After Escaping From Heaven, My Archenemy Accused Me of Being His Lover [Historical BL]

Gu Zheyi ran away.

Seven hundred years after he was branded a demon and thrown into the Imperial Prison.

The former immortal of the Celestial Realm, now a crooked cultivator everyone wanted dead, reflected on his past and decided to stop meddling in the Celestial Realm's mess. The human world was vast, and he wanted to see it for himself.

He would sample every delicacy and travel through mountains and rivers, free and at ease.

But in a bustling market, a casual glance brought Gu Zheyi face-to-face with the sworn enemy who had thrown him in prison and nailed him to the pillar of shame. The once-elegant immortal now had dust on his robes and was mired in the mud, wandering aimlessly through the mundane world.

Gu Zheyi: ...?

What happened to you in seven hundred years? You've really gone downhill!

Worse, his nemesis had fallen into demonic cultivation and lost his memories, and now he was clinging to Gu Zheyi, making a scene. The sort who couldn't be shaken off no matter how hard you tried.

Gu Zheyi pinched his philtrum hard.

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Pei Qing was cold-blooded and cold-hearted, an immortal of noble bearing beyond compare. He wielded authority, upheld the law, and oversaw the Imperial Prison.

Always selfless. Always just.

The entire Celestial Realm knew Pei Qing and Gu Zheyi were sworn enemies. Yet when Gu Zheyi fell to demonic cultivation and was locked in the Imperial Prison for eternity, no one dared celebrate with Pei Qing.

Immortal Lord Pei Qing was terrifyingly cold.

The night before passing sentence, Pei Qing went to their final meeting.

The beautiful prisoner was gaunt and shackled. The light in his eyes lent startling beauty to his somewhat haggard face.

"Immortal Lord Pei," Gu Zheyi said, "the human world is full of suffering, and its people are drenched in blood. Where is justice? Where is heavenly reason?"

Pei Qing had no answer.

"Open your eyes and look."

"Look at the human world."

"My dear immortal."

"You say all things are empty, yet you keep your eyes shut. If you opened them and looked at me... I don't believe your eyes would see nothing."

One glance was all it took for demonic thoughts to take root.

So he descended from his celestial altar and entered the human world.

He experienced every sort of sinister scheme and cruel heart.

Seven hundred years later, amid the bustling streets of the human world, Pei Qing saw him once again.

Bright and radiant, just as before.

Even with all his memories of the past gone, Pei Qing's heart still fluttered.

This was the person he'd once... fallen for.

The feelings he'd suppressed for centuries could no longer be hidden. They blazed through his heart.

Immortal Lord Pei decided to cling to him and make a scene.

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Pei Qing x Gu Zheyi

A stubborn top whose obsession drove him to demonic cultivation x a clear-eyed, beautiful, strong yet tragic bottom

A story about a top who jumps down from his celestial altar of his own accord.

One-on-one, happy ending. I'm terrible at naming books, so for something literary, let's call it Between Mountains and Rivers.

"You say all things are empty" is a line from Journey to the West.

Theme: The path to redemption