I Went Through a Trial and Abandoned My Junior Brother After Leading Him On?

Hua Zhi endured a five-hundred-year trial spanning seven lifetimes, tasting every emotion and desire: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and lust. After all that suffering, he finally attained the rank of immortal.

When he returned to the Celestial Court after completing his tribulation, rumors were everywhere about the junior fellow disciple he secretly loved. Five hundred years ago, he'd encountered a scoundrel. The Three Realms' aloof beauty had been dragged down from his pedestal, only for that person to become a Daoist priest and dump him after winning his heart, leaving behind a token of love from the Demon Realm, the Heart-Seeing Bell, so he could gaze at it and pine for him.

Five hundred years ago. The Heart-Seeing Bell. Becoming a Daoist priest. Hua Zhi's eye twitched. Wasn't that the scummy thing he'd done in his first life?

But for some reason, he couldn't remember what the demon king looked like. That tribulation of love had also ended in failure, so he'd had to undergo an additional Daoist tribulation.

It couldn't be that much of a coincidence, could it? Hua Zhi's heart fluttered uneasily. To find out, he decided to visit his junior fellow disciple.

When Hua Zhi arrived at Wuyi Palace, the moon shone cold and bright. Wu Jiang wore black robes, his three thousand strands of white hair swept up high with a green jade hairpin. His face was as pale as snow, his bones like jade, untouched by worldly dust. He lifted one golden cup after another, and in a daze beneath the moonlight, gazed mournfully at the Heart-Seeing Bell.

The Heart-Seeing Bell was a token of love unique to the demon race. It could only ring when both people who had pledged themselves to each other were present. If activated with demonic energy, it would bring their past lives and memories back to both their minds.

As soon as Hua Zhi stepped through the palace gate, the silent bell, which had not rung for five hundred years, suddenly sounded with a crisp, clear chime that echoed through the cold night.

Hua Zhi took a step into the hall, then tried to pull his foot back. Wu Jiang's drunken gaze shot toward him.

No way! He'd been a scumbag to his junior fellow disciple!

The two slowly met each other's eyes. Hua Zhi gave an awkward laugh. Inside the hall, his junior fellow disciple used demonic energy to ring the bell, and the off-key tune of Yu Linglin rang out cheerfully through the cold, deserted palace.

The demonic sound pierced their ears, and their hazy memories refreshed. The junior fellow disciple's face overlapped with that of the demon king, while Hua Zhi's face merged with that of the heartless man. The love and hatred of their past, their helpless parting, played out before Hua Zhi once more. The memories stopped abruptly when Hua Zhi put on his Daoist robes.

As the past replayed, even the air in all of Wuyi Palace seemed to seep with snow-cold breath. Hua Zhi brushed the snowflakes from his eyelashes and heard Wu Jiang call him by the name he'd had in his first life, his voice brimming with hurt and resentment.

"Hua Yi, you promised to come back to the Demon Realm with me. You tricked me into taking you to Qingcheng Mountain to become a Daoist!"

"J-Junior brother..." Hua Zhi watched Wu Jiang approach and backed away step by step, trying to explain. But Wu Jiang closed in, his snow-pale face flushed red, almost touching Hua Zhi's. His dark eyes blazed like the demon king in Hua Zhi's first life. He knocked Hua Zhi down and accused him of seducing him, then abandoning him.

Unfair! It was a tribulation, junior brother. It doesn't count!! Calm down!!!

There was no chance Wu Jiang would calm down. He'd longed for this man for thousands upon thousands of years, both in heaven and on earth, just waiting for him to fall into his trap!

Now that Hua Zhi had made him suffer through five hundred years of anguish and uncertainty, Wu Jiang was even less inclined to let him go.

This is the goddamn story of two immortals tasked with saving the Three Realms who turn their mutual secret crush into an open romance while undergoing tribulations. One chases, the other dodges; one backs away, and the other can't help but flirt again.

Hey, author, the Celestial Court's Administration Bureau assigned them to save the Three Realms. Don't just write about romance, please!

The author's pen slips, and the two men's vital signs become uncertain.

Hey, author, I didn't ask you to kill them!

Oh, right. Let's bring them back to life.

Two men who loved men become straight, then a happy ending, hehe!

Carefree, shameless, flirtatious bottom Hua Zhi X younger top Wu Jiang, who pretends to be an aloof beauty

A silly, shameless, flirtatious journey about how the bottom gradually drives the top to his death, then brings him back to life.

Theme: A hilarious senior brother