Crossing the Line

Upcoming danmei writing exercise, "When the Term Ends". Blurb at the bottom.

Jiang Huai finally worked up the courage to confess before the other person went abroad, only to be rejected cruelly.

Fine. If we're friends, then from now on, neither of us crosses the line.

After years apart, Shen Nuo and Jiang Huai reunited. Like any old friends seeing each other again after a long time, they exchanged distant glances, then looked away without a trace.

Neither of them crossed the line.

Jiang Huai couldn't be a noble prince riding a white horse. But he could be the most loyal knight at the princess's side.

Always there when called, invincible in battle.

Ah Huai, you came to this world. You should see the sun.

Walk toward the light, and the shadows won't catch up with you.

--Shen Nuo

Mutual secret crush, mutual pursuit.

An old-fashioned, sweet-and-sour romance.

A spur-of-the-moment short story, and really, really short.

Updates at ten at night.

Next novel: "Deception"

Advance blurb:

Yu Qingping had ruled the world on behalf of the Heavenly Dao for a thousand years, but he had never been in such a wretched state. He held Xie An's hand as it pierced his chest. The prayer beads that embodied the laws of the Heavenly Dao, stained with his heart's blood, floated above Xie An's palm.

He raised a hand to wipe away the tear at the corner of Xie An's eye and spoke with tender affection. "I told you, if there's anything you want, just ask me for it. It's not as if I can't give it to you. I love you so much..."

But in the next instant, he suddenly seized Xie An by the throat, his eyes blood-red. "But you can't deceive me..."

Back then, Yu Qingping couldn't understand what it was that he couldn't give Xie An, or why Xie An had deceived him for all those years and insisted on taking the power of the laws for himself.

Later, he understood.

It was fate. It was the Yu Qingping who belonged solely to Xie An, body and soul. But Yu Qingping belonged to the three realms.

Three thousand years later, they met again. Yu Qingping looked at Xie An without the slightest emotion and ordered his people to lock him away in the Elegant Garden.

Theme: Don't cross the line between friends lightly.