When the War God Stayed
An interactive xianxia romantasy · with Jing Lie
A war god answers your summons, and the one price he will take is the part of you that could still fall in love.
Your choices shape how Jing responds.
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- Love interest
- Jing Lie
- Genre
- Xianxia romantasy
- Length
- ~2 hours
Tropes
About When the War God Stayed
The night before dawn, with everything on the line, you do the one thing no general should: you summon a god of war.
Jing Lie answers.
He will fight for you. But a god's help has a price, and the only one he'll take is the part of you that could still fall in love.
You pay it. Of course you pay it.
Now you have a god at your side, dawn on the horizon, and a strange new quiet where your heart used to ache.
He's watching you very closely.
“You stopped mid-summons, General. I am still here. Dawn is not.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 2
Then he steps into the lamplight, and I lose several seconds I would like back.
His hair is white, falling past his waist except for one section bound up in black jade. His armour is dark, and every engraved edge on it catches the lamps red.
He is good-looking, and I am going to say so plainly, because I have just cut my own hand open in a basement and I have no time to be coy about it. The court sends portraits of its handsomest sons north every spring in the hope that I will marry one. I would not have crossed a room for any of them, and I have already taken a step toward this one without deciding to.
Beautiful is the wrong word, though.
A tiger is beautiful, right up until the moment it works out what you are for.
His eyes look black until he turns them directly on me — a ring of ember red around each pupil.
JING LIE
“Well. I was beginning to think generals had grown sensible.”
His voice is low enough that it arrives in my chest a half-second before it gets to my ears.
“You are the martial god.”
JING LIE
“One of them.”
He leans a shoulder against the altar, and the room rearranges itself around him doing it.
JING LIE
“There are a great many wars. I am summoned for the difficult ones.”
His gaze goes down to my bleeding hand. Then it comes back up.
JING LIE
“And for generals interesting enough to pay.”
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Questions
Is When the War God Stayed free to read?
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Who is the love interest in When the War God Stayed?
Jing Lie. When the War God Stayed is an interactive xianxia romantasy where your choices shape what happens with Jing, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is When the War God Stayed?
An interactive xianxia romantasy built on protective hero, forced proximity and morally grey. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is When the War God Stayed?
About 2 hours of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.