Something's off.
Something happened to Da Hong.
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THIS WORLD REALLY LOVED SCREWING Y/N OVER.
He was always trapped in bad situations, bad decisions, bad morals, and with bad people.
Some weren't aware of this evil nature of the world, naive to its true colors. That's what mortal's were, praying to gods as if behind those statues and paintings on fact; they were still on the level of any mortal: just with powers.
Others ignored it and scavenged down their own road, either set up for them; or they had the power and confidence to make their own. They did this to search for benefit, a few succeeded. That's what god's were, the ignorers.
Those who recognized that this was the only difference between the two, were punished and left behind. Some of those people made sense of what they were left with like banished gods and ghosts of any rank.
Life and Death?
No one knew which path they took, rather if they took a path at all. Not even Y/n could comprehend what was left for him as Life or Death. Da Hong might be able to figure it out, not in this lifetime though.
Y/n nor Da Hong knew what awaited them on the other side, what happened when someone filled their place.
Y/n wondered if that would happen to him right now. He was battling a ghost king who had taken down 33 heavenly officials after all, Y/n would be a struggle to defeat no doubt, but who would win in the end?
None of them wanted to know.
CLANG!
The two blades clashed together. An eruption of sparks flashed between Y/n and Hua Cheng.
Hua Cheng was shocked for a moment, the shock came in several waves in barley a second for him. The first one was wondering who's spiritual weapon could possibly stand against his so well, not shattering at first touch. The second was the realization that the person who had lunged at him was Y/n. The third was mainly confusion and frustration. The fourth was the fact that he was going to have to fight Y/n to see what was going on. The fifth was the question as to why Y/n had this blank smile on that Hua Cheng saw whenever their blades aligned. Y/n was usually always frowning when he was Death. Sure, as Life you are supposed to have a lighter aura, but while they were fighting?
Just what happened to Y/n the moment everyone turned away, thinking he was long gone.
Perhaps Hua Cheng should have went searching for him earlier, rather than waiting in the ghost city for him to arrive after his announced passing. The only reason he stopped waiting was because there was a new Death, this sudden replacement stirred the ghost king's interest and caused Hua Cheng to step out and track him down. If he hadn't, Hua Cheng would still be waiting with Xie Lian in the paradise manor together.
Hua Cheng swerved E-Ming downwards and jumped back a few meters. Y/n spun the lotus sword around his finger before closing off that distance. The sound of the steel of the blades ringing out against each other shook the ground the force was so strong.
It seemed that wasn't only the blade and amount of brute force the two were using against each other, also the passion between them that each other refused to acknowledge.
Y/n always felt he wasn't significant to Hua Cheng, after all his beloved is Xie Lian. But Y/n didn't know Da Hong's full backstory, or his, he didn't know anymore. All Y/n could process was the consistent sound and feeling of their blades colliding.
The lack of communication between Y/n and the people in his past life drew him up the wall, it had gotten both of them into such unnecessary situations that could've been avoided if they had just talked.
CLANG!
CLANG!
CLANG!
That's all that anyone within a six mile radius could hear. It made Y/n's heart ache, knowing that he completely screwed Hua Cheng over in one life and was about to do it in this one as well.
The odds weren't in anyone's favor, it was a bland, empty, grueling, and lacking battle between the two. Only a vacant smile from Life and a confused glare from Crimson Rain. Hua Cheng wanted answers, Y/n didn't want to give them in fear he would be left with nothing yet again. Back where he started, on that sandy island, nothing to lose and nothing to win.
Thinking back to that day so long ago, where all this madness started. It sank Y/n's heart to wonder about everything he went through only to end up here. He was still lacking of answers, but feeling as if he was too greedy to ask for more. He already was life, why would he dare ask for more answers, he had everything at his fingertips. The only fear he was supposed to have was for the day that someone would kick him off his throne and replace him, which was supposed to happen anyway. He still maintained a never ending smile.
He was undeserving.
Y/n was an undeserving soul.
All this love, was overall won over by Da Hong, not him.
Da Hong was deserving. Not Y/n.
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Da Hong strongly disagreed.
As he was being chased by Feng Xin, the man he had nearly gotten killed in his mortal life (on accident, keep that in good mind), he thought about when Y/n had said those words to him.
It shocked him that Y/n would offer up Pei Ming's love to him, since he was the "originator" of all that. Y/n didn't do it because he didn't want to deal with Pei Ming, he did it because he felt Da Hong deserved it more.
Da Hong wanted to flip a table when Y/n brought it up to him. Because that's what he would've thought as well, that's what he used to think whenever he received pleasures in his mortal years. He didn't want Y/n to go through that same stage, depriving himself of any affection he earned.
Sure Da Hong was the one everyone had originally caught an eye for, but Y/n keened their interest further. Y/n went through a lot to get to where he is, and he's going to go through more to establish some sort of peace in his life.
Y/n was deserving, Da Hong was deserving.
Everyone seemed to know it except for Y/n himself.
That was Da Hong's last thought before an arrow drove through his shoulder and he collapsed.
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Something's off.
Something happened to Da Hong.
Y/n whirled around from the attack Hua Cheng had just preformed. Y/n was about to move to deflect E-Ming yet again when a sudden force went into him and held him back from striking.
Two arms wrapped around his waist and pulled him into Hua Cheng's chest before he tumbled backwards. Hua Cheng covered the back of his head with a hand before it could slam against the bark.
They both sat under the tree for a few moments, Y/n in Hua Cheng's embrace with his head buried in the crook of Hua Cheng's pale neck and Hua Cheng's arm around his waist while his other hand gently pet Y/n's hair.
Y/n was in a moments shock,not knowing what had really just happened. He had to think this all through to even fathom that there was a ghost king practically crawling over him. Y/n felt his energy as Life burn against this, he was Life! He wasn't suited to be this close in contact with a ghost king! Yet, all his mind told him was to stay in this desperate hold.
Y/n laughed.
He snickered.
He chuckled.
He laughed again.
"What are you trying to do Crimson Rain," Y/n hissed calmly as his body fell limp in Hua Cheng's arms. He wasn't putting a spell on Y/n or anything, Y/n just felt like being limp because it was too tiring to hold himself up anymore.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Hua Cheng hummed quietly, the vibration of it touching Y/n's ear and sending a shivering effect through his whole body.
Y/n smiled fondly, it was fake, but that's okay. No one was really happy all the time, it was part of his job to be fake after all, as much as he hated that.
"Cut the shit Hua Cheng, what's going on." Y/n said as he continued to smile, hostility hiding behind it.
"I THINK WE BOTH KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON XIU Y/N." HUA CHENG REPLIED IN A FRIGHTENINGLY HUSHED VOICE.
I don't really have any announcements other than I'm gonna try to get back into posting chapters more frequently and try to get a proper schedule.
My goal is every Friday or Saturday for all my current stories.
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