After Marrying the ‘Long Aotian’ in Drag to Counter Bad Luck

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Rong Nianfeng accidentally transmigrated into a book and became a vicious cannon-fodder character destined to deliver gear to the overpowered protagonist.

In the original story, to set up a satisfying face-slapping scene, the protagonist comes down with a strange illness that halts his cultivation. After everyone has humiliated him, he makes a powerful comeback, plays the pig to eat the tiger, and slaps them all in the face.

And Rong Nianfeng, the vicious cannon fodder: “Baa, baa.”

I'm doomed!

Why not just avoid provoking the protagonist?

That is, until the sect elders talked him into putting on a fashionable women's outfit and taking his twin sister's place in a marriage to the protagonist, meant to bring him good luck.

To save his own skin, Rong Nianfeng decided to mind his own business.

But the once-favored child of heaven had become a weakling, panting every three steps and coughing every five. Everyone trampled on him and mocked him for being nowhere near as strong as before.

Even his fellow disciples sacrificed him to demonic cultivators, eventually crippling his cultivation.

At least he was an overpowered protagonist! With a deadpan face, Rong Nianfeng dug him out of a mass grave littered with corpses and thick with baleful energy, then snapped, “Ye Xingchen, are you completely useless? Aren't you the overpowered protagonist?”

Ye Xingchen, who had been sleeping soundly, yawned lazily and sat up a little. “A laid-back life is best. Enjoy the moment.”

Ye Xingchen dreamed of a fragment of a story outline.

At twenty-one, he would encounter a fortuitous opportunity, resume cultivating, and become a peerless prodigy across the northern and southern continents.

So when his cultivation stalled at sixteen, Ye Xingchen gave up trying.

When he was bored, he spat blood for fun. When he was cold, he sunbathed. When he had nothing to do, he picked up rare treasures.

One day, at eighteen, he suddenly acquired a Dao companion.

People insulted and bullied him, and his Dao companion was more worried than anyone, frustrated that he wouldn't try harder.

He thought his Dao companion was a little strange.

But never mind. Since she wanted him to live a life of splendor, he could laze around a little less.

He thought that since his Dao companion treated him so well, once his cultivation recovered at twenty-one, he'd make her the head of a sect for fun.

But before he turned twenty-one, his Dao companion died. He was only twenty.

He searched all of Night Forgetting River, but couldn't find even a trace of her wandering soul. Ye Xingchen went completely mad.

The blood in his hands stained the Frost Sword red, and it let out mournful cries. Lowering his eyes, he wondered: did his Dao companion have a twin brother?

Reading guide:

① Both leads are devoted to each other in body and heart, and it has a happy ending. The top only loves the bottom.

② A silly, brainless story full of absurd jokes. Don't think too hard, and proceed with caution. (I was watching Gintama at the time, so forgive me. I'll revise it when I have time.) The top won't find the twin brother as a substitute; he already knew the bottom was cross-dressing. The curious can start from chapter two~

③ There are past lives, but those will only be explored in the extras.

④ Just the two leads, no secondary couples.

Blurb captured on October 1, 2023

Please check out my next historical cultivation story, After Binding the Wrong System, I Got a Happy Ending with the Unhinged Villain

Ming Jian was bound to a protagonist-bottom awakening System. The System told him his story was called I Awakened and Got a Happy Ending with the Villain.

His mission was to redeem the villain, Xiao Bumi, and stop the small world from collapsing.

On the surface, Xiao Bumi was a radiant immortal, seemingly above all worldly concerns. Inside, however, he was gloomy and obsessive, an unhinged yandere through and through.

According to the original story, this villain had secretly loved him for years. After the protagonist-top ran him through the heart with a sword, Xiao Bumi slaughtered all the immortals and demons in the city and dragged the entire small world down with him.

Ming Jian looked up at the villain before him, whose eyes were red at the corners as he clutched Ming Jian by the throat and threatened to kill him. He fell into a long silence.

“...”

You call this a crush in the cultivation world?!

Just as Ming Jian had finally accepted the ridiculous idea that the villain was secretly in love with him and had made it halfway through his redemption mission, a bug appeared in the System's data, forcing it offline.

When the System came back, it brought an absurd piece of news:

It had bound the wrong person. Ming Jian wasn't the protagonist-bottom, but a cannon-fodder character in the original story who secretly loved the protagonist-bottom and barely appeared.

Ming Jian turned his head and looked at Xiao Bumi, who was curled around his waist and fast asleep. He fell silent again.

What a twist: one moment you're lovers, the next you're rivals in love.

Since he wasn't the protagonist, there was no need to win over the villain anymore.

Ming Jian decided to follow the cannon fodder's plotline to the letter.

He would claim the credit for saving the protagonist, marry the Holy Maiden of the Hehuan Sect in the protagonist-top's place, and bring the protagonist couple together.

On the wedding day, red candles burned bright.

Ming Jian lifted the embroidered mandarin-duck veil, only to meet Xiao Bumi's eyes, dark and clouded.

The man wore a scarlet wedding gown. His black hair hung loose, and his lips were as vivid as blood.

Inside the warm bridal tent, gauzy curtains swayed. A cold bone chain slithered like a living snake around Ming Jian's wrists and ankles, quietly blocking every way out.

Xiao Bumi's burning breath brushed close. He held Ming Jian firmly by the waist and pressed a tender kiss to his lips, his voice gentle. “You said you loved me and would stay by my side forever... Why did you lie to me?”

Ming Jian had been about to say something, but when he saw Xiao Bumi's long, damp lashes, he closed his mouth.

Xiao Bumi was cold by nature.

At first, he thought Ming Jian had come to kill him.

He watched coldly, waiting to see how Ming Jian planned to do it.

Later, he became lovesick.

He couldn't stand seeing Ming Jian laughing with someone else, or anyone coveting him or hoping to lay a finger on him. Every time it happened, his heart hurt as if it were being carved out, and murderous intent grew like weeds.

He wanted to lock Ming Jian away, hide him, make it so those eyes looked only at him and that warm breath lingered only by his ear.

He wanted Ming Jian to belong, completely and utterly, to him alone.

Theme: The value of life lies in striving without giving up