You have no idea when it started but you felt like a third wheel in your relationship.

Maybe it has something to do when the three of you just finish helping the villagers and an elderly woman praised your lovers as a cute couple and mistook you as their servant in the shrine, you just laughed it off and told her the truth. However your lovers was quick to reassure you when your back at paradise manor by showering you with loving words and affection. It didn’t bother you—really! not until misunderstandings began piling up. Then, you started to overthink.

But! In your defense of your overthinking, hua cheng literally burned the temples of the 33 god that insulted xie lian, broke xie lian shackles, died 3 times for him, built statues, and waited a flopping 800 years for him. On the other hand, Xie lian saved him when he attempted to kill himself, became THE literal reason hua cheng is still alive, holds a necklace tied to Hua Cheng’s ashes. And you? You’re just Xie Lian’s former servant from his days as the Crown Prince and now an immortal cultivator. They just...completed each other better and your just an obstacle in their relationships

So you just started to distance yourself from them like not participating in cuddles, not pecking or kissing them, and start to just busy yourself more in your night hunts.

Hua cheng and xie lian knew something was wrong with you in these past days with you avoiding them and going to night hunts alone more often despite their warnings and offer to accompany you so they just decided to follow you stealthily to your night hunt trailing from a distance as you slaughtered resentful ghost at an area called burial mound (get it?)

It was going well—until it wasn’t. A ghost lunged at you from behind, toppling you to the ground. Before you could process what happened, Ruoye lashed out, binding the ghost tightly, while E-Ming sliced through it in one clean strike. In moments, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng were at your side their concern evident.