I Became Sworn Brothers with My Archenemy

With his life hanging by a thread, Luo Fuyan joined forces with the Instrument of Karma, helping the Heavenly Dao keep the world's plot on track in exchange for a chance to extend his life and be reborn.

His final mission was to play the villain who sabotaged the protagonist, only to be defeated by the righteous and die a gruesome death.

Worried about how difficult the mission would be, he heard the Instrument of Karma say, "Your sworn enemy, the ethereal and dignified senior brother of the righteous path, He Guiyun, is also someone the Heavenly Dao has arranged. You can work with him."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

Luo Fuyan believed it.

With a divine artifact, a prophecy, and an ally, playing the villain would be a piece of cake.

He deliberately maneuvered the protagonist into a trap where he could gain an opportunity. Then, spotting He Guiyun alone, he slapped him on the shoulder. "Come on! Let's go wait for him at the escape route I've prepared. We can't let anything really happen to him."

"You did that on purpose?"

"Of course."

His ally looked at him with a complicated expression.

While plotting out the villain's story arc, Luo Fuyan couldn't make up his mind, so he wrote to his former enemy and current teammate to ask what he thought of the plan.

He Guiyun wrote back: "Utterly brazen."

Luo Fuyan: "?"

Obviously! I'm a big, bad villain! You righteous sect's senior brother just don't get it!

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Luo Fuyan thought everything was going smoothly, except that He Guiyun was a little strange.

Then the Instrument of Karma told him, "I think we got the wrong person."

Luo Fuyan's eyes widened in shock. "What do you mean?!"

"He Guiyun isn't your ally. It seems that from beginning to end... he's only ever been your sworn enemy."

Luo Fuyan: "???"

All he could do was make one last desperate attempt to hide his plan to fake his death and leave.

He believed that someone as aloof and proud, and as upright as He Guiyun, would never hold a grudge against him.

Until he opened his eyes and found himself in the bedchamber of the Demon Realm's young lord.

The "senior brother of the righteous path" was wreathed in demonic energy, the young lord's token hanging at his waist. He came over slowly and asked in a low voice, "Junior brother, you've opposed me for a hundred years and toyed with me for so long. Where do you think you're going now?"

Luo Fuyan: "..."

I'm doomed.

A preview. If you're interested, add it to your collection from the author's page:

"My Lord, Please Wait"

Wen Zezhou served as a royal secret guard for more than ten years. He had faced death time and again and witnessed many secrets unknown to the world.

The last secret he learned was the truth of his own birth.

The only son of the Marquis of Wu'an had gone missing as a child. For years, the marquis's household had publicly claimed that the young heir was bedridden with illness while secretly searching for him. At last, they found Wen Zezhou.

Wen Zezhou accepted the token proving his identity and faked his death amid the turmoil to escape.

From then on, the palace was down one all-capable secret guard, and the marquis's household had gained a frail, sickly young heir.

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After the Marquis of Wu'an's heir "recovered from a serious illness," the emperor granted him a favor and ordered Wen Zezhou to take up an official post.

But Wen Zezhou had spent half his life fighting and killing. He no longer wanted a glittering career. All he wanted was to live quietly as an idle young lord, apart from worldly affairs.

After much deliberation, he chose the most leisurely position he could find. His direct superior was the Ninth Prince, Li Langxiao, who was widely known to be good for nothing. It was an ideal post for taking it easy.

He hadn't been coasting for long when he realized that every colleague around Li Langxiao was more secretive than the last.

And the Ninth Prince, rumored to have accomplished nothing, had been plotting in secret for years. Lying low amid the turbulent court, he was ambitious and had his sights set on the throne.

Afraid that his peaceful days might be over, Wen Zezhou pretended to know nothing and did his best to avoid the group's discussions.

The more he tried to keep his distance, the closer he somehow got to Li Langxiao.

-

Li Langxiao initially suspected that the frail young heir of the Marquis of Wu'an had some ulterior motive for suddenly coming to work under him.

So he kept Wen Zezhou by his side every day, keeping him under close observation.

But as he watched him, Li Langxiao became the one with ulterior motives.

He even kept Wen Zezhou protected at his side.

Until one day, the two of them fell into danger together. Li Langxiao ordered his guards to cover Wen Zezhou's escape first.

But the frail, sickly young heir of the Marquis of Wu'an turned around and charged at the pursuers.

The guard was horrified. "My lord, please wait...!"

The young lord leaped forward, seized a sword, and coldly cut down the pursuers with a single stroke.

"...Wait, wait a bit before killing them."

"...?"

Another historical danmei preview:

"The Villain and the Protagonist Are Inseparable"

Xi Yu came into the cultivation world with the simple dream of being a carefree slacker, only to transmigrate into the role of a villain who was supposed to work hard and build a career.

The villain System showed up on his very first day and dragged him off to work.

Was Xi Yu going to cooperate?

After a battle of wits with the System, he finally discovered that as long as he stayed beside Yue Tianhan, the villain System would obediently shut up.

Yue Tianhan had once been the greatest genius in the cultivation world. But several years ago, he suffered a grievous injury, his cultivation fell, and he could never advance again.

Xi Yu's sect had long been engaged to the Yue family, but since Yue Tianhan's cultivation partner had yet to be chosen, the matter remained unresolved. No one wanted to get involved.

Xi Yu raised his hand.

He could do it! Send him!

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Yue Tianhan was bound to a protagonist-aura System. He trained, leveled up, hit rock bottom, then trained again and reached even greater heights. The only time he got a short break was while he was getting married.

Even the System was so exhausted from all the grinding that it wanted to quit.

Despite all that, Yue Tianhan never managed to find the final villain.

At last, after he had completed every mission and eliminated every other possibility, the System finally narrowed the search to someone close by.

Yue Tianhan looked at his cultivation partner, who followed him around every day, sightseeing and enjoying life.

"?"

The protagonist-aura System timidly said, "It seems your protagonist aura blinded his villain System..."

"..."

*The little scene and interactions in the preview are there to highlight the premise and may not appear in the full story.

*The title and blurb may change at any time before the story begins.

Theme: An innocent heart, unwavering even in the face of death.