The Immortal Lord Faces a Tribulation

That man was once a proud, unruly youth, In a golden palace, jade halls, and music and song, With a long sword and fleeting dreams, untouched by the world. The wine in his cup was rich, The flowers beyond the window fragrant, And the one beside him was just right. So he was willing to trade his whole heart for a deep love. But he forgot that heaven and earth are illusions, and life itself a dream, That glory fades quickly, and love grows old. In the end, nothing remained. On the day he ascended to the Upper Realm, everyone whispered about Ji Xueting. Look, that’s the person Tianqu Xianjun killed to prove his Dao. Ji Xueting wanted to explain that Tianqu Xianjun hadn’t actually killed his wife to prove his Dao... He had merely used Ji Xueting’s heart to refine a medicine that would help someone ascend. That was all. But perhaps even Tianqu Xianjun himself never imagined that after a thousand years of wandering through the mortal world, Ji Xueting would one day ascend to the Upper Realm too. The onlookers were waiting for Tianqu Xianjun and Ji Xueting to act out another tale of love and hate. Ji Xueting understood their appetite for gossip, but he couldn’t understand why Tianqu, who should have seen through love, was still sunk in their old relationship. “What I owe you from back then, you can take back. I won’t fight you.” Beneath the Heavenly Gate, the man said this with a stunned look on his face. Ji Xueting could only laugh awkwardly. “Um... sorry, but I really only see you as a colleague now.” Seeing that Tianqu clearly didn’t believe him, Ji Xueting had no choice but to tell the truth. “I managed to ascend because I cultivated the Path of Unfeeling. I turned both love and hate into cultivation... I’ve long since stopped loving or hating you.” Three thousand years ago, the love between the mortal Yan Ci and Ji Xueting was so beautiful that, three thousand years later, the one thought that could still occur to Tianqu, now an immortal lord and completely broken, was that Ji Xueting might hate him. The thought only flashed through his mind during a brief moment of clarity, yet it made him suffer so much that he vomited blood, his heart felt torn apart, and he plunged back into madness. ...But before long, he would realize that even the idea that Ji Xueting hated him was just wishful thinking. The man had long since stopped loving or hating him. [“I’m sorry, but the Ji Xueting you want to see died three thousand years ago.”] [Reader’s notes · Melodrama warning. The author fell strangely in love with old-school melodrama and wrote this indulgent treat. It’s extremely old-school in flavor. P.S. After writing tens of thousands of words, I realized it might not actually be that melodramatic... It has a distinctive flavor. · It’s not a sweet bun, nor a sour plum bun... The author doesn’t know what kind of bun this is either. Maybe a silly preserved-vegetable bun??? · A groveling-to-win-back-his-wife story · Nearing the end. Updates whenever possible, not abandoned.] Warm on the outside, cold within, top-level practitioner of the Path of Unfeeling bottom vs. outwardly aloof, inwardly broken, genuinely insane widower top Note: The top was blind before ascending and will display some nonhuman traits in the heavenly realm. [Supplement: All the classical-sounding verses, literary Chinese, and ancient poetry in this story should come from famous lines in ancient texts. I usually cite the source in the author’s notes, but I might miss some or make mistakes. If you spot anything I’ve missed, please let me know. orz...] [Starting with chapter 65, the Xixi Sleep Proofreading Group helped proofread the serial. Huge thanks!!!] Coming next: After Being Reborn, I Became the Fated Omega of the Scum Top’s Uncle ABO fiction. The bottom is reborn from a beta into an omega. A groveling-to-win-back-his-wife story. The scum top is replaced by an insane top. In his previous life, Su Liang believed he could break free of the ABO system. A daring beta, he seduced Lu Zhizhao into running away with him. Only after they had run away did Su Liang realize that risking everything and refusing to turn back had been a huge joke. One was a burden whom his mother had shamelessly brought into another family, while the other was a shining heir prized by a powerful clan. They were never going to find happiness together. What’s more, Su Liang was only a beta. Su Liang gave up everything, then died without a sound on the day Lu Zhizhao married someone else. Reborn, the once carefree and fearless fool finally learned to accept his fate. This time, Su Liang quietly went back to being an ordinary, uncherished beta. He thought a simple life, free of desire and ambition, was actually pretty good. But after only a few peaceful days, he was sent to a forbidden place deep inside a grand estate. Lu Taipan was once a big shot, and he was still one now: the kind of sinister big shot who made everyone fall silent and tremble with fear whenever he appeared. Yet this top-tier Alpha, who single-handedly held the Lu family together, had become a complete madman after suffering from a long-term pheromone disorder. His secluded residence was a forbidden place in everyone’s eyes. Those who entered rarely came back out alive. Everyone knew Su Liang had become someone else’s sacrificial lamb. But Su Liang just smiled, thinking it wasn’t so bad. At least on that man’s turf, he would never run into the fated AO couple whose compatibility was over ninety percent. But for all his careful planning, Su Liang never expected Lu Taipan to grab him in a frenzy during a pheromone disorder episode, then bite the back of his neck. “Your pheromones... smell good.” Like a demon, the man sniffed Su Liang’s pheromones and murmured greedily like a beast. Su Liang was horrified to discover that, as his relationship with Lu Taipan grew closer, the unusual pheromone gland in his body began developing again, even though he was supposed to be a beta. He changed from a beta into an omega. And not just any omega: one with a one-hundred-percent compatibility match with Lu Taipan. Theme: Love isn’t everything in life. Only by taking your own life seriously can you find true happiness.