The Gods Descend

[Completed] A thousand years ago, Gu Qingya failed to overcome his tribulation, and his soul split in two. One half remained in his body, tormented by evil spirits, while the other sank into the mortal world to endure the trials of reincarnation. A thousand years later, he awoke from an immortal coffin to find towering buildings rising from the earth, generations of heavenly immortals come and gone, and all living things transformed into shapes he no longer recognized. The half of his soul that had split off a thousand years ago to suffer the trials of reincarnation in his place was, in this lifetime, still only a seventeen-year-old high school girl. Cold, gloomy, sharp-tongued, and disturbed. This was the final one of Xu Jin's hundred reincarnations. She had three trials to overcome. If she failed, both she and Gu Qingya would be reduced to nothing. Gu Qingya had awakened because he heard her sincere prayer, rising from deep within her soul. Long ago, someone told Gu Qingya that every person was born with three souls and seven spirits, carrying the seven emotions and six desires. If the soul split, the seven emotions and six desires would split along with it. Gu Qingya understood the moment he first saw Xu Jin. Xu Jin's very existence was the embodiment of sorrow, fear, and loathing, three of the seven emotions. “On my seventeenth birthday, I made a wish.” “I wanted to end the life I'd spent my first seventeen years living like a lowly insect, a rat, or a maggot. I wanted someone to tell me: Your existence has meaning, and it means more than just that.” “Perhaps the gods heard my prayer.” “So the next day, I witnessed their descent with my own eyes.” Reader's guide: ● Narcissistic romance, episodic story, with both the male and female leads' perspectives in the main story ● Not a serious drama. The author lets loose, and it's a little silly ● 1v1, HE ● Many original worldbuilding details. My take on the supernatural, so don't overanalyze it ● Note from 2022.1.1 *The cover background image is not exclusive, but it suited the male lead's character, so I used it for the cover. The story itself is set in the modern world. The blurb for my next narcissistic romance, Self-Destruction, is below. Bai Xiang, the alluring and bewitching holy maiden of the Demon Cult, had taken the lives of many mortals. A notorious pariah, hated by everyone, she even loathed her own face. After the war between good and evil, the demoness was sealed beneath Mount Yushen and slept for a hundred years. Several hundred years later, a thunderous crash shook the heavens and the earth. The gods ran to spread the news: the demoness sealed beneath Mount Yushen had ascended! A genius capable of godhood, the kind seen only once in a thousand years, had stolen the place from the demoness! The gods all beat their chests and sighed in anguish: What a calamity! The first thing Bai Xiang did after ascending was replace her entire body. To find peace, she even remade her flesh and blood, turning herself into a man and changing her name to Fu Xiao. The second thing was to ignore everyone who tried to stop her, tear through time and space, and return to the past to kill herself. The first plan worked. The second went a little wrong. She nearly got killed by her past self. #Beauty brings trouble, self-destruction# “The day the white plum blossoms opened in the courtyard, I had a dream that was neither deep nor shallow.” “In the dream were his and my past lives.” What were those past lives like? Not quite what we wished. False compassion, true madman male lead VS sweet on the outside, dangerous within, smiling fox female lead ◆ 1v1, both leads have only ever been with each other, HE ◆ A passion project born from a wild idea. Concept noted on 2021.03.12; setting subject to change Theme: I long to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink with you, but in the end, it is nothing like those carefree days of youth.