Wooing the Holy Venerable Who Killed Me

[Cold on the Outside, Possibly Amnesiac and Crazy on the Inside, Top × Once Powerful, Now Adorable and Snarky Bottom]

Synopsis:

Yun Xi, the bottom: Thanks for asking. I was a divine lord in my previous life, and now I’m a fat little bird. My main job is being cute; my side job is winning over my icy Daoist partner, who may have killed me and then forgotten all about it... I’m exhausted.

Zhe Li, the top: (coldly) That ball by the temple entrance is noisy.

[Previous Life] The thing Divine Lord Yun Xi regrets most is believing that demon’s nonsense! “I feel sorry for how lonely you are, Divine Lord,” he said. And what happened? After hundreds of years as Daoist partners, he turned around and stabbed Yun Xi right through the heart!

[This Life] Yun Xi wakes up three hundred years later to find the world turned upside down. His enemy and Daoist partner has become the widely revered Venerable Zhe Li, while Yun Xi, the Divine Lord, has acquired the appearance of a long-tailed tit and a truly awful System.

System quest: Get Venerable Zhe Li to willingly become your Daoist partner, then achieve perfect harmony in your life together! Quest reward: The truth about why he stabbed you back then!

Yun Xi: ??? Do I look like a joke to you? I’m supposed to win over a thousand-year-old iceberg as a tiny bird? And we have to cultivate together? Is this quest even legitimate?

But for the truth, the little bird makes its move!

Plan A: Be adorable! Roll over by his feet and show him your soft belly. Zhe Li: (without looking down) Steps over him.

Plan B: Bring him warmth! Fetch him the prettiest little flower. Zhe Li: (flicks a finger) Burns it.

Plan C: ...Fake an injury! Lie on his bed with all four feet in the air! Zhe Li: (picks him up) “I suppose he’d make a decent soup.”

Yun Xi: ...Help! Somebody help! My target won’t give an inch!