After I Became My Archrival's Disciple

[The next story, with a male lead gong, My Senior Brother Curves Like Incense Smoke Yet Insists He's Straight, is now being serialized. The blurb is at the bottom. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list!]

According to rumor, Xie Wuyang, the Demon Realm's Sovereign, was a ruthless evildoer who killed without blinking and had plagued the cultivation world for over a decade.

Eventually, a righteous Immortal Venerable pierced his heart with a single sword, and every sect in the cultivation world celebrated.

Unexpectedly, when Xie Wuyang opened his eyes again, he had arrived five hundred years in the past and become a low-ranking disciple of an immortal sect?

At the time, a treasured relic had been stolen from Cangqiong Mountain, the foremost immortal sect. Xie Wuyang had appeared at the scene of the theft and become the prime suspect.

If he couldn't prove his innocence, his meridians would be severed and his cultivation crippled. To make matters worse, a group of clueless senior brothers wouldn't leave him in peace.

Senior Brother A: "Xie Wuyang has been cultivating Qi for ten years and still hasn't established his foundation. Why did Immortal Venerable Yun accept him as a disciple?"

Senior Brother B: "Xie Wuyang is only at the Qi Refining stage, yet he gets to enter the Immortal Sect Tournament. Let's see if he cries when he gets beaten up."

Senior Brother C: "I hear Xie Wuyang is not only weak, but also wicked!"

Xie Wuyang sneered inwardly. He was the dignified Demon Sovereign. How could mere Qi Refining hold him back?

So, in his first month, all it took was a trip down the mountain for news of his successful Foundation Establishment to spread throughout Cangqiong Mountain.

At the Immortal Sect Tournament in the fourth month, Xie Wuyang trampled the senior brothers who had looked down on him, winning several matches in a row and making a brilliant impression.

In just a few short months, when the senior brothers saw him again, they were shocked to discover that Xie Wuyang had already reached the Golden Core stage, with the tribulation lightning for his impending Nascent Soul stage gathering overhead.

The senior brothers: H-how incredible...

Even his mortal enemy from his previous life, Yun Wanzhou, now his master, looked at him in utter shock.

What shocked everyone even more was that the moment the Nascent Soul tribulation lightning dissipated, Xie Wuyang walked into the crowd and naturally wrapped an arm around his master's waist in front of all the Cangqiong Mountain disciples.

"Master, what do you think of my progress?"

Yun Wanzhou's face was cold, but the tips of his ears were red. "Very good."

The disciples: We must be seeing things.

Seemingly deranged but actually a bit of a blockhead Demon Sovereign gong vs seemingly aloof but actually softhearted Immortal Venerable shou

Reader's Guide:

* Complete. Occasional bonus chapters.

* Monogamous 1v1, happy ending, mutual pampering (the shou spoils the gong more at first, then the gong spoils the shou more later)

* The gong has a tragic past. He's pretty useless at first after being reborn, but grows stronger later.

* Cultivation world, many original details. Don't read if that bothers you.

* Some parts of the story may be told from the shou's perspective for plot reasons.

* The main story can't please everyone. If it's not for you, please click away.

* No need to notify me if you're dropping the story.

Hope all my lovely readers enjoy the story!

[Blurb for My Senior Brother Curves Like Incense Smoke Yet Insists He's Straight]

Song Tinglan transmigrates into a book and becomes the vicious cannon fodder, handsome as a jade and guilty of countless crimes, who is ultimately tortured to death by the villain.

The villain in the book made a name for himself at a young age, stunning the world with a single sword. But just as his cultivation soared, the person he loved framed him, destroying his spiritual roots and driving him into demonic cultivation.

As it happens, Song Tinglan is that beloved person: the villain's eldest senior brother.

When Song Tinglan arrives, the story is already at its climax. Demons rule the cultivation world, and no immortal sect has escaped unscathed.

And Song Tinglan himself...

Is imprisoned in a room by the villain, lying on a bed and clinging to life.

Thinking of his miserable fate, Song Tinglan packs his things and runs away in the middle of the night.

But the moment he opens the door, a young boy blocks his way.

The boy tells him through tears that his name is Xiao Shen, and that he's a menial disciple of Linjiang Sect. Because of his lowly status, his fellow disciples often bully him. Now that the sect has fallen, his life has become even more miserable.

Shen Shizhou wipes his tears and looks at him pitifully. "If you won't take me with you, Senior Brother, I may have to end my life."

Looking at the tear tracks on Shen Shizhou's face, Song Tinglan discovers, shamefully, that his heart has softened.

And so, on his very first day after transmigrating into a book, Song Tinglan starts life on the road with a whole family in tow. Though this family in tow... isn't so bad?

Out of travel money? No problem, his junior brother can sell sword performances.

Encounter a demon beast on the road? No problem, his junior brother is highly skilled.

Lonely and bored on the road? No problem, his junior brother can act cute and cling to him.

All along the way, Song Tinglan only has to eat, drink, and wait to collect the money. His life is especially carefree.

Until one day, Song Tinglan dreams of his fate in the original book: being tortured to death. And the villain's face looks nine-tenths like his junior brother's.

Song Tinglan's eyes widen in shock, and he decides once again that running away is the best plan.

But before he can even get out the door, he runs straight into his junior brother's tearful eyes.

"Senior Brother, are you going to abandon Xiao Shen again?"

Song Tinglan: "..."

Can someone tell him why his obedient, well-behaved junior brother has become the villain?

And this merciless villain will put an arm around Song Tinglan's waist, cry as he confesses his love, and say he likes him.

#WhyIsTheVillainousJuniorBrotherCryingAgain?#

#TheVillainousJuniorBrotherSaysHeHasACrushOnMe!#

#MyDamnCharm!!#

Fake aloof, genuinely lovesick, cries only in front of the gong shou vs gentle, upright, a little self-absorbed, overthinks everything, and a bit slow on the uptake gong

Theme: Justice may be late, but it will never be absent