Both reborn, former enemies turned lovers
Warm on the outside, cold within, gentle yet obsessive gong x sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, beautiful yet tragic shou
Blurb:
01.
Chu Xufeng and Xuan Jing had known each other for ten years. For the first seven, they were close friends who would trust each other with their lives. For the last three, they were sworn enemies on opposing sides of the righteous and demonic factions.
Chu Xufeng had long accepted that his ties with Xuan Jing were over. But when he, the Demon Cult's leader, was surrounded by the righteous sects, the only person who carried him out of that mountain of corpses and sea of blood was none other than Xuan Jing, now the Martial Alliance's revered leader.
He wasn't going to make it.
Chu Xufeng knew it all too well. Looking at Xuan Jing's face, the one he'd been entangled with for half his life, he was so furious his teeth ached. Even if he was going to die, he would make sure Xuan Jing didn't get off easy.
Just before he breathed his last, Chu Xufeng leaned in and planted a hard kiss on his former best friend. Blood and tears smeared their mouths. Laughing, he closed his eyes and departed this world.
02.
When he opened his eyes again, Xuan Jing's face was still right there.
Those deep-set features, that elegant bearing: he looked exactly as he had when they first met ten years ago.
Chu Xufeng lazily repeated the line he'd used back then: "That is one handsome face. May I ask your name and where you live? Do you have a wife and children?"
Xuan Jing: "I'm your husband."
Chu Xufeng's teasing abruptly stopped.
Wait a minute.
That isn't how your line goes!
03.
You shouldn't meet someone too dazzling when you're young.
For ten years, whenever Xuan Jing woke in the middle of the night, Chu Xufeng's face haunted both his nightmares and his erotic dreams.
Countless times, one moment Xuan Jing would itch to punch him, and the next he'd ache to kiss him.
Only after they had been driven into an irredeemable predicament, and Chu Xufeng's kiss, mingled with blood and tears, landed on his lips as he died, did Xuan Jing finally understand what that bone-deep ache meant.
Fortunately, they could start over.
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01. A lighthearted story of the martial world and court politics, with no angst and a happy ending.
02. One-on-one, mutually devoted, both virgins. The shou realized his feelings in his previous life; the gong had a secret crush but didn't know it. After being reborn, he finally understood his feelings and became determined to pursue them.
03. They each had their own difficulties back then. There were misunderstandings, but they'll talk them through.
04. The beloved trope of each trying to hide their own secret identity while working hard to uncover the other's =w=
05. Blurb written on April 22, 2025.
06. The whole novel is complete in draft; it'll start posting once enough chapters are ready.
Theme: Be honest and do things properly.
