After the Sickly Beauty Master Was Targeted by the Dragon-Proud Protagonist

[Transmigrate into a book + master and younger disciple + overpowered hero]

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Office worker Xie Huai was flipping through a danmei novel when he unexpectedly transmigrated into a book and became a sickly, useless master.

The System told him his mission was to take in the reborn, overpowered male lead as his disciple and help him unite the Three Realms.

Xie Huai: Oh, I'm good at being a backdrop that makes the protagonist shine.

The System continued: As a child, the overpowered male lead suffered terribly. After meeting the love interest, he would experience the warmth of human kindness, and the two would fall in love over time and live happily ever after.

System: Host, you must successfully take in the overpowered male lead and help him find the love interest destined for him.

Xie Huai: I'm a cheap stand-in master, a backdrop for the protagonist's big moments, and now you want me to moonlight as a matchmaker?

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Good news: The peak's once-every-three-years disciple recruitment ceremony is about to begin, and the overpowered male lead will be there.

Bad news: The System doesn't know who the male lead and love interest are, either.

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Xie Huai cursed aloud. "Aren't the leads in danmei novels supposed to be spelled out in the blurb and stamped on their foreheads? Now I have to find them myself?"

The System replied, sounding aggrieved: "There wasn't enough money, the actors haven't been cast, and there's no script yet. The Host fainted without reading a single word, so I only know the general outline, too."

Xie Huai: "..."

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He couldn't rely on this System, so Xie Huai could only wait for the overpowered male lead to distinguish himself from the crowd at the disciple recruitment ceremony. Then no one else would be allowed to snatch that disciple from him.

But! Why were there two cranes?

Looking at the two little boys in front of him, he decided to play matchmaker at random.

It wouldn't be so bad if the two of them got together with each other.

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Xie Huai took the two of them around, vanquishing demons and monsters, helping the overpowered male lead gain experience, and getting the destined couple to confess their feelings.

He thought he'd completed his mission, but after one drunken night, the overpowered male lead audaciously kissed him instead.

The forceful kiss left Xie Huai stunned. In his panic, he happened to meet the overpowered male lead's eyes, filled with desire.

After being found out, the man who had been so rough just a moment before put on a pitiful expression, expertly using retreat as a means to advance.

"Master, please don't push me onto someone else."

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Luo Mingyuan came from a poor family and was taken in by Xie Huai, who was famous for being a good-for-nothing, through a twist of fate.

He had thought his cheap stand-in master was all looks and no substance, but as they spent time together, he discovered that Xie Huai was far more sincere than he had imagined.

When he was sick, he saw Xie Huai anxiously keeping watch by his bed.

When he hit a wall in his training, Xie Huai personally and patiently guided him.

When he was discouraged, Xie Huai comforted and encouraged him with gentle care.

When he fell to the bottom of a ravine, Xie Huai used what little spiritual power he had to give him a chance to live. Even when he was admired by everyone, only Xie Huai could bring him back to his senses, like ice and snow.

Day after day of training changed his mind, and he grew more and more dependent on Xie Huai's presence.

But Xie Huai was always hot and cold toward him. Every seemingly intimate interaction felt as if a veil would forever remain between them.

His obsessive feelings made him care more and more about Xie Huai's opinion. Unease and fear nourished an evil inner demon.

Gradually, he began to entertain forbidden fantasies, audaciously wanting to pull his master into his arms and defy the proper order between them.

"Master, the mountaintop is too lonely. We belong together."

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Luo Mingyuan: the overpowered male lead, a pitiful illegitimate child in the beginning and an alluring, arrogant powerhouse later

Xie Huai: the disciple's master and love interest, once an office worker and later a caretaker, a good-for-nothing who would rather lie down than sit

The blurb was screenshotted on 23/10/17.

Message: Be sincere, and keep moving forward.