After Faking My Death, I Became My Cold Apprentice's White Moonlight

[Two-Hundred-Year Widower, Calm on the Surface but Dark and Twisted Inside, On the Verge of Madness] x [Cheerful and Playful Despite His Age, Heartbroken by His Rebellious Kid, Retired, Ready to Lie Flat and Run Away]

Xie Shanxue, Lord of Divine Might, found a child named Wen Yan among a pile of corpses.

He taught him magic and how to be a good person.

As his teacher, brother, and father, he raised Wen Yan with his own hands into a dignified, aloof divine lord.

Later, Wen Yan accompanied Xie Shanxue as he fought demons, traveling between heaven and earth, never leaving his side.

Until the day Wen Yan underwent his tribulation to become a god. Worried that Wen Yan might be controlled by his inner demon, Xie Shanxue willingly entered the illusion to help him through it.

But what awaited him was a sword through the chest.

The other man's eyes were full of anger and hatred, as if Xie Shanxue were something filthy.

The stab was so vicious that Xie Shanxue couldn't even get a word out.

Clutching his wound, he walked step by step out of the illusion. From then on, he and Wen Yan became strangers.

Later, Xie Shanxue died, and Wen Yan became the new God of War, famous and glorious. No one remembered Lord Xuanwu anymore.

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Two hundred years later, Xie Shanxue awoke from his slumber. Only then did he learn that Wen Yan had become the God of War, renowned and peerless.

On the one hand, Xie Shanxue was proud: as expected of the child he'd raised. On the other, he couldn't help cursing Wen Yan as an ungrateful brat.

Xie Shanxue had lost all his divine power, so he did his best to avoid Wen Yan, lest he get stabbed to death by him again.

Until, in an illusion, Xie Shanxue saw what had happened during the years he had been "dead."

In the dilapidated Shrine of Lord Xuanwu, Wen Yan was kneeling before the statue, reverently using a carving knife to restore its original appearance, stroke by stroke.

It was as if he had carved the image of the statue's owner into his heart countless times.

After gazing at it for a long while, Wen Yan suddenly reached out and gently stroked the stone face. His eyes reddened as he called out hoarsely, "Gege."

Xie Shanxue was utterly confused. Why was this ungrateful brat crying at his grave?

And shouldn't he have called him Shizun? Since when had he become Gege??

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Wen Yan kept someone hidden in his heart.

That person was so wonderful, so pure, that even looking at him for too long felt like a desecration.

But in the illusion during his ascension, his inner demon took that person's form to confuse him.

Afraid that his secret feelings would be laid bare, and furious that his inner demon would dare use that person's face, Wen Yan thrust his sword forward.

As blood splashed across his face, Wen Yan was still thinking: Why is an inner demon's blood warm?

Then he looked up and saw Xie Shanxue, pale-faced and staring at him in shock.

At that moment, Wen Yan's soul nearly shattered.

He had wounded his own god with his own hands.

1. The puppy grows up, becoming steady, taciturn, and cool on the outside. A widower whose heart has turned dark and twisted, gong x Cheerful and playful despite his age, heartbroken by his rebellious kid, retired, ready to lie flat and run away, shou.

2. In the illusion during his ascension, Wen Yan wasn't really trying to stab Xie Shanxue himself. He thought he was still attacking an illusion in the dream. His secret crush was exposed, and in his embarrassment and anger, he took it out on the phantom, never realizing he'd struck the real person.

3. 1v1, HE

Theme: If you never forget, your feelings will be answered