fall in love with the disciple he hates most. Qian Yeli is disgusted beyond words. At last, just as the two are about to marry, he reclaims his body.

Unfortunately, his return does not make his former friends and family happy.

His master says that he has committed countless evil deeds and does not deserve to live, and orders him to give his body back to the transmigrator.

His senior brother looks at him with utter disdain, wishing he could kill him at once and reclaim the body for the transmigrator.

His disciple humiliates him in every way, hoping he will take the hint and give his transmigrator back.

Qian Yeli pays them no mind and makes a deal with them: they give him one year, and he will return his body to the transmigrator.

Then Qian Yeli goes down the mountain and brings back another disciple. He gives his all, teaching the boy everything he has learned over the course of a year. On the eve of his faked death, he calls the young disciple to his side. "If your master dies tomorrow, it will surely be at the hands of your grandmaster, your senior uncle, and your senior brother. Remember this grudge. When your cultivation is complete, you must avenge me."

The young disciple's eyes are deep and inscrutable as he quietly clenches his fist.

Reborn once more, Qian Yeli has barely woken when he hears the four great oddities of the cultivation world:

A new Demon Lord has risen in the Demon Realm. To honor his deceased master, every day since taking power he has visited Yuxiao Sect, causing chaos there without fail.

The newly ascended High God is so attached to his beloved disciple in the mortal realm that he breaks his sword to prove his love, willingly giving up his chance to ascend and keeping vigil at his dead disciple's grave every day.

The new sect leader of Yuxiao Sect proclaims to the world that he will love only his senior brother for the rest of his life, and will remain chaste for him, never taking a wife.

The once-proud genius betrays the Immortal Sect to claim his master's corpse, searching day after day for a way to bring him back to life.

Qian Yeli is thrilled. "The person they're talking about must be the transmigrator, not me. I'd better hide my secret identity and go enjoy the sight of my enemies making fools of themselves!"

[Black-Hearted Lotus, Beloved by All, Shou x Unhinged, Obsessive Gong]

Cover used with permission: Yiye Shu, Pingzi

Theme: No matter what difficulties you face, have the courage to keep living.