After the Evil Dragon Lost All His Cultivation

Changye is the last true dragon in the world, a villainous ringleader hated by every immortal sect for his countless crimes and unrestrained wickedness.

Then one day, he lost all his spiritual power.

The demons: Charge! This is our chance to get revenge!

After a desperate escape, Changye fell from the sky and landed with a splat in the mud, right in front of Lin Jingqing, who happened to be passing by.

Lin Jingqing: Friends, you won’t believe this. I picked up a snake, and now it insists on coming home with me.

After spending a few days together, Changye realized that Lin Jingqing had no talent for cultivation whatsoever. Even the dogs in his sect could fly on swords, while he was still stuck at the Qi Refining stage.

Worst of all, the cheeky fool had dared to give the mighty Black Dragon King some ridiculous name.

“Little Darling.”

“I am the Demon King!”

“Demon King Little Darling.”

“I’ll eat you alive!”

Lin Jingqing stuffed a piece of braised pork into his open mouth.

1.

Changye had two goals in life. First, to slaughter Lian Yunheng’s entire family and avenge his imprisonment. Second, to slaughter the great demon who had hunted him that day and avenge his grievous injuries.

Now he had a third: make sure Lin Jingqing lived a little longer.

Lin Jingqing wasn’t just weak in cultivation; he was also sickly. He couldn’t even make it past the age of thirty.

Before he died, Lin Jingqing clasped Changye’s hand tenderly. “Little Darling, would you call me your husband?”

Changye, who had suddenly gone hard of hearing, asked, “What? What did you say?”

Before he could get an answer, Lin Jingqing died with a sigh of regret.

Later, a sorcerer told Changye that the Ten Directions Abbey had a way to bring Lin Jingqing back to life, so he set off without hesitation.

2.

On the day Lian Yunheng came out of seclusion, golden light suddenly appeared on the horizon, and tribulation lightning churned overhead.

The entire sect was thrilled. This was the most gifted person in the cultivation world, the foremost practitioner of the Heartless Dao, and someone with a real chance of ascending!

But Lian Yunheng couldn’t bring himself to smile at the crowd of elders.

While he’d been in seclusion, his incarnation, sent to the mortal world to temper his heart, had gone and fallen in love on his own. And not just with anyone, but with the evil dragon he himself had once sealed away.

Before he could fully process his incarnation’s memories, the dragon suddenly stormed into the Ten Directions Abbey alone, shouting, “Give me back my husband’s soul!” and charging straight at him.

The other man hadn’t even recovered his cultivation, yet he’d dared to storm the foremost immortal sect. Lian Yunheng’s expression grew even more complicated. “You’d go this far for a mortal?”

The evil dragon thought he was mocking his husband for being mortal, and fired back.

“Grandmaster Lian, you seem exceptionally gifted. How about I rip out your spiritual roots and use them as a restorative pill for my husband, who died too young?”

Lian Yunheng: …

3.

Word spread throughout the Ten Directions Abbey that one of their Heartless Dao cultivators had become a fated partner to a black dragon, then cruelly abandoned him, and that was why the dragon had come to their doorstep to settle the score.

Overnight, the Heartless Dao’s reputation was ruined.

Before recovering his memories, Lian Yunheng pointed his sword at the black dragon. “Who are you, really?”

Changye: “A widower whose husband is dead. I am Lin Xiaoguai.”

When his memories returned, Lian Yunheng decided to prove his Dao by killing his wife. “Nothing between us counts. Lin Jingqing was merely a mortal incarnation I used to undergo a trial.”

Changye replied coldly, “He’s my husband. You don’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as him. I came here today to take your worthless life.”

How does a Heartless Dao cultivator break free of his partner? (Struck through.) Can he prove his Dao by killing his wife if his partner doesn’t recognize him? (Struck through.) Does getting killed by his partner count as proving the Dao?

Coming soon: Dear Little Brother, How Are You a Fake Young Master?

Huo Lanqing had always hated his younger brother, Huo Zhen. As far back as he could remember, Huo Zhen had been better than him at everything. Whenever Huo Zhen was around, no one noticed Huo Lanqing.

“You’re the older brother, so of course you should give way to your little brother.”

“Lanqing, why can’t you learn anything properly? Look how clever your brother is.”

“I gave birth to both of you. How can there be such a huge difference?”

Under his parents’ blatant, constant favoritism, Huo Lanqing grew jealous and resentful. He felt Huo Zhen had ruined his entire life, and every day he thought about how to make him disappear.

Then Heaven took pity on him. One day, he discovered that Huo Zhen had been switched at birth and was actually a fake young master.

That outstanding Huo Zhen wasn’t even a member of the Huo family.

Huo Lanqing almost laughed out loud.

In just a few days, Huo Zhen left the Huo family and returned to the poor village where he’d been born.

Huo Lanqing thought, Now I can bully the younger brother who’s been one step ahead of me since childhood to my heart’s content.

*

Xie Zhen had a lazy, troublemaking older brother. In front of their parents, he pretended to treat Xie Zhen well. The moment they were alone, he turned into someone else entirely.

Huo Lanqing liked to take Xie Zhen’s things and trample him underfoot. He warned him never to come first in competitions or exams, and never to stand out at anything.

When Xie Zhen was little, he couldn’t fight back. As he grew up, he became strong enough to beat his brother, but when he saw the corners of his brother’s eyes reddened with pain, he somehow let go.

Later, he accidentally found out that Huo Lanqing wasn’t really a member of the Huo family.

His fragile, useless older brother would be like a fish out of water if he left the Huo family. He’d probably die of thirst in no time.

So, in a moment of madness, Xie Zhen made a decision: he would take Huo Lanqing’s place and become the fake young master.

Later, when Huo Lanqing learned the truth, he clutched Xie Zhen’s hand with tearful eyes and selfishly pleaded, “Please, don’t tell Mom and Dad. You’ve already taken on the role of the fake one, so why not keep playing it for the rest of your life?”

Xie Zhen reached out and rubbed his lips suggestively, his gaze dark. “So what are you going to give me in return, big brother?”

Theme: Fight against adversity and yearn for freedom.