Don't Judge by Appearances

Wen Zhao is about to die.

Sixty-nine years after transmigrating to the cultivation world.

He recalls how Gongyi Wulie brought him and Lin You to Tianze Sect. That was sixty-eight years ago.

Back then, with his extraordinary natural talent, Gongyi Wulie stood out among the many who had come seeking immortality and the Dao. The Sect Master of Tianze took him on as a personal disciple, and he was unmatched in fame.

Wen Zhao and Lin You, however, had only mediocre aptitude. First, both were unlucky enough to be tested as useless Five-Element Spirit Root cultivators; then they were eliminated in the very first round of the trial.

By rights, they should both have gone home to grow sweet potatoes. But in the end, they both entered Tianze Sect.

Gongyi Wulie used his status as a personal disciple to bring Lin You into the sect as a trusted attendant. Lin You held the title of an inner sect disciple, while Gongyi Wulie took care of all his food, clothing, and daily needs.

Wen Zhao, meanwhile, had no one to rely on. He watched those two disappear into the clouds and mist surrounding Tianze Sect, his heart hollow and aching. He never saw them again.

Wen Zhao knew his aptitude would never get him into Tianze Sect, but he also knew that a good-for-nothing like him could never survive in the perilous cultivation world.

Fortunately, Tianze Sect happened to be recruiting servants. Wen Zhao applied, and by agreeing to accept two-thirds less pay each month, he finally got a job as a servant in the spirit plant garden.

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For the next sixty-eight years, Wen Zhao never saw Gongyi Wulie again.

He only heard about his many achievements.

Sixty-eight years later, Gongyi Wulie was a celebrated prodigy of the cultivation world, its youngest Human Emperor, and was about to marry Lin You, hailed as the cultivation world's foremost beauty, as his Dao companion. Everyone envied them.

Wen Zhao, meanwhile, was still stuck in the early stage of Qi Refining. His lifespan was nearly exhausted, his end was approaching, and he had only a few years left to live.

He had nearly reached the end of an ordinary mortal's life.

He didn't want to die at Tianze Sect.

He packed his belongings, took the wages he had saved over sixty-eight years, left the sect, and went to the mortal realm.

From then on, there was no more ugly servant from Tianze Sect in this world.

Reading Guide:

1. Over-the-top melodrama, old-school style. The synopsis alone will have you drowning in melodrama!

2. An initially lively, goofy character becomes a gorgeous, powerful, swoon-worthy uke later on!

3. The uke is a peerless beauty who turns the world upside down, captivating everyone. There are lots of one-sided crushes!

4. Don't label the author. The author is just a tongue-tied, unsophisticated mutt. There's a grand beauty uke who gets exposed in public and stuns the world, and a fake death followed by a return to modern times!

5. The revenge arcs will have all eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms arranged!

6. Both the gong and Lin You love the uke!

7. The gong and uke are each other's one and only in body and mind. No breaking them up, switching them, or dream-control!

[100% traditionally handcrafted. Everyone, please enjoy with confidence.]

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The next novel is Male-Frequency Protagonist's Self-Destructive Wife

Chu Lanting transmigrates into an apocalypse novel and becomes a cannon-fodder character doomed by his own behavior.

The original is vain, malicious, selfish, and despicable. He uses the fact that his deceased parents once saved the Zhao family to force his husband, who has a white moonlight, to marry him.

His husband despises the original. After they marry, he ignores him completely and has never even touched one of his fingers.

His husband continues to treat his white moonlight as well as ever. The two appear together everywhere, regularly making the headlines and stirring up public discussion.

Everyone in Beijing's elite circles knows that his husband was forced to marry the original. They feel nothing but contempt for him, not a shred of sympathy.

Mocked by the upper-class crowd, the original is furious and decides to drug his husband.

As a beta, he has trouble getting pregnant, but it is still possible. He plans to use a child to tie his husband down.

Just then, the apocalypse suddenly breaks out.

Terrified, the original begs his husband for help, but his husband is on his way to his white moonlight.

His husband asks a friend to pick up the original along the way.

He tells the original that after this, the Zhao family owes him nothing, and whatever happens to him from then on is none of their concern.

The original never expected that the friend who came to get him would be the crown prince of Beijing's elite circle, a man everyone fawns over.

The original tries to seduce his husband's friend.

The original can't change his selfish, malicious nature, and continues to cause trouble in the apocalypse.

He complains that the bread tastes bad, that the instant noodles are no good, and demands canned meat and canned fruit.

When danger strikes, he pushes his teammates toward the zombies to act as a shield.

When he sees handsome people rescued by the team, he maliciously targets them, afraid that the crown prince might take a liking to them.

What the original doesn't know is that this is a male-targeted apocalypse harem novel. The male lead keeps picking up beautiful men and women along the way, including all kinds of celebrities.

The male lead later becomes the emperor of the new world, surrounded by beauties and presiding over an enormous harem. The original is trying to stop a chariot with his bare arms.

The original keeps courting death until everyone loathes him. After the male lead abandons him at a base, he is torn apart by zombies the very next day.

The base is overrun when zombies break out inside it.

Chu Lanting, who has transmigrated into the story and been ordered by the System to follow the plot: "..."

Chu Lanting smiles. "That ending doesn't sound very friendly."

System: "Just put up with it and it'll be over. I'll block the pain."

"The first time you meet the male lead, you're trying to seduce your neighbor for food."

"The male lead finds you disgusting at first sight. He doesn't like promiscuous people."

Chu Lanting: "..."

Isn't he a womanizer himself?

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The original is notorious in Beijing's social circles, infamous in all the worst ways.

Beisi Han has heard all about him.

A vain, malicious, selfish beta who exploits a past favor, has only average looks, and is absurdly full of himself.

At a hotel.

Beisi Han sees Chu Lanting for the first time.

Gazing at that peerlessly beautiful face, Beisi Han pauses and raises an eyebrow.

This is the supposedly average-looking, absurdly self-assured beta?

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The System originally thought this would be an easy mission, with no difficulty at all. The Host would follow the prescribed plot and court death, and the two of them would complete the mission in no time.

But the System is face-blind and has no idea what the person it brought in looks like. After a small glitch, the Host appears in his real appearance.

In the original plot, the Host seduces his neighbor, who looks down on the original. He acts disgusted while letting his lower instincts take over and encouraging the original to make the first move.

But the plot the System sees has the neighbor chasing after its Host and trying to force himself on him.

In the original plot, with no one around to protect him, the original pushes a teammate toward the zombies to survive.

But in the plot the System sees, the male lead, a womanizer, leaves the celebrity beauties behind and appears out of nowhere, decapitating the zombie in front of the Host with one slash.

In the original plot, the useless original, too weak to even truss a chicken, suffers a fever during his second differentiation and goes to the male lead. One of the male lead's teammates tosses him a few pills, while the male lead doesn't even spare him a glance.

But in the plot the System sees, the Host undergoes his second differentiation, and his pheromones send the surrounding zombies into a frenzy. The male lead leans against the Host's car, lighting a cigarette as he takes down one zombie after another with his blade.

System: "..."

The System is baffled.

The plot goes completely off the rails.

The System is heartbroken. Where is the male-targeted apocalypse harem novel with its womanizing protagonist that it was promised?

Male lead, let go of my Host!

That's your friend's wife. You don't take your friend's wife!

The original's husband falls in love with the uke and tries to get back together with him. The husband's feelings for his white moonlight are average; he uses the white moonlight to torment the original.

Peerlessly beautiful, cool, languid, and overwhelmingly powerful uke VS male-targeted protagonist gong with no morals or limits and an all-consuming possessiveness, who steals another man's wife

Theme: Never part, even when our hair has turned white