The Years I Raised Long Aotian

[Updates when inspiration strikes]

This novel was originally titled "The Tragic-Novel Protagonist Wanders into a Wish-Fulfillment Show."

[Blurb]

Luan Xu transmigrates into the protagonist bottom of a melodramatic novel about a scumbag top and a pathetic bottom.

The ratio of tormenting the top to tormenting the bottom is one to nine, and he was born into the story.

After going through the early plot of being deceived in both body and heart, Luan Xu is utterly heartbroken and leaps from Heartbreak Cliff.

But halfway down, he suddenly regains his memories.

He realizes how absurdly cliched and stupid this plot, straight out of a tired TV drama, is.

Talk about awkward.

So Luan Xu decides to save himself.

When he stops halfway down the cliff, he discovers someone hanging from the neighboring rock face.

Luan Xu makes awkward small talk: What a coincidence. Are you out cliff-jumping too?

The strange boy looks utterly despondent: My only friend pushed me off.

Luan Xu comforts him: Maybe someone will come to rescue you soon.

The boy remains expressionless: My mother died, my father remarried and turned into a stepfather, my fellow disciples framed me for stealing, my master expelled me from the sect, and the fiancee I was betrothed to as a baby wants to break off our engagement...

Luan Xu: ...

This plot is tragic, but it sounds familiar.

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Ying Ji is the male lead of an underdog-to-hero wish-fulfillment story, where he rises through the ranks.

Bullied from a young age, he is betrayed by his friend and pushed off a cliff. But he unexpectedly obtains an ancient inheritance, unlocking his potential and letting him turn his fortunes around. He slays demons below and gods above, becoming a legendary, revered powerhouse.

But the story goes off track right from the start.

The young, arrogant hero falls off the cliff early, and the inheritance is still dormant, so it can't give him his golden finger in time.

Because fate has brought them together, Luan Xu decides to give him a cheat of his own: himself.

As a cultivation prodigy, being transmigrated into a tragic novel was simply bad timing. But protecting a young, inexperienced, future hero is a piece of cake.

Having become obsessed with raising a kid, Luan Xu perfectly dodges every tragic-novel plot point.

When the protagonist is supposed to be poisoned in a valley, disfigured, and stripped of his cultivation, he's taking the kid to a temple fair;

when the protagonist is supposed to crawl out of the valley, enduring excruciating pain as his bones mend anew, he's enjoying a massage from the future hero;

when the protagonist is supposed to be slandered by his scumbag lover, shut out by old friends, and attacked by everyone, he and the kid have just raided the treasure trove of a secret realm;

Finally, one day, his scumbag ex, nearly forgotten, comes knocking. Luan Xu has just been spoiled into a daze by the kid and, in a muddle, agreed to the kid's confession.

The once elegant and upright man looks at Ying Ji and sneers. "You're nothing but a stray dog Luan Xu keeps."

Yet his eyes are dark with jealousy he can barely conceal.

The boy, as obedient as a house dog in front of Luan Xu, holds a bloodstained knife. His tone is polite, but his murderous intent is unmistakable.

"Please be a proper ex, all right?"

"The kind who's dead."

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Content warnings:

> Official pairing: Ying Ji × Luan Xu

> The scumbag top is very unstable and sick in the head. The bottom really did love him, but only hatred remains from the start.

> I'll revise the first four chapters, but the main plot won't change.

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Upcoming novel 1: "How Do I Fix Picking the Wrong Powerful Patron? [Book Transmigration]"

[Blurb]

Jiang Minxi transmigrates into a brutal xianxia world, and his only golden finger is knowing the general outline of the plot.

To stay alive, he decides to cling to the male lead's leg.

After much hardship, he searches the whole world and finds Liyue, the young male lead, being bullied.

Jiang Minxi accompanies him from humble beginnings onto the path to immortality. When Liyue becomes famous, he remains at his side like a hidden star. When Liyue is framed and hits rock bottom, Jiang Minxi never abandons him and does everything he can to help. When Liyue is about to go astray and succumb to cultivation madness, Jiang Minxi feeds himself to the demon to bring him back to the right path...

Everyone knows them as inseparable friends who would live and die together.

No one knows that Jiang Minxi really did feed his "body" to Yin Liyue to bring him back.

Years later, peace has come to the world. Yin Liyue has finally become the savior whom everyone praises, and Jiang Minxi has accidentally become the greatest swordsman under heaven.

Just as he plans to lie flat and enjoy life, another brat named Li Yue appears, sharing a name with Yin Liyue.

Gifted with great talent and a bright future, he seems destined for greatness.

Only then does Jiang Minxi realize that he transmigrated too early.

The brat Li Yue is the real male lead, the one destined to rise above all.

And Yin Liyue is the book's greatest villain: a cruel man who cultivates demonic power and nearly destroys the world as the Host of a demon god.

Jiang Minxi: ...Damn.

#What do you do when you picked the wrong powerful patron? Urgently waiting for an answer online.#

#Might as well make the best of it. What else can I do, break up?#

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One day, the young, destined hero Li Yue climbs the mountain, bowing his head to the ground with every step, and kneels before Jiang Minxi to beg him to take him as a disciple.

Jiang Minxi's heart softens, and he agrees.

Yin Liyue stands outside holding the pastries he loves, his expression dark and resentful: You took in another dog behind my back!

After Li Yue, who keeps stubbornly clinging to him, tears his clothes, and Yin Liyue pins him down and kisses him all night, Jiang Minxi finally loses his patience and kicks them both out.

The sect leader divines the will of heaven and learns that the two great calamities will collide and fight without end, possibly bringing about a new catastrophe.

He hurries to find Jiang Minxi and discuss how to deal with them.

As soon as he enters the courtyard, he sees the two great calamities kneeling side by side at the door with basins of water balanced on their heads, reflecting on their mistakes and trying to kill each other with their eyes.

One look from Jiang Minxi, and the two who were about to fight immediately stop, lower their heads, and behave like quails.

The sect leader, holding his divination compass: ...

Jiang Minxi asks: What urgent matter brings you here, Sect Leader?

The Sect Leader says solemnly: You must keep your two vicious dogs on a tight leash. The peace of the world rests entirely on you.

Jiang Minxi: ...

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> Mad demon god top × good-natured bottom who feeds himself to demons, a powerful pairing with a happy ending.

Theme: Don't get lost in the past.