All Six Realms Think I'm a Substitute

My completed historical romance, "Offered to the Mad and Beautiful King by His White Moonlight," is finished. Please give it a look, darling (gets down on knees).

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Listen, Zhuang Wanzhen is my wife now. He's the son of @Yunshan Youyi.

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Before ascending to godhood, Zhuang Wanzhen's final task was to tie a matchmaking thread for the ancient Venerable God Fu Chi.

The Venerable God had a face that seemed incapable of loving anyone, yet he'd had a beloved who perished body and soul ten thousand years ago.

Zhuang Wanzhen racked his brains and brought countless people who resembled the beloved in some way to meet the Venerable God.

The Venerable God sat unhurriedly at a stone table, playing chess. His fingers were long and elegant as he handled the pieces, and his voice was full of indifference.

"Not as handsome as him."

"Not as gentle as him."

"Not as cute as him."

"Not as smart as him."

Zhuang Wanzhen: …

Love whoever you want. I'm done!

You could still ascend to godhood after enduring eighty-one lightning tribulations. Zhuang Wanzhen couldn't be bothered with the Venerable God, so he left without saying goodbye.

That day, the Venerable God sat alone beside the chessboard for a whole day and night. The tea went cold, the pastries grew stale, and all he heard was the rumble of thunder from thousands of miles away.

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Though the road was bumpy, Zhuang Wanzhen still ascended to godhood.

Who could have guessed that the Venerable God, once a stone-faced man, would change completely?

He chased after Zhuang Wanzhen every day, bringing him pastries and sweet words.

Zhuang Wanzhen: ?

But Zhuang Wanzhen didn't hold back, either. He went to the other man's courtyard every day to swipe his things, until he accidentally moved aside a carefully hidden canvas

The god painted on it wore a gentle smile and had the clear, bright air of a moonlit breeze. He had exactly the same face as Zhuang Wanzhen.

That was why the Three Lives Stone had accepted the match, and why the Venerable God's gaze had always held such deep, tender affection.

"The reflection in the pond looks just as it did before I was born."

For the first time, Zhuang Wanzhen had a malicious thought: "If the Venerable God loves him so much, then he can stay gone forever."

[Note] "The reflection in the pond looks just as it did before I was born" is from Shi Shizhi's "Looking at My Reflection."

Theme: Hard work will be rewarded.