How to Fall in Love with a God in an Angsty Novel

[Shy, clueless beauty on the receiving end x a god so handsome he doesn't care if people drop dead]

Chu Zhan is a young ancient beast. Not long after ascending, he transmigrates into a book, becoming a tool character in a melodramatic novel about tragic love across three lifetimes. The book was written specifically to help the immortal lord Lu Shiyuan undergo his tribulation. In it, the god Lu must endure three lifetimes of romantic trials.

In the book, Chu Zhan is madly in love with Lu Shiyuan. Later, after framing the protagonist on the receiving end, he is thrown from the top of a tall city wall by Lu Shiyuan, meeting a very definite end.

On the first day after arriving, it's his wedding night. Lu Shiyuan is absent, so the socially anxious Chu spends seven days in the bridal chamber, eating, drinking, sleeping, and never stepping outside, all while rehearsing the first plot point: confessing to Lu.

But when Prince Lu finally stands before him, he looks gloomy and devastatingly handsome, like a god. Even his every strand of hair seems to radiate ruthlessness and decisiveness.

Chu Zhan is as timid as a chicken. Terrified, his legs go weak, and he blushes from his face all the way down his neck, then from his neck to his chest: ...I don't think I can do this.

To his utter surprise, sticking to the plot leads Chu Zhan into an even more awkward situation:

He can't die.

The Lu Shiyuan who was supposed to kill him instead dotes on him as if his life depends on it, spoiling him from concubine to favored consort, from the first lifetime to the third. He brings him tea and water, visits his bed every night, and repeatedly comes looking for his wife...

Typical angsty-novel scenes: misunderstandings and mutual torment, another round of torment after an assassination attempt, being locked in a dark room, you flee and I chase, with no way to escape, and impossible choices between two options...

Chu Zhan says: None of that happens! There's no misunderstanding at all. Even after an assassination attempt, he's still doted on like crazy. If I'm locked in a dark room, it has to be the one closest to Lu Shiyuan. Sure, I try to run away, but when he catches me, he only spoils me even more (tears...).

And that impossible choice between two options? Even less likely. He'd help me save an entire ancient beast clan instead.

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To save his people, Chu Zhan's divine body is destroyed, and he returns to the present day. Lu Shiyuan gives up his godhood for him and follows him there.

Someone on Zhihu asks: "How do you date a god in a three-lifetime angst novel? Is it going to be painful?"

The god Lu replies anonymously: "It's impossible to make it angsty. My wife is too cute!"

"Do you ever fight?"

"We wouldn't dare. It's an angst novel, after all. If we argue, my wife might follow the plot and jump off a city wall. All I can do is spoil him like my life depends on it."

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We're so different from everyone else. We must have loved each other deeply in a past life, and promised to meet again in this one.

Also known as:

#How I Became a Tool Character in an Angst Novel and Got Spoiled Like Crazy#

#I Really Don't Want a Boyfriend Who's Both Handsome and Powerful#

Reading Guide:

1. You think it's a transmigration story, but it's actually a return. They only have each other from beginning to end.

2. This is a sweet romance dressed up as a melodramatic novel, with slightly angsty endings to each lifetime.

3. The final line is from the lyrics of "Meeting Again" by Lo Ta-yu.

2023.4.9

Theme: You hold the steering wheel of your own life.