Who Will Return Through the Peach Blossoms?

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Shen Shu had spent a carefree hundred years in the immortal realm. One day, he awoke to find that he had not only fallen to the mortal world, but had also been ordered to help Chu Yuncheng, the senior disciple of Tian'en Mountain who cultivated the Heartless Dao, survive a tribulation of love.

Helping someone who cultivates the Heartless Dao through a tribulation of love? How absurd could it get?

He accepted the assignment on the surface, but planned to enjoy himself in the mortal realm. Then he turned around and fell in love at first sight with a handsome man who was exactly to his taste.

What assignment? Forget it!

The ever-romantic Shen Shu was determined to make this man his!

*

The man was an aloof, detached sword cultivator who despised evil. At their first meeting, he mistook Shen Shu for a demon and drew his sword against him.

His every action made it clear he wanted Shen Shu to keep his distance, yet he kept following him around.

...This man must be interested in him. He's just shy!

Shen Shu went to great lengths and tried every trick in the book.

He flirted all the way to the mountain gate of the sect where his assignment was waiting, but the man remained unmoved.

Shen Shu gave up and decided to complete his task. The master he had gained for free pointed at the other man and said:

"This is your senior brother, Chu Yuncheng."

Shen Shu: ? That name sounds familiar.

...Isn't he my assignment?!

*

When Chu Yuncheng was ordered to investigate reports of a great demon appearing at the foot of the mountain, he ran into a young man with a face like a peach blossom.

The young man was insincere and frivolous, hardly the sort one would expect from the righteous path.

Yet, claiming he had an important matter to discuss, he stuck close to Chu Yuncheng, who was disguised as an ordinary disciple of the sect.

He doesn't know who I am, claims he has something important to discuss, and still has the nerve to flirt with me while I'm in disguise?

Chu Yuncheng wanted to see what tricks he was planning to pull...

The man who crept into his bed under the dim candlelight, who said he would repay him with his life after Chu Yuncheng slew a demon with one stroke, who whispered sweet nothings in his ear with what seemed like heartfelt sincerity...

Chu Yuncheng could only think of Shen Shu as poison coated in honey. One little taste, and he would be doomed beyond redemption.

He was just like the person who had once exchanged declarations of love with him, only to toy with his feelings and leave without a word.

*

As his identity was about to be exposed, Chu Yuncheng calmly smoothed the other man's slightly mussed hair. Seeing his eyes dart about, he suddenly smiled.

"Didn't you say you had something important to discuss with me?" He calmly grabbed the nape of the man trying to turn and flee, then asked, enunciating each word, "What important matter?"

Shen Shu, who was figuring out how to escape back to the immortal realm: "Haha, it was just a little thing, a little thing..."

What's more, Shen Shu, forced to play his part, was horrified to discover that he might be the late, unforgettable first love rumored to have toyed with Chu Yuncheng's feelings and left him...

What assignment? Forget it!

Shen Shu, afraid of being found out and punished, was determined to run away as soon as possible!

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one, both leads have no romantic history with anyone else | No switching roles ✓ | Extreme character-protective readers, beware ×

2. The worldbuilding is entirely author-created and exists only to serve the story. Don't overthink the logic.

Coming next: a reunion-after-breakup historical danmei, Back to My Nemesis's Youth

He was best friends with the senior brother he had a crush on, then became his nemesis. In the end, thank you, everyone, we're together!

Blurb:

[Gentle, scheming gentleman x proud little peacock]

Everyone knew that Qing Shan Xi's two brightest stars were inseparable, as close as brothers.

Later, one became the leader of the righteous path and the other the lord of the Demon Realm. They became sworn enemies, locked in a fight to the death.

Everyone said that one day, Sword Venerable Ye Lingxu would personally kill the demon Lu Zhongyun.

But before their fated showdown could arrive, Ye Lingxu sacrificed himself for the world, dying and vanishing from existence.

It was the five-hundredth year since the two had severed all ties and become mortal enemies.

When Ye Lingxu opened his eyes again, he was back at Qing Shan Xi, back in the days when the two of them were young, handsome, and full of spirit.

*

Ye Lingxu was still the junior brother Lu Zhongyun had rescued and raised himself, his close friend who had shared a bed with him and been inseparable from him.

He knew his feelings for his senior brother were not entirely pure.

So when they had turned against each other in his previous life, that forbidden affection had become a hatred as vast as the sea, sustaining him through five hundred years of bitter conflict.

But looking at the refined gentleman before him, radiant and full of spirit, who proudly proclaimed his devotion to the righteous path, Ye Lingxu didn't want to repeat the past.

He decided that he had to find out what had caused Lu Zhongyun to suddenly fall to the demonic path in his previous life.

*

Lu Zhongyun thought the junior brother he'd picked up was a little strange.

Not only did he never take his eyes off him, but his possessiveness seemed excessive. And the look he gave him was so complicated, as if Lu Zhongyun had committed some unforgivable crime.

Their master said Ye Lingxu had a heart demon.

As his senior brother, Lu Zhongyun felt he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

The one who tied the knot must untie it.

But he could see Ye Lingxu's heart demon clearly.

It was him.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one, both leads have no romantic history with anyone else, childhood-raising romance, mutual devotion. Character-protective readers, beware.

2. Enjoy a reunion-after-breakup nemesis romance and a cute little couple :D

3. The logic is absurd. All the worldbuilding exists to serve the story, so please don't scrutinize it.

Theme: What is love, that it can make people so devoted?