After Saving the Self-Destructing Ghost King

[Save the world, and maybe fall in love along the way?]

[Powerful Ghost King seme x Tsundere, scheming Koi fish uke]

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was in disarray. Cultivators could not ascend, and ghosts could not be reborn.

Jin You was a koi fish from Zexian Lake who had gained sentience. When he was young, he was harmed by humans and saved by Yan Baichuan. After taking human form, he quietly stayed by Yan Baichuan's side, known as the "Ghost King," to repay his kindness, only to be unexpectedly drawn into the conflict between humans and ghosts.

Yan Baichuan was immensely powerful, yet despised by both humans and ghosts. During the war between them, he was framed and blew himself up to take the ghosts down with him. Jin You did everything in his power to save him, and just as they were in danger, King Qin Guang rescued them. When they opened their eyes again, seventeen years had passed.

King Qin Guang tossed Yan Baichuan a broadsword and sent the two of them back to the mortal world to slay some evil ghosts and find a way to restore the spiritual energy. If they failed, they would have to come back and work alongside Ox-Head and Horse-Face. The two underworld enforcers grinned at Yan Baichuan and Jin You with their two ugly faces. They both shuddered and agreed without a word.

Reborn, Jin You still didn't understand why Yan Baichuan, who hated ghosts to the core, treated him so well. Was it only because Jin You had saved him? Each with their own thoughts, the two returned to the mortal world.

Yan Baichuan could absorb ghostly power, and the baleful aura around him made his broadsword whistle as he swung it. Jin You could control water, and the weak water he refined was enough to make both humans and ghosts fear him.

A crooked village chief and a ghost locust tree who lured people in to kill them?

Yan Baichuan: "How convenient. We specialize in turning the tables on crooks."

A scumbag who tricked women into marrying him three times and then killed them?

Jin You: "We'll confiscate his weapon of choice and help ourselves to his secret stash while we're at it."

A ghost magistrate who used ghosts as exploited laborers and kept enslaving them even after they died?

The two of them: "Hand over that official seal. And don't take the imperial exams in your next life, got it?"

But when news spread that the Ghost King had appeared once again, Yan Baichuan's sworn enemy Yan'e also showed up before them. Jin You fell into a ghostly swamp after being tricked by Yan'e. Once Yan Baichuan pulled him out, Jin You looked at him with red-rimmed eyes and demanded, "Yan Baichuan, why are you so good to me?"

The hand that never wavered, even when he wielded a blade, trembled uncontrollably as he pulled Jin You tightly into his arms. "Because I love you, more than anyone else in the world."

But when Yan Baichuan willingly went to his death so Jin You could become an immortal, Jin You would rather he had never loved him at all.

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Chi Yi, an incoming college freshman, transmigrated into a book, becoming the fake young master who was doomed to be a minor character in a novel about a real and fake young master.

In the original story, the fake young master Chi Yi was always picking on the real young master, Shen Ge. Among other things, he transferred Shen Ge to a different school during his senior year and mocked him for being so uncouth. Even Chi Yi's parents, who had favored him, gradually grew disappointed in him. In the end, Chi Yi crashed his car while street racing and became a vegetable. At the novel's conclusion, he was still lying unconscious in a hospital bed.

Looking at the face in the mirror that resembled his own, Chi Yi couldn't help sighing. "Picking a fight with the protagonist is just arrogance, but transferring a senior in high school? That's a real death wish."

As a doomed fake young master with the entire original novel at his fingertips, Chi Yi chose to keep his head down.

But when Shen Ge showed up at the Chi family home, looking at him timidly like a rabbit with big, watery eyes and a delicate face, Chi Yi's young heart started beating against his will.

Chi Yi: "Mom, Dad, um... could you transfer me to another school?"

His parents: "But you're a senior in high school too!"

Shen Ge had always known he was adopted. But when he saw the parents who had always treated him well change their attitude, he decided to accept his birth parents' offer to go back, hoping to earn some money to help his adoptive family.

He'd heard that wealthy families were complicated, and the Chi family had a boy his age. Shen Ge was prepared to be picked on.

Chi Yi was 185 centimeters tall. He looked down at Shen Ge without expression, giving off an intimidating air. Shen Ge timidly looked up at him, wondering if the guy was going to hit him, when a pleasant male voice suddenly rang in his ears:

[Is this Shen Ge? He's so fair, and so handsome.]

Shen Ge: ?

Whose voice was that?

Chi Yi looked Shen Ge up and down, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Shen Ge?"

All right, it was Chi Yi's voice.

Shen Ge still hadn't figured out why he could hear Chi Yi's thoughts when Chi Yi's voice sounded again:

[He kind of looks like someone. Like my future boyfriend.]

Shen Ge: !!!

A few years later, Chi Yi was cuddling Shen Ge, who was exhausted from being thoroughly ravished, and getting ready to rest. The late-arriving Villain System came online and saw Chi Yi, nearly fainting on the spot.

Chi Yi held an imaginary cigarette between his fingers and said to the System with a solemn expression, "You're too late. Allow me to introduce you: this is my wife."

Theme: Do more good deeds.