Stone Heart

Blurb:

Male unrequited love / pseudo-replacement / romance and redemption / happy ending

[Apocalyptic Asura x Straightforward Sweetheart]

Pei Cixin was sent by the Immortal Realm to win over the future Demon Lord, who would one day destroy the Three Realms.

The Demon Lord was cold and aloof, indifferent to women, and still obsessed with a dead woman he could never forget.

Pei Cixin couldn't win him over, no matter how long she tried.

Until she discovered that the woman he could never forget was herself.

The reason he was incapable of love was that she had replaced his heart.

How can a heart of stone love?

Later, Pei Cixin saw their past in the interwoven currents of time and space.

Their story began when she rescued a little boy from a group of unruly children who were beating him.

The goddess loved all people. Saving him was an afterthought, and she turned away and forgot him for a thousand years.

From then on, through several lifetimes and reincarnations, the boy loved her in secret, in a time she knew nothing about.

"My beloved is always before my eyes, like Mount Xu; my lover is like a stone Buddha, with no heart at all.", Zhu Yizun, "Boat Songs of Lake Yuanyang"

Tang Xushan x Pei Cixin

(The blurb was first written on March 6, 2021. It's been revised several times, and I have a saved copy., February 27, 2023)

Next up: "Bound by Love, a Slave for Life." Blurb below:

[Villainess x Devoted Hound]

That day, Shuang Chan met a terrifying man.

Surrounded by strange flames, he had slaughtered half a city all by himself. When they met, she was fleeing from pursuing soldiers.

He controlled the flames, and as a sea of fire swept over them, the soldiers were instantly reduced to ash.

Then the monster who killed indiscriminately fixed his blood-red eyes on her.

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Later, Shuang Chan learned that he was a blood slave.

Blood slaves were special servants raised by the Gu clan. Bound by a contract sealed with blood, they would instinctively serve their master with unwavering loyalty. That was why blood slaves were renowned for their devotion.

Blood slaves also relied on their master's aura to sustain them. If they were ever separated from their master, they would feel as if ten thousand ants were devouring their hearts, suffering unbearable pain.

Shuang Chan made a contract with him.

From then on, his body was hers, his heart was hers, and everything he had belonged to her.

Later, Chiyan, a man of few words, said many things to her:

"Even without that accident, we would have met."

"It's no longer the blood contract controlling me, but my heart."

"I want to be your slave for the rest of my life."

"I don't need anything in return. Just love me."

The heroine's name comes from Zhang Xian's poem "Waistband Tune, Bang She Diao": "The frosty moon shines upon the night clouds and sky. A hazy shadow, a painted railing." "Shuang Chan" means the moon, or its exquisite beauty.

[The male lead has a craving for physical contact]

#Training a devoted hound#

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Theme: True love can transcend time and space and create miracles