This is Dongfang Xiaotian's fifth year since being reincarnated into the Shenghua Dynasty.
He thought back to when he'd been full of ambition, traveling all across Shenghua with just a man and a sword. He thought of these five years spent constantly fighting evil cultivators and saving the common people from misery, of a life that was dazzling day after day... How the hell was that any different from desperately studying for the college entrance exam after the hundred-day countdown assembly?
All he wanted was a job with lots of money, little work, close to home, high rank, great authority, and little responsibility!
After recalling one transmigration novel after another, Dongfang Xiaotian immediately understood that he didn't have to reach his goal by fighting and killing. He could just let the protagonist do all the fighting and killing!
Wouldn't it be great to become an old man living in a ring and enjoy the benefits of having a powerful disciple?
If that didn't work, becoming a "Hai Lao" would be pretty good too. Just look at the youthful swagger of "Xiao Yan is my brother. Anyone who sees Hai Lao offers him a cigarette."
"What? We have to go save Second Junior Sister in some ruins? No way!"
"Huh? Someone wants to break off an engagement? Then let them!"
Dongfang Xiaotian resolves to follow the raise-the-protagonist path. Pretty junior sisters, pretty elders getting hurt or running into danger, a headstrong girl betrothed by their parents who wants to break off the engagement: the farther away they stay from him, the better.
Women will only slow me down when I'm raising the protagonist and boosting his favorability toward me!
"Wait, Second Junior Sister, I'm warning you! I'm protected by the protagonist! Don't come any closer!"
"Beichen Yue, I'm warning you: even if we're engaged, that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want! Where is everyone? Somebody come save me!"
