Benefactor, Please Don't Die. I'm Scared

A carefree, fake-depressed-but-genuinely-gentle immortal lord gong x a ruthless, naturally sweet and truly beautiful fox demon shou

As a fox demon, Yan Sheng was born with striking looks. On top of that, he trained diligently, earning nine tails and the legacy of the Celestial Fox. But his luck was truly terrible.

First, he was to be married off to the immortal clan, whose chosen groom already had someone in his heart and expected Yan Sheng to tolerate everything and give everything. Then they planned to use his life to make his beloved happy.

Fine, then they could all die together. The underworld could have a little party.

Unexpectedly, he was reborn one day, back to a year before his wedding. The immortal clan had yet to choose his future husband, and... his benefactor was still alive.

He was set on repaying the man’s kindness and cultivating the Dao, but somehow, the sword cultivator who had always worn a smile at the corner of his mouth in his previous life was trying to kill himself the very first time they met again. After pouring so much effort into nursing the depressed immortal lord back to health...

His benefactor died again?!

Yin Wuming’s perspective:

He had come to this world with a mission, but the System kept bugging out and sending him back to be reborn at the very last moment.

Until this time, when the System was gone too, leaving him with no hope of ever going home.

A veteran player of countless loops, Yin Wuming had long since gotten used to dying. Reborn once again and facing an inevitable death, this time he was going to play the heaven-defying hero and change his fate... Forget that. He chose to hang himself today and jump off a cliff tomorrow, finding a new way every day until he had turned himself into a death-seeking maniac in the cultivation world.

But then, outside the script, he met a little fox who was always sneaking glances at him.

Hmm?

Why is this fox so beautiful? What should I do? I really want to keep him.

[HE, two little bitter gourds and an even more ruthless road to revenge]

[An angsty previous-life story. Reborn at the beginning, then striving for a bittersweet, sweet-and-sour life. A little ensemble cast, with a more serious tone]

New novel currently updating: Everyone in the Cultivation World Is Reading Fanfiction About Me and My Master

[The daily pure hatred between a hapless disciple and his master, a god of slaughter] ✓

[After I came back to life, I found the whole world making fanworks about me and my evil master, including some truly unbearable stories?!] ✓✓✓

Si Heng, infamous for wreaking havoc across the Four Realms, never managed to climb the Heavenly Ladder and stab his master, who had already attained immortality, to death. It was his lifelong regret.

But why, after he died, were the stories told in teahouses, sold at street stalls, and flying off the shelves in bookshops not about his heroic exploits, but about his heart-wrenching history as his master’s devoted lapdog!?

Are you all idiots? You can’t tell the difference between pursuing someone and hunting them down!?

He felt the world go dark and began to miss the days when everyone had cursed him as a villain. But at the next turn, he saw someone calling, “Master, Master!” and pulling away the immortal who should, at that very moment, have been worshipped by all beneath the heavens.

Fine, you’ve forgotten me again, have you? You only like disciples who act like your dogs, is that it?

Come on, then! I’ll give you what you want! I won’t stop until I’ve bitten you to death!

Wait, why does my master like reading stories about the two of us too!? And why does he want to read the ones where he tops me?!

Many years later, a friend asked him, “People say you can’t fall into the same trap twice. You’ve already died and come back to life, so why would you take your enemy as your master again?”

Si Heng thought for a long time, then answered, “Because I want to ask him to his face: when I was surrounded on the Heavenly Ladder, dismembered and burned to ash, why did you just stand there and watch?”

Bonus scene 1:

Today’s recommended reading list for the cultivation world. Come one, come all, don’t miss out:

TOP 1: The Unfeeling Immortal Lord, Please Love Me Just Once

TOP 2: A Puppy’s Quest for Love: Master, Look at My Tail!

TOP 3: The Cold-Faced Master and His Devoted Lapdog Disciple

The master was lounging and listening to a story when he lifted his head to look at Si Heng, whom he had pinned to the wall with a single sword strike. “Puppy, why have you never shown me your tail?”

Nearly kicked onto the road to the Yellow Springs by his master, Si Heng shakily paused the story-reading service, held up his book, and grinned. “...Because I only want you dead, my dear master.”

(P.S. The stories the master reads above will appear from time to time as bonus scenes of about a thousand words. They include topics such as the disciple topping the master, a charming monk and a widower, puppies and vipers, and more. That’s right, our master is remarkably open-minded about fanworks based on himself.)

P.S. The master really is a little twisted, chaotic evil, far from perfect, and very much like a machine. He’s ruthless, too.

The disciple really is a carefree mess, a loyal good boy who doesn’t realize it himself, and a resentful, awkward disaster.

P.P.S. This story has been sitting around for ages. Are any of the lovely readers who added it to their wishlists still here? Worried.jpg

Theme: Growing through adversity