The Young Marquis Ran Off to Get a Happy Ending with His Love Rival

[Spoiled, Precious Young Marquis Who Takes the Bottom X Talented in Both Letters and Arms, Cold but Hopelessly Devoted Rival Who Takes the Top]

[Chaotic Rivalry + Rivals to Lovers + Childhood Friends]

Word around town had it that Wen Zhiman, heir to the Marquis of Liuxuan, had fallen for the newly appointed top graduate. He pursued him everywhere, from banquets and taverns to evening outings.

The two seemed to have a thing for each other, and plenty of people had seen them together.

Someone even opened a betting pool, wagering that within three months, the young marquis would win the beauty's heart.

It took less than three months for Wen Zhiman to bring someone back to the marquis's residence. Only it wasn't the top graduate. It was Ji Sui, the rival who could do no right in Wen Zhiman's eyes.

In Shengjing, Wen Zhiman was little more than a spoiled young aristocrat. With the marquis's household behind him, he did as he pleased without a care in the world. He never imagined he could end up face-down in the mud, battered and humiliated.

When he fell on hard times, plenty of people came by to kick him while he was down. The only one who sought him out was his rival, Ji Sui, who took on his case.

Later, when a river embankment in Zhongzhou collapsed and the Yellow River burst its banks, the Minister of Works responsible for the waterways could hardly escape blame. The Ji family fell, and the emperor called them to account.

Seeing how miserable Ji Sui was, Wen Zhiman remembered that he had once refrained from kicking him while he was down. He hurried over to offer, “Since you have nowhere else to go, why not come back to the marquis's residence with me? You can be my personal servant, pour my tea and fetch my water. How does that sound?”

In the desolate, silent courtyard, the young man gazed at him with dark, unreadable eyes.

Wen Zhiman had no idea what that look meant. He simply said smugly, “It's just one more mouth to feed...”

*

At first, Wen Zhiman said, “An enemy is an enemy, for life.”

Later: “Hate lasts longer than love. An enemy can be a brother too, a brother for life.”

Until the day he confessed his feelings to the top graduate and was rejected. After drinking himself into a stupor, Ji Sui carried him back to the marquis's residence. The young man's cold lips pressed to his forehead as he murmured, “He's not worth it. Xiao Man, look at me instead.”

Wen Zhiman was drunk but still conscious, just too lazy to move: ???

“But brothers are brothers. How could a brother possibly like me?!”

#The heartbreak vanished in an instant. Brother, don't scare me like that.

*

After Wen Zhiman brought Ji Sui back to the marquis's residence, plenty of townsfolk waited to see the household's drama. Everyone knew Wen Zhiman and Ji Sui were sworn enemies.

While Shengjing's gambling houses were abuzz with bets on when Ji Sui would be tormented to death by Wen Zhiman, Wen Zhiman felt like he was the one being tormented to death.

Ji Sui had destroyed the Ji family with his own hands, then manipulated Wen Zhiman into taking him back to the marquis's residence. Every step had been part of his plan.

The bed frame creaked and groaned. The man behind him bit his shoulder while telling him how good he was to him.

Wen Zhiman wanted to cry. The man behind him reached out to cover his mouth, his cool, clear voice reciting the love letter Wen Zhiman had written to the top graduate years ago.

He was settling an old score.

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[Untouchable, peerless Sword Sovereign who takes the bottom X Deranged, hopelessly devoted, inhuman Heavenly Demon who takes the top]

[Scumbag Top's Redemption Arc, Unhinged Second Male Lead Takes the Top Spot]

[Sheng Chunfeng X Zhu Changjing]

Sheng Chunfeng, the Venerable Changheng Sword Sovereign of the Jinghua Sect, rose to fame in his youth and possessed an immortal's grace and beauty.

When he saved his junior brother Cheng Shu, his face was ruined, his cultivation crippled, and his life left hanging by a thread.

Half a month later, word spread through the Jinghua Sect that the Venerable Changheng Sword Sovereign Sheng Chunfeng had become Dao companions with his junior brother Cheng Shu, to share their blessings and longevity.

*

Sheng Chunfeng and Cheng Shu had known each other since childhood. They were close in age and shared the same path, and believed themselves inseparable. Becoming Dao companions seemed only natural.

That is, until Cheng Shu took on a new disciple.

Sheng Chunfeng saw the naked desire in Cheng Shu's eyes as he watched his disciple Zhu Changjing. In Cheng Shu's study, he found him searching for a way to dissolve the bond between Dao companions.

He heard Cheng Shu laugh scornfully as he spoke of him: “Someone who can't even lift a sword anymore wants to talk to me about swordsmanship?”

After a night of deliberation, Sheng Chunfeng threw away the jade pendant Cheng Shu had given him when they formed their bond, then left the sect without a word.

But he was crippled, and as he left, he didn't notice Zhu Changjing running away with him.

Days later, rumors spread through the cultivation world that Sheng Chunfeng had used a forbidden technique to abduct Zhu Changjing. The Jinghua Sect issued a massive bounty across the cultivation world for the Venerable Changheng Sword Sovereign Sheng Chunfeng.

*

The once-respected Sword Sovereign had become a hated fugitive.

Then, when the infamous Sheng Chunfeng saved everyone's lives at the cost of shattering his meridians, his boundless sword intent cleaved across the sky and leveled a mountaintop. Sheng Chunfeng plunged into the demon realm and died before their eyes, his body and soul destroyed.

Only then did everyone remember the Sword Sovereign who had once been so full of youthful ambition. They had witnessed what a genius could be, and what it meant for one to fall.

Cheng Shu also believed Sheng Chunfeng was dead, because the bond between them had completely vanished.

He thought, he was only a cripple. So what if he died? How much could he really have mattered to him?

Through more than a thousand sleepless nights, Cheng Shu grew frantic, afraid, and regretful.

*

With his immortal bones and spirit roots, Sheng Chunfeng should have been torn apart by demons after falling into the demon realm.

Unwilling to accept his fate, he closed his eyes and waited to die. Then Zhu Changjing, who had fallen into the demon realm alongside him and followed him all the way, suddenly laughed.

Sheng Chunfeng opened his eyes and saw a pair of horns growing from Zhu Changjing's head. Demons knelt all around them.

Covered in blood, Zhu Changjing wrapped both arms around Sheng Chunfeng's waist and gently rubbed him with the horns on his head. For the ninety-seventh time, he asked, unrelentingly:

“Master's Wife, will you form a bond with me today?”

Later, news that Sheng Chunfeng was still alive spread throughout the cultivation world, and many people came rushing to find him.

Cheng Shu, the Venerable Zheling, with his three thousand strands of white hair, tore open a rift into the demon realm. In its thriving expanse, he saw his disciple holding and kissing the Dao companion he had thought dead.

Theme: Youth should be spent striving while the days are still young. How can one remain young forever?