After Transmigrating Into a Book, My Master Became the Pursuer

1.

Lu Changyu was writing a danmei novel about a cold, ruthless master who takes in a genius disciple who later turns dark, and the tangled love and hatred that follow.

He had barely written the opening when he transmigrated into the story.

2.

On his first day after transmigrating into a book, he met a young man in blue robes carrying a bamboo umbrella. The man asked him gently, "Would you like to be my disciple?"

He nodded as if in a daze, only realizing afterward: Wasn't this the master of his protagonist?

Immortal Venerable! You picked up the wrong person!

3.

In this cookie-cutter world, Lu Changyu had seen too many people who seemed destined to be protagonists, some raised to the heavens, others cast into the dirt.

Whenever he looked at the world through their eyes, he saw only people swept forward by the tide.

Lu Changyu seemed to have a place among them, but he had no golden finger, no good fortune. He could neither be a paragon of virtue nor treat human life as worthless.

He spent a day creating this world, then ten years learning how to become one of the countless ordinary people in it.

Later, as he lay dying, his master gave up his fame and good name to save his life, telling him one word at a time:

"Be like a lamp. Travel to countless places in this world, then, at last, shine beneath the eaves and light up one small corner. That is what gives life meaning."

A laid-back-at-first, secretly ambitious disciple bottom x a seemingly aloof, secretly biased master top

Mutual firsts | Happy ending | Older master and younger disciple | Saving each other | Both beautiful, strong, and tragic

Content warnings and reading notes:

* This novel was written the old-fashioned way, with absolutely no AI involved. Any changes in the writing style depend on what books the author has recently read.

* The blurb above is for reference only. The disciple officially joins his master after the first illusionary realm ends.

* This is not a typical transmigration-into-a-book story. The protagonist has no golden finger, System, or pocket dimension. He does not turn evil or try to conquer the world.

* The worldbuilding is make-believe, so please don't overthink it.

* The bottom's appearance and demeanor are not truly ordinary. He has a low presence and deliberately acts like a cannon-fodder character, which is why he seems ordinary in the story.

* Both the top and bottom are beautiful, strong, and tragic, but their hardships come in a different order.

Blurb created on 2023.8.04, screen-recorded and archived.

Coming soon

Dream Men Have Their Day, Too

1.

Song Zhenting had an ex-husband who died in the line of duty. But nobody except Song remembered his existence, and everyone said Song was delusional.

In a fit of anger, Song became a dream man obsessed with his ex-husband, and started dreaming about him, drawing him, and writing stories about him, all while enduring the pitying, bewildered looks of those around him. Then one day he awakened and realized he was in a novel about a human falling in love with a ghost.

Good news: he and his ex-husband were the human and ghost in that couple.

Bad news: they weren't the protagonists, just a vicious foil couple.

Song Zhenting was ecstatic. "I told you my husband was real. Got your comeuppance now, didn't you?"

2.

When the protagonist accidentally rents a haunted apartment and pulls out a stack of yellow talismans to protect himself, Song Zhenting calmly takes out three tarot cards.

"Honey, is that you?"

After his ex-husband gave him a thorough scolding, the strange phenomena vanished that very night. In their place, whenever Song kept unhealthy hours, something would inexplicably fly up and smack him on the head.

When a string of murders takes place at the family estate, the protagonist and a ghost work together to find the wronged spirit and catch the killer. Song Zhenting pulls out pen and paper and declares boldly, "Honey, I trust you. Draw whoever you want, and I'll have the butler arrest them."

After drawing the killer, the floating pencil pauses for a long time, then draws a miniature version of Song Zhenting.

That night, Song readily cuffs himself to the bedpost and waits to be arrested. But the handcuffs suddenly come undone, and a force from behind kicks him onto his backside.

The bed seems a little colder that night, too.

At the end of the original story, the protagonist accumulates good karma and benefits from protagonist's luck, successfully finding a body to bring his lover back to life. Song Zhenting, a brainless villain with wicked intentions who takes the wrong path, not only fails to resurrect his husband, but loses his entire fortune and falls seriously ill.

As he crouches by the roadside, eyes blurred with tears, a warm presence envelops him. Lu Xijie sighs beside his ear. "How can you be so stupid? The only time you could ever get the better of me was back in school."

A rich second-generation heir, raised poor among ordinary people, and an overzealous dream man x a justice-obsessed, cold-faced but warm-hearted ghost

Reading notes

* Older top, happy ending. The top will get a reconstructed body, and the bottom won't get sick, either.

* If anything about the dream-man content seems inappropriate, feel free to point it out. ORZ.

Please check out my friend's novel, too! It's about a sweet couple and goes great with this author's works!

Can a Humanlike Robot Like Him Have a Secret Crush, Too?

[High-energy, love-struck puppy-dog top x cool, aloof, flirtatious bottom with a slightly robotic air.]

Xiang Huaixia grew up unloved by his parents, and supported himself by boosting other people's game accounts. Then one day, a new roommate suddenly appeared.

His roommate was handsome and strong, but not very approachable. The first thing he said was, "I got the rental wrong. I'll move out in a month."

Xiang Huaixia didn't mind. He messaged someone he'd met on a mental health support forum: [My new roommate is from H City, like you. He's just not very approachable.]

But then Xiang Huaixia realized there was something strange about his new roommate.

Whenever Xiang came home late from work, his roommate left a light on for him. When it was hot, his roommate always stared at him until his face turned red. Even after school, his roommate always insisted he come along...

And Xiang realized his new roommate seemed to know him very well. Whenever Xiang went out in the rain without an umbrella, this guy always showed up at just the right moment.

He couldn't help telling his online friend: [Does he do all this because he likes me?]

The reply came: [Why don't you ask him?]

So Xiang Huaixia did. He cornered the hard-to-get guy and asked, "Why do you always leave a light on for me?"

"I'm afraid of the dark."

"Why do you always stare at me until I blush?"

"Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid makes my face flush."

"...Why do you always make me walk home with you after school?"

"I have no sense of direction."

Xiang Huaixia met Bo He's earnest gaze and heard his own heart break.

Then Bo He asked him, "Is there anything else you wanted to ask?"

Xiang Huaixia: "?"

Bo He blinked, seeming a little disappointed. "I thought the way you asked me about it online meant you liked me."

Xiang Huaixia: "!"

*

The students at Jicheng No. 3 High School thought of Xiang Huaixia as poor, handsome, great at video games, and not someone you wanted to mess with.

As for the transfer student Bo He, they thought he was an exemplary student. Within a month of transferring, he had become student council president and taken the top spot in the grade.

By the sanitation area beside the school's back field, the student council president on duty pulls Xiang Huaixia, the student on cleanup duty, into a secluded corner. With a cold expression, he sucks a mark onto Xiang's chest, then fastens his uniform so the buttons cover it.

He warns him, "Even if you're hot, only unbutton it this far. Lots of people are staring at you, you know?"

Xiang Huaixia grabs his hand. His heart pounds as he pushes his luck and asks, "I'll do what you say. Can I have one more kiss?"

* 1v1 / both virgins / each other's first love / enormous mutual pining / high school setting / both are adults while dating *

- No extreme top stans or bottom stans, please. -

Coming soon: older master and younger disciple

The Crown Prince

Shen Guannan was a wise and capable heir to the throne. His original name was Shen Zhiyi.

In his first year as crown prince, the people lived in peace and prosperity. He ate and lived alongside them, shared their joys and punishments, and became famous across the land for his swordsmanship.

In his third year as crown prince, he forged ties with many other states, reduced taxes, promoted the civil service examinations, and presided over years of favorable weather and abundant harvests.

In his fifth year as crown prince, the borders came under attack again and again. At the same time, an irreverent Imperial Tutor arrived at the palace, claiming every day to be his master.

Impatient with him, Shen Zhiyi challenged the man to a sword duel, only to be beaten at every turn. His defeats took him from the palace to the battlefield, where that sword finally pierced his chest, leaving him a ghost for over three hundred years.

Later, he was a famous courtesan, a male concubine to the crown prince of an enemy state, and an unknown, nameless ghost. At last, he became the magistrate of a place called Jiang County.

He killed countless people who preyed on the common folk. His skin was as pale as the winter moon, and a gloomy air lingered around his eyes.

Then a renowned Daoist priest arrived on the orders of the authorities to kill him. It was his master from a previous life.

Mo Yue also encountered a troublesome ghost, one whose identity kept changing and who had slaughtered countless people.

By the Zhushui River, in a mass grave, the ghost said that the wronged spirits following him were all his victims. Mo Yue grabbed him by the collar and rebuked him: "Do you even remember who these innocent people were?"

The ghost smiled. "My people."

Later, in painted scrolls and midnight dreams, Mo Yue would vaguely glimpse a proper, upright figure whom those around him called the Crown Prince.

Later still, he watched Shen Guannan enact new laws, reform the system, and spend his very soul to lead the people in revolt.

He tried to sacrifice himself to save Shen Guannan, but failed. Neither of their names appeared in the history books again.

A gloomy, fallen crown prince who devoted himself to the people x a righteous Imperial Tutor in his past life, a hypocritical Daoist priest in his next

* Older master and younger disciple, tragic ending, both die.

Theme: Good and evil have their consequences. Never give up on being kind.