The Moon Was Never Meant to Be Reached

My next novel is “My God Comes from China,” a story about summoning gods. I'm begging for your love! I'll start once it gets enough favorites. I promise I'm not bluffing.

Bai Meng detested Cheng Du to the extreme.

He was the lofty young master of the Cheng family, arrogant and domineering, always able to get whatever he wanted.

Before meeting Cheng Du, Bai Meng only wanted to study hard, graduate smoothly, and find a good job.

After meeting Cheng Du, he learned how to be a good lover.

That night, Cheng Du sat on the sofa in a private room and spoke to him in a frivolous tone. “Mengmeng, you're a graduate student. You must be a quick learner, so why haven't you figured out how to please someone yet?”

Everyone in the room burst out laughing, egging him on to drink. Cheng Du looked at him coldly. “What are you waiting for? Didn't you hear what Young Master Li just said?”

At the time, Bai Meng felt as if the world were spinning and he'd lost all sense of self.

In a daze, he thought he heard someone say, “He's just a kept man. Does he really think he's an actual boyfriend? Besides, the Cheng family would never let a man marry in.”

Later, he heard that Cheng Du was getting engaged.

Bai Meng looked at the man beside him. Just the night before, he'd pulled Bai Meng into his arms and made him lose himself, whispering in his ear, “Blame your bad luck. You just have one of those faces that attracts people.”

Bai Meng trembled all over, as if plunged into an icy abyss.

But what had he done wrong? He'd never wanted to get tangled up with Cheng Du. From beginning to end, all he'd wanted was to study hard and graduate.

The day Bai Meng left Cheng Du, he felt completely free. Cheng Du was still throwing a birthday party for his fiancée. When he heard the news, he thought little of it, certain Bai Meng wouldn't really leave.

But when he got home and found he could no longer reach Bai Meng, panic seized him. He couldn't find Bai Meng.

Without Bai Meng, Cheng Du belatedly realized that it felt as though a piece of his heart had gone missing.

That glance at the banquet had been love at first sight.

He said Bai Meng was his moon, so he toyed with the moon in the palm of his hand, hoping to break his spirit and shatter his dreams.

But the moon was never something one could reach, nor could it ever belong to just one person.

When he found Bai Meng again, there was no trace of him left in Bai Meng's eyes.

That day, the young master of the Cheng family cornered Bai Meng in the lab and demanded, voice hoarse with desperation, “Do you have no heart?”

Without even turning his head, Bai Meng replied, “How could I love someone who humiliated me? Stockholm syndrome is an illness. It needs treatment!”

Under the sun, Cheng Du begged Bai Meng to give him another chance. But no matter how long he stood there, Bai Meng only told him gently, “But I never loved you.”

Cheng Du felt as if his heart had been cut open. He watched Bai Meng walk lightly toward his companions, while even getting close to him had become an impossible luxury.

At last, he tasted regret.

-- Coming soon --

“My God Comes from China”

Li Ge transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world.

At that time, Blue Star is in the midst of chaos. Foreign races invade, and strange creatures run rampant. Humanity fights back by summoning gods, and nations establish academies to train summoners.

But among the native pantheons of the various countries, only China's divine lineage was not fully preserved for unknown reasons, leaving a severe break in its cultural inheritance.

China's divine lineage is missing. Its academy is shunned, it can't retain talent, and the country stands on the brink of collapse.

After Li Ge arrives: “What? Are you questioning the credentials of a PhD in Chinese literature whose primary research field is mythology?”

A genius arrives at the China Academy. At first, the talented people from other countries look down on him. How could a broken Chinese civilization produce a genius?

But later

During the inter-academy tournament, while the other talented students form teams to fight the foreign races, Li Ge, the sole representative of the new class at the China Academy, makes the entire arena seem dim by comparison.

His god strides upon auspicious clouds of seven colors, wears a phoenix-winged purple-gold crown and golden chainmail, and darkens heaven and earth with a single strike of his staff.

On the battlefield against the foreign races, the three-eyed divine lord comes with a man and a dog; the pretty-faced spirit boy kills without showing mercy; and... the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, rivals the gods in human form.

The foreign races tremble before them.

As Chinese civilization returns, humanity begins its counterattack. Li Ge leads the triumphant people in driving out the foreign races, igniting a spark and restoring Blue Star's glory.

Theme: I want to grow freely!