A Side Character, Yet the Dragon-Prince's White Moonlight

Wen Yueding was born into a prestigious cultivation family and had exceptional talent, yet he was a lazy, easygoing slacker. He loved good food, good sleep, and card games, and spent his days taking things as they came. At eighteen, after forming his Golden Core, he learned in a dream that he was living in a power fantasy novel aimed at male readers. * The book was mainly about how a ruthless, bloodthirsty chosen one unified the world. And he was a passerby with nothing going for him but his looks. The chosen one would go berserk, kill his whole family, and leave him to die in the wilderness. * To stay alive, Wen Yueding tearfully said goodbye to his family and his bed, left home, and set out to stop the chosen one. The journey meant bad food and poor sleep. His pampered nature made it unbearable. Luckily, a little curly-haired guy he saved decided to follow him and do all the heavy lifting. The guy had a high nose bridge, deep-set eyes, and a strikingly handsome face. More importantly, he was strong, clever, and very obedient. Wen Yueding was quite pleased with him. So every day, he smiled at the guy with his beautiful face, treated him like a close friend and confided in him, then leaned on him to nap. His fair hand, adorned with a piece of jade, would casually brush against the guy’s wrist. Little by little, the curly-haired guy, usually vicious and cold to others, grew gentler whenever he looked at Wen Yueding. While Wen Yueding still thought of him as a brother, the guy had already fallen head over heels for him. The curly-haired guy counted up the money he’d saved, figuring out how many centuries it would take before he could finally win the heart of his beloved. * But Wen Yueding just didn’t get it. He was like the moon in the sky: close enough to see, impossible to reach. The curly-haired guy’s heart turned ice-cold. * They ran into one troublesome situation after another, and Wen Yueding became the white moonlight in the hearts of countless people, but he still couldn’t find the crazed chosen one he was supposed to kill. Wen Yueding frowned in worry, so anxious he ate half a bowl less than usual. The half-demon chosen one was younger than him, wore a red mask, and had a cold, obsessive personality. He really was hard to find. Beside him, the half-demon, battle-loving, obsessive little guy in a red mask seethed with jealousy, sharpening his blade. Who was this person his big brother was so worried about that he couldn’t even enjoy his meals? He’d kill him sooner or later! * Much later, Wen Yueding held the chosen one himself in his arms as he rubbed against him wildly, so happy he could faint, and fell into deep thought. ...He’d only wanted to stay alive. How had he ended up sleeping with the chosen one? And the guy wasn’t what he’d expected at all. He was supposed to be a gloomy, scheming workaholic of a ghostly man. How did he turn into a chatty, cheerful puppy?! “Big brother.” The little guy, now grown into a big, curly-haired man, leaned close to his ear. His eyes dark and inscrutable, he asked in a wounded, ominous tone, “Yesterday, did that cultivator from Crossing Fire Sect look at you a little too long?” Wen Yueding: … Well, I guess he wasn’t that far off after all. * Wen Yueding knew Xu Zhuxing loved him, but he didn’t know that he had accidentally become Xu Zhuxing’s white moonlight, and that of the entire cultivation world, in both their lifetimes. [Before You Read] 1. The love interest is very popular. Most people see him as a friend and a white moonlight, so this isn’t a traditional everyone-falls-for-him story. 2. Strong x strong, with mutual feelings from the start. The couple stays together and neither switches roles. If you want either lead to be single and independent, or are an extreme stan, this may not be for you. Recommendations A historical danmei story coming this year. Please add it to your reading list! The Regretful Novel’s Male Lead Quits Younger love interest / master and disciple / transmigrate into a book / awakening (An upright-looking, secretly ruthless, beautiful disciple as the pursuer × a sickly, obsessive, deranged ghost of a master as the pursued) A new junior disciple arrived at the immortal mountain. He was a lively, adorable boy. The moment Qin Youzhou saw him, a mechanical voice rang in his mind. [Ding! Host bound...] [...] [Host role: male lead of a redemption novel.] [You are a heaven-blessed prodigy admired by all. The only person you cherish is your beautiful junior disciple, the love interest, whom you put above everyone else. You even defy your master and betray your immortal sect for him.] [But in your first life, he misunderstood your feelings and stubbornly wanted to use you as a sacrifice on his path to enlightenment. He betrayed and hurt you, cast you into a demonic abyss, and reduced your bones to dust...] [But that doesn’t matter. In his second life, after being reborn, he’ll realize how good you were, regret everything, treat you as his white moonlight, and love and cherish you!] [Once you complete this storyline, you’ll stay by his side, and he’ll fall in love with you out of guilt. In the end, you’ll win the heart of your beloved!] The System rambled on, but Qin Youzhou remained calm. He glanced at the so-called junior disciple, smiled without warmth, then turned toward his master’s residence. What nonsense. Why should he betray the master who raised him for some stranger? His master, Ying Weiye, was infamous as a blight on the immortal sects and a lunatic among the righteous. He did whatever he pleased, drank heavily, and was cold-blooded by nature. But on a snowy night a hundred years ago, despite his serious injuries, Ying Weiye had climbed a thousand steps on foot and carried away a baby who had nearly frozen to death in its swaddling clothes. He treasured the child and named him Youzhou. From then on, the terrible master had the most perfect disciple in the immortal world, to everyone’s envy. After the junior disciple joined the sect, his master began acting very strangely. He looked at Qin Youzhou with a strange, obsessive gaze that the devoted young cultivator couldn’t understand. One time, Qin Youzhou happened to overhear his master mumbling in his drunkenness. “Youzhou.” The white-robed immortal gazed at him dreamily. “I gave you your name, and I created you...” “I won’t let anyone take you away from me.” Cold fingertips brushed over Qin Youzhou’s pale cheek, then traced the corners of his peach-blossom eyes. Qin Youzhou slowly took hold of his master’s fingers. His hand closed around them in silence. Theme: Let’s build a harmonious, beautiful new world.