I Gifted the Beauty a Golden Sword

Tan Tingyuan is known as a tyrant of his generation.

As a descendant of the gods who had defied heaven's mandate, he was punished by the gods for his injustice, arrogance, coldness, and brutality. They cast him into one small world after another, making him wander through the mortal realm and endure tribulation after tribulation, forcing him to crawl through the filthiest, lowliest mud of the human world. But even then, Tan Tingyuan remained Tan Tingyuan. He would never change, and he would never bow his head.

But what role did this man play in his tribulations? Why did he keep running into him in every world? A tiny, fragile, pitifully laughable ant.

He had watched him die right before his eyes eighteen times. Back then, he had regarded him as a tiny, insignificant pebble in the road, casually stepping around the corpse without sparing it a glance.

Only once... At last, once, he reached out his hand to him.

Though an ant cannot shake a tree, it can slip through a crack in its bark, gnaw at its insides, and eat away at its core.

Unlucky, miserable beauty top x cold, merciless, powerful emperor bottom

[Cover artist: Wei Lou]

March 3, 2023

Theme: People are not plants or trees; they can care for them.