The Third Under Heaven

[Before You Read]

[A slow-burn, plot-driven long-form drama, updated daily around midnight]

[One-on-one, happy ending. An outwardly ill-tempered but inwardly pure and devoted gong X an outwardly sly but inwardly upright, sharp-tongued shou]

[Every inexplicable entanglement has a forgotten past behind it. See the interludes for details.]

[High martial arts, low fantasy. They call it cultivating immortality, but everyone just knows a little magic.]

Chai Fei, an ordinary man who had spent over twenty years being a lazy nobody in a small town, closed his eyes one day and opened them to find he had somehow taken over someone else’s body.

Good news: the body belongs to a refined and noble immortal lord!

Bad news: this immortal lord’s head is currently the most wanted in the world, and the righteous factions are hunting him.

Good news: the immortal lord is a powerful expert, with all kinds of skills!

Bad news: Chai Fei can’t use a single one of them.

Good news: Chai Fei has trained in martial arts and declared himself unbeatable in the whole town!

Bad news: This is a world of immortal cultivation.

He hasn’t even saved enough money to get home, and now a “roommate” has appeared inside his body to fight him for control.

Thanks to this good roommate, he’s plunged headfirst into a tangled mess, and ended up with a clingy, big bad wolf who sticks to him like a dog-skin plaster, gazing at him with tearful, sparkling eyes:

“Hello. You owe me a romantic debt. With interest at nine for every thirteen borrowed, care to settle up?”

Chai Fei: Who are you?

Wait, when did I incur a romantic debt?

And hold on, you want me to pay off the original owner’s debt?

I can pay it, sure, but first let me save my lazy hide!

As for how a martial artist can stay alive in a world of immortal cultivation...

An ordinary man has become the protagonist of a cultivation novel! Of course he’ll rely on his brains and silver tongue to teach this bunch of immortals how to behave!

Later, the entire cultivation world remembers all too well the fear of being ruled by the slaps delivered by a lazy fish’s tail.

[This is not a power fantasy, and there’s no explosive opening. For your first read, we recommend skimming. If you read carefully, you can treat it like a mystery to solve. The first 30 chapters are due for a major revision~]

The main plot is a serious ensemble drama of political intrigue and power struggles. It’s slow-burn, slow-burn, slow-burn, extremely slow-burn, with clues planted everywhere. If you don’t have much patience, feel free to skip the first chapter. We recommend starting from Chapter Five~

But trust me, the structure is intricate, and the story has a long-lasting impact. It’s absolutely worth it! (If it’s not good, I’ll literally wash my hair while standing on my head. (But please don’t say it’s bad just to make me do a headstand and wash my hair!!)

The total length will be around 900,000 to 1,000,000 words. The road is winding, but I promise a happy ending!

A dark-hearted undercover hero gong X an honest cult leader shou with a villain’s face. The chase-your-wife-to-the-crematorium trope is in the mix!

If you pass by, please add it to your reading list. Pretty please!

Theme: Kindness is not some grand form of justice, but the sum of countless small choices.