An Old Friend Who Is No Longer an Old Friend

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Blurb:

Chu Hang's days of cultivation at Biyuntian were carefree and full of joy. The famously aloof Xiao Yixing, hailed as the cultivation world's most beautiful man, kept everyone else at arm's length but showed Chu Hang nothing but boundless tenderness.

When Chu Hang was seventeen, he finally understood why.

He was the reincarnation of a fragment of a soul.

And in his previous life, he had been Xiao Yixing's childhood friend and senior fellow disciple: handsome, dashing, peerlessly skilled in martial arts, and as radiant as the moon.

His senior brother was a once-in-a-generation talent. At fifteen, he braved a lightning tribulation in a desperate situation. At eighteen, he won the martial arts tournament. At twenty, he sacrificed himself to save all living beings.

He had been true to the whole world, yet let down one person.

Snow gathered on Chu Hang's lashes. Before him stood a graceful figure with hair black as satin, quiet amidst heaven and earth, as if everything around him had lost its color.

A young man's feelings could not be hidden. His mind roared, and reason scattered. Emotions that had crossed two lifetimes burned so fiercely they nearly scorched his heart, surging to burst from his chest.

But in this life, Xiao Yixing said, "You are him, but I have never thought of you as him. What I feel for you is the bond between master and disciple, the bond between family. Nothing more."

The bold, dashing senior brother of his previous life had reincarnated as a naive, good-for-nothing little puppy. Apart from having a face that looked seventy or eighty percent like his, how could he possibly compare to that man?

Against others, there might be a chance of survival. Against himself, it was almost impossible to win.

The puppy was in a panic.

Theme: Surpass yourself and cherish the present.