The Male Lead I Raised Went Mad

Ling Shangsu was following a xianxia novel. The male lead had overcome countless trials and was about to become a Sword Venerable. Just when things were getting exciting, the story stopped. The novel was unfinished, and the author seemed to have vanished.

Ling Shangsu was so upset he spent all night with a heavy heart. When he woke the next morning, he discovered he had transmigrated.

He had transmigrated into the very book he'd been reading, as the great villain who tormented the male lead. At this point, the male lead was still a five-year-old child. Ling Shangsu thought this role was perfect, and the timing was just right.

As a devoted fan of the original novel, he felt it was his duty to help the male lead become a true Sword Venerable. The ending the original author failed to give him, Ling Shangsu would provide.

Filled with anticipation, he spent the next hundred years searching for the male lead. When he found him, he took him as his disciple, teaching him, tormenting him, training him, and setting him on the right path.

Then, against all expectations, the male lead turned out wrong.

A wayward male lead could be corrected. That wasn't what made Ling Shangsu angry. What enraged him was that this so-called male lead was actually a transmigrator who had taken someone else's place!

Just what kind of person would dare impersonate his protagonist?

Ling Shangsu curled his lips into a cold smile. If this wasn't his protagonist, then there was no reason for him to exist.

He lowered his eyes and pressed down with his palm, shattering the spirit sword he'd originally prepared for Sheng Xishi.

However, the body this person had taken over still had to be kept in good condition.

So Ling Shangsu crippled his cultivation and threw him into a lightless water dungeon, where he was imprisoned for thirty years.

During those thirty years, Ling Shangsu searched the cultivation world for treasures that could restore a soul. In the end, he created a soul-summoning formation and used it to call back the real Sheng Xishi.

Sheng Xishi transmigrated into the cultivation novel he'd written, as its male lead. But the story unfolded differently from the way he'd written it.

His villain appeared early and took him as a disciple.

He taught him with great care, yet tormented him time and again. He treated his injuries diligently, yet trained him harshly. He rescued him from danger again and again, yet also pushed him into hell time and again.

Sheng Xishi felt like he was going mad!

To him, Ling Shangsu was a teacher, a father, a friend, and an enemy all at once.

He loved him, yet hated him.

How could he not love someone who kept pulling him back from the wrong path? But how could he not hate someone who kept pushing him into the abyss?

Only after he was locked in the water dungeon did he learn that the "him" Ling Shangsu wanted was not him.

Hahaha, how ridiculous!

Sheng Xishi's expression turned manic. But the Sheng Xishi Ling Shangsu had wanted had never existed at all!

He moved his limbs, bound by chains, and let out a low laugh that sent a chill down the spine.

Master. Ling Shangsu.

You kept me locked up for thirty years. How about I lock you up next time?

[Madman × madman, Ling Shangsu is the top]

P.S.:

★ The pairing is fixed, no switching or reversing!!!

★ Both transmigrate into a book

★ Creative freedom. No writing advice, please.

Theme: Long imprisoned in a cage, at last returning to nature.