After the Villainous Cannon Fodder Was Possessed

On the eve of his wedding, Xiao Wanfeng was possessed.

The possessor turned down the genius powerhouse who was about to become his cultivation partner, then turned around and fell in love with another lowly cultivator who didn't seem worthy of carrying his shoes.

The possessor even had the nerve to call it redemption.

From the possessor's words, he learned that he was a vicious male side character in a story. The lowly cultivator the possessor was redeeming was the story's male lead. Before their wedding, Xiao Wanfeng had severely humiliated the male lead, so once the latter achieved his great cultivation path, he took revenge on Xiao Wanfeng, turning him into a prostitute shared by thousands before giving him a miserable death.

The possessor used his body to thrive in this world, while he could only watch as that despicable interloper used his body to touch one person after another, none of them worthy of carrying his shoes. The possessor even shamelessly said, "I changed your tragic fate. You don't have to thank me, but why are you cursing me so harshly?"

Xiao Wanfeng hated him so much his teeth ached.

Even worse, not a single person around him noticed that he had been possessed. At last, after failing time and again to seize control of his body, he went mad. To take his body back, he joined forces with the lowly demon he despised most and did the very things he looked down on.

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In this world, only a demon named Lou Zhongming could see Xiao Wanfeng's soul.

Lou Zhongming was a wretched, pathetically weak demon. Other cultivators had once beaten him black and blue for a few scraps of spirit stones. To fill his stomach, he had fought wild wolves in the mountains for food. Ever since that wisp of soul appeared beside him, he had been able to use it to fight and snatch, doing everything he could to shatter this man's haughty airs.

Lou Zhongming thought that even as a wandering soul, the man was unbearably fussy. Either he complained that Lou Zhongming's spiritual power was too impure, or he grumbled that the places Lou Zhongming took him to sleep were too filthy.

Every day, the two woke up and immediately started arguing, unable to stand each other. Even so, that wisp of soul never left his side.

Lou Zhongming felt a flicker of satisfaction whenever he saw the soul, in its efforts to reclaim its body, having to humble itself before a lowly demon like him.

So even a lofty immortal could fall this far. But when the soul failed to reclaim its body again and again, then begged him to hurry and destroy its physical form, Lou Zhongming inexplicably felt bitter and restless.

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Later, the fussy soul that used to chatter in Lou Zhongming's ear all day finally disappeared.

Lou Zhongming couldn't get used to it.

Alone, he went mad and slaughtered his way through the seventy-two cities of the demon realm, becoming its supreme ruler. Yet he often wandered along the banks of the River of Forgetfulness. Whenever he met a ghost, he would ask in a daze:

Have you seen him? He loved wearing red. He was fussy and pitiable, stubborn and unwilling to give in.

Reading guide:

🍁: One-on-one romance, both leads have only ever been with each other. They go from disliking each other as youths to being deeply in love.

🍁: Neither lead is perfect. They grow step by step. Readers with very high moral standards for protagonists should proceed with caution.

🍁: The recipient remains a soul for the first part of the story. The fiance in the blurb is not the love interest.

🍁: I'll add more if anything comes to mind...

Theme: If fate wants to kill me, I'll kill fate first.