White Jade Capital

In short, it's a story about two big shots scheming against each other until they finally scheme themselves into falling in love.

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Word on the street is that the Heavenly Court's magical treasures have the worst quality control of all when it comes to wish-granting artifacts.

Someone wished for a fortune in gold, but got a legendary immortal elixir instead.

Someone wished for fame and success, but accidentally ascended to immortality.

Of course, the unluckiest of all was the Third Prince of Baiyujing. Holding the most precious wish-granting artifact in the heavens, he accidentally released a great demon sealed away for a thousand years.

The demon had red lips and pearly white teeth. He was a smiling, venomous beauty who opened his mouth and challenged the most brilliant young man in Baiyujing to a wager on love.

The Third Prince was still young then.

He did not yet know that even an immortal with countless abilities, once caught up in love,

had no way to escape it except by dying and having his soul destroyed.

"I had a very, very long dream."

"In the dream, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered, flames lit up the heavens, and red waves filled the sky above me. Green vines withered to ash in an instant. A bewitching long serpent was cut in half, its scarlet tongue landing at my feet and sending chains clanking."

"And in the cold light, I saw a woman's bloodied face."

I thought I had reached the endless underworld, but my master said that place was called Baiyujing.

The only jade city in the world that reached the heavens, where only immortals could live.

The homeland of my dreams.

[Reading Guide]

1. Xianxia, serious tone, third person, with an abundance of original worldbuilding.

2. A refined, moon-bright gentleman shou x a wicked, beautiful scoundrel gong. A long, substantial romance, probably a story about a man's heart being as hard to fathom as the ocean, full of the gong's cheeky lines and a clash between immortals. Happy ending.

3. A touch of ensemble cast, plot-driven.

4. The title comes from Li Bai's poem: "In heaven stands Baiyujing, with twelve towers and five cities. Immortals stroke my head, and I am granted eternal life with my hair bound."

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Theme: Unite, care for one another, bravely face setbacks, and build a bright future.