Beyond Penglai

As natural disasters descended, Chu Li's parents sent her into the Penglai Secret Realm to save her life.

But she accidentally triggered the forbidden item, the Book of Fate. She fell from the Ninth Heaven and landed in a dark cave in the mortal world.

There was another unlucky soul in the cave besides her, a good-looking young man named Lin Guanhe with red lips and pearly white teeth, though he had a bad temper.

The Book of Fate said: You can return to the Ninth Heaven only by helping Lin Guanhe sever all ties of love and desire, attain the Dao, and ascend.

Chu Li, a lazy waste who just wants to coast through life: Huh???

Help! She's a useless half-baked nobody herself. How is she supposed to help him? Even worse, Lin Guanhe is an even lazier layabout who has no ambition!

To get back home,

Chu Li can only rack her brain and become a life coach. "Lin Guanhe, you can't just coast through life. You won't know how capable you are unless you try. Why should young people be afraid of failure? You have to quietly become exceptional, then amaze everyone. Uh, 'A sharp sword is forged through hardship, and plum blossoms gain their fragrance from the bitter cold'... How does that saying go again? Oh, right. Failure isn't scary at all!"

Lin Guanhe gave a low scoff and said lazily, "Mm. Failure isn't scary. What's scary is that you still believe that."

Chu Li: "..." You're so right. Let's just give up together and lie around until we die!

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In his previous life, Lin Guanhe lived without restraint, possessed extraordinary talent, slaughtered countless demons and ghosts, and ascended to the Throne of White Bones.

But at the height of his cultivation, he suffered a backlash and died in the war between gods and demons.

Who would have thought that when he opened his eyes again, he would be reborn five hundred years earlier, when he was still young, locked up with his vain and promiscuous fiancée?

Only this time, the fiancée who had once treated him like an insect and tormented him in every way was different from the person he remembered.

He was born with an evil bone, following a path of slaughter, and destined for hell.

Yet in the dark cave, the young woman cautiously moved closer. Her breathing was soft and light, and her blue dress was like a blooming magnolia. She whispered into his ear, "Lin Guanhe, shall we ascend together?"

Many years later, he attained the Great Dao, but did not ascend to the Ninth Heaven as she had wished.

Because he could neither sever his feelings nor abandon love.

Overnight, Lin Guanhe's hair turned white. Clutching his dead wife's gravestone, he returned to the Nether Abyss. The Demon Realm welcomed its youngest lord, and from then on, the Three Realms were turned upside down.

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1. The Mortal World arc: a chaotic journey of cultivation and seeking immortality, full of melodramatic disasters. A goofy, sweet girl x a chuunibyou, cocky guy.

2. The Immortal and Demon arc: Penglai's Imperial Princess x the Demon Domain's young lord.

3. Sweet romance, one-on-one, happy ending.

Theme: Love makes us better versions of ourselves