Long Xian Betrays You

This book is also known as "Lead Her to Immortality, Lead Me to Become a Sword". Every character gets an utterly hopeless bad ending. This is a mid-length to long, angst-filled series, a dream come true for fans of tragic endings!

The Golden Immortal looked at me. “Have you ever heard of Ananda, a disciple of the Buddha?”

I thought about it. The Buddha had so many disciples. “I don’t think I have.”

The Golden Immortal nodded knowingly and continued. “Before he became a monk, Ananda, the Buddha’s disciple, once fell deeply in love with a woman. But he knew that if he became a Buddha, he could never be reborn. So it seemed their relationship was destined to end.

“After the Buddha learned of this, he asked him, ‘How much do you love her?’”

“Then that immortal said something almost identical to what Ananda had said long ago…”

The Buddha smiled faintly. He already knew the answer, but still asked Ananda,

“How much do you love her?”

He thought for a while, unsure how to describe his feelings. Perhaps he could answer in his own clumsy way, and she would understand?

So Ananda replied,

“I would become a stone bridge and endure five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sunlight, and five hundred years of rain…”

“All just so she might… walk across it.”