A Speck of Snow on a Red Stove

When heaven and earth were first divided, there were once three realms. Immortals created another world to suppress evil spirits, ghosts, and demons, maintaining balance in the mortal realm so that its people would not suffer. In recognition of the many races’ contributions, the gods bestowed upon them the ancient Fusang tree, a heavenly ladder reaching the skies, as well as the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Those born in the other world with the five-element immortal body and spirit bones could hope to ascend and become immortals.

After two wars between the races, many once-prosperous clans and noble families fell into decline. Countless sects went into hiding to escape disaster, and the other world gradually began to decay.

Chan Ji became a renowned dreamweaver far and wide, thanks to his “con artistry” and dream-weaving skills in a remote corner of Yuanyuan County. A shirker with “mad” ways, he returns to the other world to honor a solemn promise to someone who entrusted him with their child. He tries to defy fate, but finds it hard to see things through to the end. As one bizarre, ferocious beast and evil spirit after another appears, strange events from the past come to light. Caught in a cycle of vows, protection, death, and revenge, loss becomes the ultimate destination of his turbulent life. Once his secret identity is exposed, the joys and pains of his first half of life tear him out of the protective shell of madness and foolishness. He must face his hatred head-on...

(When the two meet again, everything has changed. This is a second-chance romance. Early on, the recipient is kept by the pursuer and diligently takes on jobs from the knife-wielding organization in front of him, without a word of complaint. In private, though, he is ruthless, with a penchant for going berserk at any moment. After life has dealt him blow after blow, he becomes so calm he might as well be saving all sentient beings. The pursuer is an aloof, untouchable beauty, pure and cold, and kindhearted only when he chooses to be. He falls for the recipient early on without realizing it. Pay attention to the “heartless path”: he thinks they are just close as brothers, but aren’t his two cousins already enough for him to raise? The recipient falls first. Only after the recipient fakes his death does the pursuer realize his feelings, and the long road to winning him back begins.)

A debauched, fallen, shameless, fake-sweet recipient * a cool, aloof, genuinely shameless beauty of a pursuer

An extreme, lovesick, loyal puppy in the early chapters