A top-tier socially anxious, passion-fueled, struggling author uke x a domineering, black-hearted, villainous big boss seme
"A straightforward author comes up with an ordinary premise after racking his brains, then writes a perfectly ordinary blurb. The result is a plot as unappealing as an honest man's personality."
Song Yunhuai opens his writing dashboard and sees this lone zero-point review. He quietly gives it a like.
An unknown online novelist who writes part-time, Song Yunhuai wakes up every day owing the website three thousand words. He knows what happens in the plot only ten minutes before his two or three readers do, and his earnings aren't even enough to cover the electricity used by his typing.
If you ask him what keeps him sitting at his computer every day, clacking away at the keyboard for three hours,
his answer is: passion.
Unfortunately, passion doesn't put food on the table. He thinks he'll probably give up once he finishes the book he's working on. After all, you should see things through, and you can't leave a story unfinished.
It's a traditional cultivation fantasy, where the protagonist grows from an unknown nobody into a powerful local ruler, then defeats the villainous big boss bent on destroying the world, wins the heart of a beautiful rich woman, and reaches the pinnacle of life.
Following the usual formula, Song Yunhuai creates a villain whose parents are both dead, whose childhood was unbearably tragic, and who was bullied until he became a psychopath. He devotes a long stretch of writing to describing the villain's past and lays the groundwork for his eventual destruction of the world.
But as he writes, Song Yunhuai notices that the chapters about the villain sometimes change. At first it's a word or two, then whole paragraphs.
Then one night, as he works late, the villain appears beside him, wearing a black cloak of spirit-cloud crane feathers. He leans toward the computer screen, reads the latest chapter, then turns to ask, "So, someone as weak as you created me?"
Later, Song Yunhuai looks at the countless scars on Di Chenyu's body and feels guilty. "I'm sorry. You went through so much because of me."
Di Chenyu gently nibbles his earlobe. "Then you should make it up to me properly."
Theme: Keep working hard, fueled by passion
