How to Tutor My Archrival from a Past Life

Three hundred years after transmigrating to the cultivation world, Xie Jing was framed and betrayed. Hunted by all the immortal sects, he lay gravely wounded and on the verge of death.

With nowhere else to go, he collapsed outside the cave abode of his old nemesis, the Demon Lord Shen Huan.

The rain washed over him, slowly draining away the last of his life.

Feeling his way along the crumbling blue stone bricks and the rust-stained gate, Xie Jing belatedly remembered that Shen Huan would never come. He had died more than a decade ago.

Back then, Xie Jing had personally led the righteous immortal sects to crush the demonic path. Shen Huan had died with Xie Jing's Ting Shuang Sword piercing his heart.

As he drifted toward death, Xie Jing remembered his school days in the modern world.

There had been no scheming between sects, no burdensome calls to uphold the greater good, and no need to worry about all that petty nonsense. Every day, he woke up to studying and drilling practice problems. His only annoyance was Shen Huan constantly coming to him with absurdly easy, free-point questions.

The next second, he opened his eyes. The air conditioner was humming, laughter and horseplay drifted in from the hallway, and beneath his arm, numb from being pinned, lay an unfinished assignment.

Shen Huan, wearing his school uniform, was reaching out right in front of him, as if about to shake him awake.

It was as though the three hundred years of life-and-death enmity between them had been nothing more than a dream during a quick nap between classes.

Xie Jing froze, completely at a loss as to how to face him. Fortunately, Shen Huan seemed to have no memories of the cultivation world, so Xie Jing could only pretend he remembered nothing either.

But the urgent matter now was that the college entrance exam was just over two hundred days away, and he hadn't studied in three hundred years. He genuinely couldn't remember a single thing!

If Shen Huan came to ask him one of those easy, free-point questions now, he'd be doomed too!

Both transmigrate, both are reborn, and both pretend to have lost their memories.

Primarily set in a modern school, interspersed with memories of their past lives in the cultivation world.

Modern: A sunny, gravity-type competition prodigy gong x a cool, aloof top student shou (Shen Huan x Xie Jing)

Xianxia: A Demon Lord gong who intermittently switches into an obsessive mad-dog mode x the cool, aloof, peerless beauty of the immortal path, an Immortal Venerable shou (Shen Shiyi x Xie Suian)

tips:

1. Both are pure, 1v1.

2. The previous life has a BE, while the present life has an HE. The story opens with the previous life's ending, and they rekindle their relationship. The previous life is a little angsty, while the present life is sweet.

3. Written to indulge my kinks. The cultivation-world sections are packed with them; everything the school setting can't have, the cultivation world has (kink warning: coercion, beautiful yet tragic characters, love and hatred intertwined). Cultivation-world chapters: 10-16, 21-28, 44-51, 81-?.

4. The school sections feature students choosing between arts and sciences.

5. Both protagonists are adults in body and mind (18 years old physically, over 300 years old in soul).

*The cover doesn't depict any of the characters.

Blurb dated: 2026.03.21.

Theme: Have the courage to fight against fate