Although Xie Zhi’s acting career was in a slump, he still hated playing bit parts and rejected the role of a soy sauce (read: extremely minor) character in a web drama. Unexpectedly, he died and transmigrated into a novel to become the dead benefactor character who only shows up in the protagonist’s memories: Xie Zhiwei.
…hold on, isn’t this the same soy sauce character he refused to act?!
To avoid repeating the same tragedy, Xie Zhiwei had no choice but to team up with the System to play (work) act (hard) at his part (death).
System: The protagonist needs a teacher, so his shizun will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.
System: The protagonist needs to level up, so his helper will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.
System: The protagonist needs to blacken, so the villain will be…
Xie Zhiwei: Leave it to me.
System: The protagonist needs to fall in love, so the heroine will be…
Xie Zhiwei: @#$^! you, let me float away ethereally.
Mu He: Shizun, please fly into this disciple’s arms~
Story Notes: Reborn black lotus gong x Transmigrated acting genius shou
Gong is blackened from the start! Things are awkward and spicy to start, but gradually he’ll turn into a green tea bish.
Shou’s words are docile and honest, but his body is unwilling. Outwardly kind and low-key, inwardly a spiteful poison-tongue who loves the limelight~
⚠️ Triggers/Warnings ⚠️
Yandere: The first third of the novel contains an obsessive yandere side character who goes to extremes to own the object of his affections, including psychological manipulation and physical possession.
Rape: The last third of the novel contains an incident where one person, under the influence of mind-altering illusions, mistakes the other for an illusion and forces himself on him for 3 days straight. Discomfort can be heightened by the fact that the victim is rendered useless to resist. There are no graphic details of the encounter (though there are some visual description of the aftermath) and both parties address it afterwards. Please note that negative effects of the rape are downplayed by the fact that the victim still considers the entire setting and characters as “part of a book,” and so recovers from the supposed trauma sooner than usual. Readers may find this light attitude jarring depending on your suspension of disbelief.
Translator will also include triggers/warnings for relevant + NSFW chapters and add them here if they play a significant role in the plot! Thank you!
🎁 Bonus Goodies – Fan MVs, audiobook, & more~ 🎁
Too Bad Master Died Early – Novel Trailer by Ruyi (Major spoilers for Arc 1!)
🎥 🎬 Other Fanvids & Fansongs 🎼 🎤
Watch fanvids of the series on BiliBili here:
Luo Yunxi & Xu Kai Version:
ARC 1 (ENG SUBS) ARC 2 (ENG SUBS)| (No ARC 3 was made ;u;)
Luo Yunxi & Wu Lei Version: Mini-Trailer
Luo Yunxi & Wu Lei Version
🎵 🎶 Listen to the audio book version over on Ximalaya!
English subs for “Zhiwei” – Too Bad Master Died Early fan song (contains vague spoilers for entire novel)
- “Trespass” – Song & Audio Drama (Contains major spoilers for Arc 1, mild spoilers for later story arcs)
- “Trespass” – Song only
Thank you for picking up this novel ❤️💯
Interesting plot >.<
Is the second trigger warning about the ML/MC?
Yep yep!
Camping
Looks Interesting….gonna CAMP⛺
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This seems like such an exciting novel.
Here goes my sleep .
Pretty please, can I please know the source of your profile pic! 🙏 Like which manhua or novel is it from? 🤔
I wanna know too ( ╹▽╹ )
It kind of sort of looks like Fake Slackers to me, or some other campus BL!
Anyways, have some melon while you’re camping, guys~ 😆🍈
Reverse searching the image led me to Fake Slackers too!
Yay another historical master-disciple novel☺
Camping 🏕️!!!
Ahh yess.. shizun-fu**er ML… SIGN ME UP!! 😤😤
Interesting.. camping (｡♡‿♡｡)
Reborn gong x transmigrated shou?!? I’m in!!!
Is this a Chapter a day I see???!!!!
yep, has been since launch! 😗😎
Guys is this good?
After 2 years , back on this site again 🥲
I missed being here..💜
I just found this novel on NU and wondered why the links are deleted there? 😅 Thankfully, was able to see that CG site have it , I thought this novel was gone 👁️👄👁️ thank goodness ,not yet 😍
oh yeah, what happen is i was bulk releasing chapters and locked it after c7 or so, so NU automatically wiped my releases from their list
i learned my lesson from that with PSP and only updated 1 chapter daily before locking the rest, which didn’t trigger NU’s auto-wipe! the more you know~
Oh 😳 so there’s actually like that. At least now I know that this one wasn’t deleted. 😅 Thank you so much ❣️🥰
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNd4cUXMHc
the cat’s fur colour is grey>>just like Xie Zhiwei’s crow grey robe, while the dog’s fur is fully white like Mu He’s white robe. The dog wanna befriend the cat and always eager to interact whenever it sees the cat. However the cat is obviously irritated and showing its displeased by showing its claws (like Zhiwei’s internally straight mind who wanna avoid Mu He’s affection). But the cat’s gradually accepting this fellow doggie 🥰
Привет! Большое спасибо за перевод! Я нарисовал фанарт для персонажа, но, к сожалению, не смог выложить его в дискорд (потому что не понял, чувствую себя старым). Вот почему я подумал оставить ссылку здесь : https://prnt.sc/sdAnuakoZUrB
Thank you very much for translating this story, I loved it very much, thanks to you I found out that it has a brother novel called (i guess) this poor taoist is just an actor/ 贫道只是个演员
Could you consider translating it? Tells the story of the real xie zhiwei and he zheng, the actor that xie zhi hated, it’s really good 🙏
haha, my only issue is i get bored easily with modern setting novels (unless they’re realllly unique) and there’s a lot of typical face-slapping blood pressure raising scenarios in This Poor Taoist is Just an Actor, so i don’t want to pick it up and drop it halfway (that’d be even worse!!) thus, i’m not touching it for everyone’s sakes!
i do have a modern setting project in the works that’s realllllly interesting, i think readers will like it when that’s out (but i promised myself to finish pretty state preceptor first!)
This was such a great read😍😍Can you please translate it’s sister novel as well?
haha the sister novel is SUPER dog blood so it’s not my style, i’d only get tired and give up halfway which isn’t fair! instead i’ll be looking at another modern-day comedy-styled BL for 2024 so you can stay tuned for that! but…gotta finish pretty state preceptor saves the planet first
I was really excited for this novel but the password thing ruined it for me. I’ve never used discord but for this I was ready to download it and login. But it says it’s not available in GooglePlay so I tried logging in the web. Still every time I click the link GooglePlay shows and I don’t freaking understand why. This was my first and last experience with dish*t.
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