Third Master Chen, I Want to Date You

A fanfic. Original-work purists, please don't scrutinize the timeline. I write wherever the mood takes me.

The bad news: Gu Guangjing has transmigrated into a book.

The good news: She's read it, more than once. She has transmigrated into the first life of the heroine, Gu Jinchao, before she was reborn. By now, she is already Third Master Chen's wife.

A visitor from another world, she understands nothing of household rules and cannot stand the constraints of a secluded life. Yet her vibrant warmth shatters the cold reserve buried deep within Chen Yanyun.

But fate seems to play cruel tricks. One day, their souls return to their rightful bodies: she falls back into the modern world, while he remains in the ancient past. Separated by mountains, seas, and time, all that remains is their longing for each other.

She refuses to believe in destiny. She quits her job and travels through several ancient capitals, including Jing, Chang'an, and Luoshi, searching for a way back to him. He stays alone in an empty home, his temples turning white, all tenderness buried away. The rear courtyard becomes forbidden ground, and laughter an impossible luxury. Only his thoughts of her remain, growing wild as a forest through four long years.

Thankfully, Heaven has not forsaken them. The chance to exchange souls appears once more. In a crimson jacket and skirt beneath the moonlight, she finally rushes into the arms she has longed for day and night.

The silver at his temples conceals four years of anguish, and his arms wrapped tightly around her hold the preciousness of having her back. He lowers his head and kisses away her tears, whispering, “It's enough that you've come back.”

She raises a hand to stroke his white hair and replies through her sobs, “Third Master, I'm back,…”

Bound by souls across time, they spend four years reaching for each other. After all their twists and turns, Jinchao's home is still at Chen Yanyun's side.

From then on, he holds her hand and promises her every year to come, so that the rest of their lives may be peaceful and happy.