Leeching Off the Villain's Luck to Go from Unlucky to Lucky

[Pre-release: Is the Demon Lord Still Alive Today? Blurb below. Please add it to your reading list ovo] **The first two volumes are complete and ready to binge** Xue Chengjin had the rotten luck to transmigrate into a book. The original owner was a rich second-generation heir from the City Lord’s family, but also a useless cannon-fodder character with a defective spiritual root. He abused his family’s privilege and provoked the antagonist, ultimately bringing ruin upon his family. The good news was that the Heavenly Dao favored him: he had actually bound himself to the card-drawing cultivation System from his previous life’s game. Xue Chengjin, sitting on a mountain of spirit stones with nowhere to spend them: ? Then if he paid to draw cards, wouldn’t reaching the peak of the immortal realm be just around the corner? The bad news was... Paying won’t change your fate if you’re unlucky. Even transmigrating couldn’t change Xue Chengjin’s cursed luck. When he was destined to crash, he crashed. Watching another 648 spirit stones go down the drain, Xue Chengjin shouted: "...Give me my money back!" - After checking, the System found that Xue Chengjin’s luck value was in the single digits. The System hurried to say: "Although your luck is hard to change, Host, you can raise your score by getting close to this world’s child of destiny through your own efforts!" And so... Xue Chengjin set his sights on Xie Yunchuan, the antagonist he had bullied in the original story. At this point, the young Xie Yunchuan had yet to realize that he carried the Heavenly Dao’s favor. Burdened with debt, he was working for the Xue family to pay it off. Xue Chengjin, eager to turn his luck around: "Xie Yunchuan, can I borrow some of your good luck?" Xie Yunchuan, who was careful to keep himself pure: "No." Xue Chengjin took out his cosmic pouch and tried to tempt him with money: "I’ll give you spirit stones. Can I borrow some of your luck?" Xie Yunchuan’s face turned cold. He silently held out his hand. "...Fine." The two reached an agreement: Xie Yunchuan would take Xue Chengjin’s money, and Xue Chengjin would borrow Xie Yunchuan’s luck. Once Xue Chengjin reached the Mahayana stage, they would go their separate ways. Who could have guessed that later, after Xie Yunchuan became the greatest sword cultivator in the world, he would go back on his word and refuse to take the money, insisting on keeping his distance from Xue Chengjin instead? No holding hands, no hugs, not even lying under the same blanket to chat! With ascension finally within reach, Xue Chengjin panicked. "Xie Yunchuan, that’s not what you said back then!" Xie Yunchuan pulled out a marriage contract. "Then make a bond with me, and from now on, I’ll let you borrow as much of my luck as you want. How about it?" Xue Chengjin: "...!" [Reading Guide] 1. A rich, cheerful little peacock uke who pays to draw cards but can’t change his bad luck x a gorgeous, tragic seme who is a lucky star. The seme is outwardly cold but secretly obsessive, like a wolfdog. 2. They meet as youths, travel across mountains and seas, and have a chaotic, hilarious cultivation life. 3. Spend wisely, cultivate scientifically (?). 4. The cover is commissioned artwork of Xue Chengjin’s character design. My next novel will be Is the Demon Lord Still Alive Today? Please add it to your reading list ovo A resilient little weed, clever medicine cultivator uke x a powerful, beautiful demon lord seme who overthinks everything Blurb: A century-rare genius medicine cultivator emerged from the struggling sect of Yuming Mountain. Lu Ling could identify hundreds of herbs at seven, make pills at nine, and produce top-grade pills in his furnace at sixteen, winning the championship and dazzling the crowd. The great clans all vied to recruit him, and the immortal sects and academies threw their doors open to him. After bidding farewell to his master and packing his bags, Lu Ling was about to set out on the path to prove his Dao and seek immortality. And then... Then the Demon Lord kidnapped him. The Demon Lord, Yan Yuan, was infamous for his cruelty, and his name struck fear into both worlds. It was said that he cultivated by using poison and had unfathomable power, comparable to a true immortal. The day he dragged Lu Ling back to the Demon Palace, Yan Yuan ordered him to concoct poison every day for his cultivation, threatening to take his life if the poison wasn’t potent enough. Lu Ling, forced to stay by the Demon Lord’s side: "...Heh. Just you wait." - After being captured, Lu Ling diligently studied all kinds of rare poisons from the Eight Wildernesses every day, rising earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the demons. He rolled up his sleeves and put everything he had learned into making poison, just waiting for the day Yan Yuan would die from a lethal dose. After every poison test, Lu Ling would lean close to Yan Yuan and ask after his health. "Is the Demon Lord still feeling well today?" Do you feel unwell? Is your heart twisting in pain? Is your blood running backward? Are your internal organs all rotting away? Yan Yuan dabbed the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, his expression one of satisfaction. "This poison of yours is a little sweet. I like it." Lu Ling: "?" You’re supposed to properly experience the poison, not review the flavor! - After thinking it over, Lu Ling decided he simply hadn’t been ruthless enough. The poison wasn’t potent enough yet. He searched mountains and valleys for poisonous herbs, bathed and perfumed himself, and devoted himself to concocting poison for eighty-one days. He used every trick in the book to make all kinds of strange poisons, thinking of nothing but getting Yan Yuan poisoned. Who could have guessed that the other man would not only feel refreshed and grow more powerful, but also develop improper designs on him? One day, Yan Yuan held a white jade bottle and gave Lu Ling a meaningful look after tasting its contents. "You’ve made me such a potent Ninefold Heartbreak Powder again. It takes a complicated process and a long time to prepare, and you put in this much effort every day..." "Could it be that you truly have feelings for me?" Lu Ling: "...?" He wanted to ask: Why was the Demon Lord still not dead from poison today? [Reading Guide] 1. Resilient little weed, clever medicine cultivator uke x powerful, beautiful demon lord seme who overthinks everything 2. The more poison the seme consumes, the more energetic he gets. His life is never in danger, and the poison causes all kinds of amusing reactions (shh). Theme: After hardship comes good fortune.