After Being Made a Scapegoat, I Brought the Tragic Novel's Protagonist Back with Me

Tao Le transmigrated into an old-school xianxia tragedy, where the top and bottom endured physical and emotional torment, overcame countless hardships and layers of misunderstandings, and finally reached a happy ending.

Of course, none of that had anything to do with Tao Le. He dutifully completed the role of the first cannon-fodder top: "Humiliate the aloof, beautiful protagonist bottom, then get slashed to death by the dark and scheming protagonist top." After that, he successfully returned to his own world.

The good news: Only five minutes had passed in the real world. Everything was as it had been, and he had even received an extra reward for completing the mission.

The bad news: The reward was terrifying.

Tao Le opened his eyes to find himself lying in his soft bed, with a beautiful man in white lying beside him.

The protagonist bottom from the tragedy had come through with him.

The beautiful man in white abandoned his usual cool demeanor and pinched Tao Le's chin.

Xie Tingshuang: "Didn't you say you'd been in love with me for a long time, Junior Brother?"

Tao Le: "Senior Brother... (When did I ever?)"

Xie Tingshuang: "Didn't you sneak into my cave every night, intending to cultivate dual cultivation with me?"

Tao Le: "That was all a misunderstanding."

Xie Tingshuang: "That dog ruined things last time. I've actually been thinking about you all along, Junior Brother. Better now than later..."

Tao Le: "Aaaaaah! Don't come any closer!"

Xie Tingshuang, the bright and noble cultivator of the immortal sect, had been fighting his sworn enemy, the Demon Lord, for several hundred years. His days were always dull, and his only pleasure was waiting at night for the new junior disciple Tao Le to sneak into his cave and secretly lie beside him.

The junior disciple claimed every day that he loved him, yet whenever he got close, he kept a little distance and wouldn't touch him. He would even say with righteous indignation, "Is the mission over yet? When can I go home?"

As if afraid others wouldn't know, he even went around spreading word of his own "misdeeds."

Xie Tingshuang deliberately kept quiet, secretly wondering when he might become Tao Le's cultivation partner and "go home" together.

One day, while fighting the Demon Lord, the junior disciple died saving him. Holding the junior disciple's body, he was overcome with grief, then vanished into the roiling tribulation lightning.

Theme: Love your work, love learning, love life.