The male and female leads grow over time and eventually become an equally matched pair. The heroine is a slow burn who falls in love over time, while the hero is devoted and steadfast in his love.
This isn't a mindless fluffy romance. They weigh their options again and again before deciding that they can only be with each other.
After three lifetimes of twists and turns, it's still you. So it has to be you.
He is a master planner, carrying the burden of his clan's destruction and working every day toward the perfect revenge. She is a little Pixiu who fell into the cultivation world and had to start over, known as a master at ruining plans. Her approach to life can be summed up in two words: doing as she pleases.
His dream is a home for two, with three meals a day and four seasons together. Her daily routine is causing trouble, paying hush money, and turning the world upside down.
To her, he's a fox spirit who acts one way and feels another, always putting on airs.
To him, she's merely a stepping stone on his path to revenge, one liable to send everything off the rails at any moment.
But when she willingly becomes his stepping stone and learns to devise a perfect plan, he searches heaven and hell for her, turning the world upside down.
When you truly love someone, you'll go along with her whims. But if you truly love someone, how could you let her do whatever she wants?