After Grossing Out My Archenemy, We Were Reborn Together

My new work, "I Won My Master's Heart by Playing the Victim and Acting Sweet," is now out! ***Break*** [Filthy-mouthed, shameless top x short-tempered, prickly bottom] 60% anti-piracy Blurb One: Xiao Chu was ennobled after a decisive victory at Tianqiu Pass. But the emperor summoned him back to the capital, shut the gates, and ordered him to grovel and flatter him. By his second year stuck in Jingzhou, Xiao Chu had started slacking off. The palace is full of dead men's bones. In the inner court, people chase after power like flies after meat. The officials bow and kowtow like pounding garlic. He joked around, chased women, and became famous throughout the land as one of the "Four Young Masters" in the pleasure quarters. He wanted to go mad! To go mad alongside the festering sores covering the land! Until he met Pei Yu. Xiao Chu was drawn to him for one special reason: he was vicious with his insults. Maybe his pretty face had something to do with it, too. In short, Xiao Chu loved Pei Yu's harmless scolding and beatings, whether they were bickering and pulling each other's hair in broad daylight or biting and tearing at each other beneath the covers at night. He loved making a mess of this man. Right up until he died, he poured his heart into one last performance, spitting "I love you so much it hurts" right in Pei Yu's face. Even in death, he had to disgust him! Blurb Two: After getting another chance at life, Xiao Chu was more or less tired of fooling around. What was the point of slacking off? He might as well seize the throne. However, he didn't care much about old ties. He had always thought that he and Pei Yu were nothing more than bedmates who actually hated each other. So in the game he played in Jingzhou, he left no one out of his schemes, including his old lover. Still, in this life, he didn't plan to make Pei Yu his archenemy in public. The man was talented. Why not trick, bluff, and cajole him into joining his side? Once they had conquered the realm, there would still be time to tie Pei Yu to the bed. But... Why did his archenemy always blush whenever he saw him in this life? Xiao Chu was a cautious man, and he couldn't shake the feeling that Pei Yu was playing another trick. But no matter how much he thought it over, Xiao Chu never imagined that this could be the reason. After he confessed to his archenemy in his previous life, it turned out that he was not the only one who got another chance at life. # "Xiao Chengli, you are the moon on my horizon. I want to gaze at you forever." # This life was not lived in this life. Even if one is born, where can one be born from? **Reading Notes** 1. Both leads are each other's first love. Xiao is the top, Pei is the bottom. 2. [Do not read if you are particular about top/bottom roles] 3. The top is a huge pervert, with a lethal dose of explicit content. 4. [Important] The blurb doesn't quite match the story, and I don't know how to fix it. In short, don't take a chance on it. If it's a hard limit for you, steer clear. [Advance reservation: "I Won My Master's Heart by Playing the Victim and Acting Sweet"] Smooth-talking, theatrical fox top x gentle, scheming master bottom who plays along with him Top's POV: Shen Shu transmigrated into the cultivation world. To stay alive, he became Wen Zhuo's lover, only to discover by chance that he had acquired the abilities of a fox spirit. Playing the victim and acting sweet made him stronger. Okay, let the tears fall. Dignity be damned. After joining the Taiqing Sect, he immediately threw himself into Wen Zhuo's arms and acted like a helpless little thing. Everyone in the sect thought he was a weak, manipulative green tea, but Wen Zhuo believed his lies. So when Wen Zhuo said he would protect him for the rest of his life, Shen Shu put away his fox tail and decided to trust him. Days and months passed. One day, clutching his sword tassel, he finally decided to give Wen Zhuo his true heart. Then he overheard the truth behind Wen Zhuo's kindness: "Next, all we have to do is get Shen Shu to willingly let himself be possessed, and the soul of that fox spirit will be brought back." So those compassionate eyes were shedding crocodile tears. Forget it. Act obedient? To hell with that. Bottom's POV: After the little fox spirit Wen Zhuo raised died, he seemed to become a different person. He kept everyone at arm's length, hid a knife behind his smile, and often disappeared for years at a time. Then he brought home Shen Shu, whose eyes looked remarkably like those of the fox spirit who had died in the ice coffin. Wen Zhuo treated him better than anyone else. But the disciple he had taken in went mad, usurped the sect, and sealed Wen Zhuo's powers, turning him into his bedmate. Everyone thought Wen Zhuo had raised an ungrateful wretch and must hate him to the bone. Is that so? Behind the red curtains, beneath the bed canopy, the lamplight flickered. Wen Zhuo was bound all over with red cords. He played along, resisting Shen Shu and accusing him with loving eyes of defying his master and repaying kindness with treachery. But in his heart, he thought: "You are still as beautiful as you were a hundred years ago." "No matter how much you resent me this time, I won't let you go again." [Little Scene] Shen Shu had been holding a question in for a long time. Today, he finally asked it: "Master, why do you have a sword tassel just like mine?" Wen Zhuo looked surprised. "Huh? I do? What a coincidence! When are we going to bed?" "No, wait. Shouldn't Master explain..." "It's just this, then that, and then this. All right, why aren't you tying Master up today?" Wen Zhuo smiled and held out his hand, looking at Shen Shu with eager anticipation. *Fake top/bottom dynamic. It looks like the top is the bottom's top, but actually the bottom is the top's bottom. *Shen is the top and Wen is the bottom. The disciple is the top, and the top's true form is a fox. *[Do not read if you are particular about top/bottom roles] Strictly monogamous 1v1, with both leads devoted to each other. *Romance-focused. The plot, supporting cast, and villains are all there to give the couple more chances to be lovey-dovey and look cool. *What seems like an illogical plot point might be foreshadowing or lead to a twist. Theme: This life was not lived in this life. Even if one is born, where can one be born from?