I Have a Civil Service Job in Heaven (GB)

Next up: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but with a female-dominant society. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, The Legend of the White Snake, Nie Xiaoqian... Gender-swapped stories in a female-dominant setting, with women topping men!

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(This is my first time writing, and this is just a practice piece with plenty of little flaws. Please bear with me. Bowing!)

Danshu was a flood dragon who had cultivated for a thousand years. She failed to breach Heaven's Gate and was struck by lightning until she was covered in wounds, then slunk away.

She had only just hidden herself in the mountains when she met a young man as lovely as a peach blossom, his life as dazzling as a startled swan reflected in water, his eyes filled with the tender warmth of spring.

Even a divine dragon born of Heaven and Earth couldn't help but pause for this mortal. After years of bitter cultivation, she deserved to taste the pleasures of a tender romance.

But good times never last. A great fire came down from the heavens, along with the lightning tribulation.

The bad news: her body was reduced to ashes.

The good news: she ascended to immortality!

And more than that, she reunited with the young man in the Celestial Palace.

On the Immortal Terrace, he was even more beautiful than before, surrounded by the light of the stars.

Danshu wanted to go to him, but his icy gaze made her stop. “Now that we are in the Celestial Palace, why bring up the past?”

Only then did Danshu learn that the young man from the mountains had been Lord Xuanxiao, a star deity of the Thirty-Third Heaven. Born into an exalted immortal clan, he had always been beyond her reach. Everything that had happened between them had been no more than a tiny speck in his tribulation.

He had forgotten it all.

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Xuanxiao had thought he could put the past, and Danshu, behind him...

But when rivers and seas surged, she stood with her back to him on the clouds. Her keen gaze pierced the river's surface, like a thunderbolt lighting up the whole sky, calming the mountains and seas.

His heart was still thrown into turmoil.

After a night of passion, he did not dare open his eyes, afraid it would all vanish. But Danshu plucked a jade magnolia from the clouds and gently touched it to his brow.

He fell deeper and deeper, unable to escape. Tossing and turning, he asked her again and again, “Can you tell the difference between me and him?”

Between me and him, whom do you love more?

The tragic truth of their previous life was made public. In the end, their tenderness and affection turned into a sharp knife that stabbed him in the heart. He brought up the first time he had once been unable to bear thinking about:

“Was he really so much like me...?”

Danshu had only wanted a cushy job as a minor celestial official, with room and board and a secure position. That would have been enough for her.

On her very first day in office, the Rain Master caused a flood at a river crossing in the mortal realm over a personal grudge. Unable to bear seeing it, Danshu transformed into a giant dragon and stemmed the flood, only to be punished by the Celestial Court!

Danshu: ???

So that's how it's going to be? Then no one gets to live! Furious, she reported the Rain Master for dereliction of duty.

The Rain Master had barely been hauled onto the Immortal-Slaying Platform when she was kicked out of the Taiyi Institute and sent to the Office of Fate.

Well, reading case files and watering flowers sounded pretty nice. Then the Director of Fate took a spiritual treasure and went down to the mortal realm without permission.

Danshu: ???

She hadn't even warmed her seat before she had to chase after him to bring the guilty immortal back.

The Celestial Emperor, seated high in the Jade Clarity Heaven, was delighted. At last, someone who actually got things done!

Ancient gods had been exiled to the mortal realm, and the transfer of power to the new gods was going poorly.

Someone accused the God of War of killing her family, stealing her path to immortality, and imprisoning her for a thousand years.

An ancient clan's divine power was out of control, plunging the mortal realm into chaos and making it impossible to decide whether they should stay or leave.

One problem after another came crashing down like snowflakes. Danshu was completely worn out. “Weren't I supposed to just be an idle celestial official??”

Seeing this, the Celestial Emperor bestowed upon her the Spiritual Light Laws. At once, the clouds and heavens trembled, golden light blazed, and the gates of the Profound Heaven Inspectorate swung open to welcome their chief deity

The path to godhood lies ahead. Are you really going to give up?

Theme: Keep mountains in your heart, and a will of stone.