A Deliberate Pursuit of Love

[The upcoming novel Master! Are You Always This Shameless? is being drafted. It’s a cultivation fantasy about an older master and disciple, featuring a cool, restrained, protective top x a ruthless, frail beauty bottom. If you’re interested, please add it to your favorites. Love you all, mwah~]

Sweet-talking, beautiful, spoiled top x stubborn, wooden, straight bottom

1.

Song Zang should have had a partner he was about to marry, a respectable and prestigious job, perhaps an adorable, mischievous child, and a bright future ahead of him.

But when the only son of the Shen family, spoiled since childhood, pursued someone for the first time, he went at it with such reckless intensity that he dragged Song Zang into a mire.

There was a significant age gap between them, and their social positions were worlds apart. No one thought they would work out. But Song Zang lost his head and followed him down a thorny path.

2.

But one day, Song Zang discovered that everything he had been forced to give up had been nothing more than a trivial bet between Shen Mangxi and a friend.

For the sake of this ridiculous bet, he had abandoned everything, lost his family, and had his wings clipped. All he got in return was Shen Mangxi’s faint smile and a casual, “It was just for fun. You really took it seriously?”

Song Zang suddenly came to his senses. He fled this unfair bet in a panic, determined to start over somewhere no one knew him.

3.

After Song Zang disappeared, Shen Mangxi became a mad dog with no owner to go home to.

He forbade anyone from mentioning Song Zang’s name, yet chewed over it in his mind night after sleepless night.

He desperately wanted to make it up to Song Zang, but he couldn’t find the person who needed his apology anywhere in the world.

It turned out that Song Zang hadn’t been the only one who took it seriously. Shen Mangxi just never realized it.

Regret came too late. There was no turning back.

4.

A piano prodigy from abroad became an internet sensation. When interviewers asked who had taught him, he lowered his head and said nothing.

Then a photo supposedly showing the mysterious mentor’s hand surfaced.

People saw the usually aloof, dignified young master of Nancheng turn red-eyed. His hands, normally steady even when wielding a scalpel, were trembling uncontrollably.

5.

Shen Mangxi found Song Zang’s home in the middle of the night.

When the door opened, Shen Mangxi was like a puppy that had finally found its way home. His voice was hoarse and trembling. “Uncle, do you still want me?”

Song Zang closed his eyes and answered without a hint of emotion, “No.”

An old-school, melodramatic scum-and-victim age-gap romance, straight man turned gay, with the scumbag trying to win him back after losing him. Letting loose and indulging in wish fulfillment. Happy ending.

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Please add the upcoming novel Master! Are You Always This Shameless? to your favorites. Blurb below:

Love and hate each other | Cool, restrained, protective top x ruthless, frail beauty bottom

Qian Chongdeng hated sword cultivators.

He had been the young master of the Hidden Radiance Pavilion and a once-in-a-generation genius Gu cultivator, but a sword cultivator had cost him his life.

When he opened his eyes again, three hundred years had passed, and he had become a new disciple of Dao Seeking Peak.

Legend had it that Dao Seeking Peak had a Sword Venerable named Xie Chi.

Born with a sword bone, he was a paragon of refinement and noble character, cool and self-possessed. He was not only the youngest Sword Venerable at Dao Seeking Peak, but also the leader of the Immortal Alliance, the foremost cultivator of all the immortal sects.

At the apprenticeship ceremony, Qian Chongdeng caught sight of the man on the high platform and laughed in anger.

Isn’t that the bastard sword cultivator?

Unexpectedly, the Sword Venerable looked down at him. “I have accepted you as my disciple. You should address me as Master.”

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Qian Chongdeng had been frail from birth, but he was extraordinarily beautiful and always smiling. He was well-liked by everyone.

Everyone praised his gentle disposition and impeccable character, saying he was every bit a disciple worthy of the Sword Venerable.

But Xie Chi knew it was all an act.

His disciple was ruthless and cold-hearted, ambitious and willing to do anything to achieve his goals.

So when Qian Chongdeng killed him later, Xie Chi was not all that surprised.

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After avenging himself, Qian Chongdeng thought he would never see Xie Chi again in this life.

But Xie Chi crawled back from hell, his body steeped in blood and violence, his former elegance and refinement gone. His bloodstained hand stroked Qian Chongdeng’s pale cheek. Instead of demanding an explanation, he proposed marriage:

“My old feelings for you remain. I am willing to put aside our past and offer you the Demon Realm as my betrothal gift, to show my wish for us to be together forever. If you will enter into a marriage pact with me, the two of us will rule heaven and earth.”

The gentle smile that always curved Qian Chongdeng’s lips faded.

He narrowed his eyes at the resurrected Xie Chi, his every word freezing cold. “Master, are you always this shameless?”

Theme: Keep your self-respect and fight to change your life.