I Flirted with the Cold Goddess, but She Pursued Me Instead

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A moon-bright, compassionate goddess who cares for all things, fears loneliness, and seems cool and gentle × a sunny, optimistic, somewhat clueless demon mercenary with unmatched fighting prowess

*All characters who appear are women. Women are the default. Unless a title or form of address is specifically identified as male, assume it refers to a woman. (For example, Divine Lord so-and-so, Immortal Lord so-and-so.)

My completed historical GL novel, The Cool and Aloof Princess Made the First Move, is available in my profile.

My upcoming novel, Fishy, I Was Picked Up by Big Sister, has its blurb at the end.

By the time Mingpu became the youngest Great Lord in the Demon Realm, rumors like these had begun circulating in the Immortal Realm:

They say the Demon Clan's general is a hideous monster with a blue-green face and fangs, who eats people without spitting out their bones. Whenever an Immortal Realm child refuses to go to bed, their parents warn them that the Demon Realm's general will come and eat them.

One Immortal Realm child after another.

Mingpu was very pleased with her reputation.

The rumors had a basis. As the youngest general in the Demon Clan, Chuirong Lord Mingpu was very young. Her features were so delicate that her face had far too little menace or authority, so she wore a mask every time she went into battle. By the time the story reached the Immortal Realm, she had become a hideous, ferocious monster with a blue-green face and fangs.

One day, she brought home an injured fairy sister.

To Mingpu, she was the most beautiful person she had ever seen.

So Mingpu waved a hand and took the fairy sister back to the Demon Realm to recover.

But taking care of her was all Mingpu did. Every day, she looked at her, and that was all.

"Why doesn't the Great Lord simply take her by force?" her young maid couldn't help asking.

"Tsk, you wouldn't understand." Mingpu waved her hand. "I won't pursue her. I'll show her my charms fair and square, and make her fall in love with me."

I never try to pluck the moon. I want the moon to come to me.

Can gods feel lonely, too?

When the Creator God fell, Jixue didn't feel lonely.

As she watched her old friends, who had lived through the age of the ancient gods, pass away one by one, Jixue still didn't feel lonely.

Gods could fall, too. It was simply the cycle of heaven and earth.

But after an unknowable stretch of time, one day a woman said she would protect her.

"Little Immortal Lord, don't be afraid. I'll protect you." Mingpu turned her head and winked at her, sending the reassurance through a secret transmission.

Jixue's eyes flew open. She looked at the woman standing in front of her.

Jixue found it fascinating. In all these thousands of years, this was the first time anyone had said they would protect her.

She mistook Mingpu for an ordinary fairy and imprisoned her, never realizing that Mingpu was willingly staying in the Demon Realm.

She brought her steaming hot food from the human world, even though gods and demons had no need to eat.

She rose early to pick dew-covered fruit, even though it was just ordinary fruit, not some rare treasure that could greatly increase one's power.

She planted wisteria flowers with her own hands, digging the soil, watering them, and adding fertilizer, even though gods and demons could do all of that with a spell.

Jixue didn't know why, but for the first time, she felt lonely.

It seemed she wanted to remain imprisoned in the Demon Realm for the rest of her life.

Gods could feel lonely, too.

For the first time, Jixue thought that if she was destined to find a cultivation partner, the person before her seemed like a fine choice. Or perhaps meeting this person had made Jixue think that finding a cultivation partner might be a fine thing after all.

A gentle goddess who falls at first sight meets a Demon Lord whose common sense is wider than a bowl.

The goddess suffers, unknowingly teased by the other woman, who doesn't even realize what she's doing.

The goddess is helpless. After falling in love, she gets jealous and realizes that the road to winning her back will be long.

#Little Scene

"Fairy sister, is everyone in the Immortal Realm as beautiful as you?"

"If everyone in the Immortal Realm were, what would you do, Demon Lord?"

"Go to the Immortal Realm to look at beauties!"

Mingpu thought about it and decided that sounded far too unambitious. She was the dignified Demon Lord, after all. How could she have no aspirations? So she changed her answer. "Go to the Immortal Realm and take beauties!"

Great. So domineering. Just like a Demon Lord.

Mingpu saw the beautiful woman in front of her suddenly stop smiling and turn cold. She formed a spell and left without even saying goodbye.

(Jixue: What do I do when my wife never gets the hint?! Help, it's urgent!)

*In this setting, women can be partners, and wives can marry each other.

The blurb for the upcoming Fishy, I Was Picked Up by Big Sister is below.

A genius, cool-faced but warm-hearted demon hunter × a kind, sunny girl with a naturally vacant mind

All members of the main cast are women. Women are the default. Unless a title or form of address is specifically identified as male, assume it refers to a woman.

This is a story about a honeycomb briquette and a solid brick.

Wei Songyue and Wei Sixi have a total of eight brain cells between them.

Wei Songyue has 801 brain cells, while Wei Sixi is one short.

*

Three years ago, demon hunters used the name of purification to invade northward and slaughter the demon clans. The demons suffered heavy losses and retreated north, while the demon hunters drove most of them to Changsheng Valley, at the northernmost edge of the continent. The people were spared the demons' harassment, and the demon hunters' popularity soared.

A few demons refused to retreat north, however. The merfolk, for instance, stayed in the Moon Sea where their people had lived for generations and fought the demon hunters to the end. In the end, they were massacred.

As a demon hunter who caught every demon she came across, Wei Songyue naturally took part in that purification campaign. But just as she was about to take the inner core from an uncivilized merfolk, the little fish suddenly took human form and sweetly called her Big Sister.

Wei Songyue: ...

Wei Songyue had a younger sister who had died. She had called her that, too.

Whether from a moment of softness or a moment of madness, Wei Songyue picked up a tail and took it home. Her little tail followed her demon hunting and kept calling her Big Sister.

No one had ever gotten the better of Wei Songyue with sweet words, but this naturally vacant little tail she had picked up had her completely at a disadvantage. Again and again, she was left speechless.

Whenever Wei Songyue was about to lose her temper, her little tail would say:

"My Big Sister is the best demon hunter!"

Wei Songyue was utterly defeated by this fish.

She raised her as if she were a little sister, never knowing when those feelings began to change.

Love comes unbidden, then sinks deep into the heart.

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Fishy, I was picked up by a kind-hearted Big Sister this winter.

Ever since she could remember, Wei Sixi knew Wei Songyue was her Big Sister. She couldn't remember her parents, her friends, or even who she was, but she remembered Wei Songyue.

Ever since she was little, she had suffered from a strange illness. When it flared up, walking felt like stepping on blades, and her legs hurt terribly.

Big Sister said it was an illness she'd had since birth and that it could be cured. So she took Wei Sixi on the road, hunting demons while searching for medicine.

They weren't looking for some medicinal pill, but the Shennong Cauldron. Big Sister said that if they found the cauldron, she could be cured.

She followed Big Sister, handing her talismans as she hunted demons and backing her up when she insulted people. Along the way, demon hunting showed her all kinds of strange and fascinating things. The more she saw, the more she realized that evil wasn't in demons. It was in people's hearts.

Every day, she obediently drank her bitter medicine, looking forward to the day she would be cured. Until one day, a demon told her that the Shennong Cauldron couldn't cure illness at all. It could only refine demons...

Wei Sixi secretly poured away the medicine Big Sister gave her every day. A tail grew in place of her legs...

She was a fish!

Her family had been killed by demon hunters. Her parents and siblings had all been skinned and had their cores extracted by them.

Her Big Sister... had once had a younger sister named Wei Xi.

Big Sister's younger sister, who died young, was named Wei Xi, while she was Wei Sixi... Wei Sixi didn't understand. When she and Big Sister had watched all those sunsets together, whom had Big Sister thought she was watching them with?

Her Big Sister pointed a sword at her. "Demon hunters should eliminate every demon they encounter."

"Demons deserve to die."

As enormous waves surged across the sea, Wei Sixi demanded, "Then why did you let me go? Why did you raise me by your side and seek medicine to cure me?"

"Wei Songyue, have you really never had feelings for me?"

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[Reading Guide]

* A story about a Big Sister becoming a wife, with a pseudo-sibling romance.

* The plot and romance are split evenly, with demon-hunting cases told in episodic arcs.

* There will probably be a long road to winning her back, but it has a happy ending.

Theme: I never try to pluck the moon. I want the moon to come to me.