After Becoming the Protagonist's Adoptive Father

Currently serializing: After the Unlucky One Is Haunted by an Evil Ghost. Please check it out!

Completed xianxia novel: I Heard I'm the Cold-Faced Immortal Venerable's Young, Late Husband. Please check it out!

Here is this novel's blurb:

Luo Qi'an transmigrates into a male-oriented novel that was abandoned midway and riddled with massive unresolved plot holes.

The good news: His character has cultivation, good looks, a noble status, and a whole gang of underlings.

The bad news: He's the villainous Demon Venerable.

To make it safely to the ending, he takes the tortured young protagonist, Ying Tiancheng, as his adoptive son. He takes good care of him and protects him until he grows into the kind of bright, upright, and promising top disciple of the immortal sect that everyone expects.

Once the male lead ascends to immortality, Luo Qi'an will be able to return to the real world with the things the System promised him and reach the pinnacle of life.

But he doesn't notice that the male lead's gaze is growing stranger by the day.

Ying Tiancheng has long known that his mysterious adoptive father might not be from this world.

At first, he was simply curious about what his adoptive father meant when he said things like "male lead" and "female lead."

Later, his heart became deeply attached. When he learned that this person might leave him at any moment, he grew more and more afraid, wanting only to do everything he could to keep him in his grasp.

He would not allow anyone else to lay a finger on him.

"If you ever fall for someone, Adoptive Father, she had better be stronger than me." He smiled pleasantly, his features as lovely as jade, every movement as ethereal as an immortal. Yet his hand closed around the other's chin, leaving no room for refusal, and he placed a light kiss at the corner of his lips. His gentle voice was a lover's whisper:

"Otherwise, I'll kill her."

[An obedient, pitiful little darling in the early chapters, a scheming, unhinged top later: Ying Tiancheng x A kindhearted bottom with an unusual train of thought and questionable intelligence: Luo Qi'an]

Reader's guide:

1. 1v1, both leads' first and only love, a sweet little story

2. The leads are not related by blood, but they will be adoptive father and son early in the story.

3. Their age gap is around 300 years or more. (They are different kinds of beings, so their ages differ.)

4. More details to come if I think of them.

Manual divider line:

Here is the blurb for the upcoming novel in my collection, After the Unlucky One Is Haunted by an Evil Ghost:

Su Che has been exceptionally unlucky lately.

He gets a bad hand playing Dou Dizhu, missing the seven in a three-four-five-six-seven straight; he has no fork for his instant noodles; then his neighbor's massive Samoyed barrels into him, sending him straight to the King of Hell's palace.

There, he meets his grandfather, who has been dead for years and is as shameless as ever.

"You weren't supposed to come here so soon." His grandfather rubs his thumb and forefinger together. "But, well, our family owes someone upstairs a bit of money, so we had to send you to pay off the debt."

Su Che: "???"

"So, what's it going to be? Sell yourself or work it off?" His grandfather kindly offers him two options.

When someone is speechless enough, they really do start laughing.

Su Che laughs himself awake in the hospital.

He thinks everything he experienced was just a dream and doesn't pay it any mind.

But that night, the old man in the next bed sits straight up, shuffles over to Su Che's bedside, and croaks, "Hey, kid, got a light?"

Su Che is focused on his phone and doesn't even look up. "No, I don't smoke."

The old man doesn't leave.

Su Che gets a sudden shiver and is about to look up and say something when he sees the peaceful, motionless shape beneath the blanket in the next bed, and the flat line on the monitor beside it.

As if things weren't bad enough, his creditor soon comes knocking: a male ghost who has been dead for hundreds of years.

He's very handsome, like the seductive demons in stories who feed on people's vital energy.

But he's sharp-tongued and aloof.

"I hope you'll cherish your life and stop doing stupid things until we've fulfilled our agreement."

Su Che treats him like his boss, diligently earning merit points and encountering all sorts of strange people and events. To his surprise, the man and the ghost get along remarkably well.

At this point, Su Che could never imagine that one day in the future, as dusk settles and the stuffy, hot summer wind sweeps in through a window left slightly ajar...

The alluring ghost drops to one knee between his legs, holding his wrist and trapping him in place. Cool, long hair brushes his neck, sending a shiver through him.

The ghost presses his forehead to Su Che's, his brows softening as he murmurs in a pitiful, coaxing voice, "Xiao Che, won't you give me a kiss?"

[Resilient, optimistic sunshine bottom Su Che x A competitive, scheming, tea-scented male ghost top Xie Yanheng]

Theme: World peace