I Came Down the Mountain to Break Off the Engagement

The completed companion novel in the author's series is The Demon God Is Hard to Placate: a restrained, steady volunteer teacher and a proud, arrogant demon god of a principal.

This story features a quirky young Taoist priest and a young warrior monk.

Jing Wu brings calamity wherever she goes, and has never been welcomed. At thirteen, the Jing family dumped her at a rundown temple on Chunwang Mountain. When she turned eighteen, they arranged an engagement for her: the other party was wealthy and handsome, Lu Xi, president of the Lu Group and the richest man in Hong Kong City.

Before Jing Wu could figure out how someone like her had landed such a golden bachelor, Lu Xi got into a car accident and fell into a coma.

She had no choice but to stuff her bamboo fortune sticks and their container into her bag, bring her black dog Zhaocai, and go down the mountain to visit him.

At the same time that night, the young warrior monk Xi Lu from Shaolin Temple on Chunwang Mountain was in a car accident at the same spot. He was taken to Lu Xi's private hospital, which had just been brought into service.

Only then did Jing Wu realize that the private hospital was full of magical formations. It was all a trap prepared in advance.

A conspiracy that had been laid against them for more than a decade was now coming to light: Xi Lu and Lu Xi were meant to be the food and the vessel, respectively, and would soon have all their fortune and vitality drained to benefit someone else, leaving them no chance of survival.

Jing Wu gritted her teeth. She could only try to alter the formations and save their lives first.

Not only did they survive, but Xi Lu woke up too.

Xi Lu: Woof?

Jing Wu shrugged innocently. "Xi Lu, we've been childhood friends and spent every day together. You know me: my magic is a little unorthodox, and I tend to misspeak. I think it's a good thing that you're temporarily possessing Zhaocai! Yes, a good thing."

Xi Lu: ...

Nearby, Lu Xi's soul was possessing a pearl chicken. He didn't dare make a sound. What?!

When is this world going to end?

From then on, Jing Wu's life was a riot of chaos.

Later,

Lu Xi looked at Xi Lu. "Who is he?"

Xi Lu: "I'm her boyfriend."

Lu Xi: "What?"

Lu Xi looked at Jing Wu. "Am I, your fiance, dead or something?"

Jing Wu: "I forgot to tell you. I came down the mountain to break off our engagement."

Lu Xi: "What?!"

The completed companion novel is The Demon God Is Hard to Placate.

[A restrained, steady volunteer teacher and a proud, arrogant demon god of a principal]

Man Ting's internship assignment is to teach in a remote mountain village.

Du Xiling isn't the harsh, barren place the rumors make it out to be. It's a true hidden paradise.

The principal may be proud and stubborn, but he's kind-hearted and good-looking. When lightning strikes and damages the roof of her courtyard, he even lets her stay in his.

The roof keeps getting struck by lightning and, for one reason or another, never gets repaired, so she keeps staying there.

And the two of them keep living together.

Later, Man Ting discovers that there are no humans in Du Xiling. Everyone is a demon...

So the roof keeps getting struck by lightning because a demon is doing it on purpose.

Man Ting stares at the roof after it is struck by lightning yet again and asks without expression, "Song Yueliang, do you like me?"

Song Yueliang is stunned, then turns bright red and stubbornly insists, "I'm the mighty demon god, cold and dignified, living on an altar. How could I possibly like a human?"

Man Ting: "Good. You're arrogant, childish, stubborn, and quick to lose your temper. You're way too hard to placate. I like people who are easygoing."

Song Yueliang sucks in a breath. "I can't make this right! I really can't make this right!"

Their names come from the lines: "The pines and moon bring coolness to the night; the wind and spring bring a clear, full sound."

Theme: The autumn wind knows my heart, but when it dies down, my feelings remain unsettled.