I Forced the Immortal Lord to Divorce Me, and Now He's Even Crazier

The immortal lord always stood high above the clouds, gazing down at the mortal world with eyes devoid of joy or sorrow.

Now and then, he would make an appearance at a grand gathering. When other cultivators tried to strike up a conversation, he would merely say, "I should be going back. My Dao companion won't eat if I'm not there."

The cultivators' expressions immediately turned into quite a spectacle.

After all, the immortal lord was so aloof, yet the Dao companion he spoke of was merely a mortal.

No one dared criticize him to his face, much less try to keep him there. They could only watch him leave.

The immortal lord returned to Tianchen Peak. The person on his mind was brewing tea in the courtyard. At the sight of him, his expression remained perfectly calm, and his hand never paused as he poured.

The immortal lord didn't mind. He simply walked up and gently embraced him from behind, nuzzling his cheek and ear. "Why haven't you eaten again? Was today's food not to your liking? Or were you waiting for me to come back and feed you myself?"

Chu Yulou took a sip of tea, then slowly set down the cup. Its base struck the white jade tabletop, masking a metallic clink from inside his sleeve. He said, "Xie Liujing, let's divorce."

The courtyard was utterly silent. Even the wind had stopped.

The immortal lord tightened his arms around him, his voice growing lower. "You said... you'd stay with me forever."

Chu Yulou raised one hand. His sleeve slipped down, revealing a silver chain around his wrist. "But you never said I'd have to stay with you like this."

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Xie Liujing, the foremost disciple of Yanxing Sect, was a once-in-a-millennium prodigy among the immortal sects, a star hanging high in the heavens, destined to shine through all eternity.

The sole imperfection was his mortal Dao companion, who had no cultivation.

Everyone lamented their ill-fated match, wondering how this mortal had managed to attach himself to the immortal lord and interfere with his cultivation. Their marriage surely wouldn't last.

Later, the two did indeed cut their robes and hair, and divorced.

Everyone congratulated Immortal Lord Xie on escaping his misery and said his path to the Great Dao was assured.

Only his former Dao companion, Chu Yulou, knew

how stubbornly this immortal lord, so refined and noble in public, had bound him with chains in a tiny space,

and how he had clung to the hem of Chu Yulou's clothes in utter disarray, refusing to let him go even at the cost of heavenly punishment.

But none of that mattered anymore.

He had forced Xie Liujing to sign the divorce papers. Their marriage had trapped him for a hundred years, and at last he was free.

What he hadn't expected was that after he forced the immortal lord to divorce him, Xie Liujing, who had once shown some restraint, seemed to break free of some invisible shackles. The madness in his eyes was worse than ever.

An elegant, dangerously unhinged top, a flower on a high peak x a gentle, clear-eyed bottom with a saintly heart

The immortal lord's love will never change, not in all eternity.

Note: A groveling-after-the-divorce story, happy ending, and neither character has been with anyone else, in body or heart. They are each other's unattainable first love.

From a distance, it looks like a tragic love story. Up close, it's a pure first love.

The top isn't a scumbag and never has been. He's just... very demanding in love, an extremely sensitive and insecure jealous husband.

Also, they have already divorced by the start. The synopsis is set in the past, but it captures their dynamic perfectly.

Coming soon: Your Majesty, the Imperial Tutor Doesn't Want You Anymore!

One-line pitch: He's got a new student!

Synopsis: #Never liked raising kids, and the story opens after a confession#

Duan Guihong once served as imperial tutor in the human imperial court. For eight diligent years, he taught the young emperor everything from Daoist arts and cultivation to strategies of statecraft, holding nothing back and caring for him in every way.

The boy had just barely grown into a wise ruler, yet developed some unnecessary feelings for him. When his confession was rejected, he tried to take Duan Guihong by force.

Unable to accept a relationship that went against all propriety, Duan Guihong refused him again and again. At last...

The young emperor used a forbidden spell to lock him in his bedchamber.

Duan Guihong: ...

What kind of conduct is this? What kind of conduct is this?!

The imperial tutor would rather break than bend, but he was trapped in a passive position and hindered at every turn.

Fortunately, he had spent his life doing good and had plenty of friends. With the secret help of palace attendants, he managed to escape during a riot.

The emperor flew into a rage and ordered his men to bring the imperial tutor back.

As the search went on, a subordinate reported in fear that they hadn't found the tutor, and that he'd even acquired a new student.

The young emperor completely lost it: You ran away, fine, but why take on a new student? What does he have that I don't? Is his cultivation higher than mine, is his status more noble, or does he love you more than I do? Why would you choose him over me?

Duan Guihong: Because he respects his teacher and doesn't want to cross the line with him.

The new student, who respected his teacher, gazed through a water mirror at the younger version of himself on the other side, and smiled wistfully. He lifted a lock of his teacher's hair, trailing down his back, with a fingertip and kissed it.

Then, as the young emperor on the other side of the mirror raged and accused him while the teacher looked back in innocent confusion, he smiled innocently. "Sir, he seems to hate me."

#Poor little emperor. At the most jealous age, he meets the greenest-tea rival in love#

Note: 1. A short-tempered emperor who's stubborn but soft-hearted and a hopeless romantic top x an imperial tutor who's not exactly good-tempered either, exclusive pairing, happy ending.

2. This is a xianxia setting with an older bottom and younger top. The age gap between them will be fairly large, and the bottom is a strict-teacher type.

3. The new student is the young emperor from a future timeline. On the surface, he's a sweet-faced, scheming master of green-tea tactics. In truth, his core personality is exactly the same as the original, but after everything he's been through, he's better at pretending to be the kind of person his teacher likes (or so he thinks). He can't help competing for attention, yet keeps having to help himself time and time again.

Theme: Freedom is like the wind, and so is love