My Master Was Once a Dragon Among Men

Yan Xun was a wuxia fan. So when a System showed up and offered to transmigrate him into a wuxia world, Yan Xun agreed without hesitation. Yan Xun dreamed of riding the best-looking horse, drinking the strongest liquor, and falling for the most beautiful person... but when he opened his eyes, he was wearing a red bridal veil. The novice System, which had sent him to the wrong world, cried so hard it practically dissolved. Yan Xun lifted the veil and fell silent. Great. He hadn't married a beauty; he was the beauty who was about to be married off. Luckily, the immortal lord he was engaged to practiced the Heartless Dao. He used a master-disciple contract to break off the engagement and save straight Yan's virtue. To complete his mission, raise his favorability enough, and transmigrate to a wuxia world, Yan Xun started diligently raising everyone's favorability. From the grand elder to the lowliest gatekeeping servant, even passing dogs got two meat buns from Yan Xun. Among them, the master who practiced the Heartless Dao was Yan Xun's favorite. Ying Buran wasn't like those Heartless Dao masters in the usual web novels. He wasn't a sword cultivator, and he wasn't stiff at all. Instead, he looked gentle and handsome. Though he held a high position and was famous, he could still disguise himself and play with little kids. It was said that early on, he'd been following a pure overpowered-protagonist script. He had attained enlightenment through the mortal world, seen through love, and entered the true Heartless Dao. He was nothing like those Heartless Dao ice creams that melted as soon as they felt a little warmth. Reliable! So straight Yan got more and more bold with his advances. Raising everyone else's favorability too high could easily lead to romantic entanglements, but his master had seen it all when he was young. This inner coldness was the real deal. There was no way he'd fall for him! A Heartless Dao master was trustworthy! As Yan Xun kept raising favorability, a love triangle from hell emerged, with three different factions all proposing marriage to him. When three distinctively charming suitors showed up to ask for his hand, the always gentle, good-natured immortal lord lost his smile for the first time. Then he went into seclusion. Before Yan Xun could think of a solution, his master emerged from seclusion and locked him beneath the bed curtains with a dark look in his eyes. Yan Xun panicked. "System! Help! What's going on?! Isn't my master an overpowered protagonist who practices the Heartless Dao?!" So had he gone into seclusion to break the Heartless Dao?! The System stammered, "But your master was an overpowered protagonist first, and a Heartless Dao cultivator second!" An overpowered protagonist was the kind of truly ruthless person who could lose his Heartless Dao and all his cultivation, then still claw his way back to the top. As the Heartless Dao shattered, the immortal lord looked like he had only a sliver of health left, yet proved devastatingly powerful. He grew more and more unhinged, more and more dangerous. The System muttered under its breath: "Tch, maybe just give in. I feel like your master could screw you right through the bedframe." Later, Yan Xun indignantly confronted the System, demanding compensation. The System gave up trying: "Just tell me, did you get to ride the most intoxicating beauty?" Yan Xun: "?" Was that really what he'd said before?! Blurb dated March 6, 2025. Screenshot saved for the record. Theme: There will always be someone who becomes both your weakness and your armor.