Always Here to Pour You Another Drink

[Please add my next historical danmei story, My Dao Companion Is Only Playing Hard to Get, to your reading list! Blurb at the bottom~]

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Ruan Jing always put his heart into learning to paint and his feet into learning everything else.

People say that when you're pushed to your limit, you can do anything. For Ruan Jing, though, that doesn't apply to academic questions.

That is, until he got a strict, devilish tutor who also became his deskmate.

His deskmate was the school's handsome heartthrob: refined and cool, outstanding in both looks and academics, and capable of anything.

His ability to wake Ruan Jing up was on par with their homeroom teacher's. He was the stuff of Ruan Jing's midnight nightmares.

But this person also took him to reach for the stars above and carried him through warm breezes filled with the scent of grass. He became the sunshine Ruan Jing could hold in his hands.

Ruan Jing was greedy and wanted to pluck that star and keep it for himself.

He prepared a pile of little gifts and started a game of winning him over.

When he gave him the first gift, the affection meter appeared

It was full.

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Qin Xijue fell into a dark abyss, believing that loneliness and cold would be his companions forever.

Until a little sun quietly drew near, pulling him back into the world with its warmth and vitality.

Cool, steady top student gong x sunny, carefree art student shou

Reader's guide:

1. Mutual pining, healing each other.

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Historical danmei story: My Dao Companion Is Only Playing Hard to Get

Everyone knows that Qing Yan, leader of the foremost cultivation sect, is stern and elegant, with knowledge that reaches heaven and earth. No evil can withstand his sword.

And this unattainable Immortal Venerable has a Dao companion whose spiritual roots were destroyed and who is frail and sickly.

The Immortal Venerable treats him like a priceless treasure, yet before their cultivation-bonding ceremony, the man resolutely fled and vanished without a trace.

Everyone curses him for his heartlessness and ingratitude!

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The "runaway groom," Xia Qi, once thought he could spend his life with the one he loved. But he was caught in a demonic calamity and became a monster, barely clinging to life.

All he could do was push away his radiant Dao companion time and time again.

Until he ran into danger while seeking revenge. Qing Yan arrived and protected him with his life, and the two of them fell into the abyss together, dying and losing their cultivation.

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Reborn, Xia Qi wants only to make up for what went wrong between them.

But he discovers that Qing Yan has forgotten everything about their past. The Dao companion who once protected him with his life now treats him like a stranger, his gaze cool and distant, unwilling to let him near.

Xia Qi is determined to force this relationship to work: ruthless swordplay against their enemies, soft, teasing words for his Dao companion.

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When everyone hears that the frail Dao companion of Immortal Venerable Qing has returned, they scoff and speculate about whether this wretch will die by a demon's claws or by the sword Qing Yan uses to punish the faithless.

Later, demons ravage the world. Xia Qi uses peerless sword intent to protect a region, stands by Qing Yan through perilous trials, and fights at his side to win humanity a chance at survival.

Everyone also sees Xia Qi in the arms of the Immortal Venerable, who looks at him tenderly, as Xia Qi softly complains that their married life has been far too vigorous...

Everyone: ???

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Qing Yan sees a man walk a thousand miles to find him, drenched in blood, clutching his hand and claiming to be his Dao companion.

Ridiculous.

He has walked alone for a hundred years, accompanied only by all creation. No one has ever dared to think of him as their beloved, let alone claim to be his Dao companion.

Until his heart stirs again and his forgotten love returns; until a blood feud puts him at odds with the whole world, nearly sending him tumbling into the abyss of the wrong path

Only then does he learn that the person he once carefully sheltered behind him has long since crossed a thorn-strewn path, all for the chance to stand at his side with sword in hand and protect him for the rest of his life.

Upright and self-controlled, otherworldly yet engaged with the world, with all creation in his heart gong x tough, cheeky, and dirt-poor shou

Theme: May every life that takes a wrong turn find its way to a different kind of happiness.