Sweet Jade [Road Trip]

[Niche Kinks, Self-Indulgent Fic, Please Check the Warnings | Complete | Check Out My Upcoming Stories]

Xie Zhenyan quit his job. After taking the fall for his former company and signing an agreement accepting an industry-wide blacklist in City A, he received a severance payment.

He planned to return to his hometown to build his career, but nearly had someone tailgate him through an ETC toll gate on the highway.

When their attempt to sneak through failed, a stunning young man who looked like an immortal stepped out of the back seat.

He thought, With a face like that, why do something like this?

They soon ran into each other again on the highway. This time, no toll gate stood in the way. The young man was shoved without warning onto the scorching pavement, and the car door slammed shut right in front of him before the car sped away.

In the sweltering heat, in the middle of the highway, Xie Zhenyan's heart skipped a beat. Unable to help himself, he honked, rolled down the window, and shouted to the dazed young man, "Get over to the roadside!"

The young man came to his senses, scrambled up, and staggered toward him.

1.

The young man was Mi Jiayu. The driver was his sweet junior, and the one who shoved him out was his scumbag boyfriend.

He was gay.

Xie Zhenyan thought he ought to comfort him, but that combination only made his already-racing heart beat faster.

He helped report the incident to the police, took Mi Jiayu home, exchanged contact details with him, then received a late-night call asking for help. His scumbag boyfriend was blocking his door.

By the time Xie Zhenyan arrived, the police were already there. A crowd had gathered around the young man, who looked so frail and helpless as he cast Xie Zhenyan a pleading glance.

Xie Zhenyan took a deep breath, stepped out of the crowd, and held out his hand. "Come stay at my place. You're shaken up."

2.

The beautiful young man moved in with him.

The wiring in the old house was worn out, and the lights suddenly went out while the young man was showering.

"Zhenyan?" he called from inside. "I think the lights shorted out. Could you turn on the light in the hallway? I'm not done showering."

"There's no light in the hallway." Xie Zhenyan walked over with his phone and turned on the flashlight. "I'll use my phone as a light for you."

The door opened a crack, and damp, sweet air slipped out.

Mi Jiayu reached out a wet, pale arm, and Xie Zhenyan placed the phone in his palm.

Warnings:

1. Love at first sight, a kink-driven short story. A practice run at a road-trip story. It may not quite fit the usual conventions, but I went with what I like. The original intention was to write a road-trip story.

2. Contains bodily fluid descriptions.

3. Set in a fictional world with deliberately vague geography. Things from places all over the map have been mixed together, so please don't dwell on any inconsistencies.

4. Formerly titled Sweet Tide.

--Rotating updates: Bound by a Damp, Sinister Ghost After Killing My Husband--

Legend has it that for a cultivator to ascend, they must endure eighty-one heavenly tribulations, sever worldly ties, cast aside distracting thoughts, and take on a new body before they can pass through the heavenly gate.

Once a noble and revered immortal, Bai Yuezhou failed his tribulation and was left to eke out a miserable existence in the mortal realm.

The Heavenly Dao told him: You have one unfinished bond. You must kill the one you love.

With his broken body, Bai Yuezhou climbed the mountain and raised his sword, personally cutting off his rival's head--

--and still failed to ascend.

Beneath the stars, in a desolate wilderness temple, he hid Jiang Du's corpse inside a Buddha statue. Hoping to soothe his conscience, he offered three sticks of incense to the gods and ghosts.

The wind stirred and the flames went out. A chilling voice whispered in his ear:

"Zhouzhou... The sword you used to cut me... it hurt so much..."

With no way to escape, he was forced to cling dazedly to the other's embrace as overwhelming ghostly energy poured into him. Beneath his intact clothes, his lower abdomen bulged into a dreadful shape. When he looked up, he saw the wooden statue that concealed the corpse.

Weathered by time, the statue had long since lost its features, making it impossible to tell where it came from. Judging by its outline, its gaze seemed to be fixed on the prayer mat.

Was this his punishment for killing Jiang Du? He had left Jiang Du without a whole corpse, and now an evil ghost was pinning him beneath Jiang Du's corpse and forcing itself on him.

[Merciless, ruthless cultivator on the receiving end x Reborn, sinister ghost on the attacking end]

Warnings:

1. Logic-free, kink-driven short story, projected length 30,000+ words.

2. The ghost is his rival, the attacker, and Jiang Du. One-on-one, both virgins, endgame couple.

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and keep moving forward!