A Magpie Rises in the Netherworld

He closed his eyes, opened them again, and was reborn.

In his previous life, he was a demonic cultivator of the Unorthodox Path, feared by all. He made corpse puppets and studied sinister arts, leaving devastation and not a blade of grass wherever he went.

Mu Yun Que was infamous in every village for miles, the kind of kid even dogs couldn't stand. He was notorious from a young age. As the saying goes, it's hard to learn good habits, but picking up bad ones is easy. As a child, he was a master of cheating and swindling; as an adult, he committed every kind of murder and robbery.

You can tell what a person will be like from the age of three, and what they'll be like for life by the age of seven.

This little demon of a man somehow grew a conscience at twenty-eight and saved someone who was badly injured.

Bah! What was that about saving a life being worth more than building a seven-tier pagoda? He only saw how harmless the man looked, got all hot and bothered and fell in love, then rushed to treat his injuries, feed him medicine, and fuss over him.

He'd thought that after spending half his life alone and adrift, he'd finally found someone to care for him and share an umbrella with him. But who could have guessed that the person he loved already had someone else in his heart?

Fine, then. If he was going to do it, he might as well go all the way!

Little Yun Que hadn't meant to go that far at first. He accidentally killed the person his beloved held dear, then accidentally forced himself on him. From then on, they weren't a pair of lovebirds: they were sworn enemies.

Later, his enemy led the charge into his lair, destroyed his nest, and brought everything he'd worked so hard to build crashing down.

He still remembered that day, when the rain poured down and the gates of Youdu were split into eight pieces. He slaughtered all his corpse puppets, and so many people surrounded him in the Lichuan beneath the city. Everyone wanted his head, but even at the end of his rope, he used his bizarre arts to beat back every last person who charged at him.

Until Fu Junyan walked up to him.

Little Yun Que had planned to play the victim and see if the man he'd been intimate with might soften toward him. But before he could finish speaking, the other man ran him through with his sword.

"I... have nowhere else to go."

"...Can't you leave... a little space in your heart for me to stay?"

"...Even if it's only as big as a fist, that's enough. Think of me sometimes in the future, but not too much."

"But don't think of me too little, either. I'm afraid you'll... eventually... forget me completely."

"Then dying would be... such a waste..."

How tragic! So, so tragic! A heartfelt last speech! Who could hear it and not be moved, unless they had a heart of stone?

But as the blade went in and blood came out, Fu Junyan's face remained cold, unaffected in the slightest. Only then did Mu Yun Que understand: the man probably hated him to the core.

Fine. He'd settle the debts of this life in this life.

But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that he had been reborn?!

And reborn on the very day he saved Fu Junyan?!

Fine, fine, fine. Debts have debtors, and what's coming will come. But this time, he'd decided to renounce love and desire! He'd start by not being kind on a whim!

1. The leads are both virgins, one-on-one, HE (I think it's HE!)

2. Updates are expected every other day. I'm currently building up a backlog.

3. The story's values follow the characters' looks. Even villains have broken hearts, crushed by the world. Believe that everything happens for a reason.

4. My writing skills aren't great, but I'm working hard. Please go easy on me, dears.

5. This is part of a series, and characters from Immortal Lord Below will appear! The story takes place 300 years later!

6. This is more of an ensemble story, and there may be a lot of plot-focused chapters. If you only want to read about the couple being lovey-dovey, feel free to drop it! The story may include yuri and BG romances, so please be warned!

7. Please bookmark! I'm rolling around on the floor begging for bookmarks! If you've read my blurb, you're mine now! Don't leave!

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