A slightly spoiled troublemaker x a cold, fearsome god who isn't great with words
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Yun Wuchen, Lord of Divine Fire, is famed as the most beautiful person in the Nine Heavens. Countless people adore and covet him, doing everything in their power just to earn a single fond glance from the little phoenix. Yet not one of them has ever won his favor or stayed by his side.
Until one day, people noticed the same immortal lord appearing again and again beside the phoenix who was always alone.
The immortal lord had knife-sharp features and a fearsome aura like a thousand-year-old glacier. With an utterly possessive air, he brazenly shut out every covetous gaze turned toward the phoenix.
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As a phoenix, Yun Wuchen was the undisputed darling of Heaven's Will. Yet in his nearly thousand years of life, only Shen Qichi had ever made him fall so hard.
Everyone in the Immortal Pavilion said that Lord of Divine Fire was aloof and arrogant, looking down on all those below him. They didn't know that this picky, proud little phoenix had once, in his youth, made the innocent wish to spend forever with someone.
Believing he had found the love of his life, he happily vowed they would never part until their hair turned white, and gave away his one and only phoenix feather. The little phoenix who would roost only in a parasol tree willingly settled in a secluded courtyard in the Nine Heavens. In the end, all he got was that person's merciless betrayal and a back that never turned around as they walked away.
He resolved to bury that wretched past beneath the sea. But when they met again five hundred years later, that person's gaze was just as fervent and devout as before, and yet they couldn't even be bothered to offer a decent explanation.
Yun Wuchen sneered. "What makes you think you can decide we're getting back together just because you say so? Do I look like an easygoing person to you?"
Shen Qichi: "I was wrong. I'm guilty."
Shen Qichi: "So can I come back to our room and sleep tonight?"
Yun Wuchen: "..."
Yun Wuchen: "Hmph."
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Unreliable little skit:
Heavenly Decree >> Immortal Forum >> Gossip and Rumors
Anonymous Immortal Friend 117: Help! Does anyone know what's been going on with Lord of Divine Fire lately? Yesterday the Pavilion Lord sent me to discuss the matter of dispelling evil spirits with him. Before I even got inside, I heard him smashing things in his room in a fit of rage. I was so scared I wanted to flee on my cloud before nightfall, but the matter of dispelling evil spirits can't wait. If anyone knows what's going on, please tell me and save me from this crisis.
Anonymous Immortal Friend 404: Clearly the original poster doesn't read the Immortal Forum much. The phoenix and Lord Shen having a small fight every ten days and a big one every half month is nothing unusual. I did a little fortune-telling, and the half-month mark has arrived. Why not ask Lord Shen, "Have you made up today?"
Anonymous Immortal Friend 233: Have Lord Shen and the phoenix made up today?
Anonymous Immortal Friend 818: Have Lord Shen and the phoenix made up today?
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Shen Qichi: "..."
Shen Qichi: "Sigh."
Firmly committed to a one-on-one romance, no wavering
Neither lead is perfect. A story about two hopeless romantics. Extreme character loyalists, please don't read. If you get upset, that's on you T T
Theme: Giving everything for the one you love, and doing so gladly
