Peach Blossom Calamity

Lin Zhuoyu was apprenticed to the greatest sect in the Three Realms. Gorgeous and exceptionally gifted, he was every bit the heaven-blessed prodigy everyone admired.

Lately, though, he had two things weighing on his mind. First, his master had predicted that his love star was on the rise, and he might suffer a romantic tribulation.

Second, his senior brother, who had grown up with him, was becoming more and more distant.

...He no longer stayed by Lin Zhuoyu's side every moment. He avoided him, whether deliberately or not, and even frowned and looked away in disgust when their eyes met. He had even refused to accompany him on the sect's training excursion.

Lin Zhuoyu had no choice but to go on the excursion alone. Sure enough, he suffered a romantic tribulation and met the person fated to be his partner.

But when he brought the man back to the sect and announced that they would become cultivation partners, his usually icy senior brother's eyes turned bloodred and murderous. He nearly drew his sword and cut Lin Zhuoyu's future partner down on the spot.

Lin Zhuoyu: “?”

He didn't understand.

What had he done to upset him?

Yan Su had fallen in love with the junior brother he'd grown up with.

He was afraid to travel or live together with him, afraid to be alone with him. Even meeting his eyes made his heart race, and he feared his filthy thoughts would be discovered.

Then Lin Zhuoyu left the sect alone for his training excursion. Within days, he was gravely wounded, and his life lamp was almost extinguished. Yan Su went mad with worry and rushed to find him.

But in the end, he saw Lin Zhuoyu holding another man's hand, beaming as he said he wanted them to become cultivation partners.

Yan Su: “?”

Yan Su nearly went into qi deviation on the spot.

Yan Su watched the two of them cultivate together, always in each other's company. He watched Lin Zhuoyu's smile, once meant for him, turn toward another man without reservation. He even watched that damned man try to lay claim to the treasure Yan Su had protected all these years.

...Yan Su's eyes turned bloodred as he grew more twisted and sinister.

Fortunately, Heaven took pity on him. Before Lin Zhuoyu and his fiance could form their bond, the man fell off a cliff and vanished, his fate unknown.

Watching Lin Zhuoyu's tearful face, full of worry, Yan Su's heart stirred.

His chance had come.

Note:

1. A dazzling, confident, heaven-blessed prodigy, a clueless beauty adored by everyone, who doesn't realize it, as the bottom X an emotionless Dao cultivator with a 99% failure rate at Jinjiang, who turns into the Three Realms' most jealous top. Both are each other's first and only, happy ending. The damp, scheming ex-husband isn't dead. His love is real, even if he's a terrible person, and he'll come crawling back to pick a fight.

2. Extremely, extremely, extremely melodramatic and extremely, extremely, extremely cliched, with little regard for logic.

3. Updates at midnight before the paid chapters begin, then around 10 p.m. afterward. If it goes past 11 p.m., I'll make up for it with an extra update.

Theme: Meet each other with open hearts