After Saving My Childhood Friend

[The story next door, How Did the Gentle Saintly Man Turn Dark?, is now underway!]

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Warm on the outside, cold on the inside immortal heroine vs. a gloomy to others, lovesick to her male lead [From the start, he's undergoing a tribulation]

Fusheng is one of the strongest immortals in the Three Realms, a gentle immortal as warm as a spring breeze.

Everyone believes she will become immortal companions with the aloof, deep-thinking young lord of the Phoenix Clan. After all, they grew up together and have been by each other's side for ten thousand years.

As everyone sighs and wonders why Fusheng favors that phoenix who seems made of ice, only she knows that during the three thousand years she was imprisoned at her lowest point, only that little phoenix braved death to bring her the most precious hope from the abyss.

Perhaps every feeling is worn down by time eventually.

The little phoenix, whose thoughts were once an open book, has now become a deep, powerful figure.

The little phoenix who used to smile at her the moment they met now only addresses her formally as "Immortal."

Until the little phoenix goes to the mortal realm to undergo a death tribulation.

After ten thousand years together, they have to reach an ending.

So the diligent Immortal Fusheng disregards the laws of the Heavenly Dao for the first time and sends a sliver of her immortal soul to the mortal realm.

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"You saved me a thousand years ago, and I saved you today. Neither of us owes the other anything, so let's go our separate ways."

After learning that her childhood sweetheart has gotten engaged to someone else, Fusheng, who truly believes she has moved on, lives quite freely.

But she doesn't see the fragile, devastated look on the aloof, deep-thinking young lord of the Phoenix Clan's face as she turns away.

Reader's guide:

1. Lots of original worldbuilding, with a very loose setting.

2. Misunderstandings, a groveling-chase, and a healing arc, but no crematorium-style groveling.

3. One-on-one happy ending, both leads are virgins, and the romance is straightforward.

4. During the tribulation, the male lead goes by the name he uses in that life.

5. Power levels: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Deity Transformation → Mahayana → Rogue Immortal → Spirit Immortal → Earth Immortal → Heavenly Immortal → Profound Immortal → High Immortal. High Immortals are appointed by the Heavenly Dao. They cannot reach that level simply by improving their own strength.

6. Content warning: A male supporting character has a BL storyline relevant to the later plot. If that's not your thing, feel free to click away.

Upcoming novel: How Did the Gentle Saintly Man Turn Dark?

Rich heiress Zhu Mo suddenly gains the ability to hear her deskmate's thoughts, and is abruptly told:

Her deskmate has transmigrated into a book!

It's an old-school school-life novel. The male lead is her aloof childhood friend, and the female lead is a new transfer student.

And she's the villainess!

Because she's in love with the male lead and jealous of the heroine, she kidnaps the heroine, ending up abandoned by everyone and thrown in prison.

Zhu Mo: ...?

With her near-obsessive love of "kindness," Zhu Mo quickly loses her crush on the male lead and turns her attention to the heroine, a little ray of sunshine.

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When the heroine first joins the class and the only available seat is beside the male lead, Zhu Mo walks forward

The transmigrator is horrified: [What, is the villainess making her move already?!]

Zhu Mo grabs the heroine by the wrist. "You can sit with me."

The transmigrator: ?

When the poor heroine is mocked and bullied by the male lead's admirers at their elite school, Zhu Mo walks forward with a cold expression

The bully smirks. "Zhu Mo's here. You're done for!"

Zhu Mo shoves the bully aside and protects the heroine behind her. "She's under my protection."

The bully: ??

Under the transmigrator's suspicious gaze, Zhu Mo goes wildly out of character, taking the male lead's path and leaving him nowhere to go!

Until the heroine invites her over to study, where she meets the heroine's older brother

The third male lead in the book.

A saintly man, even gentler and kinder than the heroine.

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The saintly older brother, Cheng He, is pure and gives off a gentle warmth from head to toe.

Zhu Mo craves that tenderness. She confesses to him and is rejected.

She imprisons him, and he forgives her.

Just as Zhu Mo feels unworthy and decides to let him go, she is invited to his house for a visit

The gentle, water-like saintly man trembles as he locks the door. His amber eyes are dark and unreadable...

The plot completely falls apart, and Zhu Mo disappears. The sunshine heroine, the yandere male lead, and the transmigrator all suspect one another of hiding Zhu Mo. Meanwhile, the saintly man from the book slowly pulls Zhu Mo into his arms and sighs in her ear.

"Do you want to leave me?"

He can go mad, too.

Upcoming novel two: Chancellor, My Beloved

Cool, brooding female chancellor × dashing, unruly Sixth Prince

One-line synopsis: After disguising myself as a man, I became a powerful court official.

Theme: No one can decide your fate.