[Younger love interest, raised from childhood]
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Wen Jianhuan was a little half-demon of mixed blood whom her teacher had picked up.
Half of the blood in her veins came from the nine-tailed foxes of Huaxia, and the other half from a foreigner in the snowy lands of the North.
That was why she had striking, beautiful features and a pair of sapphire-blue eyes that glowed whenever she used her demonic powers.
They said her teacher had only found her in that dark, monster-infested place because of those glowing blue eyes.
When she was five, her family was destroyed. Just as despair and terror threatened to swallow her in the darkness, her teacher came with a lantern. His face looked impossibly beautiful in the warm yellow candlelight.
At seven, after following her teacher into the deep mountains for two years to master her restless demonic powers, she moved with him to the city and started school.
At ten, she discovered that her teacher was a god. Over the course of his long life spanning thousands of years, he had taken in many children in desperate circumstances. Fortunately, she was the most special one.
At twelve, she chased off one of her teacher's colleagues who had come to their house to introduce him to a girlfriend. That was the first time she sensed her own feelings, still vague and indistinct.
At fifteen, during a summer vacation when she and her teacher returned to the mountains for a short stay, she accidentally saw him in the hot spring. Blushing furiously, the girl instantly understood how she felt.
At eighteen, on the night she came of age, she went into her teacher's room and pushed the beautiful man, whose face was full of surprise, onto the bed. Kissing him and acting coy, she asked, "Teacher, will you be my boyfriend?"
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As a god, Ruan Yu's time stood still.
People often said that time was like water, constantly flowing onward. But his was like a stagnant pool, neither moving nor flowing.
That changed when he picked up a little fox. In their thousand years together, she taught him what feelings were and brought his time back to life.
Unfortunately, he understood too late. By the time he tried to return her feelings, the little fox had died fighting for him.
Ruan Yu then began a journey that lasted three thousand years. He traveled across the world, piecing the little fox's soul back together bit by bit and sending her into reincarnation.
When he saw the little fox again, he simply stayed by her side. He did not pursue her or wear his heart on his sleeve, but neither did he push her away or retreat.
If she wanted his love, he would give it to her. If she did not, he would protect her and make sure her life went smoothly.
Time smoothed everything over, making him seem once more like a god in heaven, able to let go at the right moment.
But the little fox refused to let him go. She held on for dear life and dragged him back into the human world.
She wanted him to be passionate again, to love with abandon once more.
She wanted him to put down roots in this world.
She wanted to become his roots in the human realm.
Pairing: gentle, compassionate, absent-minded, beautiful male god × sunny, wild, wolfish female fox spirit
1. The past-life and present-life element is just a catalyst for their relationship. There will be no angst, conflict, or misunderstandings between them. At most, the little fox will use it to coax her teacher into doting on her.
2. I came up with this story while wondering: when two people in love are faced with a life-and-death separation, who suffers more, the one who lives on or the one who dies and then comes back to life? And so this idea was born.
3. More to come.
Core theme: Those who love each other fear nothing.
