My Unhinged Junior Brother Wants to Kill Me

Blurb:

[Stubborn, sharp-tongued top who refuses to behave x ruthless, unhinged bottom]

Rekindled Romance | A Sea of Hatred and Passion | Soapy Pregnancy-and-Childbirth Drama | Past and Present Lives

1.

When Shen Liuchen transmigrated into a book, he became a mere background character in a web novel about a good-for-nothing who rises to greatness.

As the senior disciple of a top-tier sect, Shen Liuchen naturally chose to lounge around, drink wine, and slack off in the sect.

After a trip down the mountain to gain experience, he was even more convinced that Heaven had treated him well.

But when he returned to the sect and saw the new second disciple his master had taken in, his world came crashing down.

Wait a minute!

How had the Demon Sect's crown prince, who stained the Nine Provinces with blood in the original novel, ended up undercover as his second junior brother?

At the same time, a calm, mechanical voice rang out in his spiritual platform:

[Ding! The Demon-Slaying System, after eighteen years away, reports for duty!]

[Demonic cultivator detected. Their hostility is at 100%.]

Shen Liuchen felt his heart falter. Trembling, he asked the System, "The target of your mission isn't my unhinged second junior brother, is it?"

"Wasn't I just a background character in the original novel?!"

2.

His new junior brother was downright sinister, always finding excuses to fuss over him.

Ling Hanyan: "Senior Brother, let me apply some medicine."

"It's just a little scratch. It'll be fine soon, no need for medicine." Shen Liuchen was afraid he'd poison him.

Ling Hanyan: "Senior Brother, let me make your bed."

"It's fine, it's fine. I'll do it myself." Shen Liuchen was afraid he'd put a curse on him.

Ling Hanyan: "Senior Brother, let me..."

Enough!

Shen Liuchen was truly scared. He freaked out inwardly: Your Highness, if you want my life, just say so.

And that wasn't all. Everyone in the sect thought highly of the demon and adored him. Shen Liuchen figured it was over: the enemy had taken over his home.

As if things weren't bad enough, before Shen Liuchen could uncover the other's true intentions, a murder occurred in the sect. Three servant disciples were killed in a row.

And every clue pointed straight to a demonic cultivator.

Shen Liuchen nearly tore through the original novel in his mind. What was this? System! This never happened in the book! Help, help, help! My unhinged junior brother really looks like he wants to kill me.

So Shen Liuchen, who had been slacking off, was forced to get serious. As he investigated the truth, he realized that he might actually have fallen for the great demon.

A top-tier succubus, giving it everything he's got, yet impossible to defeat.

After Shen Liuchen truly fell in love with his junior brother, they kissed and slept together, but the other man used him up and ran away.

The poor senior brother was like an abandoned loyal dog, hiding under the covers with tears in his eyes as he secretly swore: If I ever fall for that demonic cultivator who seduced me and then dumped me again, I'll be a dog!

3.

Many years later, Shen Liuchen went down the mountain to gain experience and accidentally fell into a bandit's trap. He was sent to an auction. When he opened his eyes again, he discovered that the person who had bought him was none other than Ling Hanyan, who had disappeared without a trace.

Ling Hanyan gripped his chin and chuckled. "Are you upset about becoming this lord's cultivation furnace?"

Who knows whether Heaven had treated him well, but Shen Liuchen thought his junior brother's chest was pretty broad. If he had to be a dog, then so be it. Woof, woof, woof.

4.

Ling Hanyan had never believed in fate. As the Demon Sect's crown prince, there was nothing he didn't want that he couldn't obtain.

After Shen Liuchen had pierced his heart with a sword in his previous life, Ling Hanyan unexpectedly discovered that he was carrying a child. From that moment on, he resolved to use the child to take revenge on Shen Liuchen.

How could he dispose of such a precious bargaining chip himself?

Naturally, the child's other father, Shen Liuchen, had to do it with his own hands.

After Shen Liuchen regained his memories of his previous life, he stroked the waist of his beloved in his arms, unsure what to do. Just then, Ling Hanyan said, "Kill the abomination in my belly, and you'll secure your position as sect leader. That's a good deal, isn't it?"

Reading Guide:

1. In theory, this brings together pregnancy-and-childbirth drama, forced marriage, amnesia, both leads being reborn, and a love-hate relationship between sworn enemies. Whether I can write it with the proper soapy flavor is another matter.

2. There's a tiny bit of an ensemble cast, practically none at all. It has a cultivation-and-leveling storyline, plus a little political intrigue.

3. This is a soapy angst novel, with both physical and emotional pain. Both the top and bottom suffer.

4. The top doesn't give birth; the bottom does. The top is weaker in the early chapters, but he is definitely the top. The bottom flirts indiscriminately with everyone, is very strong, and has a wild love life. The top is sexually inexperienced; the bottom isn't. The top is a dedicated 1, and the bottom used to be a 1, so he wasn't inexperienced either. Later he drank herbal medicine to become a 0 (just kidding). The bottom isn't intersex, either. The child is due to a cultivation technique.

5. The bottom is pregnant for a long time (he's carrying a Nezha). Cultivators can have longer pregnancies, and his cultivation level is very high.

6. The two leads have both done plenty to strike at each other's hearts, so neither is an unequivocally good person. When they hate each other, they really hate each other; when they love each other, they truly love each other.

7. A character's actions don't represent the author's values!

--- Upcoming Historical Danmei: Destined to Wrong My Shizun ---

[Cool and aloof shizun top x obsessive disciple bottom]

When Ling Xuan was carried back to the sect by his shizun, he was still a baby who hadn't been weaned.

His shizun taught him to read, trained him in swordsmanship, indulged him without conditions, and gave him the very best of everything.

And Ling Xuan would often tell his shizun, "I won't take a cultivation partner. I'll never leave Jade Purity Peak. I want to stay by your side forever."

Later, those words became: "Shizun, you've taught me so much and given me so much. Why can't you give me your heart, too?!"

He was utterly infatuated, immersing himself in this unrequited love all alone. "I don't want anyone else to steal your attention. I want you to be mine alone forever!"

So he wanted to have a child with his shizun, to earn his eternal gaze.

Yun Yi could never understand why the most obedient, most dazzling, most gifted disciple he had raised with his own hands was so determined to climb into his bed.

That year, in the inner hall of Jade Purity Palace, beside the bed of the Immortal Venerable Huayang, Ling Xuan climbed down in disheveled clothes. His beloved disciple knelt on the cold floor. "Shizun, I love you. Please..."

The disciple used force to violate his shizun.

In response, he received nothing but icy snowflakes and a resounding slap.

"Stop saying such crazy things!"

Ling Xuan knew he would never earn his shizun's love. There was no way he ever would.

If that was the case, then he would leave behind more hatred instead. With that in mind, he climbed into his shizun's bed.

The senior brother of Jade Purity Peak was expelled from the sect for defying his elders and fled to the Demon Realm, becoming the fearsome Northern Yin Demon Lord.

The world believed Ling Xuan's self-destruction was a hopeless last resort. But he knew in his heart that only by becoming a demonic cultivator could he make his shizun look at him again.

Many years later, Ling Xuan was locked in a cell in the Nine Heavens Exquisite Tower. Just as he had once done, he humbly begged his shizun to open his eyes and look at his wounds, and at their child.

But Yun Yi was unwilling, and afraid, to look. He had killed many people in his life and done many things wrong. What he regretted and blamed himself for most was raising a disciple like Ling Xuan.

He often sat alone in solitude, remembering every moment of Ling Xuan's childhood. Which step had gone wrong? When had it happened? What had he done to make his beloved disciple develop such thoughts?

He truly was an unworthy shizun.

---- Upcoming Fantasy Danmei: Back on Land, Then Back Underwater ----

[Amnesiac merman with stunning looks and unmatched combat prowess x dragon who has a few wits, but not many]

Ning Xi was a merman from the deep sea. After sleeping for many years, he opened his eyes to find himself in a strange world.

Fortunately, he had made it ashore, and his merman ability to bewitch people was still intact. Unfortunately, he had lost his memory.

Alone in a foreign land, he wandered forlornly down the streets of Haichang City. A roadside billboard advertised weekly merman performances at the Ocean Kingdom.

With nowhere else to turn, Ning Xi decided to go back into the water.

Two weeks later, he registered a social media account and boldly chose the name @MermanAshorePleaseSupportMe.

A kind netizen commented: The internet's stocking up on new men! Your tail is so pretty. Where did you buy it?

Ning Xi: Custom-made. Not available on the market.

Netizen: Please tell me where you got your beautiful contact lenses, that blue is gorgeous.

Ning Xi: One-year disposables. Not recommended.

Netizen: Handsome bodhisattva, how can you keep your eyes open while diving and eat underwater, too?

Ning Xi: Stay underwater long enough and you can do it too.

The netizens thought he was aloof and funny, never realizing that every word he said was true. He was just an honest, down-to-earth merman.

Until three months later, when a typhoon made landfall in Haichang. Amid violent winds and pouring rain, a stranger with dragon horns on his head, looking utterly miserable, knocked on his door.

He blurted out, "Wife, I finally found you! Please have offspring with me!"

What kind of nonsense was this? Ning Xi slammed the door, only for the strange man to faint straight into his arms. A merman pearl hung around his neck.

Ning Xi felt his world collapse. Had he really slept with some random dragon before losing his memory? Even more troublesome, the first thing the unwelcome guest said when he woke was, "Wife, I'm carrying your child. You're not going to seduce me and then abandon me, are you?"

Ning Xi couldn't take it anymore. His hand trembled as he gripped the towel. Come on, stupid brain, think! Who on earth is this guy?

Later, the unwelcome guest became a regular at his home. As usual, Ning Xi performed at the aquarium during the day and streamed at home at night, except now a new ID had appeared at the top of his leaderboard: @DragonBroDoesntLiveInADragonPalace.

Ning Xi was obsessed with gaining followers and making money, earning the power of faith from mortal affection so he could return to the deep sea and his tribe as soon as possible.

He secretly swore that a man focused on his career must never get caught up in romance.

But this time, Ning Xi had met his match. A species even better at seduction had appeared.

Ying Qi had approached the merman on a mission. At first, he had been utterly disgusted by him. He was a proud member of the dragon clan, so how could he lower himself and reproduce with a filthy half-human, half-demon species?

He swallowed his disgust and went to great lengths to tempt Ning Xi. They say good things take time. He worked at it every day, until at last he earned the right to touch him every night.

He groped the sea demon from head to toe and sincerely thought Ning Xi was actually pretty good-looking. Sleeping with him wasn't exactly a loss.

After using him up and completing his mission, Ying Qi wanted to sneak away. He hadn't even made it out the door when Ning Xi wrapped his arms around his waist. "Trying to run?"

The detestable sea demon pressed close behind his ear and said, "Dragons are in danger when they're alone during their molting season. Let me help you."

Ying Qi thought: I'm doomed. I've taken this way too far.

Reading Guide:

1. An amnesia comedy with sweet romance and doting love. There may be egg-laying. Anything could change before the novel launches.

2. Both are sexually inexperienced, switch, and are hopeless romantics who love each other passionately.

3. Later, their emotional roles reverse: the dragon who has no choice but to give up and roll with it (with-child runaway version) x the ruthless, vicious merman (memory-restored version).

--- Upcoming Fantasy Danmei: Welcome to the Hospitable Underworld ---

[Scheming, sweet-talking top x hot-tempered, sharp-tongued bottom]

Before entering the industry, Wen Cun used to spend endless nights in the company's dance studio, studying his expressions in the mirror. He was determined to secure a spot in the debut lineup and become an outstanding boy-band singer and dancer.

Ten years into his career, after releasing songs, appearing on variety shows, and acting, he successfully transformed into a newly risen top-tier star.

Unfortunately, his good fortune didn't last. Less than three years after enjoying explosive popularity, he died in a car accident on his way to an offline event.

Wen Cun died and became a ghost.

He thought he only had to go through the formalities, cross the Naihe Bridge, drink Granny Meng's soup, and be reincarnated.

But when he got to the Mirror of Retribution, he couldn't help exclaiming, "Oh my God, Lady Houtu!"

Charge 1: Didn't actively promote his work and deceived his fans. Bad karma +1

Charge 2: Dated during his idol days, violating the professional code of conduct in the living world. Bad karma +2

Charge 3: Used an alt account to badmouth his teammates and create bad karma with his words. Bad karma +999

Wen Cun trembled in terror, clutching the soul reaper's sleeve, crying and sniffling. "No, please, sir! I don't want to go to the Tongue-Ripping Hell!"

The soul reaper was in a difficult position, too. This little ghost was really bold. Of all the people he could insult, he had to insult Lord He.

Wen Cun had no idea that his former teammate and ex was a ghost officer in the Underworld's Court of Judgment. So that was why the guy had always seemed so shady. It turned out he was a local from the world of the dead.

Just as Wen Cun thought he was going to Hell, he glanced at a recruitment flyer handed out by a ghost officer nearby. The King of Hell had announced a new policy: the Underworld was going to make a major push into cultural industries, filming short promotional dramas about local tourism and keeping up with trends in the living world.

Wen Cun immediately seized the opportunity. His expertise was a perfect fit, his acting skills were top-notch, and there was no one more suitable. He could handle short dramas with one hand tied behind his back!

Wen Cun: Everyone, I've finally got a secure job too. I'm now an intern in the Underworld.

Promotional slogan: So close, so beautiful. Spend your weekend north of Naihe Bridge. The hospitable Underworld welcomes you. The wind carrying your longing has blown all the way to the River of Forgetfulness.

He Xu had come to the living world to become an idol because the King of Hell sent him to study the industry. He never expected to fall for his former teammate. Everyone in the industry said he and Wen Cun were sworn enemies. Now that the other man had died unexpectedly, well, this was just perfect. Every week, He Xu pretended to visit his grave to mourn, but was really using the Mirror of Taixu to spy on his ex.

Wen Cun started livestreaming in the Underworld, and He Xu showered him with gifts, climbing to the top of the leaderboard. This left the new intern forced to work overtime every day.

In the end, Wen Cun couldn't take it anymore. That damned ghost kept tormenting him every day, using such underhanded methods!

So he turned into a black cat and returned to the living world. In the middle of the night, he crouched at the head of He Xu's bed and said viciously:

"A VIP has arrived in the Underworld. The King of Hell says you're going back to work overtime. Your body belongs to me now. Hurry up, I need to return to life."

But He Xu grabbed the cat by the scruff and stuffed him under his covers.

"This is the human world. Keep your hellish jokes to yourself."

Theme: Defy fate and rekindle a broken romance.