A Coldhearted Straight Man, Yet Four Overpowered Men Fall for Him!

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Main Synopsis:

Another overworked employee has died suddenly, but Hua Shiyi, a straight man who hates homosexuality, has transmigrated into the body of a top-grade cultivation furnace coveted by an evil cultivator, and is bound to a clueless System.

An evil cultivator, and a man at that!

So he hasn't landed the male protagonist's script from some certain point-based site, but one from a certain river, or even a certain pond...

Is this right?

After killing the evil cultivator, ditching the righteous sect, and hiding his constitution, he thought he could finally focus on cultivation. But then...

His heart sea, where he cultivated the Heartless Dao, and his inner demon both wanted to dominate him.

Is this right?

After finally joining the Qingxiao Sect, he apologized to his senior brother, clung to his coattails, fussed over him, washed his clothes, and warmed his bed.

Years later, he'd finally made it to the top and become Qingxiao Sect's Immortal Lord Tianji.

Yet he never expected the rumors about him among ordinary people to be:

"Immortal Lord Tianji warmed Immortal Lord Tianheng's bed."

"Immortal Lord Tianji washed Immortal Lord Tianxu's clothes."

"Immortal Lord Tianji is the one who gets given to."

...Is this right?

Worst of all, his unruly, troublemaking disciple had confessed to him.

Is this right?!

No, something even more terrifying came later: his sworn enemy, the dragon-proud protagonist he'd always hated and wanted to kill, had been secretly keeping his personal handkerchief, his broken hair ribbon, his lost waist ornament...

All sorts of little things he'd thought he'd accidentally lost during their fights.

So every time he fought the dragon-proud protagonist, the guy took home a "souvenir"?

Is this right?!

He just wanted to ask:

He's a straight man, so why do so many men like him?

Can this really be right?!

Bonus Scene 1: [Hua Shiyi x Gentle Senior Brother]

On his first day joining the Qingxiao Sect, Hua Shiyi had a stunningly beautiful face and a silver tongue. What he was thinking, though, was: It'd be best if I got a sweet, naive senior brother. He'd be easy to use and easy to fool.

Then he looked up and met a pair of warm, jade-like eyes: Ye Tinglan, the foremost disciple of the Qingxiao Sect.

When they met again, Hua Shiyi didn't recognize him, but Ye Tinglan recognized Hua Shiyi at a glance.

"Little blind guy, do you remember me?"

The moment Ye Tinglan spoke, Hua Shiyi remembered: the directionless sword cultivator who'd given him clothes, only for Hua Shiyi to turn around and trick him into the Blood Demon Servant Gorge!

Hua Shiyi: I'm doomed.

If he'd known Ye Tinglan was the Qingxiao Sect's foremost disciple, he'd never have joined the sect, even if it killed him.

Now that things had come to this, Hua Shiyi could only grit his teeth and apologize.

He followed Ye Tinglan around, eagerly bringing him tea and water, but Ye Tinglan turned him down every time.

That only made him more afraid. One day, he couldn't help apologizing to Ye Tinglan himself. "Senior Brother, I'm willing to make amends for what happened yesterday today. I only hope... you'll forget what happened yesterday."

That night, Ye Tinglan kept him in his inner chamber, claiming that his spiritual energy was out of balance and needed support.

"The spiritual energy is strongest here." He patted the bed for Hua Shiyi. "Meditating here will help your cultivation."

Hua Shiyi looked at the only bed in the room. "This isn't proper."

Ye Tinglan furrowed his brow and sighed. "Cultivating alone is unsettling. It makes one dwell on the past. The dark, sunless valley, for instance, and those ugly, violent blood demons..."

Hua Shiyi: I'll sleep here!

A few days later, the excuse became, "At night, I need to borrow your pure spiritual energy to harmonize my own."

A few more days later: "The bed is warm. It'll save us the spiritual energy we'd use to heat the room."

In the end, held stiffly in Ye Tinglan's arms, Hua Shiyi finally understood. "Senior Brother, you really are a different person!"

You used to be as pure as the moon and breeze. Now you're a black-hearted tangyuan!

Ye Tinglan admitted it without a trace of shame. "Yes. Only with you."

Bonus Scene 2: [Hua Shiyi x Brooding "Inner Demon"]

When Hua Shiyi first entered the heart sea of the Heartless Dao, he saw a man wearing a ceremonial crown and a Daoist robe, solemn and compassionate, seated high upon a lotus throne. Auspicious light surrounded him, while countless beings sat meditating below. He seemed transcendent and supreme.

Hua Shiyi knelt among them. The man's appearance was always as indistinct as the moon reflected in water or flowers seen through mist...

But before Hua Shiyi could even react, he wandered around and somehow found himself in the center of the hall, on the lotus throne beside the man.

Amid thousands of gauzy curtains and layers of drapes, he looked up. A kiss suddenly landed between his brows.

He thought this was only his inner demon, and that everything in his heart sea was no more than a dream.

He never expected his inner demon to speak.

"My beloved and I have always wished to cultivate our lives together and reach the highest realm."

He didn't understand, but when in doubt, ask. Did "cultivate our lives together" mean the man wanted to become sworn brothers with him?

As Hua Shiyi stood there, dazed, the curtains in the hall suddenly stirred without a breeze and closed in around them, layer upon layer. The world spun, and the man pinned him firmly to the lotus throne once more.

This time, Hua Shiyi clearly felt the other man's lips touch his own.

The spiritual energy in his heart sea suddenly boiled. Half was as cold as moonlight, and half burned like flames... so hot that his whole body trembled.

"You see," the man murmured, his breath brushing Hua Shiyi's ear. "This is what it means to cultivate our lives together."

He understood. It was just dual cultivation.

But he's a straight man! Aaaaaah!

Bonus Scene 3: [Hua Shiyi x Wolfish Disciple]

The disciple-selection ceremony was packed with people.

Lu Minghong: "I, Lu Minghong, wish to become a disciple of Immortal Lord Tianji!"

Hua Shiyi: "I'm not taking disciples this year. I only accept female disciples."

...He took him anyway.

But that remark about only accepting female disciples made Lu Minghong resent Hua Shiyi for three years.

Their daily life as master and disciple was a constant battle of mutual dislike. Lu Minghong hated that Hua Shiyi kept going in and out of the Hehuan Sect. Every time, he cursed him out: "You're so frivolous and lewd! You're unfit to be a master!"

Hua Shiyi, who was only completing a System mission, replied, "What does it have to do with you? Don't you dare disrespect your superior!"

One day, Lu Minghong finally couldn't take it anymore and imprisoned his master in a dark room.

"This disciple has a question for Master. As for the way of Heaven and Earth, is utmost yang and hardness better, or utmost yin and softness more wonderful?"

Hua Shiyi: "Get lost!"

Little wolf cubs are so annoying.

Taking a disciple is just precisely locking in your own comeuppance.

Bonus Scene 4: [Hua Shiyi x Cold, Proud Sworn Enemy]

The Qingxiao and Yunyao Sects were both among the greatest sects under heaven, yet they were irreconcilable enemies, as incompatible as fire and water.

Just like Hua Shiyi and Wenren Langyue.

One was Qingxiao's Immortal Lord Tianji, a heaven-born genius bound to be useful. The other was the universally acknowledged leader of the immortal sects, the foremost of his generation.

In the eyes of outsiders, the two were nothing but bitter enemies.

In Hua Shiyi's eyes: He keeps picking on me!

Wenren Langyue: He finally noticed me!

#Black-Lotus Beauty, Strong but Tragic / Beautiful Straight-Man Shou#

#Gentle Senior Brother / Brooding "Inner Demon" / Cold, Proud Sworn Enemy / Wolfish Disciple / Plot-Required Cannon Fodder Gongs#

#All Gongs Are Chaste#All Gongs Are Obviously Smitten#

Content Warnings:

1. The ending is one-on-one, with one-on-one relationships at each stage. Multiple love interests to choose from.

2. The shou has a top-grade cultivation furnace constitution. He hides it early on, but his identity is exposed later. His appearance differs across his three lives, but he's beautiful in all of them. His appearance won't be a major focus in the first two lives.

3. A useless System, declining spiritual energy, and a low-powered worldbuilding setup.

4. Beautiful shou and handsome gong, a traditional pairing. No role reversal, weak gongs, short gongs, beautiful gongs, sissy gongs, muddy gongs, day-gongs, 0.5 gongs, or ambiguous gong-gong relationships.

Theme: Better to break than bend, better to die than yield.