After I Was Left a Widow by the Immortal Venerable

When Sheng Xue was reborn, thunder boomed outside. His Dao companion had just been struck dead by lightning, while he lay beneath a red gauze canopy, seductively batting his eyes as he tried to lure in...

One of his cheap Dao companion's disciples.

Sheng Xue: "..."

Let the thunder strike me dead too. I want to join my cheap Dao companion in the afterlife, thanks.

*

Sheng Xue rescued a little snake, scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, from his cheap Dao companion's tribulation site and took it in as a disciple. He didn't mind that this disciple looked exactly like his deceased Dao companion.

Drawing on the disastrous experience raising a child in his previous life, Sheng Xue learned his lesson and resolved to be tolerant, gentle, and caring toward his newly adopted little disciple. He was determined to become one half of a model master-disciple pair in the cultivation world.

But later, he realized something was wrong. He seemed to have spoiled his little disciple too much.

A model master-disciple pair in the cultivation world wouldn't sleep together every night, with the disciple pinning his master down to figure out how to make little snakes.

* A hypocrite with an immortal's bearing, perhaps not the strongest cultivator in the world but definitely the most beautiful, a universally adored bottom x A possessive little menace with two faces, a blackening, tea-drinking stray-dog top who turns vicious at the slightest disagreement

* No children, no eggs

* Both leads are virgins

Here's my upcoming novel, "Is It Wrong to Give Up?"

Yu Yanshi is a merman. After working diligently for two hundred years, he finally became the ruler of the Sea Realm. He was thrilled, thinking he could finally escape the hell of working around the clock and take it easy. Then, out of a clear blue sky, came devastating news:

The Sky Realm planned to make peace with the Sea Realm through a political marriage, and had already bundled up the ruler's only son and sent him overnight to Yu Yanshi's seaside villa. They called it a way to help Yu Yanshi succeed in both his career and love life.

Yu Yanshi: "..."

*

Ming Luo detested his father's arranged marriage. As soon as he arrived at his prospective spouse's home, he tore the villa apart, hoping to make him back down. But the new ruler of the Sea Realm only smiled. "It's fine. I've got money. Tear it up all you like."

Ming Luo threw an all-night party with his friends. Yu Yanshi: "It's fine. Have fun, just take care of yourself."

Ming Luo's scandalous love life made headlines everywhere. Yu Yanshi: "It's fine. You're still young and don't know any better. I can forgive you."

Ming Luo pinned him down and declared he was going to make their marriage official. Yu Yanshi: "It's fine, I..."

Yu Yanshi: "...! Wait! We're only a sham married couple!"

*

Ming Luo: "I cause him so much trouble, and he still hasn't asked for a divorce. He must really love me."

Yu Yanshi: "I'm just too lazy to travel all the way to the Sky Realm to negotiate an annulment, so I'm giving up right here. Why would he fall in love with me?!"

Gentle merman, a kind soul who loves to give up because he's lazy x Ill-tempered little peacock, a giant toddler with a horrible personality and a terrible temper

Theme: No matter how hard life gets, never give up too easily