Bewitched

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1

You Jianqing, the senior disciple of Yuchen Sect, is a peacock famous far and wide. He is beautiful, vain, and completely nuts.

While other cultivators seclude themselves to train, You Jianqing looks in the mirror.

"Sigh, I'm so beautiful. When someone is this gorgeous, what are all the other men supposed to do?"

While other cultivators spar, You Jianqing applies fragrant lotion.

"The weather's been so dry lately. Even the hand I hold my sword with is getting cracked."

While other cultivators fight over magical artifacts and spirit herbs in secret realms, You Jianqing shakes out his feathers and fans them in front of a pretty female cultivator.

"My beauty, do you like my outfit today?"

2

Although the senior disciple is a little crazy, he really is beautiful, and quite a few junior brothers and sisters in the sect have secretly fallen for him.

One day, they ask him, "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, what kind of cultivation partner do you like?"

You Jianqing smooths a wrinkle from his outer robe and smiles. "Someone more beautiful than me."

Junior brothers and sisters: "...Is there really anyone in this guy's eyes who's more beautiful than he is?"

3

As it turns out, there is.

While carrying out a sect mission, You Jianqing encounters Yue Lu, a demon cultivator covered in blood and breathtakingly beautiful, in a secret realm.

You Jianqing nods. "As expected of a demon cultivator. He really is a little more beautiful than me."

Then You Jianqing gazes at Yue Lu pensively for a while. "...Is he wearing makeup?"

You Jianqing steps forward with a beaming smile, picks Yue Lu up, and pretends to casually touch his cheek to check.

Nope.

"I'm You Jianqing, senior disciple of Yuchen Sect. Little friend, you're covered in wounds. Need any help?"

Pale and disheveled in his arms, Yue Lu smiles faintly and wraps an arm around You Jianqing's neck like a snake. "...Sure."

4

Afterward, whenever You Jianqing comes and goes from Yuchen Sect, the crook of his arm, once used to cradle a sword, is now always occupied by a slender beauty in plain white. He spoils him rotten, and the two call each other senior and junior brothers.

Junior Brother: That demon cultivator has the kind of ill-omened face that could ruin a family and topple a kingdom. He's so bewitched our senior brother that he can barely hold his sword!

You Jianqing: Nonsense. Looking like that, Yue Lu is clearly a good omen!

Junior Sister: Senior Brother, demon cultivators can drain your yang to replenish their yin. Be careful he doesn't suck you dry and leave you a shriveled peacock!

You Jianqing: So what if he takes a little? Your senior brother is bursting with masculine vigor. Keeping a devastatingly beautiful demon cultivator is child's play.

Yue Lu happens to pass by and smiles faintly.

5

That night, as usual, You Jianqing holds Yue Lu while they sleep. But Yue Lu is no longer the helpless, frail beauty he usually pretends to be. He rolls over, pins You Jianqing beneath him, and strokes his cheek with a hand cold from years of low body temperature.

"...Keeping me is child's play?"

"Those were your exact words, Senior Brother."

"Senior Brother, I'm hungry."

After a night of passion, You Jianqing wakes to find the person he'd spent the whole night entangled with gone without a trace. The spiritual energy he'd spent years cultivating has been drained away completely.

So he'd been using me as a cultivation cauldron.

Sore all over, You Jianqing sits in silence for a long while, clutching the quilt, then sends Yue Lu a message with a communication talisman:

"It's fine. I can cultivate my spiritual energy again. But are you coming home for dinner tonight, Junior Brother?"

Yue Lu doesn't reply.

6

For the next six months, You Jianqing makes four dishes and a soup every day, waiting for Yue Lu to come home for dinner. But Yue Lu seems to have vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace.

You Jianqing doesn't eat the food he makes, and won't let any of his junior brothers or sisters touch it. He cooks, throws it away, and cooks again.

Later, when he hears that Yue Lu, missing for half a year, has gone off to torment the neighboring sect's genius junior brother, You Jianqing's sword hand trembles. The great demon sealed inside him for hundreds of years breaks free and takes over his body.

7

When Yue Lu wakes from a long sleep, he finds himself in a dungeon so quiet he can hear water dripping. His hands and feet are shackled with golden chains.

A certain peacock with brilliantly colored feathers and blood-red pupils grabs him by the chin. "Can you come home and eat properly now? Senior Brother made four dishes and a soup for you."

Yue Lu assumes You Jianqing has come up with a new way to torment him, and closes his eyes as if resigned to his fate.

A while later, Yue Lu stares at the steaming four dishes and soup on the table, lost in thought. "..."

He really did make four dishes and a soup.

"Junior Brother, why aren't you eating?"

You Jianqing, a red mark from the great demon on his forehead, wraps an arm around Yue Lu's waist. "Not hungry?"

"But Senior Brother is hungry." You Jianqing smiles as he parts Yue Lu's sash. "Isn't it Senior Brother's turn to eat now?"

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※ Ancient-style ABO setting.

※ Switch pairing, both pure, happy ending. A crazy peacock of a righteous young master x a beautiful, miserable, gloomy male ghost of a demon cultivator

Please check out my upcoming story, Picked Up the Villain After Transmigrating into a Master at the Bottom of a Cliff. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites. Thanks >𐋣<

Synopsis:

As everyone knows, pushing a gravely injured, dying protagonist off a cliff is basically the same as sending him off to graduate school.

The protagonist is sure to survive against all odds, be rescued by a mysterious master at the bottom of the cliff, and inherit peerless cultivation techniques.

Song Sheyu transmigrates into a male-oriented novel. The System binds him and assigns him the role of a mysterious master at the bottom of a cliff, a tool for teaching the protagonist peerless cultivation techniques.

The task is easy, so after giving him his instructions, the System goes off to find another Host and leaves Song Sheyu to fend for himself.

Song Sheyu settles down at the bottom of the cliff. Every few days, he finds someone who's fallen off, but none of them are the protagonist.

Then one day, he finds a pale, dazzlingly beautiful boy wearing the uniform of the protagonist's sect.

Song Sheyu is overjoyed. It's you!

At first, the boy is cold and wary. But Song Sheyu cares for him in every way, teaches him cultivation techniques, and helps him work through his emotional knots. Gradually, the boy lets down his guard and starts calling Song Sheyu "big brother."

*

A few years later, the System remembers Song Sheyu and comes back to check on things. It finds him having the time of his life raising his little brother.

But why does that little brother look a bit... off?

The System takes a closer look and sounds the alarm: What the hell, Host, who is this kid you're raising?

Song Sheyu is bewildered. The protagonist?

The System: ...Liu Fuxue was born with unusual bones. He's ruthless and sinister, and the greatest villain in the original novel. He's the protagonist's junior brother, the one who nearly stabbed him to death.

Song Sheyu: .

Why didn't you tell me sooner?! Can I still abandon him now?

So Song Sheyu slips away in the middle of the night without saying goodbye and escapes to the demon realm.

Liu Fuxue clutches his jade token and stands in the cold wind at the bottom of the cliff all night before finally turning to leave.

*

After that, with the opportunities and cultivation techniques Song Sheyu gave him, Liu Fuxue defeats the original protagonist and becomes the senior disciple of the foremost immortal sect.

He seems as bright and gentle as moonlight, but his hypocrisy and ruthlessness are well known throughout the demon realm.

One day, Liu Fuxue leads a team to exterminate demons and discovers that the Demon Palace's master bears an uncanny resemblance to the old acquaintance he's long yearned for, the one who vanished without a word all those years ago.

Liu Fuxue uses his bloodstained sword tip to lift Song Sheyu's veil and asks ominously, "Palace Master, have you ever been to Heartless Cliff?"

"N-no, never. Not in this life or the last." Song Sheyu's voice trembles.

"Is that so?" The next moment, Liu Fuxue slaps his sword onto the table, reaches out to loosen his own clothes, and gives a gentle, harmless smile.

"I hear... demon cultivators are good at dual cultivation and draining others' energy."

"If you don't want to die, show me what you can do."

Switch pairing, warm and sunny college student with a friendly big-brother vibe x stubborn, ruthless, beautiful young villain from a distinguished family

One-on-one, both pure, happy ending

Theme: Dare to love