Playing at Deep Love with a Handsome Daoist

[Complete. Next story: After My Runaway Marriage Partner Picked Me Up]

Su Rao was a junior disciple of the Hehuan Palace.

To avoid being kicked out after the sect competition, she had no choice but to go down the mountain and find a Dao Lord.

The cultivation manual said her partner should ideally have the bearing of an immortal.

Su Rao took this to heart and carefully searched.

Unfortunately, she was too picky. Everyone she saw seemed to have some flaw in their face.

Then, one spring day in Chang'an, she met a young man with chains shackled around his ankles.

He was covered in blood, his eyes clear and fragile as they reflected the misty rain. His face was so beautiful it could slay the world.

Su Rao could barely contain her excitement as she rescued him from his misery.

As expected, he was endlessly grateful and became a clingy little Dao Lord whose heart and eyes held only her. He was obedient and considerate, doing this and that with her to help her master her cultivation technique.

This little Dao Lord was so sweet and well-behaved that Su Rao decided to take him back to the Hehuan Palace and show him off.

But one day, a bloody mark appeared on the young man's flawless, exquisite face.

She heard he had been injured by the Scarlet Heaven Demon Flame, and that even the finest elixir would leave a scar.

...Su Rao, Su Rao grabbed her mount and fled overnight.

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Immortal Venerable Kaiji had guarded the immortal realm for tens of thousands of years. No one knew what a battered, world-weary heart lay beneath his benevolent, aloof face.

To him, the world was nothing but weeds, and darkness swept through it like a long wind. Only after meeting her did he find even a sliver of life.

He thought that when he grew tired of her, he could simply toss her a few treasures and send her on her way.

Who could have guessed that she would be the one to grow tired first?

She left without a word, casting him aside as casually as could be.

The moonlit, untainted immortal fell into the dust.

Next story: After My Runaway Marriage Partner Picked Me Up

The goddess Xi Ling had heard about the Emperor's many wicked deeds since childhood. Only when she came of age did she learn that he was her betrothed.

Remembering that he was cruel and unpredictable, and loved tormenting young women... Xi Ling dropped the immortal fruit in her hand and hurriedly ran away.

To escape the marriage, she turned herself into a mortal and would rather wander the alleys of the human world.

She could go hungry and brave the cold wind. As long as she didn't have to marry that evil dragon, she could endure anything.

One day, she sat down to rest beside a red wall and vermilion gate.

Suddenly, the gate opened, and sunlight spilled through the gap onto her face.

A remarkably handsome nobleman appeared, his smile like light breaking through thin ice. He beckoned to her with his folding fan. "Little girl, come here."

-

Xi Ling was taken in by the handsome, aristocratic young master and finally began living well.

But the young master had one hobby: he liked listening to her tell myths and legends.

To earn her keep, Xi Ling picked out a few bits of gossip from across the four seas and eight wildernesses each day and told them to him.

But whenever the story turned to a goddess fleeing her wedding, she remembered her own suffering and couldn't help cursing the Emperor at length, with utmost seriousness.

She could go on for three days and nights about how terrifying he was, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

Then one day, she accidentally saw the tip of a dragon's tail peeking out from behind the young master, who was smiling and waving his fan.

It was the only golden dragon tail in the world: her betrothed!

A pastry caught in Xi Ling's throat, choking her until her face turned red.

...I'm dead!

Theme: Take every relationship seriously and be responsible for it