Night Wanderings in Demon Tang

Upcoming novels: "Returned from His Tribulation, Now the Archrival's Ancestor" and "What Could My Green Tea Disciple Be Up To?" Please add them to your collection~ [An outwardly delicate but actually ambitious young Daoist nun * a wise and decisive, heaven-blessed green tea prince] Set in an alternate late Tang dynasty, with demons and ghosts. A road-trip story. Pei Ying, an assistant minister of the Court of Judicial Review, is on imperial orders, waiting by the Huai River for an expert to help him. They say this person has profound cultivation, is decisive and ruthless, and can take down demons with ease. He waits for ages, never expecting to find this expert aboard a flower-boat at a pleasure house. And this person had just dared to make advances toward him! Looking at the young lady before him, with rosy cheeks and soft pink lips, wearing an innocent expression, Pei Ying straightens the collar she tugged askew and asks coldly, "...You're the expert?" Yuanxiao crushes the demon she pulled off his shoulder behind his back, nods, and smiles. "Mm-hm, that's me." Pei Ying has no desire to travel with a delicate young lady. The road ahead is dangerous, and he has no time to protect a frail woman who can't even fight a chicken. But later... A thousand-year-old snake demon opens its gaping jaws and lunges at him. Just as he's about to raise his sword, he catches sight of someone hurrying over and quickly puts his sword away, stepping back. Yuanxiao slaps on a few talismans and brings out a magic weapon, slicing the snake demon into pieces. She asks with concern, "Are you all right?" The dashing Pei Ying is deathly pale. Clutching an arm that isn't hurt at all, he says, "It hurts a little. Good thing you got here in time." Notes: 1. This story includes scenes where the male lead suffers. Please don't read if that's not your thing, but overall it's sweet~ Happy ending. 2. The male lead is tsundere at first and turns into a green tea flirt later, but only in front of the female lead. He's not weak. Upcoming novel: "Returned from His Tribulation, Now the Archrival's Ancestor" Xiao Si spent a hundred years undergoing tribulations to break through to the Deification realm. The day she returned, a phoenix carried a feather in its beak, purple light shone everywhere, and all the Kunlun disciples bowed before her. Only one person stood apart, his face dark as the bottom of a pot. He had been her archrival during her tribulations. For decades, they'd clashed over magic treasures and opportunities. Whenever they met, they traded barbs at best and drew their swords at worst. Before entering seclusion, Xiao Si was already famous for holding a grudge and getting even. After dealing with everyone who had bullied her during her tribulations, she looked at this handsome, otherworldly swordsman and thought: She happened to be looking for someone to wait on her hand and foot. What a coincidence. And so Mu Hanxing, the arrogant genius swordsman of Kunlun Mountain, was forced by her Deification-level power to become the new ancestor's conspicuous "plaything." He guards the door while she meditates, scouts ahead when she searches for treasure, clears the field when she fights, and gets rid of the loot after a robbery. Even when Xiao Si is afflicted by an emotional obstacle and struggles to grab hold of someone, it's his robe she clutches. Xiao Si: This archrival is... actually pretty handy. Until one day, she falls to demonic cultivation and betrays her sect. Badly wounded and surrounded by enemies, she sees her archrival approaching with a fierce sword aura. She assumes he's come to kill her, but instead he turns his blade and resolutely cuts through a thousand deadly traps for her... Mu Hanxing wipes the blood from his face without a change in expression. His voice is full of resentment and unwillingness. "You don't get to abandon me again..." * Mu Hanxing has loved someone for a long time, but he's not good with words. The only thing he knows is the sword in his hand. Every time they meet, it turns into a sparring match. They've been in the same sect for decades. When she is about to leave the mountain and travel the world, he uses a sparring match as an excuse to invite her to the back mountain, hoping to confess the feelings he's kept buried for years. But he never expects to wait there for years. When they meet again, the girl is covered in wounds, her eyes blood-red. It's obvious she's fallen to demonic cultivation. Mu Hanxing is just about to help her up when she grabs his collar and asks, "Do you love me?" He pauses, then silently nods. "Then... wait for me." The girl smiles brightly at him, closes her eyes, and falls straight into the mountain stream, dying with her cultivation destroyed... (The male lead's perspective, more or less: The person I had a crush on died before I could confess.) --Little Extra-- Watching her archrival in the distance, cold-faced and unwillingly cleaning her cave abode, Xiao Si asks her spirit beast, "How did he bully me back then?" The spirit beast munches on sunflower seeds. "He kept challenging you to duels, and even tried to sneak-attack you after losing!" Xiao Si [angry]: "He tried to sneak-attack me?" Spirit beast: "He secretly bit your cheek!" Xiao Si: "Why does that sound a little off?" Notes: Strong female lead and strong male lead. The female lead is unruly and ruthless. Basically, this is a pure unrequited-love story disguised as a cultivation novel. Theme: Stay true to the ideals in your heart