Winning Over the Ice-Cold Beauty with a Tragic Past

Coming soon: Reborn as Everyone's Least Favorite, I Cleared My Name. A powerful, universally hated top x a seductive beauty bottom.

A story about a reviled demon who returns from the dead and turns the tables. Please add it to your favorites!

Fake jinx, younger, secretly passionate top x genuinely unlucky, considerate and gentle bottom

For the first eighteen years of his life, Mingyue Changzhao had everything he could wish for. Gifted and highly accomplished in cultivation, he was humble and gentle. Outside the home, he was the widely admired young master of the island; inside, he was the obedient, considerate eldest son who doted on his younger siblings.

Then he met a young Daoist.

The young Daoist was serious and unsmiling, yet possessed the looks of an immortal descended from heaven. Mingyue Changzhao fell in love at first sight, and only then realized he was attracted to men.

But his awakening lasted less than the time it takes to burn a stick of incense before he was forced to shut his heart again.

The young Daoist was his cousin?!

His cousin should have had a bright and happy childhood, but a lie had deceived him for ten years. After living alone on a mountain for a decade, he had become distant and withdrawn.

Mingyue Changzhao felt for him, and beyond that, he loved him helplessly.

He had always been a proper man who kept himself strictly in check. Who knew that on his very first day away from home, he would defy the whole world?

He was attracted to men. He loved his own cousin.

He had cast aside convention.

Shangguan Tianze was born in the greatest cultivation city in the world. He should have been its young master, showered with everyone's love, but an inexplicable prophecy that he was a jinx forced him to leave his family for ten years.

He was not cold by nature, but his jinx-like constitution was too powerful: his birth killed his mother and half-brother; when he was three, his father was injured and lost all his cultivation; when he was five, his older brother was poisoned and could no longer cultivate... Because of this, he had no choice but to shut himself away from the world.

Keeping his distance from others was his way of being kind.

Later, a "cousin" he had never met suddenly barged into his world, doing everything he could to please and indulge him. When he asked his cousin why, the man said it was because they were family.

Shangguan Tianze believed him. He was saddened, but there was nothing he could do.

Until he discovered that the beloved in his cousin's illusion looked exactly like him. He could no longer keep his composure.

Tianze: Cousin, you're lying.

Changzhao: No, I'm not. Don't say such things, I... Mm!

Changzhao had just come out of his cousin's room when he ran into his silly younger brother.

Changzhan: Brother, are you hot?

Changzhao: Yeah... a little.

Changzhan: Brother, what happened to your waist?

Changzhao: Uh... I, I pulled it.

Changzhan: Brother, are you overheated? Did mosquitoes bite you?

Changzhao: No! No!

Changzhan: How can you say no? Look at your mouth, it's red and swollen, and you've got little red spots all over you!

"Cough, cough, cough!" Changzhao nearly coughed up blood.

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one, happy ending

2. Includes melodramatic plot twists such as mysteries about their origins

3. The top is aloof at first and secretly passionate later. He isn't truly an ice-cold person; childhood trauma made him seem that way. His real self gradually comes out later. This is not out of character.

Coming soon: Reborn as Everyone's Least Favorite, I Cleared My Name. Blurb:

In his previous life, Liu Hengqing was hated by everyone like a rat in the street. He died at twenty-five, and the last thing he heard was, "Good riddance."

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. After dying with a heart full of despair, Liu Hengqing was reborn ten years in the past.

At this point, he had just joined Penglai Mountain. He had not yet been thrown out, betrayed his master, or become everyone's target.

There was still time to change everything.

He wanted nothing to do with this place ever again, but the person he could never forget was still here, enduring a miserable life. He couldn't let go.

So Liu Hengqing rejoined the sect and lived cautiously, afraid that one wrong step would bring about the same tragedy as his previous life. He went to great lengths to win over the other disciples. He didn't mind being called a bootlicker, and even when his senior brother gave him a hard time, he answered with a smile.

Liu Hengqing was a genius, and he knew all the disasters that lay ahead. If he picked the right moment and nipped the problem in the bud, he could finally get what he wanted in this life: to flee into the distance with the senior brother he loved, live in seclusion deep in the mountains, and leave the mortal world behind.

Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Liu Hengqing was too late. What was meant to happen still happened.

Besides being the greatest sect in the cultivation world, Penglai Immortal Mountain was also home to two peerless immortal lords who captivated everyone.

One was Luo Ningyu, known as Lord Yushan. The other was Wen Renying, the chief disciple of Master Fangyi Pavilion.

Both were heaven's favored children, and exceptionally handsome. The moment they entered the world, they set everyone's hearts aflutter. Rumor had it that they looked and acted alike, like a pair of flawless jade ornaments. Many rogue cultivators who overestimated themselves challenged Penglai Immortal Mountain, supposedly to test their swords, but really because they wanted a glimpse of the beauties.

In his previous life, Liu Hengqing had firmly chosen Penglai Immortal Mountain because he, too, had fallen prey to the lure of beauty. He had to see the two legendary beauties, and preferably take one home.

Later, he achieved his original wish, but what he took home was a cold corpse.

Reader's Guide:

1. The story is told from the top's perspective and has a happy ending. No fans of the bottom, please.

2. The top mistook someone for another person in his previous life, but cleared up the misunderstanding back then.

3. Not a love-interest competition story. One-on-one, no pairing changes or reversals.

A top with an annoying aura and overwhelming strength x a green-tea beauty bottom

Theme: The cycle of heaven cannot be defied. Those who sow evil must reap its consequences.