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## Nomenclature

* Main
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## Credits

### Illustrator

Xiao Tong Kong

The **1st chapter** of the novel is titled *"Scum"* in English, and 《人渣》 in Traditional Chinese. It was published in volume 1 by Seven Seas (December 14, 2021), and in volume Template:Novel/Chinese/Volume by Pinsin Studio (September 15, 2022) in Chinese.
It contains original web novel serialization chapters 1-5. You can read this chapter for free at Book Walker.

## Synopsis

Shen Yuan introduces the trending novel Proud Immortal Demon Way and recaps the life of its protagonist, Luo Binghe. Finally he spits curses, presenting his criticisms of the story, until he is roused by the voice of Yue Qingyuan. He is shocked to awaken inside of the villain, Shen Qingqiu's body, though he is genry-savvy enough to quickly realize he's transmigrated into the novel by the mysterious System.

## Web Novel Chapters Included

*note - This is temporary until the references are properly updated and the full chapter synopsis is made, to ensure that the references on unedited character pages are not rendered fully broken until then. This is an exact copy paste of the preexisting outdated Web Novel Chapters 1-5 pages.*

### Chapter 1

*"Proud Immortal Demon Way" is a YY stallion novel. To be exact, it is…"*
“Proud Immortal Demon Way” was a cool, cultivation novel. One that the protagonist didn’t began strong or weak, but walked a bitter pitch-black path. The novel influenced countless of other YY novels and took thousands of readers by storm. It was, by far, the most popular stallion novel of the year!

The self-titled book veteran reader, Shen Yuan, starts to tell a summary of the book. It tells the story of a baby who was abandoned immediately after being born by his parents; wrapped in white cloth and set into the river in a wood basin. Being the coldest time of the year, he barely escaped death when fishermen fished him up. They named him Luo Binghe, since he was found floating on the Luochuan River and it was filled with thin ice.

Luo Binghe became a homeless kid, always starving and never wearing enough to be warm when a rich family’s washerwoman that had no children adopted him. They were poor and suffered at the hands of the wealthy family they relied upon.

One day, he endured a beating of one of the family’s sons for a lukewarm bowl of meat porridge for his foster mother, but she died before he got there in time.

After that in a coincidental event, he was selected by the Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, one of the great four cultivation sects at the time, under the ‘Xiu Ya Sword’ Shen Qingqiu. But Shen Qingqiu was “fair on the outside and foul on the inside,” always degrading Luo Binghe and encouraging the other sect members in doing so as well.

After a few years of studying and suffering in silence, Luo Binghe reached 17 years of age and attended the Immortal Alliance Conference that was held once every three years. During the Conference, Luo Binghe was played by Shen Qingqiu and fell into a rift between the Demon and Human Realm - The Endless Abyss.

Falling into the Abyss, Luo Binghe obtained the Xin Mo Sword and learned about his history. He was the son of the Demon Realm’s Sacred Ruler Tianlang Jun and a woman. Tian Langjun was suppressed under the mountains, unable to free himself for eternity; his mother was a disciple of a famous righteous sect and was probably expelled from her sect due to her relationship with Tian Langjun. She died after giving birth to Luo Binghe due to postpartum hemorrhage. But before dying, she got her son off the boat she had given birth on, living Luo Binghe with a chance of surviving.

Using the Xin Mo Sword to unseal the demon race’s blood in his body, Luo Binghe cultivated and achieved unworldly things before going back to Cang Qiong Mountain Sect.

Walking the path of darkness, he concealed himself and started scheming. Gaining trust through deceit and raising to the top, his enemies dying tragically under his hands.

He then returned to the Demon Realm and inherited the position of Sacred Ruler. But not satisfied, he began to annihilate the sects and all the voices that opposed him. The result turning him into a legend and unifying the Three Realms - Demon, Human, and Immortal - with a harem beyond counting and a great number of descendants.

Ending the summary, Shen Yuan says “Stupid author, stupid novel!” and dies right after.

The chapter continues with Shen Yuan cursing the author of “Proud Immortal Demon Way” Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky. He says he feels embarrassed to call a disorderly and incoherent framework a cultivation novel, explaining the plot holes in the process.

Shen Yuan then justifies why he read the novel until the end, saying that he was not a masochist but because of the numerous foreshadowings, one mystery after another, layer upon layer of confusing red herrings. But in the end none of them were solved.

Shen Yuan thinks that he was angry enough to be back from the dead. Right after stating this, his last words "Stupid author, stupid novel!" automatically triggered The System. He looks around and sees he is floating in a pitch-black virtual space. The Systems then explains that he got into the system and hopes that he can achieve what he desires, which is “to transform a piece of stupid writing in accordance to his wishes into a high-end, impressive, and high-grade classic work.”

Disoriented, Shen Yuan violently shudders. After calming his state of mind, he forcefully opens his eyelids to see he was lying in a unfamiliar bed and using unfamiliar white clothes with an ancient fragrance and look.

 File:Novel 1-1 Transmigrated.png  Looking to his left, he sees a handsome young man dressed in *xuan duan* style sitting beside the bed and looking concerned. This young man is relieved that Shen Yuan is finally awake and asks if he has any discomforts to which Shen Yuan says no.

Even though Shen Yuan was bewildered by everything he maintained his calm, justifying that he had read many transmigration novels. Shen Yuan then asks to the man where were them, the man was stunned for a moment but replied they were in Qing Jing Peak. The man asks how did he suddenly got a fever and says that he knows the Immortal Alliance Conference was drawing near and he was training his disciples nonstop for success. The man reassures that with Cang Qiong Mountain history and fame, they didn’t have to dispatch anyone to attend the conference. That there wouldn’t be anyone who would dare question them and there was no need for him to concern himself with false rumors.

Shocked but still acting confused, Shen Yuan asks himself why the man’s words and the setting were so familiar. Right after thinking this, the system says it had successfully binded Shen Yuan to the account ‘Shen Qingqiu’ and proceeds to explain the point system. Shen Yuan quickly accepts the facts, but soon realizes the shell he was using was the scum villain of the story, Shen Qingqiu.

Shen Yuan then recognizes the man beside him as the Sect Master, the ‘Xuan Su Sword’ Yue Qingyuan, which Shen Qingqiu had killed in the original work. Seeing that Yue Qingyuan wasn’t dead yet, he concludes that he was very early on the story and the present Shen Qingqiu hadn’t had his mask pulled off nor had his reputation been ruined yet.

Remembering how was Shen Qingqiu’s ending in Proud Immortal Demon Way, with his four limbs severed as well as his tongue, he resolved himself on being good to the protagonist and pamper him in every possible way. Upon forming his plan, a long string of alarms that sounded like "a hundred police cars were zipping past while carrying a hundred screeching mystic beasts" exploded in his mind. It was the system warning him that he could not behave differently as the 'OOC function' was frozen at the current moment, or he would have his B points deducted.

As a semi-nerd, the now Shen Qingqiu understood the situation and asked what would happen if the points were to reached less than 0. The system replies that he would be deported back to his original world, where his physical body was dead.

At last, he looks around but doesn’t find anyone with Luo Binghe’s description. He asks where was Luo Binghe and Yue Qingyuan looks at him strangely. Shen Qingqiu becomes secretly delighted thinking the protagonist didn’t enter the sect yet but his hopes were quickly shattered when Yue Qingyuan says “After stringing him up and hitting him, haven’t you always shut him inside the woodshed?” Which makes Shen Qingqiu’s eyes darken.

=== Chapter 2 ===:’’*It seems the original Shen Qingqiu had already ruined the protagonist* (waves byebye).’’
The chapter starts with Shen Yuan asking himself why the original Shen Qingqiu had such a bad attitude when his family could be considered wealthy and he had two brothers and a sister that he loved. Shen Yuan then thinks about how he had a very easy-going life and, perhaps because of the environment he lived in was so easy and lacking in competition, he never understood those who wanted to conquer the world.

The original Shen Qingqiu had skill, qualifications, reputation and no need to worry about money. Shen Yuan asks himself why would he be so jealous of the protagonist, but quickly discarded the thought justifying that this kind of scum villain proliferated everywhere in the novel.

Shen Yuan then regards his new face pleased on a bronze mirror, thinking he could be considered a good-looking man, though he was really old - this being a cultivation novel he maintained his youth look. But nothing compared to Luo Binghe. Upon thinking this, the now Shen Qingqiu wanted to look at Luo Binghe’s face as soon as possible but was stopped by the system, saying ‘Shen Qingqiu’ would not take the initiative do see him.

Thinking for a moment, Shen Qingqiu called out for Ming Fan, who promptly answered. Shen Qingqiu looks at Ming Fan and concludes he looks like a ‘piece of cannon fodder.’ Ming Fan was Shen Qingqiu’s most trustworthy assistant, who helped him bully Luo Binghe. Thinking about the kid’s ending, he felt a bit of empathy, since both of them had a tragic ending. Shen Qingqiu asks Ming Fan to fetch Luo Binghe, who was not pleased that his *Shifu* called Luo Binghe by name, since he would always call Luo Binghe by horrible names, but went nonetheless; kicking the door to the woodshed and yelling for Luo Binghe to come out.

Meanwhile, Shen Qingqiu paced his room asking the system how the raising of points worked exactly. Hearing the explanation, he thought he would only had to fix the original Shen Qingqiu, make sure the other characters didn’t make a mess and ensure the coolness of the protagonist and his girls.

Shen Qingqiu then asks the system what kind of plot is considered bad, which the system replies there is no standard and only depends on the feelings of the reader. He snorts and mockingly thinks that ‘this poor piece of writing still had a reader,’ forgetting he himself was one of the people that spend money on it and read until the end.

Pausing, he then asks how many points he needs for the beginning stage to start, which the system responds it will be dictated by specific circumstances and he would be automatically notified when the requirements have been met.

After this, Luo Binghe steps into the room and Shen Qingqiu freezes. He starts to have scrambling thoughts about how Luo Binghe’s looks are worthy of a protagonist and starts to compliment him in his mind to the point he almost blurts them all out, thinking this protagonist was too excellent he almost could not hold it.

As Luo Binghe’s limps through the door and struggles to kneel. Shen Qingqiu says he has no need to kneel and gives him medicine, but still with a sarcastic remark that others cannot think his peak abuses his disciples as to not set off the system.

Luo Binghe, thinking he was called over for more ‘teaching,’ thanks him and smiles, saying he will double his efforts so *Shinzun* will not be disappointed. Shen Qingqiu, after thinking about how the current Luo Binghe was a really good boy, remembers his ‘blackening’ and the paragraph in Proud Immortal Demon Way where Luo Binghe promises to crush Shen Qinqgiu four limbs to dust.

Upon this memory, Shen Qingqiu could only think about his own future. He asks about Binghe’s progress in cultivation and how old he was, which he shyly answers he doesn’t understand the question and he was fourteen years old. Shen Qingqiu then comes to the realization that a lot of the original torture incidents had already happened in the story.

### Chapter 3

’’*Since I can't directly help him, I'll secretly help instead.*’’
Chapter 3 begins with Shen Qingqui taking stock of his situation in Proud Immortal Demon Way. Though he laments not transmigrating into the protagonist, he is easily satisfied and would be comfortable living as Shen Qingqui as long as he can find a way to survive the story's plot. He curses Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky and the fact that he arrived after the Original's abuse of Luo Binghe had already began.

He decides to first work towards unfreezing the System's OOC function and familiarize himself with Cang Qiong Mountain. Shen Qingqui heads to the forest to practice the original's sword technique in preparation for future plot points. When he attempts to infuse his aura into the Xiu Ya Sword, Shen Qingqui discovers he has inherited the original's techniques and martial ability along with his body; with a single slash he gouges a deep ditch into the forest floor. With this amount of power, Shen Qingqui thinks he'll have a chance at escaping Luo Binghe in the future.

Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying appear and Shen Qingqui hides himself in the forest to watch. Shen Qingqui recalls that, in the original novel, his character was said to harbor perverse feelings towards Ning YingYing and wonders why he was never castrated. Ning Yingying points out the ditch to Luo Binghe, who tells her that Shen Qingqui is the only person on Qing Jing Peak strong enough to cause that much damage.

Luo Binghe ignores Ning YingYing to chop firewood with a half-rusted axe. Ning YingYing says she'll tell Shen Qingqui to stop their martial brothers' from bullying Luo Binghe and he begs her not to. After arranging the firewood, Luo Binghe sits down to cultivate. Shen Qingqui recalls that Luo Binghe's cultivation remains stunted because Ming Fan sabotaged him with a fake cultivation manual.

Ming Fan appears with a few other low-level disciples, and briefly talks with Ning YingYing before noticing Luo Binghe meditating nearby.

### Chapter 4

Shen Qingqiu watches as, surrounded by a gang of Qing Jing Peak disciples, Ming Fan attempts to gift Ning Yingying a jade ornament he had obtained from a visit to his family. She rejects the gift, calling the color ugly and claims that Luo Binghe's guanyin jade pendant is much prettier. When Ming Fan asks if he truly wears such a thing, Ning Yingying responds that he wears it every day but refuses to show it to her. Ming Fan uses this as an excuse to attack Luo Binghe. He and the gang of Qing Jing disciples quickly wrest the guanyin from him and mercilessly beat him down.

Upon examination, Ming Fan bursts into laughter as he realizes the guanyin pendant is not real jade. Luo Binghe angrily asks for it back. Shen Qingqiu reflects that Luo Binghe's adoptive mother had sacrificed food and utilities to save up but had been tricked into spending a large sum of money on this fake. Therefore, the pendant was a deep source of pain as well as Luo Binghe's "biggest beserk button."

Ming Fan mocks the low quality of the fake jade guanyin and says he will give it back without any sincerity. In response, Luo Binghe punches a few of the disciples and, in turn, receives another beating. Ning Yingying begs Ming Fan to stop the assault, saying she will never speak to him again if it continues. Hastily, Ming Fan begins to agree but is interrupted by Luo Binghe tackling him to the ground and punching him in the nose. Ning Yingying laughs as the hit lands.

Now humiliated in front of his crush, Ming Fan can no longer let the matter go, and he one-sidedly beats down on Luo Binghe, whose skills are undeveloped but who remains silent through clenched teeth. Unable to remain a bystander as the abuse unfolds, Shen Qingqiu prepares to intervene, but The System issues him a severe OOC warning. As a compromise, he remains hidden and imparts spiritual energy to a leaf that flies out to slice Ming Fan. The system takes only 10 points from him, but Shen Qingqiu's relief does not last long, as Ming Fan accuses Luo Binghe of stabbing him with a knife.

Though no knife is visible, the children are unable to tell what happened, and Ming Fan orders the other disciples to "get" Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu hurriedly sends six more leaves to at the disciples who are endangering Luo Binghe. Immediately, Shen Qingqiu curses his impulsive decision, reflecting that Luo Binghe had not needed his protection and had survived many encounters like this before.

Multiple disciples, now bloodied, in confusion say they have also been cut by a knife. They leave, no longer daring to attack Luo Binghe. Ning Yingying asks if Luo Binghe was the one behind it, but he shakes his head.

Knowing that Luo Binghe is looking for the Jade Pendant, Shen Qingqiu, who has seen its location, does not dare point it out for fear of The System. The System then notifies Shen Qingqiu that he has lost an additional 60 points, one for each leaf sent, putting his total B points down to 30.

Realizing that she had caused the whole incident, Ning Yingying helps Luo Binghe search for the guanyin pendant, but although they search until dark, they cannot find it. She apologizes and offers to buy Luo Binghe a new pendant, but he ignores the gesture.

After the two children leave, Shen Qingqiu reflects that he has watched them the whole afternoon before retrieving the pendant from where it had landed on a branch. Although he wishes to secretly return it to Luo Binghe, he is aware the system will likely further punish him, and, with few B points left to spare, decides to keep it as a possible item that will help him survive in the future when he needs to negotiate with Luo Binghe.

The System then springs to life, rewarding Shen Qingqiu with 100 B points for obtaining a key item: the fake jade guanyin pendant, bringing his total B points to 130. Surprised and happy, Shen Qingqiu's mood lifts in satisfaction.

Outside the forest, Luo Binghe unclenches his fist, holding a bloody leaf with sharp edges.

=== Chapter 5 ===:"*If you can't even complete the first mission, then"*
Shen Qingqiu accepts a "beginner level quest" from Yue Qingyuan to hunt a skinner demon in Shuang Hu City as traning for his disciples. Among them, Shen Qingqiu takes Ming Fan, Ning Yingying, and Luo Binghe with him.

Yue Qingyuan visits Shen Qingqiu for tea during his recuperation. He tells Shen qingqui about "the original goods'" plan to take his disciples down the mountain to deal with a problem in Shuan Hu City. The System offers a mission to complete the task and progress pass the beginning stage checkpoint and Shen Qingqui accepts. Shen Qingqui remarks that Yue Qingyuan is like a quest giving NPC.

Shen Qingqui and his disciples leave for Shuan Hu by horseback rather than flying, to his disappointment. From his carriage, Shen Qingqui sees Luo Binghe single handedly loading the carriage and completing tasks for other disciples. He notices that there are only nine horses for the ten disciples descending the mountain, and Ming Fan tells Luo Binghe he will have to walk.

Ning Yingying appears and offers to share a horse with Luo Binghe. Realizing this would only worsen the other disciples' bullying against Luo Binghe, Shen Qingqui interrupts that and man and woman sharing a horse would be inappropriate.

After departing, Shen Qingqui looks out again to see Luo Binghe walking alone, the other disciples urging their horses to kick dirt up over him. Ning Ying Ying pleads with Shen Qingqui to stop the bullying and he calls Luo Binghe over and invites him to ride in his carriage. To avoid an OOC deduction from the System, Shen Qingqui reasons that he is humoring Ning Yingying rather than helping Luo Binghe.

Shen Qingqui catches Luo Binghe watching him meditate and reflexively smiles, causing a five point deduction.

## Appearances

Shen Yuan

Luo Binghe

M.Washerwoman

Shen Qingqiu

M.Tianlang-jun

Yue Qingyuan

The System

## Gallery

Transmigration (Djune)Chibi Shen Qingqiu OOC (Raccun)Shen Yuan wakes up in Shen Qingqiu’s bodyMing Fan brings a battered Luo BingheShen Qingqiu smiles at Luo Binghe while riding a carriage
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1. ↑ Refers to a novel genre featuring a protagonist that charms everyone around them. Most of these novels are harem oriented.
2. ↑ Bing he (冰河) means ‘glacier’ and taken separately the characters mean ‘ice’ and ‘river.’ But his surname ‘Luo’ also sounds like the word for ‘lowered.’ Altogether, his name sounds like it literally describes his origins: ‘lowered [into] icy river.
3. ↑ In China, calling someone by name, especially their first name, is something only those close to you would do.
4. ↑ Chapter 3: Cannon Fodder in the Way [Faelicy Trans.]
5. ↑ Chapter 4: Secretly Assisting the Male Lead [Faelicy Trans.]
6. ↑ Chapter 5: Beginner Level Quest [Faelicy Trans.]