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Humans seek the Dao to become immortals, yet in the vastness of the Zhongxiao Realm, though all live under the same sun and moon, true immortals are rarely seen. One who once glimpsed this world through the pages of a book now finds himself beneath the Sanqing Temple, touching the profound. One who once slaughtered immortals within the story now sits in Liancha Temple, witnessing the endless cycle of life. If the world could govern itself, and gods and demons were as one, then even as hair turns gray, old friends would remain to raise a glass together… Alas, all things pass, and the mottled memories return. I only hope that in this time, in this year, with this person, I may see him pass through the White Forest once more.
The “Normal” Version: Ji Shinian, a wanted fugitive from the Zhongxiao Realm, flees to the countryside only to run into a genius youth who can blow a monster’s head off with a single sword strike.
The Good News: The kid isn’t there to arrest him.
The Bad News: This “kid” is Xiao Shu, the legendary “Dragon Aotian” protagonist of the original novel!
Ji Shinian’s world is actually the setting of an Eastern Fantasy revenge novel titled Slaying the Heavens. Having followed the series for six years, Ji Shinian watched the protagonist Xiao Shu suffer endless hardships until he turned into a smiling, dark-hearted Demon Venerable who suddenly committed suicide, ending the book on a total cliffhanger.
Instead of dying of frustration over the ending, Ji Shinian died in a car accident after his college entrance exams and transmigrated into the story, twenty years before the plot even begins. Somehow, he ended up as a notorious criminal hunted by the “righteous” factions.
Looking at the future male lead and then at his own System (which arrived twenty years late), Ji Shinian wonders: What kind of cliché trope am I stuck in now?
