Hot Wine

Upcoming story in the author's collection: The Snow Blankets the Bow, a historical GL novel featuring a strong couple and a happy ending. Please add it to your reading list!

Completed story: I Wield a Blade to Protect You [Esports], about two girls pursuing their dreams of becoming professional esports players.

People say that we eventually became nothing more than stories told around the martial world, our whole lives recounted over a pot of hot wine by the river.

Nine years ago, a wildfire raged for seven days and seven nights. By the time it died down, everything on Mount Jun had been burned to the ground. The family of three, the Lengs of Lengzhou, who had lived in seclusion there with their daughter, all perished.

Everyone said that Hero Leng was a righteous man who fought for justice and despised evil, a truly good person. It was a tragic, lamentable, heartbreaking shame that he had died so young, leaving no heirs.

But no one could have imagined that Leng Siming, Leng Zhouyun's daughter, was secretly saved from the fire, exchanged for a charred corpse, and raised under the assumed name Rejiu.

Rejiu initially thought that surviving the disaster meant she was destined to take revenge. But when she entered the martial world, met all kinds of people, and went through all sorts of things, she finally drew close to the truth and discovered that the cycles of cause and effect in this world were tangled together in a knot impossible to unravel.

So she might as well throw it all away and roam the martial world freely, blade in hand.

But in this turbulent world, where people drift like duckweed and lives are as fragile as grass, when everything is overturned, who can escape unscathed?

A hero uses martial arts to defy the law and sacrifices themself for others. But if the price of doing so isn't your own life, but the life of someone dearest to you, what would you choose?

The martial world is nothing more than a pot of hot wine. May you cross a thousand sails and traverse countless rivers, then find the wine still warm when you return.

People say, "The black-and-white Taoist emerges from the mountains, and in an instant, one sword turns against their master; the Jadeite Lady commands a spirit serpent, and a thousand threads of venomous worms ensnare the heart."

They also say, "All things come to rest here, where the world's greatest swordsman stands; frost flowers and colored glass gather golden light, one dance stirs the four corners of the world."

And again, "A staff must be long enough to cross rivers and pacify the realm, while a sword must be long enough to determine the fate of the world."

Main pairing: Violent girl x scheming young master

Content warning: There is one extremely, extremely, extremely subtle GL storyline. It's almost impossible to notice, but it's there.

Blurb for I Wield a Blade to Protect You [Esports]:

I would go forth even against ten thousand, and fear neither wind, blades, frost, nor swords. That is what it means to be a hero.

Two years ago, the QUEEN women's team had a winning streak in the DPL National Women's League, but choked in the finals and lost the championship. After sniper Qing Qing accidentally shot and killed a teammate, she was suspected of match-fixing and reported to the committee. But because there wasn't enough evidence to prove the case, the league ultimately handed down no punishment, while she was kicked off the QUEEN team.

Two months later, the QUEEN team officially announced its disbandment.

Two years later, a cute little medic joined the XK team's second squad. With big eyes and a high nose, she looked like a living doll.

Yan Shiqi thought: This little medic is so cute. If I keep chasing her around and attacking her, she'll probably cry!

But the little medic didn't cry. Instead, she switched accounts, picked up a sniper rifle, and blew Yan Shiqi's head off with one shot.

Yan Shiqi: Boo-hoo, don't shoot! My head isn't worth as much as your hands.

Tang Chaomu: Do your fans know how greasy you are?

No one is born strong. Thank you for becoming the eternal light in my life.

P.S. The author's tastes haven't changed in ten years. XK is actually short for "Hero" QvQ

The game is an original title called DOME.

Theme: Face life's hardships with a smile