Near the Spring Mountain

Their feelings had already been buried deep in their hearts back in the Ninth Heaven. Together, they travel to countless worlds below it. When enemies with ulterior motives scheme against them, what fate awaits them in these three thousand small worlds? Will they go their separate ways, or will they mend their broken relationship?

Gu Zhong is arrogant and conceited, but once he puts his mind to something, he can make it happen. He's stubborn when it comes to love, and doesn't know how to love someone.

Mou Li is starved for affection and cares too much about what others think. He treats everyone with indifference, and when it comes to the people he cares about, all he wants is for them to stay alive. With the person he loves, he's a slightly aloof, almost universally adored type, knowledgeable about everything from astronomy to geography. He's more gentle and clever than Gu Zhong, yet a little colder than most people.

Neither of them is quite normal, but their looks have to be top-notch. (The Evil Lord pouts.)

In the first world, facing the hatred of a conquered nation, the beautiful memories of childhood are completely left behind. The former hostage, who has climbed step by step to the pinnacle of power, has become a stranger who is still somehow familiar.

In the second world, a modern-day aloof movie emperor and his wealthy patron have a relationship in tatters.

There are also a few more random ideas I've come up with. I'll write what occurs to me first and figure out the rest later: (slightly universally adored)

A flower farmer and a flower spirit returning from studying abroad; a flower thief and a sickly scholar; a young master of the yamen and a notorious Jiangnan thief; an heir raised by a duke; beastfolk: a wild soft candy and a real-estate tycoon; a mad scientist with a split personality and a merfolk; a possessive school doctor who gradually lures in a depressed underclassman; a tale of romance among those fighting for power, featuring a monk; a class monitor and his archenemy; an obsessive "princess" and a gentlemanly prince; ABO: a love story about the world's greatest green tea; reborn: a disciple's peony; a coming-of-age school romance in the 1980s, with summers that taste like orange soda; the straight male protagonist of a harem novel; a devoted believer in the Lord: a crow beneath the cross. I'll do my best, but I'm running out of space.

Lines I came up with while losing my mind (I'll try to use them in the story later):

After all our twists and turns, we're fated never to embrace in earnest.

Through countless cycles of reincarnation, the thirteenth chime of midnight rings. The nightingale cries, and I, your silent Lord, ask you to love me.

Your heart is a spring mountain I cannot enter.

"You're not him. You're only yourself. Who are you looking for in me? I can't give you the answer." He lowered his eyes, his usually cool gaze now resting compassionately on the person before him.

Theme: What the eyes cannot see, the heart can.