Also known as Where in This World, Where in This Snow
This story is still in the planning stage. The blurb may be tweaked, but the overall plot will stay the same.
Jiang Shu'an's perspective:
Jiang Shu'an was a poor child whom the head of Shangqing Sect had picked up years ago. When he was twelve, his spiritual roots were tested. He had three spiritual roots and was half a good-for-nothing. After that, people never stopped mocking him.
He should have turned evil under years of ridicule and scorn, fallen to the demonic path, then returned to wreak havoc across the cultivation world, only to be executed on the spot by the righteous immortal sects and end up scattered in body and soul.
But when he was fourteen, the sect leader, who was no longer his master, picked up another child. That child was eleven, three years younger than him. A year later, when the child's spiritual roots were tested, it turned out he had none. The ridicule shifted to someone else, and after three years of mockery, Jiang Shu'an's life gradually settled down.
But Wang Xia kept smiling at him every day, as if they had known each other before.
Wang Xia was awful to him, always picking on him and calling him useless, yet he stuck to him all the time. On the surface, they were enemies. What they were in private... perhaps that was for Wang Xia to decide.
But he wasn't useless, and neither was Wang Xia.
After all this time, the only person who truly saw him was the one who constantly complained about him.
Wang Xia's perspective:
In his previous life, that good-for-nothing Jiang Shu'an fell to the demonic path after being ostracized by the immortal sects. They then became accomplices, and Wang Xia made a name for himself in the demonic realm. But a good-for-nothing was still a good-for-nothing, incapable of accomplishing anything significant. Before he could become a Demon God, Jiang Shu'an died first.
And Wang Xia was still alive.
Just wait. Once he recovered and made his comeback, he would make those small fry in the immortal sects pay for what they did to that good-for-nothing.
But Jiang Shu'an was dead, scattered in body and soul. Wang Xia couldn't even dream about him.
That good-for-nothing was so stingy. Just because he had no soul, did that mean he couldn't visit Wang Xia's dreams?
If he went to avenge Jiang Shu'an right now, would he get to see him in a dream?
One demon, venturing out alone with no hope of return.
When he opened his eyes again, he was at the foot of Shangqing Sect's mountain.
When he saw the unfamiliar boy whose eyes were always shrouded in clouds, he finally understood. So the good-for-nothing had been this useless back then, and so pitiful, too.
Later, trouble broke out in the demonic realm, and Wang Xia was away for several months. When he returned, he heard that something had happened to Jiang Shu'an.
Hadn't he promised to wait for him?
Wang Xia refused to believe it and kept searching.
But when he finally found Jiang Shu'an again, the other man no longer recognized him.
Wang Xia really wanted to drag him back and lock him up by his side, but in the end, he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Did they really have to start out as friends all over again?
Bonus scene:
Amnesiac Xiao Jiang: Do good friends have to sleep together?
Wang Xia: People like us can. You get what I mean, right?
Jiang Shu'an: I'm not an idiot.
Wang Xia: Good, then you get it.
Jiang Shu'an: ??
Fake bully, actually sharp-tongued, says the opposite of what he means · Wang Xia x lonely, cold, resilient, kind · Jiang Shu'an
Strict one-on-one, both leads sexually inexperienced, happy ending
Little Wang was already an adult when he was reborn, he just became a child. In both his past and present lives, he loves Xiao Jiang without realizing it, and it'll take him a while to figure it out.
In their past life, neither of them was in love. Xiao Jiang was consumed by hatred and had no time to think about that sort of thing. Even if he had, he could never have liked that bastard Wang Xia. Wang Xia was just one of Xiao Jiang's rowdy friends, a carefree demon. They usually had a bit of an oppositional dynamic.
Please add it to your collection~~
Screenshot of saved draft, 2026.8.22
Theme: Just when it seems there is no way out, a new path appears
