The Jade-Faced Immortal Venerable Falls and Starts a New Career

Qing Zhenxu was a peerless prodigy, famed for his jade-like looks. Framed and cast down from his place among the immortals, he escaped certain death by hiding in a dynasty recorded in the history books.

In this small world without spiritual energy, the once-righteous Immortal Venerable had no choice but to cultivate unorthodox arts. And so the most frequently targeted dog emperor in history gained a beautiful eunuch by his side to serve his meals.

Noodles laced with arsenic, dumplings filled with poison, chicken stewed with toxic mushrooms, and wine brewed with hemlock...

The poison meant to assassinate the dog emperor seemed never-ending. Yet the emperor, radiating the might of a true dragon, sat firmly on his throne day after day, without the slightest sign of illness.

Everyone thought the tyrant was impossible to kill!

In reality, Zhenxu had been collecting every dose of poison administered three times a day and using it to cultivate. His power grew by leaps and bounds.

The emperor had been watching him in secret. Seeing how devoted the man was, his thoughts began to wander. Before long, Zhenxu was promoted to personal eunuch, tasked with attending to the emperor's daily life, meals, baths, and everything else... And then, while serving him, Zhenxu somehow ended up on the dragon bed!

When he received the summons to attend the emperor in bed, even the True Immortal, who had seen the world, was speechless.

As it happened, he needed to fake his death to escape the history books. So he brazenly challenged the emperor: "Your Majesty, would you dare to make a wager with me? If my sinful... measurements can surpass yours, will you allow me to take the top?"

The emperor's gaze dropped. He laughed softly. "Fine. I'll take that bet."

Afterward, though, someone wasn't laughing.

They spent a spring night in the warmth of a lotus-patterned bed curtain.

Afterward, Qing Zhenxu was astonished to find that he had left the emperor's bedchamber in one piece. He had insulted the ruler and deceived him. Surely this time, he would be punished, right?

Who could have guessed that he would never receive punishment from the dog emperor? Instead, the emperor kept him by his side day after day, watching his every move...

"You'll never leave me, will you?" The emperor smiled, but madness and malice lurked in his eyes.

Zhenxu: "...Mm." As if.

That very night, assassins and rebels launched a vicious attack, working together from within and without.

The figure the emperor had been so desperate to protect suddenly stepped in front of him, and a poisoned spear pierced his heart

Volume One: Fallen Prodigy, Fake Eunuch, Beautiful Gong × Once-Cold, Now Lonely and Resentful Emperor Shou

Volume Two: Ghost-Exorcising Underworld Enforcer Gong × Brooding, Dampened Ghost King Shou

Reading Guide:

1. A bit of a universal-heartthrob vibe, but one-on-one.

2. Unorthodox cultivation, with a focus on leveling up.

3. The blurb only covers Volume One. The couple won't be split up or reversed. The leads have different identities in later volumes, but they remain the same characters.

4. The protagonist starts out as a beautiful young man and gradually returns to his gorgeous gong form.

5. Both characters are sexually inexperienced. This might sound absurd, but the plot supports it. No bait and switch; the story is already written up to...

Below is the blurb for the upcoming novel Raising a Baby at the Boss's House. Feel free to visit my author page and add it to your collection!

[Deadpan, Adorable Abyssal Baby Gong Who Doesn't Know He's Cute × Foolish, Motherly Angora Giant Rabbit, Severed-Beast-Vein Human Shou]

The Beast-Vein Illusion Academy instance.

This instance strikes terror into the hearts of countless battle-hardened players. It has more elite monsters than any other, and is home to the most troublesome, hardest-to-defeat top-level Bosses. Not just one, but a whole family!

The Boss family is famous for their hatred of humans. They're all fantasy-beast-vein people, born with dragon horns and descended from the rare bloodline of true dragons capable of returning to their ancestral form.

Then one day, Pop, a man with severed beast veins, picked up a human baby. He couldn't even afford enough food for himself, but Pop would rather risk his life than keep the best food, most precious things, and most valuable treasures for himself. He gave them all to the baby. But before he could secretly raise the child for even a few days, the academy found out and snatched the baby away, handing him over to the Boss family to deal with. Everyone said, "He's dead, he's dead! That little cub is done for!"

But little did they know, inside the Boss family's home

The third sister, with the bloodline of the Nine-Headed Hell Dragon and its unimaginably powerful sorcery: (making a felt doll for Fuyi) "Do you like it, little Fuyi?"

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The eldest father, with the supreme Eastern bloodline of the Mirage Dragon: "Come on, Daddy will teach you swordplay. We'll use my holy sword."

The second father, with the Western bloodline of Jormungandr, the sea serpent: "Baby, you can kill whoever you like for fun. Mwah."

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The eldest brother, a Pure White Dragon, and the second brother, an Evil-Blood Black Dragon, willingly handed over their own heart-blood crystals and placed them in Fuyi's little palm. "Just recite the spell and you can summon both of us. Have you memorized it?"

Fuyi looked impassive, resignation showing in his yellow-green eyes.

Of course, what exasperated Fuyi most was Pop, the foolish man with severed beast veins who followed him around in secret every day. Even when punished, despised, and driven away, Pop would always plead, "Let me see the baby! Just one look from far away is enough. I'll only look once, please!!"

Later, strange events began to occur one after another. The instance was invaded by a battle-hardened player, the likes of whom appeared only once in a thousand years, whose strength was terrifyingly overpowered. The entire realm of beast-vein people faced annihilation...

Just as Pop and the Boss family were doing everything they could, even sacrificing themselves, to save Fuyi, no one expected the Devouring Abyss, capable of swallowing all things, to descend. In the unfathomable darkness, a pair of round, glowing yellow-green eyes suddenly opened.

Core theme: If this path doesn't work, take another.