Carving Jade

(Features ensemble-cast arcs, a complicated relationship, sanity-draining elements, and a slow burn. The story is nearing its finale and will soon be renamed The Jade-Engraving Record~)

[Gifted young fortune-teller x beautiful, strong, and tragic war god]

Before Wu Liu'er traveled back to her past life,

a charlatan of a Taoist priest told her:

"You have an ex... no, a past life.

She died a truly tragic death. Before she was even twenty, her eyes were gouged out, leaving you in this life with a deep-seated resentment that attracts evil.

If you don't want to suffer misfortune life after life, go back to your past life and find her, stay by her side, and protect her."

So Wu Liu'er searched across countless mountains and rivers,

and found the exquisite, glass-like beauty locked away behind layers of confinement.

From then on, she never took her eyes off her.

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The first time Wu Liu'er met Wen Langyu, she was bound in layers of chains, a pretty and delicate older sister.

She bandaged Wu Liu'er's wounds,

let sleepy Wu Liu'er use her as a pillow,

and gazed at Wu Liu'er with those dark eyes, empty of stars and moon, lost in thought.

Wu Liu'er thought that no one could be easier to handle than Wen Langyu, the pretty dummy.

Until one day,

Wu Liu'er accidentally discovered that someone else was her past life.

The gentle, jade-like beauty she'd treasured above all else

transformed into the demonic war goddess that ghosts and monsters spoke of in terror, slaughtering tens of millions of demons and evil spirits with a flick of her wrist.

Wu Liu'er trembles with fear. "I was wrong to keep putting my hands all over you. I'll behave myself from now on."

Wen Langyu parts her red lips and closes in, step by step. "I hold grudges. When do you want to pay me back?"

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1. Ensemble cast / plot-driven in appearance only / happy ending

2. An age gap of several hundred years

3. Many original elements. Please don't nitpick unless there's a gap in the logic.

4. Please don't attribute the characters' values to the author.

5. Warning: It's easy to mistake who's the top and who's the bottom. The bottom is stronger in the early and middle parts; the top takes charge from Volume Four.

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A similar upcoming story in my author page: Ten Thousand Leagues Across the Azure Sea

Blurb:

[Cool, distant Water God x Green Bird who doesn't know how powerful she is]

[Softhearted x Thick-skinned]

A photograph of an African vulture drags Qiao Qing from heaven to hell overnight, turning a beloved daughter of heaven into a morally bankrupt social outcast.

After escaping death, Qiao Qing clings to the little dignity she has left and starts working for an eccentric bird-loving boss to stay alive.

But this boss has some strange requirements for the job:

"Whichever bird lands in the parasol tree, you go back to that bird's past life and repay your debt. They only need a drop of your blood."

Qiao Qing thinks, One drop of blood in exchange for her life? What a bargain!

[Also known as I Keep Repaying My Debts Along the Timeline of My Past Lives and Working for the Water God]

[An old-school mythological Mary Sue story, The Water God's Bride]

[2021.5.20]

Theme: The belief in protecting others gives people courage.