Mu Yunxi, who used to run a book-recommendation marketing account, transmigrated into a book: a dark, power-progression novel about a male protagonist that he'd just started reading before he died.
The male protagonist in the novel was handsome, supremely talented, gentle but decisive. Even Mu Yunxi, who read novels for a living, was captivated by him.
Yet this perfect male protagonist was made by the author to fall from grace at the peak of his life. His cultivation was destroyed, and even his peerlessly beautiful face was stripped off and kept as a trophy.
Most importantly, the face-slapping plot Mu Yunxi had been looking forward to, where the male protagonist would rise to the top again, never appeared before the novel ended. Instead, the story simply got abandoned.
After transmigrating as an arrogant villain in the book, Mu Yunxi decided to give the male protagonist a hand and help him, a character whom that damned author had made tragically beautiful and tragically miserable, embark on the classic power-fantasy path of a domineering hero.
But... why are everyone else's System-granted golden fingers completely normal, while his is a book-recommendation marketing account?!
And not just any account, either. He has to provide the background music himself, run around doing parkour, cut soap, cook, and read the promotional copy aloud. Every element has to be included.
Most importantly, he has to do all of it right in front of the male protagonist.
So, at the critical moment when the male protagonist is being blamed by everyone and is about to embark on his tragic, miserable future, Mu Yunxi makes a dazzling entrance with a bar of soap he's just finished making.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Mu Yunxi cuts the soap in his hands and sings, "The coffin lies buried deep beneath the valley~ No secret lasts forever~" before launching into: "I was reborn, back on the day I first met the scumbag. In my previous life, I was bewitched by him and gave him every resource I had, hoping that he would marry me once his cultivation was complete. But my devotion was rewarded when that scumbag slaughtered everyone in my family, all 1,781 of them. He even dug up the earthworms in the backyard and split them in half lengthwise. Then he imprisoned me in his room, just so he could take my blood whenever he needed it to save his white moonlight..."
Mu Yunxi: Dying of embarrassment, toes curling up, but stoically carrying on.
Fortunately, his golden finger worked, and the rebirth-story buff kicked in. Mu Yunxi successfully returned to Chapter One of the novel, before the plot had pushed the male protagonist even a little way toward the abyss.
Most importantly! Nobody remembers that humiliating entrance of his anymore.
But why is the male protagonist looking at him more and more strangely?
Luo Que Shen had met many people on his path of cultivation, but never anyone whose entrance was so explosive as Mu Yunxi's, someone impossible to forget after seeing him once.
After time reversed, he felt sorry for the experiences Mu Yunxi had described and decided to seek him out, hoping to keep him away from the scumbag who would destroy his entire family. But when they met, he heard Mu Yunxi's inner voice: "Thank goodness. Nobody remembers how humiliating I was when I left, right?"
To thank his savior, Luo Que Shen pretended not to know. But the other man was always doing strange things in front of him, thinking he was being discreet, singing strange songs and saying strange things.
"The past flows through your eyes~"
"When I first met him, I'd only just hatched. He gave me a name and taught me how to survive in the human world. I knew he was focused on restoring his kingdom, so I willingly became a blade in his hand. He also promised that once he became emperor, he would make me his empress. But he died the day before his coronation."
Fake-death skill acquired.
"Let all this rain come pouring down~"
"Everyone knows that to him I'm nothing but a lovesick stand-in. He only treats me like a toy to amuse himself for a while, but I don't care. I made him my stand-in, too..."
Stand-in skill acquired.
"I woke up one day to find that the power level of the entire cultivation world had dropped by a hundred thousand times. I casually cast a fireball spell, and everyone hailed me as the strongest person in the cultivation world..."
Luo Que Shen: ...Daoist Mu's experiences are truly extraordinary.
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