After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became the Protagonist's Spirit Pet

(My new novel next door, Writing My Way to Fame in the Underworld, is now updating! It features an irresponsible Taoist shou and a love-struck, split-personality powerhouse gong. Here's the blurb for the new novel. Please add it to your collection!)

After graduating, Jiang Baizhu opened a milk tea shop, but his actual profession was Taoist exorcist.

The shop did okay, but he didn't mind. He also had a side gig: writing novels.

Unfortunately, his novels were just as quiet and uneventful as his milk tea shop.

One day, he noticed a new comment on his novel:

Soul Reaper Ma Mian: Huh? Where did this living-world novel come from? How did it show up in my feed?

Little Taoist Jiang refuses to take a loss, replying: Where did you come from, underworld reader? How did I run into you?

A few days later, he was surprised to find a flood of comments in his novel's dashboard:

Reincarnation Office's Tai Ao: You're such a wonderful writer! Sob, I can't get enough! I'm throwing a tantrum and rolling around on the floor begging for an update!

Underworld Messenger Ri You Shen: Why am I only seeing this novel today? @Underworld Messenger Ye You Shen, there's no time to explain, get in!

Jiang Baizhu: ??? What kind of underworld organization is this?

Then Jiang Baizhu noticed that more and more people were collecting his novel, and readers with similar usernames kept flooding the comments.

At last, his novel became popular. His readers urged him to start a group chat, and so the Underworld Chat Group was born.

He wrote a little story about the Great Emperor of Fengdu and a Celestial Master:

Underworld Chat Group: We've completely lost it!

The next second: [Reincarnation Office's Tai Ao invited Great Emperor of Fengdu to join the group chat]

Reincarnation Office's Tai Ao: @Great Emperor of Fengdu, look, look! [Forwarded link...]

Great Emperor of Fengdu: ? Interesting.

One day, Little Taoist Jiang took a job exorcising evil spirits. The client stammered over the phone, "Taoist, I... I think something unclean has gotten to me!"

Jiang Baizhu: "Could you tell me more?"

The person on the other end: "I wanted to leave a bad review on a novel, but every time I post a comment, it disappears by itself! My phone keeps breaking for no reason, too. Sob, it's so scary..."

Little Taoist Jiang rolled up his sleeves, ready to "rid the people of this menace."

Then he found out that the novel the client wanted to review was his own, and the one secretly deleting their comments was his novel's number-one fan.

Little Taoist Jiang was left reeling: So my readers really are from the underworld!

Yu Yuan had a secret that every ghost knew: he loved reading novels.

After his subordinates discovered that their mighty boss had such a down-to-earth hobby, they all started writing stories of their own.

Thus the Fengdu Night Talks app was officially established, much to Yu Yuan's satisfaction.

But the ghostly underlings' writing was so bland that it completely missed his tastes. Yu Yuan was disappointed.

Then, at last, he found a novel that was exactly to his liking, and began the long wait for each new update.

The Great Emperor of Fengdu had been a shut-in for ten thousand years. Apart from work and novels, he was indifferent to everything.

Yet he was driven to "murder" when his beloved "divine author" was attacked.

The mighty ruler of Fengdu anxiously stared at his phone, determined to stop the other person from posting malicious comments and ruining his "divine author's" mood.

Whenever the other person posted a bad review, he would intercept and delete it immediately. They went back and forth all night, as childish as elementary schoolers.

In the end, he simply took matters into his own hands and smashed the other person's phone.

But he forgot that the little author he adored seemed to have another identity.

So, not long after, just as he was about to "strike" again, a beam of golden light locked onto him.

Looking at the handsome young Taoist across from him, fingers weaving hand seals as he chanted a spell with a solemn expression, his heart skipped a beat.

Yu Yuan: My head's so itchy. Is a love-struck brain about to sprout? (Starry-eyed and expectant)

(Blurb for this novel)

Ning Yi woke up one morning to find that he had transmigrated into a novel as the spirit pet kept by the male lead gong.

The catch? He was the one who had written the novel!

The System showed up and ordered him to repair the plot, but he didn't even have a human body.

So, in order to take human form, he had no choice but to curry favor with the male lead gong.

Fortunately, the male lead seemed to like this approach, and his attitude toward Ning Yi grew kinder by the day.

The moment he took human form, Ning Yi opened his eyes to find the male lead gong in front of him.

But the man's mental state seemed a little off.

"A Ning, is that you?"

Ning Yi: ...

Can someone explain why he looks exactly like the male lead shou?

Ning Yi focused on his career and declared that whoever wanted to be a stand-in could take the job.

But the male lead gong pursued him relentlessly.

To prevent any misunderstandings, Ning Yi could only keep switching between his human and fox forms.

Yet the male lead gong wasn't affected in the slightest and grew more and more doting toward him.

Ning Yi diligently worked on his career every day, devoting himself to filling in the gaps in the world's storyline.

Meanwhile, the male lead gong had reached the point where he used the little fox as a pillow, even when he slept.

Ning Yi: ???

For the sake of the mission, he would endure it!

The male lead gong gave him a charred chicken leg. Ning Yi's mouth twitched. "It's delicious."

The male lead gong gave him an ugly hairpin he'd made by hand. Ning Yi managed to praise it with difficulty. "It's beautiful!"

He devoted himself to completing the mission, never noticing the increasingly intense look in the male lead gong's eyes.

Until one day, Ning Yi realized he'd gone too far. It seemed he had started to like the male lead gong.

_Damn it, the male lead gong thinks of me as a stand-in, but I want to give him a home!_

And as it happened, the male lead gong's Daoist partner, who had been written off as dead, returned at that very moment!

[System reminder: You have a new mission. Please help the male lead shou and the male lead gong achieve a happy ending.]

Ning Yi: ...

P.S.:

1. The shou is neither a homewrecker nor a stand-in. His background will gradually be revealed later!

2. The gong has loved the same person from beginning to end. There is no stand-in, let me emphasize that again!

3. The matchmaker System is here to ship the couple, and it often sabotages its teammates.

4. A sweet, satisfying story with no real angst.

5. The early chapters are absurd and nonsensical, but many of the earlier clues will gradually be explained in the middle and later parts. It's not very long, so take your time and give it a try!

Thanks to all the sweethearts who read the whole thing. Heart!

Theme: Stay true to the one you love, and keep striving for what you seek