The Amnesiac Lord and His Star-Cursed Apprentice

My upcoming novel, I Became the Ancestor Through Blacksmithing, is looking for follows. The blurb is below.

In the tenth year of the Dade Dynasty, a series of murders took place in the capital. Grooms kept dying on their wedding nights, their bodies left in horrifying states. Panic spread, and the families with weddings planned did not dare hold their ceremonies.

Liu Yujing, the Empress's younger brother and the Grand Tutor's only son, had landed a sinecure thanks to his brother-in-law, the Emperor. He spent his days with the capital's idle rich, showing little interest in serious poetry or scholarship and preferring unofficial histories, strange tales, and fanciful stories.

Ji Zhichu, Commander of the Palace Front Division, had once been the great marshal who led the western campaigns. After peace came to the realm, he surrendered his military authority, was made a prince, and took charge of the Palace Front Division, responsible for keeping the capital safe. His subordinates often arrested spoiled young heirs from powerful families who had nothing better to do.

The leaders of these opposing sides were ordered by imperial decree to investigate the murders together. From then on, the capital knew no peace.

Liu Yujing: (smiling) Lord Ji, I look forward to your guidance from now on~

Ji Zhichu: ... (I have a feeling that wasn't meant kindly.)

A skinned groom, wine that leaves a strange fragrance on the drinker's body, a golden hairpin said to bring disaster. As the group pursues the killer, they encounter one bizarre event after another. And as each mystery is solved, the true identities of Liu Yujing and Ji Zhichu gradually come to light.

A smiling-tiger, doting shizun shou x a cold-faced but warm-hearted immortal lord gong

Reader's guide:

1. This is 1v1, 1v1, 1v1. Important things must be said three times!

2. This story has a happy ending, absolutely no bad ending, so don't worry.

3. There are many original settings, and the immortal hierarchy isn't clearly divided. I mix them all together and write whoever I want. Just enjoy the story. Please read and comment peacefully, and don't argue in the comments.

4. Liu Yujing's identity is gradually revealed starting with the first case, rather than appearing right away. Please bear with me. The supernatural elements also appear after the first case.

Blurb for I Became the Ancestor Through Blacksmithing

The cultivation world has many rankings: the Star Chart, listing the top one hundred cultivators by strength; the Jade Beauty List, ranking the fifty most handsome and beautiful cultivators; and many more. But of all these lists, the one every cultivator cares about, even the demonic cultivators, is the Ten-Thousand-Word List, famous for gossip and scandalous affairs.

At the top of the Ten-Thousand-Word List, unchanged for ten years, is the gossip about the cultivation world's greatest sect, the Floating Dream Sect. According to the sect's disciples, when the Demon Realm besieged the sect, the exiled disciple Qin Shuyu came alone, cleaved Misty Mountain in two with a single sword, drove back tens of thousands of demonic cultivators, then publicly proposed to his shizun, asking to cultivate together as dual partners.

The three realms were shaken.

Qin Shuyu had read a cultivation novel called The One and Only Ruler of the Three Realms. All he had done was complain in the comments that the author had given the protagonist too powerful a golden finger, which was unfair to the supporting characters who trained diligently and climbed their way up step by step.

Then he opened his eyes and found himself inside the book, as an ordinary blacksmith. One day, while delivering swords and knives for the outer disciples of the protagonist's immortal sect, someone tripped him. In his panic, he grabbed the person in front of him and accidentally tore off half the man's sleeve.

He Ling reached Foundation Establishment at fifteen and formed his Golden Core at twenty. His cultivation speed was undeniably impressive, earning him a reputation as a rare genius seen only once in a century at the Floating Dream Sect.

But this genius was rather unlucky. He was only delivering some things to his younger brother on his senior sister's behalf, yet a blacksmith lunged at him and tore off half his sleeve.

Trying to curry favor with He Ling, the protagonist berated Qin Shuyu in public and demanded that he kneel to apologize.

Qin Shuyu: What kind of talent does it take for the protagonist to bully a nobody?

He Ling looked Qin Shuyu up and down. “Would you like to become my disciple?”

Qin Shuyu followed He Ling to Jade Basket Peak. Though the scenery was beautiful, the spiritual energy was weak, making it unsuitable for cultivation. With the help of the System he had brought with him, Qin Shuyu began his life cultivating on the immortal mountain: building a cultivation abode, digging up spirit veins, planting spiritual herbs, and raising spirit beasts. Over the next few decades, he completely transformed Jade Basket Peak.

The master and disciple got along wonderfully. Other cultivators with disciples envied He Ling for having such a capable and obedient little disciple.

But no one expected that one day, He Ling would suddenly expel Qin Shuyu from the sect, announce it throughout the three realms, erase his name from the sect's jade records, and forbid anyone from mentioning him.

Everyone thought Qin Shuyu had vanished from the cultivation world for good.

Then, years later, the sect was besieged by the Demon Sect. The protagonist sat atop a demonic beast, triumphant, while He Ling was exhausted and on the verge of shattering his core to die defending the sect.

Suddenly, a figure came riding the moon, sword in hand, and drove back the demon army with a flick of his fingers.

The sect was saved. Everyone knelt and cried, “Thank you, Ancestor!”

Qin Shuyu: Amazing!

He Ling stared dumbfounded as the little disciple he thought he would never see again became a Nascent Soul cultivator and the sect's ancestor.

Qin Shuyu wrapped an arm around his shizun's waist and leaned in to kiss him. “Shizun, I injured my spiritual essence fighting off the demon army. I need to cultivate with a dual partner! Will you be my Dao partner?”

A disciple shou who plays the fool while secretly being formidable x a shizun gong who is cold on the outside but warm within

Theme: Join forces with like-minded people to punish evil and rediscover the self you've lost.