[Investiture of the Gods] The Legendary Junior Uncle

When Feng Li woke, he found a Daoist standing before him. The man remarked, “I never thought even a wisp of worldly qi could have an immortal destiny.”

After the man enlightened him, Feng Li became a junior disciple of Zixiao Palace.

His senior brothers all adored their little junior brother. Later, Feng Li entered the mortal world to cultivate with single-minded devotion.

The disciples sometimes heard their master mention a little junior martial uncle in passing, but they had never met him. That was until the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods, when the two sects fought fiercely. Whenever innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire, a handsome young man in white would appear and give them a thorough dressing-down.

They couldn't beat him, and he scoffed at them even when they invoked their sect. If they went back and complained, their teacher would scold them, too.

Their teacher would say, “If your martial uncle hits you, then he hits you. How could he be wrong? You must have gone too far, or you wouldn't have been taught a lesson.” The Jie Sect Disciples remembered this especially well. Their teacher seemed to treat him differently, and whenever he spoke of him, he looked as if he were overcome with regret.

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When Feng Li was young, he was captivated by someone's looks, and the two shared a brief romance. Unfortunately, he later realized they were incompatible in their outlook on life, and they went their separate ways.

One became an immortal; the other entered the mortal world.

When they met again, the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods was already underway.

As the Myriad Immortals Formation descended, the young man in white stepped into it. The one who had set up the formation had reddened eyes.

“Even you are going to join them in bullying me?”

Only then did Feng Li realize that, just as before, he was not unmoved.

Coming soon: He Always Wants to Save Me [Quick Transmigration]

Shen Qingjue is a minor character doomed to suffer in the novel Half Summer. After his mother got into trouble, Shen Qingjue was abused by his father and stepmother. His half-brother bullied him time and again, leaving him with nowhere to turn, at home or at school.

After being locked up at home and made to miss the college entrance exam, then having his wrist maliciously injured, Shen Qingjue finally fought back, taking down the people who had ruined his life along with himself.

Gu Bie, a new employee in the Salvation Department, was assigned to him for his first mission.

But no one had told him his mission target would be so adorable and lovable.

All Shen Qingjue had to do was beckon, and Gu Bie was already utterly smitten.

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Shen Qingjue always knew that, given his circumstances, pulling him back from the brink would be no easy feat.

Yet someone carefully entered his life, asking if he needed help and checking what was making him feel unwell.

Just one word or look from Shen Qingjue was enough to make Gu Bie give him everything.

But from the first moment Shen Qingjue saw him, he knew the other man had come with an ulterior motive.

But so what?

With Gu Bie's help, he escaped his family, and those who had bullied him received the punishment they deserved.

He had thought it was simply a mutually beneficial arrangement, and that even if feelings occasionally came to the surface, they would eventually part ways. But on the day the college entrance exams ended, the boy blushed and asked him whether he was willing to walk through the rest of his life together.

But Shen Qingjue had clearly heard the notification: [Mission complete]. If that was the case, why would the other man say such a thing?

Carrying that question with him, Shen Qingjue started dating Gu Bie, waiting as their life together went on for one decade, then two, then who knew how many.

As he lay dying, Shen Qingjue clasped Gu Bie's fingers and finally became certain that, to the other man, he might be more than just a mission.

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When he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in a world where only cultivators could exist, becoming a human cauldron about to be offered to the Demon Lord.

With his wrists bound, Shen Qingjue was thinking about the chances of cultivating to immortality and finding Gu Bie when someone pushed open the window. A young, handsome swordsman leaped into the room.

The moment their eyes met, the young swordsman looked at his delicate, lovely face. His cheeks flushed, and he stammered, “Y-Young master, do you need help?”

“Please,” Shen Qingjue said, smiling as he held out his hands, frail and helpless.

Even without his memories, Gu Bie had still come for him.

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The weak NPC doomed to be a casualty in a supernatural novel.

The beautiful opera singer forced into marriage in a Republican-era novel.

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Theme: Never stop fighting, no matter what.