I Crushed the Main Cast

The years when Yan Jinghai was once well-behaved.

His close friend, who had confided his feelings to him, pushed him into the Demon Abyss for the sake of his beloved junior brother, saying calmly, "His body is frail and he can't endure the Cold Pool punishment. Do him a favor, will you?"

His aloof, reclusive master descended from the heavens and tore out his spiritual soul to rebuild his cherished young disciple's immortal body. He looked at Yan Jinghai with cold indifference. "You have an evil soul and wicked bones. Even if you cultivate immortality, you'll bring harm to the world. Li'er cares for all under heaven and deserves a clear path to the Great Dao."

The Sword Saint patriarch, who had entrusted his disciple's orphaned child to Yan Jinghai out of gratitude for a life-saving favor, treated his own grand-disciple as a cultivation partner and called on all the immortal sects to hunt him down. He declared righteously, "Since he was born evil, I'll rid the world of this menace on behalf of his parents."

His former fellow disciples denounced him as a demon and a menace, and swarmed to attack him, searching heaven and earth just to destroy him...

Yan Jinghai stepped over the hatred, disgust, and condemnation in the eyes of the world, advancing step by step until he stood somewhere no one could shake him from.

But then he died without knowing why. Only after death did he learn that he was the great villain in a storybook, hunted by the protagonists until his soul was scattered.

He was supposed to appear amid the world's condemnation, clear the way for the protagonist's rise, then exit in disgrace, remembered for all eternity as a stepping stone to the protagonist's triumph.

But he defied the will of Heaven and changed the course of the story. In the end, the protagonist died and the world collapsed, leaving Yan Jinghai as a fragment of a soul in the shattered space.

Now they would send him back to the past once more, make him endure hardship all over again, set the main plot back on course, and have him willingly sacrifice everything for the protagonist.

Time turned back. Yan Jinghai returned to the year he first entered the immortal sect.

Looking at the protagonist's still-youthful face, he slowly curved his lips into an innocent smile and unhurriedly ended his life.

Heaven was enraged. The universe perished, taking the entire world with it as a funeral offering for the protagonist.

Reborn again and again.

When Yan Jinghai opened his eyes once more, the protagonist who was supposed to enter the immortal sect was nowhere to be seen.

But that was fine. There was still the protagonist's crew, who couldn't escape him. :)

If you can't live, then none of you will.

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The world feared him, dreaded him, and hated him.

Only the Demon Lord, who had always been at odds with him, suffered torment that seared his very bones, shattered his Dao heart, and drove him to become a demon. He died before Yan Jinghai, who was being besieged by the immortals.

Years later, when they met again, the prodigy of the Demon Realm still refused to look him in the eye.

Yan Jinghai licked the streak of blood on his chin, met his trembling gaze, and curled his lips into a smile. He said softly, "...It's sweet."

Coming soon: I'm Determined to Be the Protagonist

Bai Wangs hu was approached by a System, tasked with helping the protagonist seize opportunities and complete the plot.

After hearing the System's introduction, he thought this sounded doable.

"The protagonist gets pretty good treatment."

"Can't I be the protagonist instead?"

System: "...?"

"Am I too weak to beat the villain, or not charming enough to win over the supporting characters?"

"Show me the book." Bai Wangs hu said, "Who did you say the protagonist was again?"

The System panicked. "I didn't! I haven't! I didn't say anything!"

"...Xuan Qing." Bai Wangs hu said, "If I bump him out of the way, I get to be the protagonist, right?"

The System was desperate.

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1

When an opportunity came along, Bai Wangs hu approached the protagonist, who was holding a treasure, and said, "Hey, handsome, I really like that. Give it to me, okay~"

"But you're the honorable, noble-minded senior brother with lofty ideals."

Bai Wangs hu's lingering gaze brushed over the protagonist's face. His voice was soft, curling around his ear. "Everyone else can have it. Why can't I?"

The protagonist's lashes trembled. He didn't dare look at Bai Wangs hu. "...If you want it, you can have it all."

Bai Wangs hu said, "See? He's the one who offered it to me."

System: ...I am dead from anger.

What a spineless protagonist!

2

Due to the unavoidable force of the plot, the protagonist still got the spirit pill.

Bai Wangs hu hooked the pill back out of the protagonist's mouth and stared at him. "I said it's mine. Don't you dare steal it."

The protagonist's cheeks flushed red with guilt. "I'll find you something better, okay?"

Bai Wangs hu hooked a finger beneath the protagonist's chin, smiling. "I only like the one you swallowed. How are you going to pay me back?"

3

Gradually, more and more people gathered around Bai Wangs hu, each offering him their finest treasures.

Everyone said that the senior brother of Tianyi Sect was the foremost figure among the immortal sects, pure as the bright moon. But Xuan Qing knew he wasn't so upright.

On the night Bai Wangs hu was to become engaged to someone else, Xuan Qing sat alone on Unrepentant Cliff all night. At last, he swallowed the pill everyone longed for, wrapped an arm around Bai Wangs hu's waist, and said with an air of perfect clarity, "...Dual cultivation. Dual cultivation will let you absorb the power of the divine pill inside me."

Premise: Forge ahead without fear