Exes Everywhere

In his previous life, Qiao Xuan juggled several partners, until the day he was finally caught. After he died, he transmigrated into the cultivation world as a bird and vowed to turn over a new leaf and be a good person. After countless hardships, he was on the verge of cultivating a human form, but heavenly lightning struck him to ash during his tribulation. Only a wisp of his soul remained. His master said he was too attached to worldly desires and still had evil roots, and that the only way to take human form was to pass through seven lifetimes of romantic tribulations. To become human, Qiao Xuan had no choice but to reincarnate and face them. In those seven lives, he was an emperor's male favorite, a furnace for a demon lord, a sword master's Dao companion, and a demon king's ugly slave... No matter how devoted he was or how much of his heart he gave, every life ended in a horrible death. When he finally returned to the immortal realm after seven lifetimes of reincarnation, successfully passing his tribulation and taking human form, he realized something seemed very wrong... A lofty, aloof Immortal Lord was privately showing endless tenderness to a puppet whose body was identical to that of his male favorite in his first life... A cold-blooded, ruthless Demon Lord had spent a thousand years searching every corner of the Three Realms, from the highest heavens to the deepest underworld, for a way to gather his lover's soul... An emotionless Sword Lord who had killed his wife to attain the Dao publicly declared that his deceased wife from the mortal realm was the only person he had ever loved, when the most beautiful immortal in the Immortal Realm came to confess to him... A mighty Demon King, whose magical powers could shake the heavens, had guarded the desolate ice fields for hundreds of years, reportedly just for the sake of the little ugly slave he'd abandoned there... All the people from his past romantic tribulations were still around, and they all wanted to rekindle their relationships with him! Qiao Xuan: "...Sorry to bother you, but I think you've mistaken me for someone else." Hounded by his exes, Qiao Xuan was so exasperated that he had to ask his aloof, high-born master for help. His master had boundless cultivation, was free of emotion and desire, and never sullied himself with worldly affairs. He seemed utterly reliable, and best of all, he was sexually indifferent. Qiao Xuan: "Master, can you help me out?" Master: "All right." Later, Qiao Xuan lay in his master's arms. So much for being sexually indifferent. It had all been a lie :) Content warning: melodramatic love-triangle chaos and seven exes desperate to win him back. There are flashbacks. No splitting into multiple personalities. The pairing is with the master. Readers with a strong preference for dominant male leads, proceed with caution. Synopsis written March 20, 2020. My new story, My Dead Dao Companion Returned from His Tribulation, is now updating! I. Song Yan transmigrated into a book as an unnamed passerby, A, and had just married a man. The marriage wasn't what he wanted, but as long as he avoided the plot of the book, he should be able to live a peaceful life. Song Yan was easygoing and took life as it came. When he learned his wife didn't like him either, he simply treated it as gaining a housemate to share his life with, and went about his days in peace. Unfortunately, his good fortune didn't last. His wife died in an accident at the hands of the demons. Then the Demon Lord emerged from seclusion, and war engulfed both the immortal and mortal realms. Song Yan was swept up in events beyond his control. During a battle with the demons, he was captured and taken with the other prisoners to Soul-Burying Mountain, where he saw the Demon Lord Ji Wugui, rumored to be bloodthirsty, violent, and cruel. II. When the Demon Lord Ji Wugui entered reincarnation to undergo a tribulation, he was forced to marry a spoiled young master. After recovering his memories, he considered that lifetime a shameful stain on his past. He swore that if he ever encountered that insect again, he would tear him to pieces! Before long, the immortal and mortal realms were in retreat under his attack. One day, his subordinates brought a group of prisoners to the mountain, and at a glance, he recognized the familiar face among them. But just before striking, he thought: If I kill this insect so easily, won't that be letting him off too lightly? Why should I be the one who fell in love? I'll make him fall for me too, then kill him. Only then will I be satisfied! III. A hundred years later, everyone knew that although Immortal Venerable Song Yan was born into humble circumstances, he had turned the tide and saved the people of the Three Realms from disaster. Even the reckless, wicked Demon Lord Ji Wugui restrained himself around Song Yan. It seemed the rumor that the Demon Lord had been defeated by the Immortal Venerable wasn't baseless after all! But nobody knew that the widely respected Immortal Venerable Song Yan was pinned in the demon's arms in private, the demon gripping his waist and asking over and over, "Did you ever love me back then?" Song Yan: "...Let go of me first. We can talk about this." PS: Song Yan is the bottom, Ji Wugui is the top. Includes love-triangle chaos. Happy ending. Theme: Slowly grow through hardship, and ultimately become a better person.