【Angst; the God Venerable dies at the end. Don’t read if you can’t accept that.】
A thousand years ago, the God Venerable fell in love with the young lord of the demon clan.
But the Heavenly Dao forbade it, and the young lord was struck so hard that his soul was knocked out of his body.
To save his beloved, the God Venerable was reborn as an emperor in the mortal realm. With honeyed words, he tricked a foolish general destined to ascend into sacrificing himself. Once his beloved was saved, he turned cold and cast the general into the ghost realm.
But he never expected the fool to be so devoted. Clinging to the God Venerable’s sweet promise, “I want to be with you for all eternity,” the general managed to ascend once again.
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A thousand years later, the fool had become the lowest-ranking immortal. Seeing the aloof, otherworldly God Venerable seated high above, he was overcome with joy.
That was the beloved he had searched for over a thousand years.
But the God Venerable was utterly indifferent. “I don’t know you.”
Thinking he had merely lost his memories, the fool ignored the other immortals’ ridicule and followed him day after day, until the God Venerable finally tried to kill him. Only then, gazing at the sword in his chest, did the fool begin to understand.
The God Venerable didn’t love him. He never had.
Laughing, he rushed to his death, throwing himself onto the sword.
And at the very moment he perished, the God Venerable realized...
he had mistaken him for someone else...
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Several hundred years later, the gods and demons went to war.
The God Venerable, leader of all the gods, knelt in disgrace outside the Demon Palace. He had kowtowed all the way down three thousand streets and uttered tens of thousands of apologies, all to beg for a chance to see the young lord of the demon clan.
The young lord, raised and cherished by the demon, ghost, and underworld realms, reclined on a couch and lifted a face of breathtaking beauty. His red lips parted: “Tell. Him. To. Get. Lost.”
※ The initially detached, later obsessive and unhinged God Venerable (Lou Guanxue) vs. the initially foolish and timid, later vengeful beauty Demon Venerable (Bai Fu)
