Is This Really How the Heavenly Dao Works? [Reborn]

As the cultivation world's greatest villain, Ye Shuyu died on the eve of the world's destruction.

Xiao Yiming, the greatest person in the cultivation world, drove a sword through his chest, killing his soul and breaking his heart.

The world knew Xiao Yiming as the righteous hero who exterminated monsters in Heaven's name, but no one knew that Ye Shuyu, the villain everyone wanted dead, had once given the only sincere affection and wholehearted love in this world to Xiao Yiming.

His secret love went unreturned, and they became enemies instead.

Only as he lay dying did Ye Shuyu learn that Xiao Yiming was Heaven's incarnation, descended to the mortal realm, while he himself was born a fiend, neither human nor demon, destined to perish beneath Xiao Yiming's sword.

With all hope gone, Ye Shuyu closed his eyes. He would never return to this absurd world again.

*

Heaven had other plans.

When Ye Shuyu opened his eyes again, he had returned to his youth.

The good news: He remembered his past life and knew how to avoid needless hardships.

The bad news: Something was off about Xiao Yiming in this life.

The person who was supposed to spend a lifetime secretly in love with him, keeping his distance, sharing an ambiguous relationship, but never daring to take that final step...

Why was he showing up with betrothal gifts right away???

We don't even know each other yet, do we?!

Is this right?!

*

Ye Shuyu had a very simple goal when it came to Xiao Yiming.

He didn't want to die at his hands a second time.

So he ran whenever he could, hid whenever he could, and even took every chance he got to poison or stab him in revenge.

Faced with the baffling behavior of showing up with betrothal gifts the moment they met, Ye Shuyu smiled and rejected him, dodged him, and made himself scarce.

He was confident that, thanks to his past-life experience, he would never again get tangled up in a romance with Xiao Yiming. He could even use that experience to shake him off for good.

"But what if Xiao Yiming remembers his past life too?"

Ye Shuyu was utterly stunned.

He's Heaven's incarnation. He killed me, a fiend, and now he wants to become my cultivation partner.

This is definitely not right!!!

False aloof beauty, true widower-like ghostly immortal gong (Xiao Yiming) x smiling, knife-hiding shou with villain buffs stacked to the max (Ye Shuyu)

[Reading Guide]

1. 1v1, HE, not both reborn.

2. Neither lead is perfect, especially in their past lives. The plot gets a little melodramatic.

3. The leads are mutually in love, with a very, very strong mutual attraction. No switching or splitting them up.

4. The main characters have no romantic feelings for anyone but each other.

5. There will be angst, courtesy of the larger setting.

6. A mountain of personal worldbuilding.

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A thousand years ago, the Divine Lord Xuanhui sealed the Demon Lord beneath Dragonbone Mountain to stop him from destroying the world. He also exhausted his strength and died, turning into an egg buried at the foot of the mountain.

A thousand years later, Yun Chuxian, a descendant of the Dragon Clan, accidentally entered Dragonbone Mountain and came upon the sealing spell that had endured for a thousand years, as well as the egg lying dormant there.

His master told him with a mysterious air, "One of these is your fated calamity, and the other is your destined cultivation partner."

So Yun Chuxian guarded the egg day and night, waiting for his cultivation partner to return to the world of the living.

One day, Yun Chuxian was delighted to discover a crack in the eggshell. Before he could get a closer look, the sealing spell suddenly shattered. A sharp sword pierced his chest, pain surged through him, and he clutched the egg tightly to his chest.

He looked up and saw the Demon Lord Ying Wusheng standing before him, eyes blood-red and murderous. "Give him to me."

Yun Chuxian: "..."

He hadn't even met his cultivation partner yet, but his fated calamity had already found him.

*

The first thing Ying Wusheng did after returning to the world of the living was to shatter the soul of his old nemesis beyond any chance of rebirth.

Unfortunately, the sealing curse still burned his soul, adding an ever-present torment to his road to revenge.

Yun Chuxian's arrival was both a surprise and a delight.

As they fought over the egg of Ying Wusheng's nemesis, he had to admit he had fallen for Yun Chuxian.

In his eyes, Yun Chuxian was beautiful, aloof, and divine. He could even ease the curse that constantly burned him. In every way, he was just to Ying Wusheng's taste.

The only problem was that he was always cuddling an egg that had once been his nemesis. It was irritating.

And the thought that Yun Chuxian was still mourning his nemesis made it even more irritating.

A real man should have the courage to pursue love. During yet another fierce fight between them, Yun Chuxian plunged his sword into Ying Wusheng's chest. The next moment, Ying Wusheng pushed him onto the bed.

The burning pain in every limb subsided. Ying Wusheng sighed in comfort, caressed Yun Chuxian's tense, damp red lips, and murmured, "Your cultivation partner's been dead for a thousand years, and you don't even know if he'll hatch. Why not give me a try instead?"

Theme: Love and redemption