Dusk and Dawn

Self-wooing, tsundere top x guileless, pure-hearted, straightforward bottom

A sea of hatred and love | melodrama | bittersweet sweetness | winning back his wife. The whole novel is already written, so please add it to your collections, everyone. Sob.

[Blurb]

The ten isles of the immortal mountains of Penglai have been sought by people across the world ever since the First Emperor. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the sea gate opens for those whose hearts are sincere and whose blessings have arrived.

Prince Fu Yu of the Central Plains leads five hundred men and women out to sea in search of the elixir of immortality. Unfortunately, they are caught in a shipwreck. A storm beneath the sea awakens the monster Zi Ai, who possesses one of the corpses and swims to the surface. There, he is rescued by Feng Nian, a young lord of the Bohai Feng clan who is also serving as their guide. From then on, Zi Ai shares a boat with the prince, who has also narrowly survived the disaster.

Only after coming ashore does Zi Ai discover that the so-called quest for the elixir is actually part of a shocking sacrificial conspiracy. But the prince with the icy gaze has already set his sights on him. Poor Zi Ai becomes little more than a servant of a servant, forced to grit his teeth and attend to him.

But nobody told him being human would be this hard!!! Serving tea and water would be one thing, but why does he have to warm the prince's bed, too???

And if warming his bed wasn't enough, why is his life in danger as well?!

Just as the prince runs Zi Ai through with his sword...

Wait, why has everything started over?

Fortunes change. This time, the prince gets a disastrous start. Would you look at that, he's already gravely injured and beyond saving. Sorry, he's petty. Bye-bye... Wait, no, who are you? I really don't want to save you!

Everything starts again. Zi Ai is once more hauled aboard by Feng Nian, and is forced to put the past aside and save the prince. He can't beat him, but surely he can avoid him. Just as he uses his memories from before time rewound to dodge one deadly trap after another and get far away from the prince, disaster strikes: the prince has convinced himself that Zi Ai is in love with him!

Fu Yu: "I know you love me so much you can't help yourself."

Zi Ai: "Me? You mean me?"

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When I fell in love with him, he told me he had come close to me to kill me.

Because I am a god.

And he wants to live forever, for all eternity.

-- Such is the fleeting life of a mayfly, such is the brief span of a human lifetime.

Tsundere top x straightforward bottom

[Reading Guide]

Part of the Ten Isles of Penglai series.

The setting currently leans toward Chinese myths of mountains and seas. I'll expand the blurb when I have time.

Theme: Cherish the present.