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Tianlang-Jun’s POV
After he withered away in his sealed body under the Bailu Mountain. He found himself to be reincarnated as a mere human in a strange world. Demons and the likes were just folklores. He enjoyed this one more though. He had more access to literatures! He could buy the physical versions, read the online version and watch them as they got adapted into movies and series. After that he could spend even more time reading those fanfictions anytime he didn’t accept the canon endings. He was currently living to the fullest.
He encountered several reincarnation of people in his past life. Thankfully, he found his adorable nephew with a complete family. Even in this world, Zhilang was still his biological nephew from his sister.
He also found Xiyan. They agreed to become friends only, this time around. Truthfully, in their last life, they were horrified after finding out the kind of vengeful monster their child had become. The child was the result of their love, whether they died too early or not. And Tianlang-Jun didn’t approve him for having too many spawns either. There was a reason why Heavenly Demon Bloodline was rare. Tianlang-Jun lost count after it reached 3000. He shuddered. He himself was a believer of one true love.
To be honest, worst of all, it was merely for the fact that the old coot who was the reason of his and Xiyan’s demise, ended up as their son’s father-in-law and chief advisor for the human in their merged realm. Until the end, their son never found out about what the old coot did to them. It was one of the thing that they couldn’t accept. Once was enough. They decided to pursue different romantic interest while still remained friends.
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Then, he bumped into a peerless beauty who scowled up at him. Those thin lips were so irresistible. It seemed that his type still remained the same after all this time. He had seen this face somewhere, but it was a long time ago.
Why did he dismiss this beauty before? Was he too smitten by Xiyan last time?!
Tianlang-jun then tried everything to court this lovely younger man. Nothing could stop him. Even if the younger man stepped on him, he would just scream ‘harder!’
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Luo Bingge’s POV
It took a while for Luo Bingge to adjust to his new world. He had been trying to find his shizun’s reincarnation, to no avail. He just wanted to get a loving shizun of his own, after seeing that weaker version of him who had a caring shizun. To be honest, that shizun was completely different than his. It was like they were completely different persons.
Even in this world, he was still stuck with Ming Fan and Ning Yingying. Together, they went to the same high school. Soon, they met the rest of the other people from their past life.
They reunited with Liu Mingyan, who just published her first BL novel. Liu Mingyan was dumbfounded, when her brother told her that Shen Qingqiu didn’t try to kill him, Shen Qingqiu failed to save him. She told them how guilty she felt after accusing their Shen-shibo and plotted his downfall. All for a misunderstanding.
When Liu Qingge laid his eyes on Luo Bingge, they immediately went into a full brawl. First, for torturing his shixiong, and razing their sect to the ground, and secondly for making Liu Mingyan part of his harems.
Luo Bingge was no heavenly demon this time around, and thus he lost the fight spectacularly. He guessed he deserved it.
Since then on, they kept meeting everyone else, except Shen Qingqiu.
They even found Shang Qinghua, who punched Mobei-jun upon sight. Mobei-jun just let him. Even Sha Hualing, Xiao Gongzhu and Qiu Haitang were here too! So, how could none of them meet Shen Qingqiu at all?
Imagine his surprise when Ning Yingying informed him that Shen Qingqiu became a regular to a dessert shop where she just started her part-time at. He just moved into this part of the city because of job transfer. Finally!
Luo Bingge immediately applied for a part-time job there. Perhaps, he would have a chance to make shizun his, this time around! Shizun should be grateful that he would forgive him for drenching him with hot tea, giving him fake manual and throwing him into Endless Abyss.
But then, Yue-shibo told him directly, that shizun also got drenched by hot tea 7 times when he came to Qing Jing Peak. He also told him, that shizun was abused and starved during his stay in the Qiu Household. He suspected that shizun was almost got assaulted before he got into a qi-deviation and killed the rest of the males in that household.
Qiu Haitang fainted from shock after hearing that.
Ming Fan said that the fake manual was from a hallmaster, not from shizun. Luo Bingge recalled that some particular hallmasters of Qing Jing Peak soon followed the Huan Hua Palace Master everywhere as soon as Cang Qiong Mountain Sect was razed to the ground. Was that hallmaster one of his spies all along?
Everyone gulped.
Every disciple that arrived in Qing Jing Peak was told to stay in the woodshed for 3 months to test their perseverance. In shizun’s time as a disciple, it was 1 whole year. New disciples were bullied everywhere, not only in Qing Jing Peak. Luo Bingge was given more chores because he was a physical cultivator, unlike the rest of them in Qing Jing Peak. Shizun might already have some suspicions that Luo Bingge was a half demon since the beginning. So, his training was more for his survival in Endless Abyss.
Mobei scoffed at him that high ranking demons usually kicked their offsprings into Endless Abyss to get stronger and to control their unlocked power. It was part of their coming-of-age ceremony. Shen Qingqiu didn’t have any other choice but to shove him away.
Liu Qingge argued that if Shen Qingqiu really wanted him dead he would have chopped off his head first before throwing him.
Wei Qingwei added that if Bingge was found as a heavenly demon when there was a demon invasion that killed numerous disciples, he would be blamed whether he had any ties with the perpetrators or not. He would be captured and experimented by the angry and revenge-driven cultivators. Shen Qingqiu was doing what was best to save his disciple in his own way.
Ning Yingying told him that shizun treated her like his own daughter. He was her baba. She kept begging him to just let him go and kill him fast. But they kept believing that Shen Qingqiu had any lecherous thought about her. She was too naive to recognize any of it.
Sha Hualing just pointed out that the real pervert here was Luo Bingge himself who collected thousands of harems.
Should he feel guilty now?
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Apparently, Shizun didn’t recognize any of them. He didn’t even remember his own favourite disciple, Ning Yingying. Then, the others tried their luck too, only to feel disappointed. Even Yue Qingyuan was also forgotten.
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3rd POV
Today, surprisingly everyone was here in the dessert shop.
Somehow, the rest of the peak lords got reincarnated several times. They managed to stumble to meet each other. Eventually, they would always decide to stick together. There were always only 11 of them. None of them ever met Shen Qingqiu’s reincarnations even after centuries passed. Liu Qingge told them that Shen Qingqiu’s soul vanished.
After they found out from Liu Qingge himself that Shen Qingqiu didn’t kill him, they felt guilty for what happened to Shen Qingqiu. They even met their own disciples’ reincarnations in each lifetime.
Liu Qingge was discussing something with Wei Qingwei. Both of them were co-workers in a police department. Mu Qingfang was as expected, a renowned doctor. Yue Qingyuan was a businessman. Qi Qingqi was a fashion designer. And so on.
Maybe Shen Qingqiu became a professor in a university or something.
Luo Bingge gaped when he saw his sperm donor in his last life together with his shizun’s reincarnation.
Everyone halted upon seeing this peculiar scene.
“Is that--?” Someone trailed off.
Shen Jiu was bickering with Tianlang-Jun, who was carrying their purchases just outside of this dessert shop. Shen Jiu huffed as he was herded inside by the gentle Tianlang-Jun. Tianlang-Jun’s hand was firm around his waist. Tianlang-Jun glared at someone at the back who undoubtedly gazed at Shen Jiu’s ass. The other gulped and ran away. Tianlang-Jun then smiled adoringly at Shen Jiu before giving a peck on his forehead. Shen Jiu shoved him away but his ears were clearly red in embarrassment.
Ming Fan was fast on his feet and he proceeded to open the door for the couple. He then directed them to a secluded table. They received their menu and Ming Fan left the couple.
The rest of ex-Cang Qiong Mountain Sect Peak Lords were scattered around the room. They couldn’t help but take several nervous glances toward Shen Jiu, whose attention was clearly on Tianlang-Jun. He still didn’t seem to recognize any of them. If his memory was still in take, he wouldn’t even think to fall into Tianlang-Jun’s arms, of all people. But, after observing the couple further, it was more likely to conclude that Tianlang-Jun was thoroughly smitten. They begrudgingly needed to admit that Tianlang-Jun and Shen Jiu made a dashing couple.
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Luo Bingge’s POV
Luo Bingge wanted to puke at seeing his ex-father’s shameless romantic attempts. He didn’t think he himself was that bad before. He wondered what he did to get his shizun’s approval.
Did he drug him? What kind of bribery did he use?
Then his eyes shot open as he gazed on the couple’s matching rings. Oh no. The rest of the occupants in the shop followed his eyes and whimpered. They were already married!
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Shen Jiu's POV
Shen Jiu was now reincarnated in another world, where there was no cultivation. He somehow met Yingying, who just started her part-time job in his new favorite dessert shop. That’s too bad. He would need to look for another shop then. He sighed. After that, he rarely came to that shop.
Damn it. He had been trying to steer away from anyone’s reincarnation. But, his meeting with Yingying was like the start of everything. Before he knew it, he kept bumping into the rest of his martial siblings and literally everyone else.
He even met Haitang in a supermarket when he was choosing some vegetables to cook for dinner. He remembered her hateful glare directed at him when she accused him in the trial and her gleeful face when the beast was tearing him apart. When she asked the beast to do more, the beast gouged his eye. In the end, every member of the Qius was more or less the same. They enjoyed inflicting pains on him.
She awkwardly let him take the last cauliflower. Shen Jiu rolled his eyes inwardly. If she thought that she could get away by just letting him acquire a single vegetable, then she needed to work harder. He scowled and left that section.
He had a suspicion that everyone else retained their memories too. They actively seek him out. For what? He already paid his sins with thousand folds interests. Most of them were not even done by him. It was just what people thought he did.
He arrived at home in a bad mood and decided to do some painting.
His neighbors told him that this morning, a suspicious old man was seen lurking in their apartment building. But then, he was hit by some flower pot that fell from someone’s balcony. He died on the way to the hospital. He recalled that there was indeed the old coot’s reincarnation lurking constantly as soon as Shen Jiu met Xiao Gongzhu’s reincarnation. He didn’t tell anyone that one of his flower pot was missing from his balcony.
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He met Mu Qingfang when he was visiting his colleague who was hospitalized. Apparently, Mu Qingfang worked there. Mu Qingfang who made sure that medicines and any healing supplies arrived late in his Qing Jing Peak after Liu-shidi's death. That’s him.
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Someone bumped into him and the papers that he carried fell to the floor. He was about to curse the bastard when he saw the person was wearing a police officer uniform. It was Liu Qingge.
“I apologize for bumping into you.” Liu Qingge crouched down as he helped him to collect his papers.
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He was dreading the time when he met that beast.
Unfortunately, he bumped into Tianlang-jun instead, in a convention. The man shamelessly flirted with him. He just ignored this clown. If Tianlang-jun was here, then that beast, who was his demonic spawn, would be around as well.
To his surprise, Tianlang-jun was still single and he didn’t pursue Su Xiyan’s reincarnation. They were just friends. Tianlang-jun continued pestering him relentlessly. He was quite persistent. Shameless!
But, it was the first time someone really wanted him, despite his spiteful and unfriendly personality. Maybe he would give this man a chance…
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Before he knew it, they were already happily married. He admitted that behind his shameless attitude, Tianlang-Jun was a great and loyal husband. He also pampered him a lot.
If Tianlang-Jun was like this, then how did the beast turn out that way?
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.The End.