Guardian Deity

A 400-Year-Long Secret Crush / Starting Over with a Maxed-Out Account Just to Stay by Your Side

Cool, powerful female protector x devoted, restrained Asura King

"Master, please enter the mortal world!"

One day, a rain of wine fell over Mount Sumeru. The Asura King slipped into the heavens to investigate, only to find a lively young girl sleeping in a jacaranda tree.

When the girl awoke, the Asura King had transformed into a spirit cat, and their eyes met. A girl and a cat blinked at each other and tilted their heads, utterly adorable. In the end, the girl took the Asura King back to the Baili residence, where he became her spirit pet, named Langya.

He had once been a noble and solitary king, decisive and invincible in battle. But before Baili Qianxue, he was the most arrogant of cats. He refused to eat cat food and looked down on all cats. He was almost always by Qianxue's side, but never entered her bedroom.

Later, Rakshasa ghosts wreaked havoc across the world. Emperor Shitian convened a meeting of the divine protectors, and the Asura protector, who had always disdained attending, unexpectedly accepted the invitation. The Asura King himself even appeared in person.

Flowers rained through the air over Shanjian City as celestial musicians played, while the people of the Heavenly Dao lined the streets to welcome him. The legendary Asura King won the hearts of countless celestial maidens at first sight, yet before everyone's eyes, he placed his crown on Qianxue's head. It was the grandest and most secret confession in all the world.

After the gathering, the Asura King turned back into Langya. He watched Qianxue speak his name and draw his likeness, and heard her tell her grandmother that once she'd earned military honors, she would marry the Asura King and make him her consort!

Not only her grandmother was stunned. The Asura King was too.

But then war broke out, and the Asura King died in battle. To the very end, Qianxue never knew that Langya was the peerless Asura King she had longed for, who had stayed by her side for a very long time.

Qianxue lost her family and the one she loved in the war, and was consumed by grief. She volunteered to guard the Hungry Ghost Realm, remaining there for two hundred years. The endless killing made her cold and heartless.

Four hundred years after the war, the Asura King was reborn as the son of the human emperor, named Zunlu Haoyue. Even without his memories, he was still devoted to Qianxue. But ten years of humble pursuit earned him only her merciless rejection, followed by twelve years apart in life and death.

Haoyue had meant to let himself die, but then he met her again inside a coffin. Qianxue was still as cold as ice, but Haoyue had made up his mind: this time, he would never let go. An Asura's love is in his very bones. There is no retreat, only a descent into passion that lasts until death!

Next story: Love That Turns You into a Ghost

Noble, aloof, secretly flirtatious Daoist x strong-willed female ghost with no taboos

Through life and death, do as you please!

It is said that Yun Jingchu, a disciple of the Black Tortoise Academy in the Fengshen Pavilion, was cursed by a beautiful ghost during a ghost-hunting mission. Every woman he loved would turn into a beautiful ghost, doomed to hide from the world and survive on a man's vital essence.

But Ye Bugui refused to believe in such nonsense.

The fourth palace master of the Flower God Valley came from a Daoist sect but had no taboos. She was both beautiful and brilliant, bold and compelling, capable of winning over men and women alike. She believed she had never made a mistake in her cultivation. To her, the so-called beautiful ghost's curse was nothing but rumor and superstition, born of the weak's fear.

Besides, Yun Jingchu was absurdly handsome, yet wore an expression of utter indifference. The more Ye Bugui looked at him, the more she liked him. She couldn't resist getting close to him and provoking him, chipping away at his proud defenses and self-control one step at a time.

At last, Yun Jingchu opened his heart to her and decided he could love no one but her. The day after the two privately pledged themselves to each other, ghostly fire blazed across Ye Bugui's body in the morning light, slowly tearing her away from the human world! Only then did she have to admit she had been wrong. She began to fear him, dread him, and stay away from him.

For the first time in her life, Ye Bugui humbled herself and begged him to take back his love. But Yun Jingchu could no longer do that. Tormented by guilt and regret, nearly driven mad, he risked his life and exhausted his cultivation, nearly losing both body and soul, all to turn her back into a human.

"If I don't love you, you'll grow weak and die. If I love you, you'll turn into a ghost completely and never see sunlight again. Tell me... what am I supposed to do?"

"Then fall into the ghost realm with me!"

Theme: Across past and present lives, loving only one person