[Eastern Fantasy + Single Male Lead + Slow-Build Progression + Level-Headed + Uninterested in Women + Master and Disciple + Close Friends]
On a summer night in 1398, Ouyang Lingxiao's fingers were cold as he lifted the red bridal veil.
Li Zhen, his childhood sweetheart, looked at him shyly. "At last, this day has come."
But he calmly pushed away the wedding wine and rode through the night toward Guangzhou to sit for the imperial exam.
Everyone said he was crazy. They clearly loved each other, so why run away on his wedding night?
Only a hundred years later, when the young man had become an immortal, was the shocking truth revealed:
"My heart is empty. I can't feel love, and I can't taste the sweetness of lychees."
It turned out that a frozen volcano lay hidden in the young man's heart.
That volcano was called immortality.