To strengthen their Dao hearts, the gods of the Celestial Realm must live through hundreds of lifetimes in the mortal world before returning to become true gods.
However, mortals can only be reincarnated for a thousand years, while there are thousands of gods in heaven. Inevitably, their mortal lives overlap.
One day, the Celestial Realm's database was leaked, allowing every god to see which people beside them during their mortal trials had been fellow gods.
Emperor Wenhua was learned and courteous, gentle as jade. He had undergone two hundred mortal trials.
In one life, he was a famous courtesan, abused to death by his brothel madam.
In another, he was a high-ranking court official, cursed at in court by a treacherous minister until he died of rage.
He had been an emperor, stabbed to death by a general. He had fought on the battlefield all his life, only to be bitten by a venomous snake and die.
He had been an ordinary farm woman, and she and her useless husband starved to death.
He had been reincarnated as a stray dog and beaten to death in the street.
A hundred lifetimes of hardship taught Emperor Wenhua to see through life, making his temperament ever more peaceful as he cultivated the Dao of Unfeeling.
But after the Celestial Realm's database was leaked, he was stunned to discover that in more than a hundred of his two hundred lifetimes, the person closest to him had been a god.
That god was the always dignified and imposing Celestial Emperor.
Except...
The brothel madam who abused him was the Celestial Emperor. The treacherous minister who cursed him was the Celestial Emperor. The general, the venomous snake, the thug who beat the dog to death, the useless husband... They were all the Celestial Emperor.
A hundred lifetimes of hardship, all caused by one person!! Emperor Wenhua's eyes went red with rage. What composure? What Dao of Unfeeling? His Dao heart was shattered!
At the same time, the Celestial Emperor saw the database and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath.
In one life, he had been a brothel madam, only for the famous courtesan to burn down his brothel.
In another, he had angered a court official to death, but that official had cursed him to death too.
He had stabbed an emperor to death and been denounced by the world, but who knew that the accursed emperor had once slaughtered his whole family?
He had bitten a general to death, but the general had set fire to his snake nest on the march, roasting all his brothers and sisters.
He had finally managed to marry a farm woman, only for the two of them to bicker over daily necessities for their entire lives, sick of the sight of each other.
He had finally passed the highest level of the provincial examinations, only to be bitten by a stray dog. The dog was beaten to death, but the bite left him ill, ending his hard-working life early.
After a hundred mortal lives, the Celestial Emperor had hated countless people. Later, he saw through the hardships of the mortal world and finally returned to his throne as a being free of desire.
But when the database was leaked, he realized it wasn't the mortal world that was full of hardship. He was the one with a miserable fate, and all his suffering had come from one person.
The Celestial Emperor's Dao heart was unsteady too.
Emperor Wenhua and the Celestial Emperor were recognized throughout the Celestial Realm for their outstanding bearing. After the database leak, the two of them found each other increasingly strange.
* The two gods reincarnated with different genders and species.
* In half of their reincarnations, they were married couples: husband and wife, wife and husband, husbands, or wives.
* Two unlucky souls, tormenting each other across hundreds of lifetimes.
Theme: What doesn't kill me will make me stronger.