Jie jie what is the novel you're reading?
itās éåę»ęÆä»„äøŗęęęä» (The Demon King Always Thinks Iām Secretly in Love with Him)! thank you @simpleredstar for rec-ing this to me! i was thoroughly entertained by dumb shenanigans today because of this novel! :DDDĀ
links: chinese // eng transĀ (incomplete; 66/104)
(chinese skill level: 1/5 - i read this faster than i did å¦»äøŗäø but that could just be because i didnāt have to work today, but in general the vocab was chill, i found it really easy to read)
bai yangās dad arranges for him to transmigrate into a popular novel to build his character. he was supposed to transmigrate into the protagonist, but by some glitch ends up in the body of a henchman to the demon king, ji zixuan (JUNSHANG <3).Ā
bai yang canāt transmigrate back into the real world until the protagonist ascends, and he apparently will die if the protagonist dies, so he keeps finding ways to leave the demon world to assist/save the protagonist. he doesnāt want junshang to suspect foul play, though, so he camouflages his trips by declaring that he went to the human world to kill the protagonist/save junshangās life etc.Ā
the whole time this is happening, in junshangās mind, heās going:
junshang: i canāt believe he would do so much for me. i donāt feel the same way for him, heās just a subordinate to me, but it is rather touching that he loves me so much!
then: ah ah ahhhh he loves me so much??? maybe....... and this is just a wild thought.......... perhaps......i should love him back??????
and, when bai yang insists heās not in love with junshang: but??? he must love me????? why would he do these things for me if he doesnāt love me desperately??????
then: he must be shy!!!! itās okay!!!! i know how he feels about me!!!!!
he goes through entire journeysĀ in his mind, itās so fucking funny ohmygod.
i have been selling junshangās character to every single rl friend i have who reads danmei as mobei jun from scum villainĀ meets han shuo from the romance of tiger and rose. if you enjoyed either of these characters, youāll love junshang.
thereās not too much plot in this beyond just junshang/bai yang shenanigans, which i appreciate! sometimes a girl just needs to sit down and read about two dumbasses being incredibly dumb about Feelings, and thatās valid!! there are someĀ ātwistsā that are......incredibly obvious and greatly foreshadowed (this includes the resolution to the whole returning to the real world thing), but it didnāt detract from the read tbh, since i was really just in this for the whole éøééåęē±é č蔄 trope! :D