Iambread

"Have you heard of the legend?" A granny starts with her grandchild in her lap



Once upon a time in a land enveloped by snow,a land unvisited by the sun where even a fraction of fire could not exist

There lived a tyrant



A ghost king,who emerged victorious from fighting over thousands and thousands of ghosts in one go


And on the day the divine heaven regarded as the one day the sun shines the brightest,what should've been bright and warm,became dark and cold,for it is also that day that the tyrant emerged victorious claiming the title Ghost king,the 5th of the heavenly calamity,the heaven shook for 6 incense time that day




"What does the ghost king look like granny?"the grandchild ask innocence burning in his eyes as it sparkled,so his grandmother says




They say he is like ice,skin so pale he looked like a dead body pulled from the depth of ocean,hair frosty white that almost came down to hide his eyes,and his eyes......one look at his eyes and you accept you fate,for his eyes screamed death,a sorrowful mourn of the dead,as if his eyes contains death itself

Oh!and people says he has holes on his face too

"Really granny? that's not true right?"


"Who knows?but it's time for you to go to bed now,or else he will come"His granny tickles his toes, giggle bursting out

"B-but granny, you've never told me his name"


No one knows his name actually,but since his story came and reached the farthest of land,he was known to be called "Graceful white death",for the chilling breeze and the freezing cold announced his presence,

And it is said even the sun would freeze in fear of him

Where Spider Lilies Bloom

Lihui felt like he had such an eventful month,from being forced to descend from godhood and now being stabbed by fellow officials,it's kinda funny and to think Mingxu is still up there as if he's not such a peace of shit

Lihui doesn't like violence but he would like to stab him,the 2 officials who came for him are probably sent by Mingxu,but he can't do anything anyway,he's not a god anymore,more like a ghost

"Lihui?" He heard a voice from the black void,maybe it's the voice of the god who oversee the afterlife

All of a sudden the void is filled with light,and his body ache terrible "he woke up" he heard

He sees a quick flash of white before he was enveloped in a hug "thank god Lihui"

Good news he is still alive,rather than the fact that he is aching everywhere and a ghost king is currently pressing his stab wound,yeah everything is fine

"Um–" Lihui is speechless,why?maybe because a ghost king known to kill everyone in his sight is hugging him so crushingly,maybe he is indeed trying to kill him?

But why would he thanked god?isn't he a ghost?

"I said i would protect you but then this happened,please forgive me" The ghost king says

"Urm-, Graceful white death?"Lihui felt ridiculous calling him that but he doesn't know his name so what could he possibly use?

The man in front of him looked somewhat hurt "Please call me Yichen"he says

And because of that Lihui now noticed that they were not alone,4 people stood around them and they gasped hearing Yichen saying his name

A name doesn't meant much and is not worth this reaction,normally that is

But a ghost king's name is a whole different story,only the most trusted people would normally know their real name,but this ghost king just casually told him his

Lihui figured that he must've given him another name he went by,because no way would he say his real name with all this people and even gods around

"Y-Yichen, do you know me?" Lihui asks

"Huh!?" Yichen eyes widened and he quickly turned to Chanjuan,staring at him with questions in his eyes

Chanjuan looked away "he doesn't have his memory"

"Oh!" Yichen looked anxious at this point,then he stares at Lihui "I believe Chanjuan did not tell you anything,I didn't expect him to given his cru-"

A pillow flew and landed on Yichen's head "s-shut up"

Another gasp that was possibly even louder than the last one erupted

"Do you know each other?"Lihui asks,he was confused right from the start but their behaviour right now is beyond confusing

"Yeah" Yichen says rubbing his cheek "he's kinda like my younger brother"

Another pillow landed on his face "don't ever say that again,i am not your brother"

Yichen stares at Lihui apologetically "don't mind him he's going through his adolescence"

And with that Chanjuan walked out from the room,his face red

"Anyway, Lihui,please believe me when i tell you this,because it's true,we were lover once"

Here it comes again,that weird feeling in his chest,he seems to be having it quite regularly since a month ago

"I won't burden you with everything,but only one important fact,i have loved you,i still do,and i will continue to do so until i die"

…a God?