Saving My Childhood Friend in His Youth

Upcoming novels: Just as the Grass Grows and Orioles Fly and A Guide to Winning Over the Little Tyrant. Blurbs below. Please add them to your reading list!

Wei Qingluo was reborn, returning to the time when He Xiting was still alive.

Just like in her previous life, he shouted loudly that he wanted to marry her. But in her last life...

He never married, and neither did she.

His friends told her that it wasn't that he didn't want to marry her. He simply ran out of time.

In this life, no one knew that the dashing young man had defeated three hundred thousand enemy troops,

no one knew that he had once entered an enemy camp alone and taken the enemy general's head,

and no one knew that he had died in Xizhou, his armor stained red with blood, refusing to surrender to the death.

She watched the young man ride toward her, dashing through the streets and alleys. A smile curled her lips, but tears rolled down her cheeks.

In this life, she only wanted him to live.

*

He Xiting was born into a family of military officers. The court was peaceful now, so he had plenty of free time. Most days, he just rode his horse and walked his dog.

As it happened, he was always riding through the long street where the Wei family lived.

Some people laughed at him for being presumptuous, for thinking he could marry into the Wei family.

For the first time, the usually carefree young man put on a serious face and shouted, "I'm going to marry a Wei daughter!"

The whole street fell silent. Passersby stopped to stare. After a long moment, cries of surprise rang out.

Following their gazes, he saw a girl standing at the Wei family gate and blushed scarlet.

The girl he had been dreaming of was looking at him with a smile that lit up her eyes.

That was his Luoluo...

[Bonus Scene]

He Xiting heard that exchanging love letters had become fashionable in the capital. Since he wasn't much good at poetry, he stole a letter from a friend.

He leaned over the Wei family's wall, grinning as he passed the letter to her, gazing at his beloved girl with eager eyes.

"Did you write this?"

His face reddened, and he scratched his head. "I... I copied it."

The girl inside the wall laughed. She circled and marked things with her writing brush, then passed the letter back to him. "Here, you copied this character wrong."

"He Xiting, I've been waiting for you all along, waiting for you to marry me." - Luoluo

------ Upcoming Novel: A Guide to Winning Over the Little Tyrant ------

[Third-Person Narration]

The little emperor was sick, very sick. My mother said I was the only one who could save him, so she packed me up and sent me to the palace.

The little emperor didn't like me. He had a cinnabar mole in his heart. I thought that was great, because I had a white moonlight in mine.

The little emperor was violent and wanted to kill people every day. That was his illness.

Later, the person he wanted to kill was my white moonlight.

My mother said the only way to save my white moonlight was to make the little emperor fall for me.

A long time later, the little emperor fell in love with me, but...

My white moonlight died, and so did the little emperor.

The day he died, torrential rain poured from the sky, washing over the blood on his body, but never managing to wash it away.

With a sword in my hand, I looked into his eyes, more beautiful than colored glass, and finally shed a single tear.

*

In the thirty-third year of the Heavenly Mandate, the Heavenly Dao restarted, and the world began anew. The great immortal sects gathered at the Mistcloud Sect.

On the dueling grounds stood a figure of unmatched bearing. The Demon-Slaying Sword flew to him, ringing in his hand.

He stood proudly, looking down on everyone,

including me.

They said his name was Ye Qingren, the most revered Daoist Venerable among all the great sects.

But I knew someone with that same name, except...

He was the tyrant of the mortal realm.

**

Ye Qingren was the greatest genius the Ye family had seen in a thousand years.

He possessed a body born for the Dao, capable of suppressing every evil under heaven.

But someone planted wicked energy in him and cast him down into the mortal realm to become a tyrant for one lifetime, intending to destroy his Daoist bones.

Someone told him that a daughter of the Shen family could dispel the wicked energy in him, and he believed them.

Someone else told him the Shen family girl was madly in love with him, and he believed that too.

Later, someone said the one who would destroy him had to be the Shen family girl. He didn't believe it.

But that day, he saw the sword in his chest and saw that she hadn't shed a single tear for him.

Then he believed it.

------ Upcoming Novel: Just as the Grass Grows and Orioles Fly ------

Everyone said that Second Young Master Pei was a gentleman of impeccable bearing, gentle as jade, and the object of every young lady's affection in the capital.

But Xie Xi remembered how vindictive and petty the younger Pei had been as a boy, and how he was the most ill-mannered man in the entire capital!

One day, Xie Xi was having drinks under the moon with a few close friends.

Someone suggested a wager: whoever managed to kiss Second Young Master Pei within three months would receive one of each person's treasured possessions.

Xie Xi raised an eyebrow. It wasn't that she coveted her friends' possessions. It was because...

She had been fed up with Second Young Master Pei for ages!

She would take this opportunity to tear off his gentlemanly mask and break the heart of the capital's most aloof beauty on high...

She would crush him to pieces!

And then, and then... she would make him grovel at her feet and watch his handsome face crumble after she had thoroughly humiliated him!

Theme: Make the most of your youth.