Jian Wudu

Decisive and ruthless Nian Yunqian x sunny, cheerful Xie Ji

Heavy snow blocks the roads in Guangling, and the weather is bitterly cold.

Eight-year-old Nian Yunqian, thin and frail, climbs into a carriage carrying charcoal and wine to the Zhou residence. She hides in a wine vat and drinks her fill.

The carriage rattles its way into the Zhou residence.

When no one is around, she lifts the lid of the wine vat and comes face-to-face with the young master of the Zhou family. The boy is delicate and frail, coughing and panting after just a few steps, yet he dares to sneak wine.

Nian Yunqian’s eyes clear in an instant, and the fog in her head vanishes. She darts over and covers the young master’s mouth.

Water drips from her tattered clothes as she moves.

Xie Ji smells a strong aroma of wine coming from Nian Yunqian’s hand.

The girl before him has a thin face and a pair of bright, alert eyes tinged with panic. She is the first friend he has ever made.

“I know Guangling is only a place you’re staying for a while.”

When they part, Xie Ji makes a bet: that they’ll both live until the day they meet again. Then Nian Yunqian leaves, traveling far and wide to find a master and learn martial arts.

More than ten years pass. Both of them have changed beyond recognition, and undercurrents stir through the martial world.

The leader of the Sanqing Sect is murdered for no apparent reason, and the entire martial world hunts for the killer. The Fuyun Sect has a new leader, a cruel and terrifying figure with countless deaths to his name who is always on the move.

After another encounter with a strange woman who knocks him down, Xie Ji gets up and rubs his reddened wrist. Blood still seeps from his neck, where a red bite mark stands out against the side of his throat. He’s furious, but the moment he looks down, he sees the keepsake he and Nian Yunqian shared as children.

For the first time, he accepts his fate. His heart has found its home.

When they meet again, Nian Yunqian is afflicted with a strange Gu, and Xie Ji is the only cure.

Nian Yunqian was born with extraordinary bones. Even if she spends only the time it takes to burn a stick of incense practicing martial arts each day, she can still become a first-rate expert.

After taking her revenge, she has nothing left to hold on to. She doesn’t care even if the strange Gu kills her.

But then she wakes from a coma and encounters Xie Ji. His features are handsome, and his fringe rests neatly against his forehead in the dappled light. His eyes are closed, his lips gently pressed together, and his jawline is striking. His hair is tied in a high ponytail, and he’s at the perfect age to be bold and carefree.

Then the unexpected happens. Nian Yunqian no longer wants to die.

Later, she discovers that her enemy is still alive. Now she has even more reason to live!

My next story is already underway: The Divine Lord Is Reliable and Charming

Here’s the blurb: ≽^⚈⩊⚈^≼

The carefree divine lord Jiang Ci is sent down into the mortal world one day to undergo a tribulation. She takes the wrong passage designated for the trial, loses her divine powers, and plunges into the sea.

After swimming to shore with the last of her strength, she discovers that the person whose tribulation she’s meant to help is named Ping’an, has a fate marked by the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies, and is only ten years old. To avoid having Heaven erase her divine status and cast her into the cycle of reincarnation, she grits her teeth and vows to see the trial through!

The path through the tribulation is long and arduous. The first step is to keep the person undergoing it safe.

A Gu Diao wants to eat Ping’an, so she snatches him right out of the bird’s beak and gives it a couple of slaps for good measure. A haughty sword spirit refuses to acknowledge its master? One slap. An evil crow provokes her? Another slap. The Cangxuan Divine Lord, rumored to have a blue-green face and fangs and to exist beyond the Three Realms, suddenly appears with inscrutable intentions? Let’s… no, she can’t slap this one.

The first time Jiang Ci meets Cangxuan, the overwhelming possessiveness and aggression radiating from him really does leave her a little short of breath. The second time they meet, at the Ruins of Cangling, he takes Ping’an away for no reason other than to see her again. Jiang Ci doesn’t want to get tangled up with him, so she carries on with the tribulation.

The second step of the tribulation is to join the Xuanji Sect and learn to read and cultivate.

Jiang Ci becomes an honorary elder through her own strength and starts teaching her disciple to read. Ping’an stops being so dull and awkward, staying by her side to care for her and keep her warm. In less than three months, he can recite “Fakko” and turns out to be a cultivation genius!

But the older he gets, the more he looks like Cangxuan.

There is no third step. Jiang Ci fails the tribulation, loses a hundred thousand merit points, and happens to remember a brief love affair. It turns out she was Cangxuan’s late wife? And there’s a second piece of bad news: Ping’an is Cangxuan!

Cangxuan entered the mortal world under the name Ping’an to calm his soul. On the anniversary of his late wife’s death, while he is grieving at her grave, his subordinates summon him to clean up a mess. At a glance, he recognizes Jiang Ci as the wife he lost more than four thousand years ago.

Good news: He’s found his beloved, and she’s alive! Bad news: She’s forgotten everything!

Cangxuan resents that she abandoned him for thousands of years, yet follows after her with eager devotion.

He continues pretending to be Ping’an to create chances for them to be alone together. Behind her back, he quietly warns the junior disciple who writes Jiang Ci love letters, makes her breakfast himself, sneaks into her bed, and finds excuses to touch her from time to time.

Step by step, he secures his place in her heart, slowly and steadily, like water wearing through stone. But…

Why has the Yixiu Divine Lord from the Shangqing Realm suddenly come to Jiang Ci’s room in the middle of the night?

Why did the Demon King give her a token the very first time they met?

This newly ascended Martial God Zhao may be her colleague, but he can’t be ignored.

And on top of all that, he has to watch out for the fox spirit who appeared out of nowhere!

Cangxuan is upset. “Jiang Ci, how many brief love affairs have you had, exactly?!”

Theme: Stay true to yourself, and you can overcome any hardship.