Hollow Silence

[The Absurd Version]

In his previous life, Xu Lin was the most notorious troublemaker in all four realms.

He made a point of doing one good deed a day.

For example, sending the Buddhist heir to a brothel, teaching the Ghost King to do a striptease, tricking the Demon Lord into dressing as a woman, duping the Monster Venerable into being a house dog, and helping an old granny cross the street on horseback...

After stirring up trouble and overturning the whole world, he died an untimely death and was reborn as... a pretty-faced succubus being topped by someone else!!!

And the lecher was none other than his upright, exasperating junior fellow disciple, Xie Ling, his sworn enemy of a hundred years!!!

Xu Lin laughed so hard he rolled on the floor. "Hahahaha! What kind of joke is this? It has to be a dream! Back in my last life, Xie Ling was such a little prude he hadn't even held a girl's hand!"

"Don't move." The man held his waist and spread his knees, his face perfectly calm. "...It's leaking."

Meeting Xie Ling's cool gaze, Xu Lin asked, confused, "What's leaking?"

"My cock."

Xu Lin stared, baffled, while a stampede of thoughts thundered through his mind: What was leaking?! What did he say was leaking?! How could he say that so calmly?! Had that damned gentleman thrown all his dignity and self-restraint to the dogs?!

But there were worse things to come...

First of all, he got pregnant...

[The Plot-Focused Version]

The day I died, my junior fellow disciple took his own life in front of my tomb.

Xu Lin was the greatest sinner in the history of the Shen Yin Immortal Sect.

He murdered his master, betrayed his sect, colluded with demons... and in the end died before his junior fellow disciple, Xie Ling, believing that everything was finally over.

Ten years later, however...

He opened his eyes in a demon's body.

Before he could figure out what was going on, someone dressed him in a wedding gown and stuffed him into a bridal sedan, making him stand in for the city lord's daughter.

As the sedan traveled down the main street, a sword lifted its curtain.

A brocade ball landed in a hand with distinct knuckles.

His junior fellow disciple, Xie Ling, young master of the immortal sects and the man before whom all four realms bowed, looked down at him.

"I will marry you."

Xu Lin: There's no need for that.

*

Xie Ling had lost his memory.

He had forgotten the truth behind his father's death in the Demon-Suppressing Tower. He had forgotten that Xu Lin had once cut out his own heart and given it to him, dying before his eyes again and again. He had forgotten the despair of drawing his sword and killing himself in front of his senior brother's tomb, to die with him.

His memories stopped at the year when he and Xu Lin were the closest people in the world.

So now the demon whom everyone wanted dead was cherished and cared for by the young master of the immortal sects, who even wanted them to become cultivation partners.

Xu Lin was terrified and wanted to run, his conscience uneasy.

This body could last at most one year. He had to uncover the truth behind the demonic calamity in Chi City, find the person behind it, and bring justice to those who had died unjustly.

As he delved deeper into the maelstrom, he discovered that a resurrected Demon Lord was hidden beneath the immortal sects, while the powerful figures of the four realms each had their own schemes... And the black-clad figure secretly controlling it all had a face identical to Xie Ling's!

Xie Ling (top) and Xu Lin (bottom)

Single-minded, cold-blooded, unhinged beauty of a top and elegant, teasing troublemaker of a bottom

1. One-on-one, happy ending, younger junior brother with older senior brother, both virgins. No pregnancy; original setting.

2. Mystery and deduction. The opening is slow-paced by design. An attempt to combine xianxia and detective fiction. This is about solving mysteries, not leveling up.

3. Reading warnings:

This story contains many clues that pay off later, so don't skip chapters.

This story uses an unreliable-narrator trick. Please don't spoil it after learning the truth.

This story gets weirdly unhinged at times, so don't read while drinking.

Theme: Hearts in harmony.