New Game Plus: From Enemies to Lovers

"On the thirty-eighth day after the new life the System promised me began, I finally found a boat full of living people on the Sea of Delusion, and escaped the fate of drifting while clinging to a piece of wood."

"P.S. The sorry excuse behind me doesn't count as a person."

After he finished writing today's diary, his nemesis, the protagonist of this world, and the foremost figure of the immortal path, Zhan Ziming, came over, took the paper from his hand, and added a sentence.

"He's right."

More than three hundred years after transmigrating, the former Demon Emperor Jun Zhengqing had defied fate, rejected the System, and fought his way from the protagonist's loyal retainer to his sworn enemy. He made this remark about the hapless protagonist he had once believed he could never stand.

"You're much easier to look at when you're being your usual hapless self."

"You're joking, Zhengqing." The protagonist, his face marked with black lines of demonic corruption, replied gently, "You wouldn't feel sorry for me if I played the hapless fool."

"You look like that to your enemies and the people who betray you, don't you?"

"But Zhengqing isn't my enemy."

The foremost figure of the immortal path said this to the former Demon Emperor he had once killed. His smile was gentle, his brows relaxed.

"It's because of you, Zhengqing, that I've stayed on the path fate laid out for me."

He seemed harmless and kind, if Jun Zhengqing hadn't walked this far with him, if he hadn't seen the Heavenly Dao tottering when he came back from the dead, and heard that sigh of his.

"You're awake."

The protagonist had stopped just a second before the world collapsed. He buried his face against Jun Zhengqing's neck and pressed his lips to the pulse, which was slowly coming back to life. A hint of regret colored his voice.

"Thank goodness... I almost took the Heavenly Dao with me to keep you company."

Reader's Guide: 1. Couple: Zhan Ziming x Jun Zhengqing. The protagonist chosen by fate x the sworn enemy who refuses to be a loyal retainer. The top goes completely off the deep end in silence, while the bottom fights back furiously under pressure.

2. Please don't tell me how to write. If it's not your thing, click the X in the upper right. Let's part on good terms and leave each other alone. Don't make me get on my knees and beg you (very fierce).

Theme: Don't submit to fate. Take the path you want to walk