After Stabbing My Archrival, I Reunited with Him in the Celestial Realm

[Powerful Rivals | Taming the Dog | Gentle-Acting Psycho with a Hidden Dark Side × Cold, Proud, Obsessive Ice Queen]

Zhou Yan never imagined that less than a month after ascending to godhood and receiving her divine title, she would be punished by being sent down to the mortal realm.

The reason for her punishment: fighting with a colleague and damaging public property.

It all started when she ran into Ye Cheng, the Eastern Pole Sweet Rain God, who had just returned to the Upper Realm, in front of the Lingxiao Hall.

She had heard of this god long ago: the Emperor's personal disciple, exceptionally gifted, and, most importantly, so beautiful he rivaled the dawn of spring. No one in the world could compare.

The cold and handsome god stood silently amid a crowd of divine officials and immortals trying to strike up a conversation with him, his expression indifferent and aloof.

But the instant he saw Zhou Yan's face, his expression changed. His gaze settled beneath his long lashes and slowly fixed on her face. In front of all the immortals, he pronounced the alias she had used in the mortal realm, one syllable at a time: "Zhou, Qing."

Zhou Yan: "..."

Yikes, had she seen a ghost? How could this man look exactly like her sworn enemy, the one she had stabbed and killed so thoroughly he could not possibly be any deader?

This was going to be trouble.

Zhou Yan narrowed her eyes and slowly took hold of the saber at her waist.

Her enemy had come at her with such force. He was probably here for revenge.

But the scene she expected never came to pass.

Her sworn enemy stopped in front of her, the corners of his eyes flushed red, his expression impossible to read, and a faint sheen of tears in his eyes.

Zhou Yan: "?"

*

Ye Cheng had never been treated that way before.

As the only true dragon left in heaven and earth, he was a god by birth. From the day he was born, everything had gone his way, and he had enjoyed every honor and privilege.

That was until a mission took him down to the mortal realm, where he met a woman named Zhou Qing.

It was the first time he had ever fallen for someone. Yet that one and only time nearly cost him his life.

He had never met a swindler so vicious: she could smile tenderly and call him darling while driving a dagger into his heart, even as he peeled off his own protective scale and gave it to her with his own hands.

Later, after barely surviving, he searched the mortal realm and the underworld for a hundred years without finding her, and had no choice but to return to the Upper Realm.

Then he discovered that the gentle, delicate woman had transformed into a newly risen colleague of his, the Heavenly Realm's God of Deliverance and Demon Suppression!

What was even more infuriating was that a beautiful merfolk demon had attached himself to her, fussing over her all day and constantly calling her "Auntie"!

*

She schemed against him, used him, and framed him, treating him as a stepping stone on her path to heaven. He should have hated her, resented her, and stayed away from her, seeing her as a deadly poison that could pierce his heart.

But...

Ye Cheng would never forget that day, when heavy snow fell over Qingzhou and the whole world lay in a vast, indistinct white.

Standing in the swirling snow, she curved her lips and asked him once more, "Immortals only reveal their true forms in front of three kinds of people: first, an enemy they must fight to the death; second, a healer who can save their life; third... a partner with whom they intend to share the pleasures of the flesh."

"I wonder, in what capacity does the Eastern Pole Sweet Rain God wish to see my true form?"

His heartbeat burned in the stillness of the falling snow. At last, he stopped speaking against his heart. Kneeling amid the desolate mountains, he accepted his fate and kissed the mortal world she had brought to life for him.

"And he did it willingly."

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine and hero have different perspectives. They expose each other's secret identities from the start. There are plenty of secret identities in this story, waiting to be uncovered.

2. The heroine is powerful in every way.

3. Taming-the-dog story. The hero begins as someone who knows nothing of the hardships of mortal life, but the heroine forcibly sets him straight. This is mainly covered in the volume "A Dream of Yellow Millet Knocking at the Heart's Door."

4. A touch of ensemble cast, with romance and plot given equal weight.

I hope you enjoy this story~

-- Coming Soon --

"Wife of the Mountain"

Jiang Yue died, expelled by the Lishan Clan and killed in a war-torn land beyond the frontier.

Her people all said she deserved it. As the indisputable next Mountain Lord of Lishan, she should have governed the mountain spirits and defended their territory.

But she had secretly fled beyond the frontier, leaving Lishan caught up in the flames of war.

Jiang Yue had never imagined she would open her eyes again, much less that she would once more set foot on the land of Lishan.

This time, she had an entirely new identity.

The thirteen-year-old girl gazed at the familiar buildings of her homeland, and her sealed memories gradually came back to her. Then a voice, soft as smoke and cold as snow, rang out.

"You say this is the disciple she took in beyond the frontier?"

Outside the door, a figure dressed in mourning robes approached through wind and snow, holding a plain umbrella.

Everyone around her bent low in unison and bowed, addressing him as the Great Wu: Yan Xi.

Jiang Yue bowed with her companions, but her heart was struck by a storm of shock.

She suddenly remembered something of utmost importance.

Before leaving Lishan, she seemed to have once thrown away a most promising marriage.

Her fiance had been her equal in status, a perfect match for her.

But on their wedding day, she ran away.

Only, she had not run fast enough. Someone stopped her halfway.

Her fiance, dressed in blazing red, held a long sword and declared with grim resolve, "If you leave, never come back. If you dare return, I will kill you."

With her pack on her back, she had turned away without looking back and gone beyond the frontier.

If she remembered correctly, her fiance's name had been Yan Xi!

In the dead of winter, Jiang Yue broke out in a cold sweat.

Suddenly, a chill touched her neck. The icy, sharp tip of an umbrella lifted her chin, forcing her to look up.

"What is your name?" Yan Xi's voice was as cold as the umbrella's point.

Jiang Yue immediately lowered her eyes and put on a sweet, obedient smile. Softly, she replied, "My master named me Jiang Yue. Yue, as in the moon."

That's right, her current name sounded exactly like that heartless fiancee's name. Surely he would despise her, keep his distance, and...

"From now on, she is my disciple."

His cool, icy voice poured over her heart like a spring of frigid water.

Jiang Yue could no longer smile.

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In the hearts of the young people of the Lishan Clan, there were four great unsolved mysteries.

First: Why had Jiang Yue, the Mountain Heir, given up her position as Mountain Lord and fled Lishan?

Second: Jiang Yue had the power to move mountains and overturn seas, so how had she died beyond the frontier?

Third: Why had Yan Xi abandoned his identity and talent as a Water Heir to become a Wu?

Fourth: The Great Wu Yan Xi always wore plain clothes. Who was he mourning?

Jiang Yue knew the answers to the first two mysteries all too well. The other two left her just as puzzled.

Then one day, she came across a solitary grave on the back mountain of the Jiang Clan.

A stone stele, carved by the Great Wu of the Lishan Clan himself, stood over the grave.

It read: Tomb of My Late Wife, Lady Jiang Yue. The Surviving Spouse, Yan Xi.

Looking at the lonely grave, Jiang Yue remembered the plain umbrella Yan Xi almost never let out of his hands. Its ribs were translucent and lustrous as white mutton-fat jade, truly beautiful. Everyone in Lishan said it was made from the bones of an extremely precious beast.

Only she knew the truth:

It was half of her remains, the only part of her left in this world.

[Defiant, Unruly Darling of Heaven × Cold, Obsessive, Seductive Widower]

Theme: You can look down on the world, but you also need to wander among mortals