I Stabbed My Dao Companion Through, and He Became the Heavenly Dao

[Stabbed him for the second time; the pursuit of the husband is complete, and the pursuit of the wife is underway]

The Immortal Feather Sect has a notorious elder named Lu Zangya, who is both crazy and foolish.

He is beautiful enough to outshine the world, but while his cultivation is more than adequate, his mind is always a little short of the mark.

Everyone in the world laughs at him. The only one who shows him even a trace of warmth is his frail Dao companion, Shen Lichuan, as cool and pale as a piece of icy jade.

His senior brother tells him the fish in the cold pool will help Shen Lichuan's illness.

So, in the dead of winter, he lies on the ice for ages and brings a silver fish to Shen Lichuan. "A-Li, eat."

A fellow disciple tells him that killing the great demon wreaking havoc at the foot of the mountain and taking its gallbladder will cure Shen Lichuan's illness at its root.

So, with only his sword for company, he kills the demon and returns drenched in blood and covered in wounds, holding out its fresh gallbladder to Shen Lichuan. "It's good for A-Li's health!"

Others laugh at his foolishness and trick him, telling him that if he kills his husband to prove his righteousness, he and Shen Lichuan can ascend together.

He believes them.

He drives his sword through Shen Lichuan's chest.

He proves his own path to immortality.

And restores Shen Lichuan's status as the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao.

Shen Lichuan descends like a god, plucks a strand of his life-soul, and casts him away.

From then on, Lu Zangya is no longer mad and foolish.

Yet through the long years, the only thing he remembers is Shen Lichuan's indifferent words: "Thank you for keeping me company for a while. From now on, we owe each other nothing."

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Reader's guide:

1. Pairing: formerly aloof furnace-ding, later obsessive Heavenly Dao top (Shen Lichuan) x formerly mad and foolish sweetheart, later pitiful beauty bottom (Lu Zangya)

2. Both are virgins and each other's only partner / melodrama / double crematorium / delicious angst

3. Content notes: (1) Double crematorium means both pursuing the husband and pursuing the wife, with the bottom and top both suffering; (2) there are no disposable tops or bottoms; (3) the protagonists' and supporting characters' actions are consistent with their characterizations.

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Saving the Villain, Only to Discover I'm His Nemesis: Double crematorium / melodrama / delicious angst

Rumor has it that the great villain Qi Fengyan is cruel and bloodthirsty, leaving rivers of blood and piles of corpses wherever he goes.

Only a nine-tailed spirit fox can cut off eight of his tails and trap him forever in the Huling formation.

Xie Shuangchi, who unexpectedly finds himself inside the story at its very end, is now sitting in silence opposite Qi Fengyan, whose eyes have been gouged out and whose legs have been broken.

He can't figure out who he is, and can barely control his ears and tail, which keep twitching.

Unable to escape the Huling formation, he strikes up a conversation with the tragic villain in front of him.

Qi Fengyan gives a bitter smile and asks hoarsely, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Xie Shuangchi has read the original novel and knows Qi Fengyan's past. "The world forced you into this. You were only trying to protect yourself. If those people wanted to take your life, what was wrong with fighting back?"

Qi Fengyan laughs bitterly. "But the world doesn't know that."

Looking at the lonely, heartbroken Qi Fengyan, Xie Shuangchi decides to heal his wounds.

Every scrap of cultivation he gains, he gives to Qi Fengyan to heal his legs.

He even nearly gouges out his own eyes to give them to Qi Fengyan.

Qi Fengyan loves him and longs to see his face once his sight is restored.

He once asks with a laugh, "What would you do if I turned out to be ugly?"

Qi Fengyan swears on his very blood and bones: "Even if you had the face of a yaksha, I would never abandon you."

But the moment he sees Xie Shuangchi's true face, Qi Fengyan grips him by the throat, utterly indifferent to how pale he is from exhausting his cultivation to help Qi Fengyan. "If you meant to kill me, why put on this hypocritical act and save me?"

Xie Shuangchi feels as if he's plunged into an icy pool, but suddenly remembers: he is the nine-tailed spirit fox who read this very novel.

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Reader's guide:

1. Pairing: pitiful great-villain top (Qi Fengyan) x amnesiac, softhearted, unlucky nine-tailed fox bottom (Xie Shuangchi)

2. Double crematorium

Reincarnated in the Beast World as a Wicked Stepdad: Beast world / farming / infrastructure building / melodrama

Veterinarian Lu Guan wakes up as the wicked stepdad of the protagonist top in a farming novel about beastfolk that he once read.

The original owner is attracted to the protagonist's father's strength. Relying on his own pretty, innocent face, he insists they live together and even forces the man to hunt for him during a cold snap, causing him to break his leg.

Then the original owner heartlessly abandons the father and son, causing one to die tragically and leaving the other an orphan who grows up cold and ruthless.

Lu Guan is just about to "divorce" the two of them and stop causing trouble when he steps outside and sees the beastman being carried back with a broken leg.

He looks at the big black wolf, pale-faced and still enduring the pain to comfort him, and the little white wolf at his side, skin and bones from hunger, gazing up at him expectantly.

Lu Guan grits his teeth. "They're just two little dogs. I can treat them, and I'll keep them alive!"

So he gathers herbs, digs up food, and sets traps...

When the cold snap ends, the beastfolk of the tribe expect to find three corpses. Instead, they see a healed black wolf, a little white wolf stuffed so full he's yelping, and Lu Guan, glowing with holy light.

They all fall to their knees. "The Beast God has answered our prayers!"

Lu Guan: "...?"

All he did was carve a window into his cave. The sunlight is just shining on him from behind.

But no matter. Since he can't go back, he simply accepts the role. "I am an emissary of the Beast God. I shall lead you to become the mightiest tribe on the continent."

The little white wolf behind him looks at his father, confused. "What is Dad saying? I don't understand."

The big black wolf doesn't understand either, but he feels that his beastfolk mate is getting farther and farther away from him.

So when Lu Guan says to him, "I can't keep you from finding your true love, so let's get divorced," he replies, "We never became mates, so we can't get... divorced."

Lu Guan: "...A secret affair without a matchmaker? That sounds exciting. But you can't make me marry you first just so we can divorce, can you? Wait, am I being tricked?"

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Reader's guide:

1. Pairing: powerful, taciturn, secretly flirtatious black wolf top (Lang Xuan) x innocent, eccentric deer veterinarian bottom (Lu Guan/Lu Guan)

2. Original beast-world setting: all characters are male. Beastfolk may partially transform, like Lu Guan's little deer antlers and tail, while beastmen can transform completely.

3. The little white wolf was adopted. Both leads are faithful in body and heart. No children are born in the main story.

4. There's both romance and a career storyline.

Theme: Join hands with the one you love to move forward, create a better world, and discover your true self.