♦ A cold, work-obsessed but devoted top × a beautiful, survival-minded bottom who occasionally likes to provoke
♦ Official title: Red Thread Immortal
♦ Two upcoming books in the Escape the Room series
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A man who nearly became a demon, and an immortal who was destined to become a god. Overnight, the man became a god, while the immortal became a demon...
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A hundred years ago, Xing Wu attained the Dao and ascended.
Before he had a chance to tell anyone, a dispute cost him his immortal bones and turned him into an ordinary mortal.
Ever since, Xing Wu had been scraping by in the mortal world, neither fully human nor immortal.
Whenever he moved somewhere new, he completely changed his appearance.
Sometimes he called himself “Cai Fa,” sometimes “Zhang San,” and more often than not, “Don't Say, Don't Say.”
For hundreds of years, he had lived on tenterhooks and never once been recognized by anyone who knew him.
In his spare time, he'd tease cats and dogs and bask in the sun. When he was in the mood, he'd set up a stall and tell fortunes.
Life was simply lovely
if only this formidable figure from the underworld, Li Yun, weren't sitting right in front of him.
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Ever since Li Yun descended from above to take charge of the underworld as King Yama, nothing connected to the afterlife had escaped his notice.
That had been the case for hundreds of years.
But one day, a subordinate reported to him:
“There's a blind fortune-teller in the mortal world who's frighteningly accurate. He's intercepted Black and White Impermanence several times. If this keeps up, he could disrupt the underworld's order.”
Li Yun raised an eyebrow. “Who is he?”
The subordinate stammered, then finally managed to whisper under Li Yun's intimidating gaze: “Yun Li.”
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That very day, Li Yun decided to go see for himself what sort of person this mortal was, the one who dared to defy him and openly provoke him.
He should have left well enough alone. One look was all it took for him to realize: Ah, it was his wife, the woman with whom he'd once sworn eternal love.
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Reader's Guide:
1. Both are each other's one and only, one-on-one, happy ending.
2. Modern xianxia setting, fictional, fictional, and more fictional.
3. The author's intelligence level is unknown; the logic may not withstand scrutiny.
(Blurb archived on 2026/05/16)
Theme: Love well, and keep moving forward.
