The Night I Divorced My Childhood Friend, the Sword Venerable, I Was Reborn

Shen Junyu was reborn, back a hundred years in the past. A hundred years ago, Shen Junyu took a fatal sword strike from a demonic cultivator meant for his younger brother, Shen Siyuan. His golden core was destroyed, and he lost all his cultivation. His fiancé, Yuan Muzhou, defied everyone’s objections and became a life-bound cultivation partner with Shen Junyu, sharing their lives. Their devotion became a celebrated romance of the time. But later, Yuan Muzhou rose to become the Sword Venerable, while Shen Siyuan became a sect leader. The two were always seen together, and everyone considered them a match made in heaven. Shen Junyu, crippled long ago, became a thorn in everyone’s side. Though he had silently endured endless pain for a hundred years and suffered countless cold stares, now he was branded an ungrateful wretch who stood in the Sword Venerable’s way to ascension and kept two lovers from being together. No one remembered that he was the one Yuan Muzhou had once insisted on marrying. Shen Siyuan, too, constantly mocked him, hinting that a good-for-nothing had no right to occupy the place of the Sword Venerable’s partner. Eventually, both their birth parents urged Shen Junyu to divorce Yuan Muzhou and give Shen Siyuan his place. From beginning to end, Yuan Muzhou said nothing. But his increasingly distant manner told Shen Junyu that they were unlikely to have a happy ending. At last, one day, Shen Junyu asked Yuan Muzhou himself, “Muzhou, do you want a divorce?” Yuan Muzhou replied, “I promised to take care of you for the rest of my life. Don’t overthink it.” Shen Junyu asked, “Then are you willing to swear that you’ll never marry anyone but me in this life?” His answer was a long silence. Shen Junyu smiled faintly. “I understand.” So Yuan Muzhou’s promise to spend a lifetime together had meant only his own lifetime, not Shen Junyu’s. That night, Shen Junyu left a divorce agreement and took the sword he had loved most a hundred years ago. Then he leapt from Endless Cliff. · This time, after being reborn, Shen Junyu did not take that sword strike meant for Shen Siyuan. When he saw Yuan Muzhou holding Shen Siyuan, staring at him with eyes full of pain and blame, he knew Yuan Muzhou had been reborn too. But Shen Junyu only gave them an indifferent glance before turning to leave. At the foot of the cliff, he rescued the demonic cultivator the others had surrounded. Wiping the blood from the man’s face, he asked, “How does one become a demonic cultivator? Can you teach me?” · Wen Shuo, one of the eight Demon Lords of the Arctic Demon Realm, encountered something quite interesting. A little avatar he had left in a secret realm had been rescued by a handsome human cultivator. And the two of them were enjoying a rather pleasant little life together. One day, the human cultivator brought the avatar to the Arctic Demon Realm and said seriously, “If we want to establish ourselves among the demons, we should join the Nine Nether Demon Lord, Wen Shuo. He may be suspicious and devious, but his talent and potential are extraordinary. He might even become the Demon Venerable one day.” Wen Shuo: Is that so? How come I didn’t know? A story about a husband and wife teaming up to fight monsters and rise to power. After the protagonist is reborn, every villain will get what they deserve and regret what they did. The protagonist will forgive no one, from beginning to end. Coming soon: Before My Beautiful, Doomed Adoptive Brother Falls, I Awaken Su Mutang is the adopted son of the Yu family, a small clan in the cultivation world. He is lovely and graceful, gentle by nature, and the dream lover of many young scions from prominent families. Though his mother died when he was young, he never suffered hardship. His adoptive parents treated him wonderfully, and his adoptive brother, Yu Heting, raised him with his own hands, cherishing him like the most beautiful white begonia on a sacred mountain. But one day, Su Mutang dreams that his adoptive brother Yu Heting, blessed with a sword bone and extraordinary talent, is actually the chosen vessel for an ancient Nascent Soul cultivator to possess. Rather than become a puppet, Yu Heting will self-destruct and die, his sword bone falling into the hands of someone who swoops in to claim it. The Yu family will be wiped out as well. To change Yu Heting’s and the Yu family’s tragic fate, Su Mutang, who has never been interested in cultivation, begins training in earnest. Then he disguises himself and enters the Tianqi Secret Realm, intending to obtain soul-binding grass and eliminate the threat of possession hanging over Yu Heting. But in the secret realm, Su Mutang meets a demonic cultivator. After they work together to obtain the soul-binding grass, he accidentally spends a night of passion with the man. Su Mutang’s heart belongs only to his adoptive brother, so he doesn’t dwell on what happened. He takes the soul-binding grass and leaves the secret realm. Unexpectedly, when he reaches the Xiaoyao Sect with the grass, someone recognizes his true identity. Just like that, Su Mutang is inexplicably taken back to his birth family, then inexplicably betrothed to the Sword Venerable’s first disciple. At a loss, Su Mutang goes to the Sword Sect to try to break off the engagement. But the genius swordsman takes him to his room in private, removes his disguise, and reveals the familiar face of the demonic cultivator. Su Mutang: ??? The demonic cultivator says, “Marry me and complete the task, and I’ll help your brother leave the Xiaoyao Sect.” After wrestling with it for a long time, Su Mutang agrees. · Later, the demonic cultivator becomes the Demon Venerable, the Sword Venerable’s first disciple becomes the Sword Venerable, and together they create a cultivation method that combines their paths and unite the cultivation world. In the Demon Palace. Su Mutang looks at the Demon Venerable, who has united the two realms and fulfilled his ambitions, and asks to divorce him and return home. To his surprise, the Demon Venerable removes his disguise again. This time, the face revealed is Yu Heting’s. Su Mutang is stunned. He tries to run, but is caught and brought back. Yu Heting presses a hand to the nape of his fair, lovely neck and murmurs, “Tang’er, the Demon Venerable is allowed, and the Sword Venerable is allowed. Is your big brother the only one who isn’t?” Su Mutang: … Why did none of the novels ever mention this?! Su Mutang x Yu Heting (Gentle, beautiful bottom x scheming, aloof top) · (Extra scene) Ever since he was little, Su Mutang had thought that if he ever found a husband, it would have to be someone like Yu Heting. But he also figured that someone as aloof and disciplined as Yu Heting probably didn’t need a cultivation partner. So Su Mutang decided he didn’t need to get married either. Until he met a taciturn demonic cultivator in the secret realm. The man looked utterly ordinary, but his eyes were remarkably like Yu Heting’s. One night, after drinking too much, Su Mutang couldn’t help telling the demonic cultivator the secret about the novels he read. After listening, the demonic cultivator asked, “Then why don’t you tell your brother?” Su Mutang closed his eyes and leaned against a tree. “He’d think I was crazy.” The demonic cultivator gazed for a moment at Su Mutang’s soft, lovely profile, then gently drew him into his arms and sighed. “You really don’t understand him.” Su Mutang had already fallen asleep. Theme: Hope lies at the end of despair.