After Ascending, I Became My Wicked Disciple's Dao Companion

My next book, The Demon Venerable Regrets Too Late, is now out! If you're interested, lovely readers, head over to my author page and add it to your collection!

Hurting your wife feels great for a while, then chasing her back is a crematorium.

→ A sensitive, delicate, submissive beauty in the beginning, later spoiled, willful, and doted on by everyone

→ A calculating, moody top in the beginning, later a repressed lunatic who can't win back his love and ends up at the crematorium

Blurb:

A gentle, devoted top x a tender yet resilient, open-minded bottom

Top's perspective:

Chanyue's primordial spirit was formed from the foul miasma of the four corners of an ancient battlefield. The Great Emperor Qingxuan wanted to cast him into the cycle of reincarnation to suffer for eternity because of his filth, but Lord Zhengyin stopped him.

At the time, he was still a little boy living off carrion and flesh on the ancient battlefield. Zhengyin tried to take him into his arms, but the boy bit his hand hard, ungrateful as ever.

He thought the man's body would be corroded by his black aura, just like those of the animals he'd bitten. But the aura dissipated, and the man shook his arm, laughed, and called out, "You little brat, are you going to let go?"

Stunned, he let go and fell, only for the man to scoop him up and hold him close, gently stroking his back.

The embrace was warm and soft, the man's fingers clean and slender.

He had never imagined that anyone in this world could pull him out of purgatory, give him the warmth of a candle burning on a snowy night, wait for him through the long night, and offer him such boundless tenderness.

From then on, he had a home.

From then on, a heart demon took root in him.

That man was the salvation of his filthy, wretched life, a great god he could only long for but never reach. How could he dare to covet and defile the divine?

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Bottom's perspective:

Wunan has someone in his heart.

Before Wunan could confess his feelings in life, he died on the battlefield.

For forty-three years, the sun and moon revolved as he waited day after day by the Naihe Bridge. Before he could finally meet the person he was waiting for, he ascended to immortality by a twist of fate.

After many twists and turns, he finally found the one he loved, only to be flatly rejected. What a bitter pill to swallow!

He refused to believe it. How could the person who used to follow him everywhere change so completely?

But as time went on, he learned that the person he loved had long ago given his heart to someone else, and Wunan was nothing but a substitute.

Wunan: "..."

Oh, go to hell.

Love whoever you want! I'm done!

Only when the person he loved silently tugged at his sleeve and begged him not to leave did Wunan make the ridiculous discovery that the so-called unrequited love was actually him?

#I BecameMyOwnSubstitute#

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Chanyue: "Master, don't run."

Wunan planted a hand on the wall and vaulted over it, nearly tumbling headfirst. "...You're an ancient war god, and I'm a little immortal who just ascended. Who's whose master? Tsk, can you stop calling me that? It'll take years off my life!"

Reading guide:

1. Gentle, devoted top x tender yet resilient, open-minded bottom

Chanyue (Futang/Yan Wuyou) x Wunan (Zhengyin), one-on-one romance

2. Includes a side couple.

3. The top and bottom only ever have each other.

4. My own take on xianxia, with countless original worldbuilding details. Please don't nitpick.

My next book will be The Demon Venerable Regrets Too Late.

Xie Tan was the biggest mistake An Youning made in his previous life.

He followed Xie Tan in betraying the righteous path and entering the demonic realm. He lowered his status and became estranged from everyone, all to stay by Xie Tan's side. The righteous sects wanted him dead, and the demonic realm saw him as an outsider, but he could ignore all of it.

He only wanted Xie Tan.

He saw Xie Tan as the light in his dark life, the medicine that kept him alive, the home he had nowhere else to find, and the only faith that kept him going.

He thought Xie Tan felt the same.

He never expected Xie Tan to accept everything he gave with effortless indifference, then brutally trample it underfoot, crushing and grinding it down until An Youning became the most useless, universally despised person around.

Xie Tan treated him with utter contempt. After claiming him, he slashed An Youning's face for another man, gouged out one of his eyes, and finally took his heart and cut out his core of internal energy. Then he abandoned him in an enemy prison, using his corpse to frame someone else. He had used An Youning completely, from beginning to end, and left nothing behind.

An Youning had been a fool.

But heaven had eyes. He opened them in the body of a beloved but innately foolish man who had unexpectedly died in the Wunian Palace, the foremost sect of immortal cultivation.

A sensitive, delicate, submissive beauty in the beginning, later spoiled, willful, and doted on by everyone

A calculating, moody top in the beginning, later a repressed lunatic who can't win back his love and ends up at the crematorium

An Youning, bottom x Xie Tan, top

Theme: Those who never forget will eventually be answered.