[Ne Zha] The Third Prince Joins Me in Infinite Reincarnation

-The story of two rebels

Snow and wind tore at their faces, while cranes fled in panic, flying past beneath them.

Blood stained the handsome young man's cheek, only making his features look more dazzling--

and more savage.

He carried someone securely on his back as he climbed the steps to heaven. The person, her breath faint, asked softly, "...Where are we going?"

After a long silence, he replied, "Mount Qianyuan."

A barely audible sigh brushed his ear. She said, "If there's another life..."

His arms strained, veins bulging, but he gritted his teeth and continued climbing the perilous cliff against the snow and wind.

If there were another life, then what?

He carved out his bones to return them to his father and cut away his flesh to return it to his mother. Reborn in a lotus body, he was still a beautiful young man in a troubled world, but had neither soul nor flesh and blood.

She went through life after life to dispel her resentment. Before she died, Nezha always saw her off.

"Third Highness, why does my resentment keep getting worse?"

He sat cross-legged beside her corpse in silence, playing cat's cradle with the Red Armillary Sash.

In each lifetime, she only remembered her past at the very last moment, hovering between life and death. Through endless reincarnations, the times they could truly meet as their original selves amounted to no more than one or two hours.

In his thousands of years of life, that was a mere trifle.

But in those one or two hours, it was as if his heart had grown on its own. It throbbed and sighed, as if he had truly lived.

Would he really have to follow that monkey's example and tamper with the Book of Life and Death?

Note:

1. This has no connection to any film or TV series. The setting has been adapted, so please don't nitpick the source material.

2. Nezha's rebirth combines elements from folk legends, Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, and other stories. It isn't based on any single version.

3. Happy ending, mutual salvation (literally).

4. The main story or bonus chapters may include a modern AU.

Theme: My heart, my will. I would die nine times without regret.