Can We Still Be Enemies After Becoming Cultivation Partners?

I.

Pei Qinghuai once rescued a young man in the Demon Realm. The youth came from an immortal sect, possessed an innate immortal bone, and had enjoyed boundless glory before falling victim to a villain's schemes and ending up there.

Pei Qinghuai was born and raised in the Demon Abyss, yet longed to cultivate immortality. He did everything he could to help the young man escape, hoping that once the immortal lord returned to his sect, he would help Pei Qinghuai shed his demonic bones and begin cultivating.

But the immortal lord repaid kindness with betrayal. The moment he left the Demon Abyss, he abandoned Pei Qinghuai and even ordered him thrown out of the immortal sect.

How outrageous! What a bully! So what if he's an immortal? Does that mean he can just bully demons? Doesn't he know how terrifying a good demon can be once corrupted?

Pei Qinghuai turned and headed back toward the Demon Abyss without looking back.

II.

The first time Xie Chenkong saw Pei Qinghuai after falling into the Demon Abyss, he knew this little demon seed would be trouble.

And trouble should be dealt with for good. He ought to crush it.

But when he put his hand around Pei Qinghuai's neck, the little demon seed suddenly turned into a ball of demonic mist, slipped out of his grasp, punched him in the face, and yelled, "Bad guy!"

The little demon seed didn't seem to know he was a demon. Xie Chenkong scared him so badly that he couldn't turn back into human form, and he cried and demanded that Xie Chenkong take responsibility.

Xie Chenkong thought: He's just a little demon seed. I can always kill him later.

So he settled into life in the Demon Abyss, raising a little ball of demonic mist: fixing his hammock, braiding his hair, making him lanterns... and teaching him to cultivate immortality.

That continued until he took the little demon seed out of the Demon Abyss.

Back at his sect, his fellow disciples told him that Pei Qinghuai was his tribulation of love, and to pass through it, he had to sever this ill-fated bond.

The people of the immortal sect also said Pei Qinghuai was born a demon, an evil and wicked creature. The Xie clan stood at the head of the immortal sects, and it was their duty to protect the common folk by eliminating this menace.

Xie Chenkong didn't understand what they were talking about.

A tribulation of love? Eliminating a menace?

Pei Qinghuai was weak and adorable, innocent and carefree, and couldn't even kill a chicken. He was the spouse Xie Chenkong had known since they were both nobodies.

Xie Chenkong gave a thorough beating to everyone who spoke ill of his spouse in front of him. But when he returned home, he discovered that his spouse was gone.

Thinking something terrible had happened to Pei Qinghuai, he hurried out to look for him.

But he searched the whole world and couldn't find the little demon seed anywhere.

Then news came from the demon realm: its tyrannical, ruthless leader had been killed and replaced.

And the new Demon Lord was his weak and adorable, innocent and carefree spouse, who had never even killed a chicken: Pei Qinghuai.

After leaving for many years, Pei Qinghuai turned the demon realm upside down and antagonized every immortal sect. He no longer smiled at Xie Chenkong as he once had, and repeatedly set himself against him.

Later, war broke out between the immortals and demons.

After causing a whole lot of trouble, Pei Qinghuai faked his death and ran away.

Before fleeing, Pei Qinghuai lay dying in Xie Chenkong's arms and said, "Now there are finally no annoying demons left to oppose you. You're happy now, aren't you?"

Xie Chenkong clenched his jaw, his blood-red eyes fixed on him, and said nothing.

III.

Pei Qinghuai faked his death and slept for many years. He couldn't remember a thing about his past, and began a peaceful new life in a secluded paradise.

Then one day, he had a dream.

In the dream, a group of people treated his sect as a demonic cult and called him the Demon Lord.

His senior brother stood against him, at odds with him at every turn. He even led the immortal sects to storm his lair and take his life.

Pei Qinghuai woke up and looked at his senior brother, Xie Chenkong. They had been promised to each other before birth, grown up together, and become cultivation partners as soon as Xie Chenkong came of age. Pei Qinghuai felt that something was very wrong.

...If we've already been cultivation partners, can we still be enemies? (Is it too late to run?)

Black-hearted, outwardly innocent, nonhuman bottom VS possessive, obsessive husband top

Reader's guide:

1. Xie is the top and Pei the bottom. No switching. One-on-one pairing, happy ending, faithful to each other in body and heart.

2. The story opens after the fake death; Chapter Eight begins the flashback.

Please add my upcoming novel, Running Away After Marrying the Ghost King, to your reading list.

Su Chi transmigrates into a book as a frail, foolish, beautiful cannon-fodder villain in the cultivation world.

Perfect face, terrible brains, frail as a willow, coughing every few steps.

After working tirelessly to trip up the protagonist, he wins himself a special execution-day gift pack.

To stay alive, Su Chi decides to cling to the protagonist's coattails.

After a series of efforts involving playing crazy, acting obedient, and pretending to be cute, Su Chi successfully becomes the protagonist group's most doted-on, useless freeloader.

Life goes smoothly, but then the ultimate villain appears: Yan Miao, the future Ghost King, a genius with maxed-out intelligence and strength, and an unbelievably creepy, twisted monster.

The villain looks over the protagonist's group and ultimately kidnaps the most useless one, Su Chi.

Su Chi expects to end up wandering around a mass grave, but when he opens his eyes, it's his wedding night. He is dressed in a bright red wedding robe, and the villain, wearing a matching one, holds a nuptial cup in his pale hands and calls Su Chi his wife.

Su Chi: Bro, what do you see in me?

Villain: Your face.

Su Chi: You married me for my looks?

Su Chi uses his usual tricks on the man.

But no matter how much he acts crazy, plays obedient, or pretends to be cute, none of it works. The villain isn't falling for any of it. He only wants Su Chi himself.

With no other choice, Su Chi pretends to be dead.

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Yan Miao once fell into the mud and was rescued by a sickly man. He and the sickly man became husband and wife.

Later, Yan Miao recovered from his injuries, but his little wife disappeared.

The Ghost Lord searched everywhere in the world and couldn't find him.

Then, in the six-hundredth year, he met Su Chi.

He knew his wife had returned.

But his wife's memory seemed to have a few problems. When he saw Yan Miao, he didn't rush into his arms like he used to, telling him how much he had missed him over the past six hundred years and asking how he had been. Instead, he turned pale with fright and ran for his life.

Not only had he forgotten Yan Miao, he was also hanging around with some other man, laughing and chatting like he was having the time of his life.

It doesn't matter. Yan Miao can just drag him back and marry him again.

They used to love each other so much. Su Chi will remember in time and come back to him.

Six hundred years later, his wife has learned to act cute and obedient. The villain loves it, but doesn't dare show it too much, afraid Su Chi will think he's being improper.

Then one day, Su Chi pretends to die and runs away with another man.

Yan Miao: Keep your composure. Keep your composure. Keep your composure. Damn it!

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Su Chi seems to have once rescued a mortal and married him.

One day, he discovers his husband isn't a mortal at all, but a dead man.

It's fine. The dead man treats him well enough, and love between the living and the dead is a thing. He can turn a blind eye and make it work.

Later, Su Chi discovers that his husband isn't just dead, he's also the ultimate villain from the original story: the ghost among ghosts, the king of ghosts, the kind who goes on a killing spree whenever he's in a bad mood!

...Who wouldn't run?

That hateful dead man dared to toy with his feelings!

A frail beauty who only wants to survive, bottom VS an ultimate villain who only wants to win back his wife, top

One-on-one pairing, happy ending, faithful to each other in body and heart

A silly little sweet romance with the author's preferences running wild

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