Heaven's Pardon

■Coming soon: I Became the Chief Guard Thanks to My Straight-Man Banter

Wen Huaiyin is a newly ascended minor immortal.

He thought that after ascending, he would enjoy a long immortal life and a blissfully lazy existence.

But the Celestial Emperor wanted to restore order to the immortal realm, so he set up a merit leaderboard and started pushing the gods to meet their performance targets.

Any god who failed to pass the year-end merit review had to go down to the mortal realm and serve there for a year, until someone else came in last the following year.

Wen Huaiyin had barely warmed his seat as a god when he was sent huffing and puffing down to the mortal realm to set up a tea stall, take exorcism jobs, and earn merit.

And so, a new "Villain’s Tea Stall" appeared in the mortal realm.

At the corner of Longting Street stood the Villain’s Tea Stall, a famed spot for gossip.

Rumor had it that a house at the edge of the village was often visited by the sound of bells in the dead of night.

When the palace bells ring, they summon souls.

Apart from his beautiful looks, the Villain’s Tea Stall owner Wen Huaiyin had only one thing to his name: his skill at driving away evil spirits.

When he heard that exorcising the evil spirits would earn him five taels of silver, Wen Huaiyin immediately set off for Dongping Village with his little copper coins.

He hadn’t even gotten started when he met a frail beauty.

By day:

The beautiful young man was so delicate and weak that a gust of wind could blow him over.

By night:

The delicate young man, eight chi tall, pinned Wen Huaiyin down, grabbed his ankle, and pressed it against his own lower abdomen. At the same time, he casually crushed a few evil spirits who had failed to read the room between two fingers.

"The weather’s cold. I’ll warm your feet for you, A Yin."

Wen Huaiyin couldn’t break free, so he warmed the man’s feet through his tears.

"It would be rude to refuse such kindness."

Cover authorized by: Han Qing of Buy a Duck

Coming soon: I Became the Chief Guard Thanks to My Straight-Man Banter

In his previous life, the Crown Prince of Zhao, Zhao Tingyu, was manipulated by wicked people and blinded by hatred. He killed the wrong person, which led to the fall of Zhao.

One day, Zhao Tingyu woke from a dream reborn, carrying the memories of his previous life. He had returned to the time before relations between Zhao and Liang had completely deteriorated. This time, he would never let tragedy strike.

However, dreams were one thing, reality another.

He had also been reborn alongside a ridiculous lucky pouch that "spouted nonsense" and made him lose face.

His hard-won reputation was about to be ruined by this thing.

No. As long as I can keep up with the banter, the nonsense can’t catch me.

And so...

Thanks to his excellent banter, he went from the Regent’s Consort to the Regent’s chief armed guard.

Zhao Tingyu: "That was an accident."

He kept up the banter, only to nearly catch the young emperor’s eye and become the chief eunuch in the palace.

Zhao Tingyu cried: "Banter is risky. Be careful before you banter."

Theme: Though fate may not favor us, we should keep kindness in our hearts