Surviving the Love Tribulation

[Coming soon: "Your Majesty Quits" and "Back to My Debut Day". Please add them to your reading list~~] This is a magnificent age in which steam engines, cultivators, and ordinary mortals coexist, giving rise to countless wondrous collisions. Chen Xuan, a Demon King from the Upper Realm, has hit a bottleneck in his cultivation and must undergo a love tribulation in the chaotic mortal world. He sets his sights on Zhou, a romantic young master, because Zhou seems like an experienced hand at love and should help him get through the tribulation quickly. As expected, Zhou soon falls for Chen Xuan's gentle beauty and plunges headlong into love. But Chen Xuan isn't the only one in Zhou's sea of love. Zhou wavers between him and another strikingly beautiful, coolly alluring man. Unable to choose, he hopes to have both. Chen Xuan responds with a gentle, icy smile: Who gave him the nerve? - At a matchmaking banquet, Chen Xuan meets that coolly alluring beauty. Everyone expects the two to get jealous and fight, and waits eagerly for the show. Instead, Chen Xuan steps forward and gazes at his rival with tender affection. "Mr. Han, would you be willing to cultivate together with me?" The onlookers nearly choke on their own spit. But even more astonishingly, the cool beauty, Han Ji, nods. "Why wait for another day when today will do? Shall we go get a room now?" Everyone: "..." Zhou: "..." - There are two Demon Kings in the Upper Realm, one in the north and one in the south. They never meet. Han Ji, the Northern Demon King, reincarnates in the mortal world to undergo a love tribulation. Twenty years later, his family arranges for him to marry into the Zhou family of Manchuan. Young Master Zhou falls for everyone he sees and can't take his eyes off a beauty. Even if the love tribulation kills him, Han Ji doesn't want to undergo it with that guy. Just as Han Ji is looking for a way to get rid of Zhou, who keeps hounding him, a gentle beauty walks over. The other man's round eyes, bright with starlight, gaze intently at him... In that moment, Han Ji's heart seems to skip a beat. - After Chen Xuan and Han Ji become cultivation partners at lightning speed, they cultivate together every day, shamelessly and without restraint, and their powers grow rapidly. Chen Xuan gradually feels that he's truly fallen in love with the other man, but senses that he's hiding something, and feels hurt. Han Ji feels the same way. At last, one day, their emotional crisis erupts, and they lose control of their cultivation. Both of them reveal their true identities. The two Demon Kings stare at each other: "..." The air falls deathly silent. 1. The technology is similar to that of the steam age. 2. Cultivators have three main paths: the Immortal Path, the Divine Path, and the Demon Path. "Your Majesty Quits" Xing Yun transmigrates into the body of an interstellar emperor. There's no way he can handle the job, so he lies flat and slacks off while pretending he hasn't recovered from his serious injuries, hoping to dump the throne on someone else. First he summons his uncle. When the uncle hears the emperor wants to hand the throne over to him, he drops to his knees in terror and confesses that he's been running illegal mines lately, but insists he only wants to make money and has no intention of rebelling. Xing Yun: "...What?" Next he summons his younger brother. His brother says he needs time to think, then packs his things and flees to a remote planet in the middle of the night. The Ministry of Justice soon discovers that his brother is the mastermind behind a major smuggling case. Xing Yun: "...What?" If he can't choose someone related by blood, then he'll find someone who isn't, such as the marshal who controls most of the empire's military and is rumored to be plotting a rebellion. The marshal, summoned back from the frontier, kneels before the emperor on one knee, takes His Majesty's hand, places the military tally in it, and swears he has absolutely no desire for the throne. He also says he'd like to retire from the military and settle on the capital planet. Xing Yun: "...Let go of my hand first." After being attacked, the wise and diligent emperor of the empire wakes up and starts looking for a successor. At first, everyone thinks this is a scheme by the emperor. Later, they realize he really wants to abdicate. Everyone is horrified and takes turns rushing before the emperor to cry, plead, and threaten to hang themselves, begging him to give up the idea. Xing Yun: "...I'm not giving up. Just be careful not to wipe your tears and snot on me." Then one day, Xing Yun regains his memories and learns that he'd actually been born into this world, but lost his memory after the attack and thought he'd only just transmigrated. So, will he still abdicate? Xing Yun opens his mouth to eat the peeled grape the marshal offers him. Yes, he'll abdicate. Lying flat and slacking off is just too wonderful. Xing Yun is the main villain in the book "Star Emperor." As a boy, he is an illegitimate son, lowborn yet proud. After ascending the throne, he conquers all directions, unifies the stars, and rules the cosmos with an iron fist. After an assassination attempt, his personality changes completely and he becomes a tyrant, eventually abandoned by everyone and bringing about his own destruction. When the transmigrated protagonist enters the story, Xing Yun has just been attacked. The protagonist waits to take the throne. They wait and wait, and years later finally realize the truth. Furious, they slam the book down: "This fanfic ruined me!" Theme: Striving for a better future