The System Wants Me to Choose Between Two Men

Pre-save my historical xianxia novel, I Heard My Nemesis and I Pledged Our Lives to Each Other!

Qi Qing works for the Time Management Bureau. After winning over Jiang Linyuan, he faked his death and left, successfully turning him into a major villain. But now he's run into a bug.

When he opens his eyes, the first person he sees is Jiang Linyuan at eighteen.

The youth spins a basketball on his fingertip, a hint of youthful awkwardness tucked into his roguish smile. "Come on..."

He raises his voice, then quickly lowers it, shyly: "D-do you want to watch me shoot a three-pointer?"

When he opens his eyes again, he sees Jiang Linyuan at twenty-eight.

The man is curled up on a leather sofa, looking up with bloodshot eyes. Jiang Linyuan narrows his eyes. "...Are you a ghost?"

The next second, the man springs up and grabs Qi Qing by the wrist. His long, distinct fingers dig into Qi Qing's skin, as if holding on to the last lifeline he has. "Now that you're back, don't even think about leaving again."

"I want to file a workplace injury claim!" Qi Qing angrily throws down his employee badge. "You expect me to deal with both my first love and his villainous version at once?"

The System cursor flickers strangely twice. The gears of the two timelines turn slowly, then finally mesh together.

The youth pulls open his collar, boldly showing the fresh bite mark on his collarbone. His canine teeth press against Qi Qing's neck. "That old man only knows how to use surveillance cameras. Shameless."

Twenty-eight-year-old Jiang Linyuan leisurely wipes the corner of his mouth, which he just finished swallowing from. "The kid has to look up every other word in the dictionary just to write a love letter."

They both reach out and grab Qi Qing's wrist, staring into his eyes. "Which one do you like better?"

"The eighteen-year-old me?"

"Or the twenty-eight-year-old me?"

The System chimes cheerfully: "Complete both missions at once, and the timelines will merge!"

Trapped between them, Qi Qing screams: "System, get out here and explain yourself! You call this mess an optimization plan?!"

#Two men in one room, more men on top of men#

#What's wrong with being jealous of myself?#

The eighteen-year-old puppy-like gong and the twenty-eight-year-old wolf-like gong: Qingqing is obviously choosing both!

This is the blurb for an upcoming novel! I Heard My Nemesis and I Pledged Our Lives to Each Other!

What?! I've been bonded to my sworn enemy for ten years!

The whole cultivation world thinks we're enemies.

Sect Leader Zhong and Dogs Are Not Allowed Inside.

I heard I pledged my life to my nemesis.

The whole sect is on guard against my nemesis.

I threw up after my nemesis confessed to me.

A sign forever hangs on Lingxi Mountain. It reads: Zhong Yunzhi and dogs are not allowed to enter without permission.

After all, everyone in the cultivation world knows that Zhong Yunzhi, the newly appointed sect leader of Xuanlan Sect, and Fu Jun, the junior uncle of Lingxi Sect, are sworn enemies who can't stand each other.

Back then, the two entered a secret realm together. Zhong Yunzhi came out unscathed and rose to become sect leader, while Fu Jun had every meridian shattered and lost all his memories.

Ten years later, Zhong Yunzhi returned to Lingxi Mountain. People whispered among themselves, certain that this Nascent Soul cultivator had finally come to settle the score with Lingxi Sect for the years of insult inflicted by that sign!

Instead, to everyone's astonishment, Zhong Yunzhi climbed the nine hundred and ninety-nine steps of the Heart-Testing Stones in perfect order, one step at a time, then offered a disciple's salute to Fu Jun's senior fellow disciples.

"Fu Jun and I pledged ourselves to each other in the secret realm long ago. I hope Senior Brother will give us your blessing."

Lingxi Sect's senior brothers: Huh?

Lingxi Sect's disciples: Huh?

Fu Jun himself: Huh?

Everyone else: ...Why are you saying "huh"?!

Fu Jun gave an awkward smile. "That happened? I don't remember."

*

Fu Jun was Lingxi Sect's most beloved junior uncle, a dazzling genius among the cultivation world's young disciples. But after an accident, his meridians were shattered, his spiritual power was gone, and he lost some of his memories.

Everyone lamented that Heaven was jealous of genius. The once-great prodigy had become a cripple, left to spend his life idling away in a daze.

Until one day, an enemy came looking for trouble, hoping to rise to prominence by stepping on the fallen prodigy.

Fu Jun released his spiritual energy in an instant. A top-grade talisman struck with blinding speed and blasted his opponent to smithereens.

"Holy crap, wasn't Junior Uncle supposed to be crippled?!"

"That's what losing all your spiritual power looks like?! He fights like a bronze general!"

"Has a medical miracle struck the cultivation world?!"

Hearing them, Fu Jun smiled disdainfully and flicked his fingers. Treasured spirit talismans fanned out in his hand like a folding fan.

Fu Jun declared, "Do you people even understand the value of being Lingxi Sect's favorite?"

His senior brothers and sisters lined up every day to fill him with spiritual energy. Add in all these heavenly treasures, and he could blast whoever he wanted, whenever he wanted!

*

Then one day, his former rival, now the sect leader of Xuanlan Sect, Zhong Yunzhi, personally came to see him.

People had assumed that when these two once-inseparable rivals met again, their reunion would unleash a bloody storm.

Instead, under everyone's watchful gaze, the aloof and ascetic Sect Leader Zhong dropped a bombshell:

"Before you lost your memory, you had already pledged your life to me. We were engaged."

Fu Jun: ???

The entire cultivation world: ???

Fu Jun: I suspect you're taking advantage of me, but I have no proof.

*

The war against the demon clans rages, and the front lines are in danger. Fu Jun unleashes one technique after another, and his spiritual energy runs out in an instant.

His former nemesis immediately moves in and pulls him into his arms.

Zhong Yunzhi keeps a straight face, his voice low. "Don't move. I'll replenish your spiritual energy."

Fu Jun struggles. Zhong Yunzhi's ink-black hair falls as he lowers his head, brushing against Fu Jun's ear.

Then Fu Jun hears him say, "The spiritual energy I give you is more..."

Zhong Yunzhi seems to consider it for a moment, then says, "Intimate."

The Nascent Soul cultivator's spiritual energy surges, hot and powerful. As his skin burns, Fu Jun grits his teeth. "That's not how you're supposed to recharge me!"

Reader's guide:

The cold-faced, shameless Sect Leader Zhong, who's single-mindedly devoted to his wife, X Fu Jun, the sunny and upbeat junior uncle who only wants them to be enemies.

Seventy percent plot, thirty percent romance.

Theme: Belief can change everything.