[Honghuang] I Picked Up a Sage as My Partner

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The angsty, melodramatic novel currently serializing next door is not for the faint of heart.

“I need a maid to warm my bed. Would you come back to my residence with me?”

“This subject already has a wife and concubines. I ask the Princess to choose another suitable man.”

“Yiyi, would you let me marry you?”

Nanyi often heard people say that when someone is pushed to the brink, they would fall in love with the one and only light in their darkness. She had never believed it.

Until that day, when the warm sunlight slanted down and he stood against the light, coolly speaking as he gave her money and helped her out of a bind.

His name was Gu Shiyue.

Nanyi knew full well that she and Gu Shiyue were worlds apart, and that she shouldn't entertain any improper thoughts. Yet when he wanted to refuse a marriage proposal for her sake, her heart still skipped a beat.

Perhaps Gu Shiyue did have feelings for her, too.

Her mother once told her that men had always been fickle.

When Nanyi learned that Gu Shiyue had suddenly decided to marry, but not her, she froze. After struggling with it for a long time, she finally gave up on him.

The scenery in Jiangnan was lovely, life was carefree, and she even met a young scholar who suited her fancy. Later, as Nanyi rested her hands on her ever-growing belly and cared for her mother in her old age, those days in the capital felt like a past life.

Nanyi was perfectly content. She just never expected to return to the capital. When she could no longer avoid the hand reaching toward her, she stepped back twice and said,

“Sir, please show some restraint. I am already a married woman.”

This is a companion work to My Job for the Heavenly Dao: Buying Out Tongtian.

After the Investiture of the Gods, Tongtian had been imprisoned in the Zixiao Palace for thousands of years. He was tired of staying there. Hearing that humanity had prospered in the modern age, he descended to the mortal realm.

When Laozi and Yuanshi heard that Tongtian had gone down to the mortal world, they felt guilty toward him. They sealed their own powers, took the form of children, and followed him down.

The former Jie Sect Disciples, now civil servants in the Heavenly Court, soon discovered that their master and sect leader had left the Zixiao Palace. They were all thrilled, determined to make him feel the warmth of home.

From the heroine's perspective:

As a 996 wage slave, She Chu lived up to her name: she got up earlier than a chicken and went to bed later than a dog, yet earned less than a food delivery rider. In short, she was broke.

One night, on her way home from work, she found a man who seemed to have something wrong with his head. He wore wide-sleeved robes with patterns that looked incredibly expensive, and the gold crown on his head seemed to be real gold. She swore she wasn't jealous!

The man did seem a little off. He claimed to be Sect Master Tongtian and insisted on following her home.

She Chu called the psychiatric hospital. She really wasn't jealous of rich people, but this man looked perfectly normal, while everything he said sounded insane.

Satisfied she'd done a good deed, She Chu quietly returned to her tiny rented apartment.

All right, can someone tell her why the “Sect Master Tongtian,” who was supposed to be at the psychiatric hospital waiting for his family to claim him, was sitting in her home?

When She Chu tried to report that someone had trespassed in her home, she discovered that she couldn't even get through to the police. Worse, this self-proclaimed Sect Master Tongtian threatened her with his divine might.

She Chu could only sigh. This god could really eat, especially since he polished off ten ice cream bars in one sitting. Her already meager budget was taking an even worse hit.

Later, She Chu found herself a partner.

Premise: We all hold the reins of our own lives.