I Can't Get Rid of the God I Met Online

(I don't think the full novel needs that much work. I'll make a few improvements to the original. Well, it seems a little difficult, and revising the whole thing will take a while. QAQ I'll do my best to edit it, and finish by winter break at the latest.)

After the revival of the gods around the world, they turn their hostility toward humanity and set up many trials. Among humans, some awaken with supernatural abilities. These people are called Awakened. Though they are human, they have eccentric personalities and are extremely difficult to control. So humanity establishes a special organization to manage them. Once they are no longer hostile toward humans, they are allowed to join the teams fighting against the gods.

Li Xiangwei is one of the high-risk Awakened.

Unlike the other Awakened, Li Xiangwei isn't aggressive. His only real moral failing is that he likes to pretend to be a girl while dating online, then block the other person.

However, on his very first day being sent out on a mission, he manages to attract the attention of someone strange.

That netizen's profile picture shows a cool, beautiful woman, but their messages come in fits and starts, and they can barely type. After chatting for a while, Li Xiangwei realizes this is actually a very old-fashioned straight man.

Li Xiangwei: "Big brother, want to date online?"

The other person: "Young ladies should be modest."

Li Xiangwei, who has hacked into the gods' network system, rubs his chin and resolves to seduce him no matter what.

The newly awakened Wind God: I've slept for thousands of years. Is this person adding me my grandson or something?

Later.

Li Xiangwei finally succeeds in getting the other man to say the word "love," then mocks him and blocks him.

After their unrelenting efforts, humanity passes the gods' trials, and the two meet again at the negotiating table between gods and humans.

Li Xiangwei: "??????"

Peace talks? How are we going to negotiate? With our lives?

A gentle, handsome, initially naive and straight male lead x a playboy, shameless, terminally lazy but powerful protagonist

Content warnings: Imperfect characters. The protagonist is a playboy at first. The male lead has just awakened after sleeping for thousands of years, and initially has traditional views.

At heart, this is about a straight man and a playboy gradually taming each other. Don't imitate them.

Also promoting my historical danmei novel next door, I Only Like the Most Beautiful Man Under Heaven, and another upcoming novel

You Should Only Take Ugly Disciples

Ji Qingbai, known as the Vast Immortal Venerable Zhengchu, is over three thousand years old. In the twenty-first century, after attending the wedding of his nine-hundred-and-ninety-eighth old friend and their disciple, he finally realizes one thing: being a master is a high-risk profession.

His old friends all reassure him, "Don't worry, you're perfectly safe."

But Ji Qingbai doesn't believe them. After all, he's exceptionally handsome, full of immortal grace, and beloved by everyone. How could someone spend every day with him and not fall for him?

His old friends: Because you're too confident.

2

After reading hundreds of master-disciple romance novels and summing up his friends' experiences, Ji Qingbai understands how to stay safe: take the ugliest disciple possible, and preferably make yourself ugly too.

So, to test whether his theory is correct, Ji Qingbai transforms himself into a seventy-year-old man and plans to take a disciple, live with him every day, and conduct an experiment. The uglier the disciple, the better.

The moment he announces it, a long line forms outside his mountain gate. But since he's looking for someone ugly, he sends everyone away as soon as he sees them, until a young man arrives with skin as black as charcoal, glowing eyes, and two protruding fangs.

Ji Qingbai: "Good bones. You're the one."

The young man: "I was just passing by."

Ji Qingbai: "Excellent. You've caught my attention."

3

After taking in the young man, whose name is Mo Miao, Ji Qingbai discovers that he may have a thing for good looks.

Ji Qingbai: "Hey, Mo Shui, try covering your face more. You're too ugly for me."

Mo Miao: "???" Then why did you say you wanted the ugliest person? And my name is Mo Miao, not Mo Shui.

4

Mo Miao's original name is Xiang Miao. He's a half-immortal, half-demon and the most powerful figure in the demon realm. He considers Ji Qingbai of the immortal realm his lifelong nemesis.

Because every time he challenged him to a duel, Ji Qingbai would say, "What, a duel? Don't try to make me interested in you that way. Even if you're handsome, it won't work."

But Ji Qingbai never remembers what he looks like, and not one of their duels has ever taken place. He plans to take revenge by using Ji Qingbai's search for a disciple as his chance, smearing himself with black paint to look ugly and sneaking in.

5

And then he becomes Ji Qingbai's disciple.

Ji Qingbai: "Mo Shui, you're so ugly. How about I pay to get you plastic surgery and a skin-whitening treatment?"

Ji Qingbai: "You're so ugly, you could bat your eyelashes at me all you like, and I still wouldn't fall for you."

Ji Qingbai: "Practice your sword, but stop swaying your hips like that."

Ji Qingbai: "That's it, your ugliness has blinded me. I'm applying for injury leave."

6

In the eyes of outsiders: A lecherous old man and a charcoal demon.

A self-important, overimaginative master x a disciple who has had enough and won't take it anymore, a man who used to be as straight as they come but bends to get revenge

Theme: Uphold the right values.