For a Thousand Years

"Across heaven and hell, I wait for only one person."

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Luo Han inexplicably found an egg in a grassy field.

The main thing was, the egg kept following him. That's right, the egg could move!

Luo Han: "Why are you following me?"

The egg didn't answer. It just kept following him, so Luo Han had no choice but to take it back to the Heavenly Realm.

A few days later, the egg cracked, and then... right in front of all the divine officials, a little person popped out into Luo Han's arms. Luo Han was the Heavenly Emperor, after all.

(Every divine official fell silent.JPG)

Luo Han brought the little fellow back to his bedchamber and began... investigating the strange little thing.

The little person: "Do you think you can just look at me whenever you want?"

Luo Han: "..."

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Five hundred years later.

Zuo Li: "Luo Han!"

Luo Han: "Little Vermilion Bird, I'm your master. Why are you so disobedient?"

A thousand years later.

Zuo Li looked at the man before him, blood at the corner of his mouth. "You hid from me for a thousand years."

"A Li..."

"Master, you know I have impure feelings for you."

Luo Han stared at the little Vermilion Bird he'd raised himself, and for the first time felt he couldn't handle him.

In that moment, he knew he could no longer keep his composure.

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A stubborn, unhinged Vermilion Bird bottom x a gentle, guiding Heavenly Emperor top

There's a little angst, but not much. The top and bottom will be apart for a while, but they'll meet again a thousand years later. O(∩_∩)O

Read the setting notes and timeline before starting!!! Essential reading!!!

1. Gods are made up of a divine core, divine soul, divine office, and divine power. If a divine soul disperses, the god does not die, but enters a slumber. Their divine core repairs a new divine soul, and they awaken again. The length of the slumber varies from person to person, and the stronger the god, the sooner they wake. If a divine core disappears, that is true death.

2. Gods and demons each have their own small realm, known as a divine realm or demonic realm, connected to their divine or demonic soul. The difference is that demons die if their demonic soul disperses. So if their demonic realm is destroyed, or they are killed inside it, they die. If a divine realm is destroyed, its god falls into slumber.

3. The top is the first ancient god, one of the gods born at the same time after the Primordial God fell. The other ancient gods were born a hundred years later. Ten years after that, most ancient gods transformed into heaven and earth, leaving only the four strongest to govern the world. Among the divine officials today, only those four were born from heaven and earth. The rest ascended from the mortal world, and their power is not as pure as that of the ancient gods.

4. The Vermilion Bird is the mightiest of all divine beasts, both in status and ability, and is in no way inferior to the ancient gods. The top and bottom are therefore both powerful! Neither is stronger than the other! If they ever fight, it will always end in a draw!

5. The Heavenly Law exists in this story and mainly regulates the actions of the gods. It has its own rules for judging right and wrong, and no god can defy it. But the Heavenly Law is not the strongest! It was left behind by the Primordial God before its fall, as a safeguard for ordinary people.

6. The protagonists' exact ages are difficult to calculate, but they are conservatively estimated to be over six thousand years old.

Finally, switching or reversing the CP is absolutely forbidden! Support this canon couple!

Other stories in the same universe: Autumn Waters Fill the Pond, A Dream of Huaxu, Treasures, Winter Butterfly

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New story: Autumn Waters Fill the Pond. If you're interested, please add it to your collection~

Chu Qiuchi knew from childhood that he was betrothed to the unborn child of the general's family next door.

He never expected that when he was four, the general's wife would give birth to a boy, and the engagement would be called off.

The child was clingy. After seeing Chu Qiuchi just once, he started following him everywhere.

Chu Qiuchi went to school, and he followed.

Chu Qiuchi ate, and he followed.

Chu Qiuchi turned out the lights and went to bed, and he followed.

Chu Qiuchi went to the latrine, and he... got scolded and sent away.

The two bickered and tussled their way through decades. Chu Qiuchi became the Crown Prince's tutor, and Zhong Weiqi became a young general.

Before Zhong Weiqi left for the battlefield, Chu Qiuchi brought him good wine to see him off.

A year passed, and good news from the border kept arriving. Word spread that Zhong Weiqi had been granted a residence and a courtesy name by the emperor. Young General Zhong's new name was Jian Zhu, and he was the talk of the town.

The war ended in victory, and the soldiers returned home. Chu Qiuchi watched the triumphant young men ride through the city gate, then turned and went back to the tutor's residence without a backward glance.

There was no longer any Zhong Weiqi in the world, only Zhong Jian Zhu.

The two of them had nothing to do with each other anymore.

Four years later.

Feeling the emotions of the person behind him, Chu Qiuchi calmly said, "You're not Zhong Jian Zhu."

Theme: No one can define good and evil in this world, and no one race is wholly good or evil