Blurb:
1. Jiang Zhuo accepts a book-transmigration System to stay alive, and is randomly assigned to an ancient fantasy novel about an overpowered hero.
The male lead, Zhu Xi, is an unprecedented genius of the Miao territory, a once-in-centuries talent. He's cold, twisted, and delicate. He kills without mercy to refine Gu, and by the age of sixteen has mastered peerless Gu poison. His stunning looks also make him the object of desire for every faction.
Jiang Zhuo transmigrates into the body of Villain No. 2, a man who covets Zhu Xi's beauty, imprisons and rapes him through a vicious scheme, then uses him for pleasure in bed day after day. In the end, Zhu Xi takes revenge, cuts off all four of his limbs, and torments and humiliates him for decades. By the time he dies, he's barely human.
System: Your mission is to survive and fulfill the ending in which you are tortured to death!
System: Your previous coworkers all broke down and quit halfway through their torture, leaving Villain No. 2 out of the later plot and causing a bug in the book's world.
Jiang Zhuo: Fuck!
2.
Jiang Zhuo has his own plan. If he keeps his distance from Zhu Xi, won't he stay alive? He can just hang himself with a rope in a few decades. That still counts as completing the mission, right?
He closes his eyes, then opens them. Jiang Zhuo is dressed in luxurious ancient robes, looking every bit the rich and powerful scoundrel.
He looks down.
The pale, beautiful youth in front of him, tied to a couch, spitting blood, and wearing tattered clothes, is...
Fuck! What kind of transmigration point is this? He's already had Zhu Xi tied up and brought back!
3.
Zhu Xi could command Gu worms from birth. He refined Gu at three and became the youngest elder in the Miao villages of the region at six.
He refined countless Gu poisons, but never managed to create the legendary "Zhuoxiangqin," said to bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bone. He even fed himself to Gu worms in an attempt to create it, but still failed.
While weakened by a backlash, he was betrayed by a fellow disciple and captured by Jiang Zhuo, a notorious playboy and sexual deviant in the cultivation world.
Just as Zhu Xi prepares to send a Gu worm into his own body to kill Jiang Zhuo, the queen worm of the "Zhuoxiangqin" suddenly stirs, guiding him as if by some unseen force: The blood and bones of the man before him are the final ingredient.
4.
The System's orders say he can't deviate from the plot.
Jiang Zhuo has no choice but to halfheartedly and miserably "torment" Zhu Xi for several months. Zhu Xi gets more energetic by the day, while Jiang Zhuo suffers from backache and sore hips and longs to bash his head in.
Once Zhu Xi has recovered, Jiang Zhuo isn't turned into a human pig.
Instead, he's fed a Gu worm called "Zhuoxiangqin," then tied up and taken to a terrifying village crawling with insects.
Late at night.
Zhu Xi uses Gu worms to drive Jiang Zhuo onto the bed. With his pale, alluring face tilted to one side, he calls him "Brother Zhuo" in a sickly voice, his hand already hooked around Jiang Zhuo's belt.
Jiang Zhuo: "What are you doing?"
Zhu Xi: "Feeding the Gu."
Jiang Zhuo: "This may be a rude question, but... what are you feeding it with?"
Zhu Xi pulls off his belt. "This."
Notes:
1. Twisted, cruel younger top × optimistic bottom who is only two years older and not much more mature.
2. The top is completely unhinged and kills without mercy. The bottom has a high tolerance, and while he doesn't dare kill, he can watch. Neither has a conscience.
3. They're each other's first and only love. Most of the setting is my own invention; I'm making things up as I go.
4. The cover can represent the top, but it isn't the only possible interpretation.
5. Blurb written on 2024.11.1 and saved as a screenshot.
Theme: Loving someone takes courage.