Back Before My Senior Brother Fell to Demonic Ways

A straightforward, sunny junior disciple bottom x an aloof, brilliant and powerful senior disciple top. Both are reborn. In their previous lives, the top loved the wrong person while the bottom kept his crush secret. Reborn, they both realize their feelings and work together, loving only each other this time. Be sure to check the content warnings.

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As the junior disciple of Fuyun Mountain, Jiang Shuyi lived an inconsequential life, lazing around and waiting to die. It could have been perfectly happy.

But he had a secret: he had been in love with his senior brother, Shen Jinghong, for a long time.

To him, his senior brother was an immortal among men, the most perfect person in the world. One day, he would surely become the greatest sword immortal of his time. He could only admire him from afar, never daring to get close.

If Jiang Shuyi didn’t confess, plenty of other people would. In the end, Lin Fu, young sect master of Snow Wolf Mountain, won Shen Jinghong’s heart.

Unfortunately, Lin Fu was a despicable man. Shen Jinghong loved the wrong person, lost his cultivation, and at the end of his road fell to demonic cultivation in a moment of despair. The Ten Great Immortal Sects executed him, and he died with hatred in his heart.

Soon after, Fuyun Mountain was destroyed in a battle between immortals and demons.

As Jiang Shuyi perished in a sea of flames, he had two regrets: first, that he hadn’t saved his senior brother, and second, that he hadn’t dared to confess his feelings.

When Jiang Shuyi opened his eyes again, Fuyun Mountain was at the height of its prosperity, and his senior brother Shen Jinghong, dressed in white, was still the immortal sect’s revered gentleman.

He had been reborn, returned to a time before anything had happened. His senior brother hadn’t fallen in love with Lin Fu, nor had he succumbed to demonic cultivation.

The tragedy of his previous life was still fresh in his mind. Jiang Shuyi secretly vowed that this time, he would stop his senior brother from falling in love with Lin Fu, that scumbag, and help him focus on his cultivation until he became a great sword immortal.

And perhaps this time, he should try to express the love he’d never confessed in his previous life.

At first, Jiang Shuyi wanted to choose a beautiful, sunny day to confess to his senior brother. Then one day, he discovered that his senior brother was about to meet Lin Fu, just as he had in his previous life. Jiang Shuyi was scared out of his wits.

Before Shen Jinghong could meet Lin Fu, Jiang Shuyi charged in, hoisted his senior brother over his shoulder, and ran back to Fuyun Mountain.

Shen Jinghong: ???

Junior Brother, what are you doing?

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For the first three hundred years of his life, Shen Jinghong knew nothing but cultivation and had never understood love. Later, he gave Lin Fu his heart, only to discover that he was the calamity of his life. He had been so foolish and naive, throwing away the beautiful life he should have had.

When Heaven gave him another chance, he didn’t want to repeat his mistakes. Yet the karma of his previous life had given rise to a heart demon. Though he had returned to the past, he was no longer as spirited or full of hope as he had been.

He kept his rebirth a secret, and this life was much the same as his previous one, with one unexpected variable: his junior disciple Jiang Shuyi, whom he’d never paid much attention to, seemed to have changed completely.

Jiang Shuyi was always at his side, which was one thing, but he also went out of his way to show his affection. And for some reason, he hated Lin Fu with a passion.

Only later did Shen Jinghong learn that Jiang Shuyi was his salvation, the karma they had forged over two lifetimes.

- "If you fall into the abyss, I’ll come down and save you, bring you back to the human world, and help you walk the Great Dao, reach the summit, and triumph over every obstacle."

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Reader’s guide:

1. In this life, neither of them is blinded by love. They’ll work together, become powerful, crush the scumbag, and make up for the regrets and mistakes of their previous lives.

2. In his previous life, the top didn’t understand love and was too naive to see that his feelings were being manipulated. That’s the karma he has to bear, so he truly did love the scumbag in his previous life, while the bottom kept his crush secret. In this life, they’re firmly 1v1: the bottom bravely pursues love, and the top finally falls for the right person.

3. At first, neither knows the other has been reborn, so they’re on completely different wavelengths.

4. Please read all of the above before starting. Don’t get into it and regret it later!

Theme: Grow through adversity, keep surpassing and improving yourself