Chapter 1: Meeting

Zhen Yuan opened his eyes and instinctively rolled to the side.

After the roll, he tried to stand up, but something smashed in from the roof and fell on his prone body.

‘My reaction time is too slow.’ He thought and groaned in pain.

He closed his eyes and didn’t dare to open them until the wave of pain turned into a dull throb.

However, he wished he didn’t open them when he saw what had hit him.

‘What’s the situation?’ He wondered as he looked at the person lying on his hip.

The person was a double dressed in a pure white robe.

He had long black hair, and the cinnabar mole between his brows made his pale face even more exquisite.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan was not in the mood to admire the beauty.

He was more interested in why the person had fallen into his house in the middle of the night.

“You…” He called as he shoved the person away from his body.

Without the burden, Zhen Yuan stood up and straightened his clothes. He then kicked the person, but the young man did not wake up.

Instead, he groaned and shifted his body away from the foot.

“What’s with him?” Zhen Yuan muttered angrily.

He didn’t like people and particularly disliked this one for interrupting his cultivation.

Before the interruption, Zhen Yuan felt close to realising something. Unfortunately, the opportunity was lost because of the young man on the ground.

“Should I drag him out?” He considered.

However, he immediately abandoned that thought.

The person had broken his roof, and Zhen Yuan had recently used most of his spirit stones. He only had a few left, and he didn’t want to waste them on roof repairs.

“I will check his storage bag first.”

After deciding that, he immediately kicked the person again.

The body rolled over, but Zhen Yuan did not see the storage bag, so he kicked again.

Unfortunately, he didn’t find the storage bag but found a long slash on the person’s chest. The injury was still bleeding, and the young man’s chest was covered in blood.

“What a bother.”

At a loss, Zhen Yuan reluctantly grabbed the young man’s collar and dragged him to his bed.

“I can’t let him die before he pays for the roof.” He said through gritted teeth and removed a healing pill from his storage bag.

Although he was reluctant to give the top-grade healing pill to a random person, he still stuffed it into the stranger’s mouth.

“You better compensate me for this.” He complained.

After the young man swallowed the pill, Zhen Yuan sat at his bedside and stared at the person.

From his appearance, the person was younger than him, and his clothes were of better quality.

‘He should be from a large city, but why did he fall into my house?’

As he was thinking this, Zhen Yuan saw the state of the young man’s clothes and his brows creased in a frown.

He liked cleanliness and disliked that a bloody person was sleeping on his bed.

However, he didn’t dare to change the person’s clothes.

After all, the young man was a double.

If Zhen Yuan dared to remove his clothes, he would have to take responsibility for his actions.

‘What’s wrong with taking responsibility?’ A random thought appeared in his head.

When the thought came to him, Zhen Yuan shook his head, and hurriedly stood up.

In all his sixteen years, he had never liked anyone and had never thought of taking responsibility for anyone.

Now that he had this random thought, he felt the need to distance himself and cool his mind.

‘It’s because my dao heart is not firm.’ He thought and left the broken hut in a hurry.

…..

Several breaths after Zhen Yuan left the hut, the person on the bed opened his eyes.

‘What’s going on?’ Shen Xu wondered.

Shen Xu was a chef at a five-star restaurant in the capital.

He didn’t know what caused it, but there was an explosion in the kitchen, and he was unfortunately caught up in it.

At that time, he thought he would die but he didn’t. Instead, he woke up in a body which was being attacked by others.

However, before he could figure out what was happening, he was suddenly wrapped in white light, and the next thing he knew, he had fallen through the roof of someone’s house.

At first, Shen Xu was in too much pain to open his eyes, and when he was finally ready, someone began kicking him.

“Did I kill the buddha? Why is everyone beating me?” He groaned.

Fortunately, the last assailant gave him medicine, and the injuries on his body had stopped bleeding.

“It would be good if he could help me change.” He muttered and then sighed.

As a chef, Shen Xu liked cleanliness.

He couldn’t stand the filth on his body and wished his assailant would help him change.

“If you are going to help, do it until the end.” He complained and then closed his eyes. At least this way, he wouldn’t have to see the dirt and blood on his clothes.

‘What a strange day.’ He thought and decided to take a nap.

Unfortunately, his mind did not cooperate.

As soon as he closed his eyes, memories flooded his mind, and Shen Xu fell into a trance.

After a while, his mind cleared, and he looked at the room around him.

“How could this happen?” He asked in confusion.

From the new memories, he knew he was Shen Xu but this was not his original body.

For some reason, he had transmigrated to a stallion novel he was forced to read by one of his co-workers.

“I should have refused to read the damned book.” He grumbled.

In the book, Shen Xu was a gender called double.

This double was a man who could give birth, but this was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that Shen Xu was the unloved concubine of the main protagonist.

His life was especially miserable, and his ending was even more so since he was killed by the protagonist and his harem.

“How can I transmigrate into such a miserable role?” He complained in a low voice.

With his character, he was not suitable to take the role of a doormat concubine, and he shuddered at the possibility.

“I can’t let my life follow the original plot. I have to…”

“Wait, what is this place, and why am I here?”

His eyes flew wide open, and Shen Xu stared at his surroundings.

According to the original plot, his body’s owner activated a teleportation talisman to escape the scheme of his relatives.

This talisman brought him to a beast mountain, and he landed in a monster’s cave.

As luck would have it, the protagonist was training in the beast mountain, and he rescued Shen Xu from the monster. This was their momentous first meeting, and Shen Xu fell for his saviour.

“Did my transmigration cause the original plot to deviate?” He wondered.

Shen Xu didn’t know if his assumption was correct, but his heart was filled with hope.

If the plot could be changed, it meant he didn’t have to fall in love with the hero and eventually get killed.

However, Shen Xu had read enough transmigration novels to know that things wouldn’t be so easy.

From what he knew, the original plot didn’t like it when characters broke the fourth wall and stepped out of the original story.

In such a case, the plot would try to correct itself. This meant that the plot would find another way for the protagonist to save Shen Xu to initiate their doomed love affair.

When he thought of that, Shen Xu shuddered in terror.

He didn’t want to fall in love with the protagonist, but he didn’t know if he could resist.

‘What do I do?’ He thought and groaned in despair.

He remembered how pathetic his character would become, and Shen Xu didn’t want to be that way. He liked freedom and didn’t want to sacrifice himself for others.

Just as he was considering his options, he heard a creak and reflexively closed his eyes.

A moment later, the door opened, and firm footsteps approached the bed, causing his body to tense in anxiety.

“Open your eyes if you are awake.” A voice said.

The voice was indifferent, and Shen Xu trembled when he heard it. However, he didn’t open his eyes, and Zhen Yuan grew impatient.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t open your eyes.” He said, and his eyes narrowed.

“Take out two hundred spirit stones and leave my house.”

‘Spirit stones…’ Shen Xu knew that spirit stones were the currency in the book world.

However, the original owner lost his storage ring, and Shen Xu didn’t have any spirit stones.

“I don’t have spirit stones.” He instinctively said.

When Zhen Yuan heard that, his lips curled in a wicked smile.

“Your clothes and boots are of high quality. You can leave them as compensation.”

Shen Xu was indignant when he heard that.

His eyes flew open, but the curses at the tip of his tongue froze before he unleashed them.

As someone from the modern world, Shen Xu had seen a lot of celebrities. However, none could compare to the appearance of the young man in front of him.

The young man had long black hair, a chiselled face and silver eyes that matched his grey robe. Although the robe looked cheap, his regal temperament made him look nobler than a royal.

‘Who is he?’

Shen Xu searched his memory but couldn’t remember such a character from the original book.

‘If he was not in the original book, did my transmigration draw him into the plot?’ Millions of thoughts crossed his mind, and a fantastic idea occurred to him.

If he formed a love line with a person who wasn’t in the original book, wouldn’t he be able to escape the fate of being the hero’s concubine?

At the thought, Shen Xu sat up and gave the man a brilliant smile.

“The grace of saving a life should be repaid with the body.” He said.

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