When the Flowers Bloom on the Road, Chong Lou Can Return at Leisure

Name: When the Flowers Bloom on the Road, Chong Lou Can Return at Leisure
Author: Prosperous Yang Yuhuan

陌上花开，重楼可缓缓归矣

by Prosperous Yang Yuhuan (盛世杨玉环)

Status: Completed
Length: 118k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Fantasy Romance
Updated: 7mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Dedicated to everyone who has ever loved Chonglou from Chinese Paladin 3.

When I was fourteen, the Demon Lord on the screen tore through the void and appeared before me. He was so powerful that no one dared approach him, and so proud that only his reflections kept him company. He guarded a promise for a thousand years, yet no one ever asked him: Is it lonely to be alone?

What if someone had met him sooner?

Yi Huan touched her family’s heirloom jade pendant in an antique shop. When she opened her eyes again, she was in Chonglou’s Mirror Hall. The black-haired man in purple had sat alone for three thousand years. A flame-shaped mark burned between his brows, but his eyes held nothing at all.

She wasn’t afraid of him. She brewed tea in his hall and sketched designs outside the mirror corridor where he practiced. She took his hand and led him through a nighttime market in the human world. When his cultivation backfired, she threw her arms around him without hesitation. She taught him what it felt like to have someone care about him.

For her, he dismantled the lonely mirrors filling his hall, learned to eat crabs, and learned to say, “I’m here.” He went from calling himself “this lord” to saying “I,” and from finding her “noisy” to growing used to her.

When countless mirrors finally reflected the two of them together, the reply that had been a thousand years late finally came:

The flowers are blooming along the road. Chonglou, you can take your time coming home.

This time, it’s not about saving him, but about keeping him company.

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