#Let's Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me

[ultimateshixiongfuckertournament]

Round 1, Match 12: Jian Yi vs Yin Feixing

Match 12 is between Jian Yi (shixiong: Wen Xuan) from Let's Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me vs Yin Feixing (shixiong: Dongfang Xianyun) from My Sect's Senior Disciple Has a Hole in His Brain

Propaganda under the cut

Jian Yi:

He literally transmigrated just to support (and later date/fuck) his shixiong!!!

Yin Feixing:

Demonic cultivator Yin Feixing was reborn after his death, and swore to take revenge on his shixiong Dongfang Xianyun who killed him in his previous life - what's more romantic than obsessively wanting to kill the guy who killed you previously? In their second lifetime, Dongfang Xianyun is now a transmigrator with a very different personality, and Yin Feixing himself isn't sure whether he hates this guy or loves him anymore. (pls note: while I've selected "no" for canonical romance as their source material isn't explicitly BL, there's heavy romantic subtext/hints between DFXY/YFX - in their previous life as enemies they would meet once a year on Qixi/Chinese Valentine's Day even after becoming enemies, they're directly inspired by the characters from the fable of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl who are star-crossed lovers, and the author (a self-confessed fujoshi) has drawn some pretty explicit art of them.)

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Have You Read This Web Novel?

Wen Xuan was the head disciple of Water Cloud Sect’s sect leader. He spent the first half of his lifetime respecting his teachers and placing importance in the way of Dao. Friendly towards other fellow disciples, he was everyone’s role model. He once believed that he would spend a lifetime like this. Until one day, he met a younger fellow disciple (shidi) who was unbelievably skilled. This shidi told him that this world was actually a novel. And he, Wen Xuan, would become the most unsightly, petty little villain in this leveling up style cultivation novel. With the next half of his lifetime on a bumpy spiral downward after an erroneous decision, he will be betrayed and deserted by friends and family, cast away and end up dying miserably alone. “After dinner for leisure, many people would use a mocking tone of disdain to discuss your disastrous life. But no one knew how you survived through all those years. No one saw how you struggled to hold on to your principles in your lonesome. No one cared about the suffering you experienced and your perseverance. But I saw it. I know. I care.” “That’s why I came to this world. To become your support.” - Novel Updates

If you’re in the process of reading this web novel, please choose whichever option best fits your situation. You do not have to be completely finished with it to answer “yes.”

[bfdreaming]

Okay I know I already made a poll but I'm still torn, so I'm going to be more specific about the general plots of the transmigration stories floating around in my head. Note that in each, it's a reincarnation that suddenly recalled memories of another life. The OG will be present to some degree but it's handled a little differently in each. All are fix-its.

NYY version: (Mostly follows the plot.) I do NOT want to pretend to be a teenager that is SO awkward UGH. Young man, you should be calling me auntie--do NOT get a kink about it--UGH!!! These kids seriously need some guidance, and a discussion on consent, and sex ed--Shizun! Shizun I have Opinions on how things are done around here and I WILL cry, okay. I will cry so much.

Washerwoman version: Okay, so I can save the world by saving my son by saving SQQ. Actually I need to change some other things too to make my son's life suck less but I'll pretty much have to do it through SQQ, who will figure out eventually that it's for my son but by then he'll be invested. First step: is Cang Qiong hiring?

QHT version one: Turns out my dear older brother who raised me is a dumbass teenager self destructing in multiple directions at once and won't listen to anyone. Direct attempts to intervene WILL backfire and I must continue to pretend to be 12-14 and oblivious. How can I protect Xiao Jiu and others, and keep Jianluo from driving us into the ground? I am baby but I need Power.

QHT version two: Woke up after fainting in the fire with new memories. Better than total despair I guess? Let's just put all that aside for now and see what we can do. Yue Qi will be coming by soon and I'll have to tell him the truth AND convince him to get backup instead of immediately trying to pursue Xiao Jiu. There is also so much stuff to sort out regarding the remains of an estate I don't particularly want at this point, but neither do I want my shitty relatives to get it. No one wants to investigate the demonic cultivator I'm sure is responsible besides Yue Qi, which is both suspicious and annoying. Xiao Jiu only killed the people between him and the exit, so where did everyone else go? Also there is so much legal stuff I have to read up on and no search function, and who's this random cultivator poking around? Lady, I met you once when I was ten. We're not friends.

QHT version three: (This one has the most original content, and canon characters won't show up for a while.) Woke up after a qi deviation a while after the fire. Shizun is acting suspicious. Actually a lot of things are suspicious, but Haitang only noticed some of it because she was 14, and raised by a controlling guy that lied to her constantly and got everyone else around her to do the same. The sect itself seems okay but Shizun won't let me pursue justice, or information, or leave the sect, or talk to anyone outside the sect besides my shitty extended family that seized control of my inheritance until Shizun decides I'm ready for it. Interesting! I have Tragedies To Prevent but first I'll have to extract myself from these weirdos.

[danmeiarchive]

More Webnovels

I decided to take these off the masterpost in order to shorten it and make it easier to scroll through my recommendations.

Currently Reading

After Entering a Book, He Just Wants to be a Flower Vase - Poplar Breeze (ongoing translation)

Dinghai Fusheng Records - Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Guardian - Priest

Mistakenly Saving the Villain - Feng Yu Nie

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Sing Shong

The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

This Omega is Fierce and Wild - Poplar Breeze (ongoing translation)

Want to Read (cause I watched the adaptation)

Faraway Wanderers - Priest

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Heaven Official’s Blessing - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi

Tianbao Fuyao Lu - Fei Tian Ye Xiang

(and so so so many more!)

Completed Reading (Not Rec'd)

These are ones that fell a little short for me. I liked parts of them but was underwhelmed or disappointed by it once I'd finished reading.

Delicious Food Got Me Famous Across the Galaxy - Wa Lun Ding

He Lifted My Red Veil - Zi Jin

Let Me Tease You - Qing Duan

Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me - Mo Xiao Xian

Peach Blossom Debt - Da Feng Gua Guo My thoughts

Dropped

The People Who’re Supposed To Kill Me Fell For Me Instead - Jiu Yi

You’ve Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale - Hei Dan Bai

[incorrect-web-novels]

[Photo ID - a picture of a handshake with the left arm labeled "Xie Lian," the right arm labeled "Wen Xuan," and the connecting hands labeled as "Not knowing whether to laugh or cry." End ID]

[wenxuanakgae]

ye shengge: Why don't humans have a specific noise that means "there are bees here, let's leave immediately." Why are elephants more advanced than us.

chu lian: We do have a specific noise for it. It sounds like this:

chu lian: "There are bees here, let's leave immediately."

[arytha]

i might end up reading a few books before finding something worthy of actually liveblogging it. lets see

[babygray-dam]

Reading Challenge 2022 (6/20):

Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me ( 谈谈那个穿进书里来追我的家伙 ) by 莫晓贤 (Mo Xiao Xian)

Wen Xuan, head disciple and all-around admirable guy, meets Jian Yi, a suspiciously talented younger fellow disciple who swears that all he wants to do is take care of Wen Xuan. A yandere transmigrates into the novel of their obsession in hopes of changing the other’s tragic fate. 

A quick read, although the ending feels a bit rushed. The focus is very much on Wen Xuan’s adventures and his character development. There is a larger world out there, but Wen Xuan is only a minor character in the original story and Jian Yi is determined to keep Wen Xuan out of any of the danger, ultimately to both of their detriment.

While Jian Yi wins Wen Xuan’s trust, he never truly trusts Wen Xuan in return, manipulating him, lying to him, keeping him in the dark until the very last moment. While Wen Xuan took a while to see it, the reader can tell right away that Jian Yi has Tendencies, and those Tendencies become more and more violent as his actions go ignored, explained away, and unchecked.

There is a resolution and a happy ending. Wen Xuan realizes that while Jian Yi did him great harm, he still cares for him. As for Jian Yi, he comes to terms with his yandere issues and is able to take a step towards healing from his past hangups and growing as a person the same way Wen Xuan was able to.

[weepingfireflies]

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Round 2, Match 6: Sakura Matou vs Jian Yi

Match 6 is between Sakura Matou (shixiong: Shirou Emiya) from Fate/Stay Night vs Jian Yi (shixiong: Wen Xuan) from Let's Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me

Propaganda under the cut

Sakura Matou:

She has been experimented on, tortured and abused since she was a child, a character broke down after experiencing a single day in Sakura's life. Literally her only lifeline in this world is her senpai Shirou, whom she fell in love with because of his determination. She visited his house every day to help with chores to the point Shirou gave her a key. She is only happy when she's with her senpai, any other time she's gloomy and people avoid her.

In her route she sleeps with Shirou (making her an actual senpai fucker) in an act that reclaims her agency over her body. Also on this route, she's being possessed by All The World's Evil and if Shirou agrees that is best to kill her, Sakura completely gives up and lets herself be killed. But if Shirou doesn’t agree she fights to stay alive despite her massive suicidal ideation, but this also make her emotions more unstable, eventually leading her to be fully corrupted and she turns completely yandere over Shirou. Eventually Shirou saves her at the cost of his body and Sakura resolves to wait for her senpai. In the true ending they get to have a life together, in the normal ending Sakura would wait for him her whole living, still living at his home and planting flowers.

Please please vote for my girl, she has suffered more than anyone and she loves Shiro so so much.

Jian Yi:

He literally transmigrated just to support (and later date/fuck) his shixiong!!!

[web-novel-polls]

Five Love Languages of Danmei: Pining Bracket

Moshang from SVSSS 

Characters: Mobei-jun and Shang Qinghua

Submission 1:

They've known each other since teens and well into their thirties before getting together. And it's difficult to tell for MBJ, but Shang Qinghua had considered him his ideal man the entire time! 

Submission 2:

Airplane has been pining for MBJ since /before the universe was even created/… he has pined for him desperately and also just been desperate in general for two (2!) lifetimes, not to mention that MBJ has been trusting in and helping sqh out since basically the very first time they met as TEENAGERS and now they are like… At Least 50,, probably older to be honest .

*Wen Xuan x Jian Yi from Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me

NU Description: 

“After dinner for leisure, many people would use a mocking tone of disdain to discuss your disastrous life. But no one knew how you survived through all those years. No one saw how you struggled to hold on to your principles in your lonesome. No one cared about the suffering you experienced and your perseverance. But I saw it. I know. I care.” “That’s why I came to this world. To become your support.”

*Dealer's Choice

["Anti-Propaganda" that attacks other characters is NOT allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character/ship.]

[spockandawe]

theres a lot going on in the "genre" svsss is in its danmei+harem novel villain transmigration+xianxia+nianxia+system+probably I forgot something. i havent read all of them but some others similar: The Transmigrated Senior Martial Brother, It’s Not Easy Being a Master, A Smile from the Villain, The Villain Has Something to Say, Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me (also yandere ml subversion)

Oooooh, EXCELLENT, thank you!! This is legit my favorite strangely-specific genre, and novelupdates makes it real hard to search by multiple tags at once. I think one or two of those made it onto my 'marked for later' list on there, but I definitely don't have all of them. These are going way up high on my reading list, thank you!

[incorrect-web-novels]

I just offered Wen-shixiong the world, so I don't know where the rest of y'all gonna live, but it can't be here.

- Jian Yi

[wenxuanakgae]

wen xuan: Treat spiders the way you want to be treated.

jian yi: Killed without hesitation.

wen xuan: No.

[obstinaterixatrix]

Ok. Ok. I might’ve jumped the gun on offering recs because in hindsight reading the list, it’s kinda. hm.

Where is Our Agreement to be Each Other’s Arch-Rivals?

Fair warning it’s been a while since I read this one (and I mtl’d like 80% of it) but it was a fun read. The premise is an actor for a live action adaption of the source material transmigrates into the novel and he doesn’t realize until later that there are some Key Differences in the adaption (novel’s gay lol). I think the first half is stronger than the second half, and there are some developments that are like… hm. It’s not objectionable but I do find it a little weird. Actually I’ve been meaning to reread it now that a full translation is out lol

The Wrong Way to a Demon Sect Leader

This one’s going to be a bit of a weird rec because each chapter is very short, like super bite-sized. It’s like… rather than reading a novel someone’s telling you a story. But if you do get interested in the first few chapters, and the storytelling style doesn’t turn you away, it’s a fun read. I know this doesn’t sound good but it’s kind of surface-level in a way I think works well with the type of story the author is writing and the way they write it. Fair warning though the relationship development actually goes well into the extras, and I haven’t finished them because the original tl team stopped a year ago and I only realized just now that a different team picked it up and retranslated the whole thing so now I gotta read that. Oh wow I do not like the alt title translation. I think the first tl is a little easier to read. Sorry new tl’er,

Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect

I think this one will probably have the most similar tone/scope to mxtx and okay. okay. this is ALSO one I fell off because there was a pretty long break between chapter uploads at one point BUT what I read was pretty good and air’s been keeping up and I trust their taste. The romance enters pretty late into the story, there’s a lot of focus on found family and separation and grief etc. it’s very much… ragtag band of misfits start out by pummeling each other in their get along shirt and then they adopt a little sister. They Care So Much About Each Other.

okay. okay. okay. this technically isn’t a rec per se because at chapter 73 out of 81 it kind of drops the ball hard. but I do think the first 72 chapters of Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me are worth reading because 1) it’s rare to see transmigration from the pov of the novel character, 2) it’s rare for transmigration to really explore the transmigrator with like… the implications of a significantly damaged and desperate individual (I know you’re coming from orv so it’s not that out there for you, but in this context it’s interesting). However. The last eight chapters do escalate things severely then shoves the characters into a massive timeskip then has them get together at the last second without really addressing the relationship and character development it would take for them to reach that point. Which is a HUGE shame because the direction the writer seemed to want to take—developing the transmigrator to allow connection with other ‘characters’ as people rather than fixating solely on the main character—had a LOT of potential. If I could I would sit the author down and be like hey. I know your story wasn’t supposed to end like this. What Happened. However since I can’t do that I’m going to be wailing at air’s door until they finish their oc project and completely cure me of let’s talk brainworms.

hi i’m a random person you’ve never met before but you’re the only blog i follow that has read mxtx and orv and i need to talk to someone about this or i think i’ll explode

kdj x yjh has the vibes of an mxtx couple right. like i’m not going insane right.

I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong—I think a major aspect of mxtx’s work has the mc and li start out with very different frame of references for their relationship with the other person, and moving towards reconciling a more informed and connected view of each other (even tho kdj. somewhat drops the ball on that several times lol). At the same time, I don’t necessarily think that’s specific to mxtx. A lot of longform (somewhat) high stakes cn/(kr?) webnovels romance have something similar (whereas I don’t really know serialized eng works that reach that length/scale, but also I’m not really looking out for it). A lot of transmigration/time travel romances have a similar one-sided familiarity from the mc, and that growing devotion from the li. Or, I remember my friend was talking about an cn webnovel where the mc puts the li on a very tall pedestal and by the end the relationship develops to a point he’s able to meet him as more of an equal (acknowledging the li as an individual beyond that white moonlight framing). I think most of the similar vibes is a combination of mxtx being very good at executing her romantic dynamics, and that a fair amount of longform cn webnovel romances reach that reach fairly plot-driven scope and stakes.

[seyamu]

*recalling every single scrap of jian yi-related information that could be gathered from the novel in order to construct as accurate of a post-canon image of him as possible* actually i'm pretty normal about this novel