I Accidentally Helped My Archenemy Ascend the Throne

Reckless, free-spirited, righteous bottom x smiling, kind, scheming top

In the sixteenth year of Xuanzheng, the state of Yubei fell.

A loyal minister who had served faithfully all his life met a clan-wide execution because of a century-old curse, and was hastily swallowed by the dust of history.

Rumor had it that people from Xuantian had secretly engineered the disaster, and that the beautiful, kindhearted little prince of Xuantian, so beloved by the common folk, had played a part in it too.

So they really were archenemies.

To avenge this grudge, Xie Buyu had no choice but to join Beiyan Hall and travel to a foreign land. He had only just set out to find this archenemy and kill him when he happened to encounter a blindfolded immortal, who held out a hand and invited him to team up.

Xie Buyu: "?"

After they got to know each other, it turned out the immortal was a victim too. He invited Xie Buyu to help uncover the truth behind the scenes and find the culprit responsible for what had happened all those years ago.

Xie Buyu thought the guy was pretty nice.

Little did he know that one day, the blindfolded immortal's true identity would be exposed...

He was the very archenemy Xie Buyu had gone to such lengths to find!

Afraid of alerting his enemy, Xie Buyu held himself back again and again, secretly plotting how to kill him.

By a stroke of fate, they heard that clues from those days remained inside Xuantian's Illusion of Flowers and Moon formation. Xie Buyu resolved to stab his archenemy as they left the formation.

"...Young friend, please hold your hand." The blindfolded immortal caught the oncoming blade between two fingers and said, "Give me a chance to prove I didn't do it."

Unexpectedly, the blindfolded immortal really did pull Xie Buyu into the affairs of the jianghu with him, digging up events from decades past.

But there were suspicious details everywhere.

Still... Xie Buyu felt like the story wasn't going the way it should! Hadn't his archenemy always wanted to eliminate him? Why was he helping Xie Buyu find the real culprit instead?

The man he had wrongly accused seemed to genuinely care for him, and through a series of coincidences, even helped him ascend the throne...

By the time Xie Buyu had repaid his archenemy, he wanted to slip away quietly.

But his archenemy suddenly smiled at him. "Where do you think you're going?"

Xie Buyu: "..."

He knew this guy had never meant well. What a mistake it was to trust someone! What a mistake!!

[Includes an alternate version of the original ending]

Literary title: A Blade at Spring's Return

Theme: Stay true to your original purpose and stand up for the weak.