Are You Telling Me What to Do?

Jia Xiang transmigrated into a grassroots-upstart, domineering-protagonist novel as a pampered young master destined to be humiliated and tossed aside as cannon fodder.

The time of his exit was fast approaching.

The good news: Jia Xiang was bound to a Redemption System. If he could redeem the ultimate villain, Zhu Qianling, he could go home.

The bad news: the System ran group classes.

There was only one Zhu Qianling, but an endless supply of people trying to win him over.

Jia Xiang shut himself away for three days and nights before realizing one thing: as long as he kept his distance from Zhu Qianling, he could avoid the original story's deadly ending and dodge the schemes of his fellow transmigrators. Two birds with one stone.

Jia Xiang had seen the light!

Jia Xiang gave up.

*

But could someone tell Jia Xiang why Zhu Qianling had singled him out to cling to?

The one who was badly injured and curled up in his courtyard, begging to be taken in, was Zhu Qianling. The one who crawled into his bed in the middle of the night and called him Mother was Zhu Qianling. And the one who pouted and acted spoiled out of jealousy over someone else was Zhu Qianling, too.

Before Jia Xiang could make sense of any of it, an accident happened, and he was forced to fake his death.

When he returned, he found that the problem had become even more serious.

The candlelight flickered, and the gauze curtains swayed.

Zhu Qianling toyed with a fine chain, his fingertips tracing its length and gliding over snow-white skin, gently gathering and stroking.

As they murmured close together, the gold chain jingled. He took Jia Xiang's hand and placed it on his stomach, softly caressing the swell.

"Promise me."

His voice was as light as a feather, but his love and hatred weighed heavier than mountains. "You'll never leave me, okay?"

They lost themselves in a night of passion and did not know the eastern sky had already turned white.

Looking at the villain, sleeping contentedly in his arms, Jia Xiang was completely bewildered.

Where exactly did things go wrong? [Confused Black Man.jpg]

*

Zhu Qianling had a secret: he could hear transmigrators' inner thoughts.

He knew he was a stepping stone for the domineering protagonist. He knew the transmigrators were full of schemes. He understood that his fate was destined to be full of hardships, and that he was nothing more than a character in someone else's story, there for their amusement.

Redemption? He didn't need it.

Until Zhu Qianling met Jia Xiang.

A seemingly aloof NPC top x a ruthless, obsessive villain bottom

P.S. Xiang tops, Ling bottoms. 1v1, main character is the top. My own take on cultivation, with many original settings and a few cosmic-horror elements.

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"Just Destroy It Already"

In System stories, there is a kind of Host who always takes the unorthodox route, ignores the System's warnings, doesn't care who gets hurt, and mangles the original plot beyond recognition.

Then, after being reborn, the Hosts discover they haven't returned to their original bodies. Instead, they've become their own... Systems.

Former Host/current System: Sigh, I've got a great idea.

*[The aloof, obsessive prodigy of heaven x a sharp-tongued, gloomy System]*

He was once a prodigy of heaven in a cultivation novel, but he ignored the System's warnings and followed the popular character's every whim. In the end, he became a tool for the popular character to kill his husband and prove his Dao.

After being reborn, he became the domineering protagonist System that had been bound to him in his previous life.

His Host, who was also his former self, Jinshan, was gazing at the dazzlingly brilliant popular character. "Junior Brother is pure of heart."

System: Huh? Why did the warm jade you gave your junior brother become the Demon Venerable's token of love from his sweetheart?

System: Wow, which innocent child burned down the library and left the senior brother's identity jade at the scene?

System: Just asking, why is the matching mandarin-duck bellyband in Master's cave scented with your junior brother's incense?

Jinshan: Just destroy it already.

*[The ambitious, beautiful, tragic, powerful minister x a gossipy, flirtatious System]*

He was once the representative of an aristocratic clan in a political intrigue novel. He ignored the System's hints and went his own way, helping the Fifth Prince take the throne, only to be executed in the marketplace after the new emperor grew suspicious of him.

After being reborn, he became the Ascension System that had been bound to him in his previous life.

His Host, who was also his former self, Wuyou Er, stared at the Seventh Prince and sneered. "You want me to help this useless man take the throne? Not a chance."

System: What? The twenty-year-old Fifth Prince has fallen in love with his fifty-six-year-old mother-in-law.

System: Shocking! The Third Prince secretly met Consort Hui at the rockery in her palace, and it turns out...

System: Just asking, why were the Ninth Prince and the Great General having sex outdoors in the middle of the night?

Wuyou Er: Just destroy it already!!!

*[The passionless, desireless evil god x a System with a saintly personal agenda]*

He was once an evil god and the white moonlight in a melodramatic tragedy, but he twisted the System's missions to suit himself. In the end, the scum top and trashy bottom trapped him in a crumbling tower, where he sacrificed himself in a sea of flames.

After being reborn, he became the White Moonlight Roleplay System that had been bound to him in his previous life.

His Host, who was also his former self, Yimu, stared at the original novel's top and bottom, tilted his head, and asked, "If I make them both die, does that count as a happy ending?"

System: Throwing them off a building, drugging them, cutting out their kidneys, and kidnapping them will only hurt others and yourself.

System: Skip the next n steps...

System: Just lock them in a little black room.

Yimu: ? Just destroy it already.

*[A student council member drowning in resentment x a lazy System who just wants to watch the fun]*

He was once the foil to the protagonist in a campus ghost story. He ignored the System's warnings and repeatedly stopped the protagonist from having their shining moments. In the end, he drew everyone's hatred and died horribly at the hands of an apparition.

After being reborn, he became the Villainous Male Supporting Character System that had been bound to him in his previous life.

His Host, who was also his former self, Yan Wu, stared blankly. "Maybe I'll just kill the apparition myself."

System: Grab the work ID, get onstage, and hold up the attendance sheet.

System: Then shout...

System: "Student Council, attendance!"

System: Call the protagonist first.

Yan Wu: Just destroy it... already...

*[A gloomy, impassioned, mentally ill saintly father x a sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside System]*

He was once a hypocritical, saintly father figure in an apocalyptic novel. He followed the System's spoilers and did whatever he wanted, offending the protagonist's group. In the end, he was tortured in body and mind and left to rot in the wilderness.

After being reborn, he became the White Lotus System that had been bound to him in his previous life.

His Host, who was also his former self, You Heshan, sneered at an infected person begging on their knees. "In the apocalypse, saintly white lotuses die first."

System: Hold on.

System: Recite a passage from scripture.

System: Stack a salvation-and-evolution buff.

You Heshan: Just destroy it already, damn it.

P.S. Main character is the top. The Systems switch between top and bottom. The order of the character types is simply because the author is obsessive-compulsive.

1v1, narcissistic romance, imperfect characters.

Updates follow the rankings if the book makes one; otherwise, 7,000 characters a week.

The blurb order differs from the story order.

Theme: A young person with a dream should not stop at a fluttering heart, but put that dream into action.