Character dynamic: A timid bottom with an unconventional way of thinking x a paranoid, devious top
Warnings: The top's demon form is a snake. Still uncovering the rest...
Chen Ge woke up one day to find himself transmigrated as the master of a dragon-proud protagonist.
Chen Ge's response: So what? I'll eat, sleep, and live my life just the same...
When Chen Ge learned he was a spirit: What?! I'm a spirit, so someone else has to burn food for me, and I have to cling to a living person to sleep... I want to swing on a swing, the kind that swings you by the neck~
System: [Host, you forgot. Spirits can't touch physical objects, and you don't have a body or a neck. Besides, you're already dead, so threatening us with your life won't work~ Stop resisting. Oh, and since you're dead, you've already been removed from the household register. You're an undocumented worker now~~]
Chen Ge: What about my rights? No, my ghost rights!
[Nope~~]
*
To escape his sleepless, tasteless existence as soon as possible, Chen Ge began diligently working under the table.
[Host, raise the young dragon-proud protagonist to adulthood and help him reach the pinnacle of life.]
After receiving the instruction, Chen Ge and the dragon-proud protagonist... no, the tiny little child, stared wide-eyed at each other.
Wu Zhuqing was of mixed demon and human blood. Through a series of mishaps, he was switched at birth and abandoned in the middle of nowhere. Villagers took him in. His village was massacred when he was eight, and a sect brought him back when he was nine. But a spirit-root test stone judged him a good-for-nothing, leaving him to run errands in the kitchens and endure cold-hearted bullying.
A classic tragic childhood for a dragon-proud protagonist.
To Chen Ge, he was nothing but a young meal ticket who could fill his stomach.
After all, he was the protagonist, so sticking with him couldn't hurt. If Chen Ge ingratiated himself now, wouldn't a future of having food and clothes brought to him on demand, living as a carefree slacker, be within reach?
Of course, he had one small concern. He'd read so many stories on those green apps about domineering love between masters and disciples that he couldn't help feeling a twinge of pain. Where exactly did it hurt?
Chen Ge: Not saying, not saying.
But he firmly believed that under the "Chen Sect" edition of Three Years of Immortal Exams and Five Years of Compulsory Education for Ascension, all that romance would disappear!
*
And so, in a thatched hut by the sect's mountain gate, Chen Ge did his utmost to stay by Wu Zhuqing's side. During the day, he worried it was too hot and used the chill from his own body to accompany Wu Zhuqing to school. At night, he worried it was too cold and turned into a ghost flame to meet Wu Zhuqing after class.
He looked after Wu Zhuqing like this for eight years.
Then one calm, uneventful day, Chen Ge rose onto his toes and patted the dragon-proud protagonist's head, saying gently, "Wait here. I'll go down the mountain and steal... ahem, buy some cabbage. I'll be right back."
Wu Zhuqing, a head taller than Chen Ge, had an unreadable look in his eyes. He held a single-season men's paper outfit that was ready to be burned, and replied obediently, "Master, come back soon."
*
As Chen Ge carried two cabbages back to the mountain gate, the System crashed and went offline.
By the time the System had fixed its bug and Chen Ge returned to the mountain gate, the thatched hut had already collapsed.
"The village children bully an old man with no strength. Who tore down my thatched hut?" Chen Ge grumbled angrily as he repaired the hut with the cabbages in his arms, then waited for Wu Zhuqing to finish class as usual.
But the one who arrived was a demon god radiating black energy from head to toe.
Chen Ge took one look and realized it was his dear eldest disciple, Wu Zhuqing. Why had he gone off to "mine coal"?
Before he could even ask, soul-locking chains had bound his spirit from head to toe.
Wu Zhuqing chuckled. "It's been three years, Master. Did you miss me?"
Theme: Promote righteousness and suppress evil.
