After My Beloved Attained the Dao

"You said those years in the mortal world were my tribulation. What about now? You fought to protect me, shattering your immortal bones and losing all your cultivation, and now you are near death."

"Did you never realize that you were my tribulation, too?"

Originally titled Seeing Your Silver Hair

Yun Qing was once the most exalted princess in the land of Yong. Her father doted on her, her brothers indulged her, her elder half-sister cherished her, and her younger brother revered her.

Then she fell for the unloved son of a household in the Ministry of Revenue.

She gave him power and prestige, turning the once-bullied bastard son into someone no one in Yong dared offend. Yun Qing treated him well, and he treated her well in return.

Just when Yun Qing thought they could go on living that way forever, he joined forces with the rebels and surrounded the imperial city. Right before her eyes, he killed her father, brothers, and loved ones with his own hands.

Only then did she realize she had been nothing more than a pawn in his quest for power.

Before taking her own life with a blade, she saw the bastard son once more.

He was no longer the pitiful, skeletal figure he had once been. He wore a fox-fur cloak and a jade crown, his face rosy, with beautiful women at his side.

It turned out that from beginning to end, it had all been one-sided.

Several years later, Yun Qing met that bastard son again.

But by then, their identities had changed completely.

Yun Qing was the War God Yun Qing, while the bastard son was the rogue immortal Ming You.

Everything that had happened in the mortal world was merely Ming You's way of repaying his debt of gratitude: he had willingly become her love tribulation.

Their status had always been as different as heaven and earth, and they should have had no further connection.

Until the war between immortals and demons. Yun Qing led her troops into battle, and at the critical moment, Ming You rushed forward and took a fatal blow for her.

Before his soul scattered, Ming You held her hand. A glimmer shone in his usually gentle eyes. "High Goddess Yun Qing, becoming your tribulation has been my wish for a thousand years. May the rest of your life be peaceful and smooth, free of further tribulations."

Later,

word spread that the Demon Lord had awakened from his slumber and seemed to have found a lover in his dreams. But when asked, the Demon Lord could not say who this lover was.

He could not even say whether they were male or female, young or old.

Later still,

the Demon Lord found his lover, only to discover that the lover seemed to have a long-dead first love in their heart.

* A gentleman in public and clingy in private, with a slightly unhinged streak, male lead X domineering in public and warm and protective in private, with a slightly unhinged streak, female lead

* Both leads are each other's one and only, and the male lead graduated with honors from the School of Virtuous Men

* The male lead is not a scumbag. The bastard son, Ming You, and the Demon Lord are all the same person

* The story starts in the mortal world and later moves to the immortal realm

Theme: Please, by all means, be a good person.