|Both leads are each other's only ones|Adopted son and adoptive father|Widowed stepmother|Enemies-to-lovers|Getting jealous of himself|
A dazed, beautiful widower and aloof Demon Lord, the bottom x a brazen, fiercely competitive young wolf of a top
During the war against the demons, Demon Lord Xie Huan was stabbed through the heart by his nemesis, Zhou Hui.
When he woke, he learned that Zhou Hui had traded his life for his and brought him back from the dead?
Xie Huan: I don't understand what came over you...
Could it be that after all these twists and turns, his sworn enemy had fallen for him all over again?
He owed Zhou Hui too great a debt to leave it unpaid.
So Xie Huan retired to the mountains and raised the child Zhou Hui had left behind, Zhou Su.
Xie Huan didn't like children.
His original plan was: raise him, abandon him, fake his own death, and then they'd be even. A perfect escape.
But the kid was strange.
Other children begged for sweets. This one begged for... kisses, cuddles, and being carried around. He even wanted to sleep in Xie Huan's bed. With a face identical to his old lover's, Zhou Su had Xie Huan wrapped around his finger every time he acted cute.
Xie Huan's heart softened. He simply assumed the child was starved for affection and thought no more of it.
Only when the boy grew into a young man, his gaze growing ever more ardent, did Xie Huan realize something was wrong. The kid was just like his father: his intentions were far from innocent.
With their twenty-year agreement fast approaching, repaying the debt only made everything messier.
Xie Huan made up his mind: he should fake his death and end this once and for all.
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Zhou Su knew that his adoptive father's heart belonged to a white moonlight, the "A Hui" he murmured in his dreams every night.
That was his birth father.
But Zhou Su refused to accept it. Why should a dead man get to claim all of Xie Huan's love?
After Xie Huan ran away for the third time, Zhou Su finally understood: the living couldn't compete with the dead.
Then, after an accident caused him to transmigrate back five hundred years, he came face-to-face with Xie Huan at seventeen, before his father had ever laid a hand on him. His heart pounding, Zhou Su claimed the name that belonged to the man he was impersonating:
"My name is Zhou Hui. Hui, as in 'following the winding stream.'"
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Zhou Su stole his own father's name to pursue his love, and at first he was rather pleased with himself. Xie Huan believed him and fell in love. As Xie Huan called him "A Hui" over and over in his arms, Zhou Su answered with a clear conscience.
But ten years passed, and he was still being called A Hui. Twenty years passed, and he was still being called A Hui.
Thinking that Xie Huan's fated true love was "Zhou Hui" made Zhou Su so jealous he was about to go mad.
After thirty years of fretting and guarding against rivals, he finally couldn't take it anymore: Where is my father?! Why hasn't he come to steal his wife yet?!
Fine, if you won't show up, I'll go drag you out of the immortal cultivation world myself!
He searched the cultivator registries for the past hundred years across the entire immortal cultivation world, only to discover:
There was only one person in the whole world named Zhou Hui.
[Reader's Guide]
1. Happy ending, both leads are each other's only ones, one-on-one, time loop trope. They're the same person, not father and son.
2. The bottom damaged his brain by cultivating the ruthless path in his previous life, so he's a bit dazed and slow to catch on. He's still clever about other things.
Theme: Everyone deserves to be treated better
