Unhinged, theatrical ghost cultivator gong x a tsundere sword cultivator shou | The white moonlight I buried with my own hands was actually the person I had a mutual secret crush on]
On the day Xiao Guanyi rose to the top of the cultivation world's Most Evil People list, he was crouched in the back mountains, digging up his senior brother's grave.
The world curses him as a teacher-killer who betrayed the Dao, but he clutches his senior brother's life token and sings to the moon. His sect condemns him for becoming a ghost cultivator, yet he waves his soul-summoning banner with more flair than the red silks of the Joyful Union Sect. After all, the only pure thought left amid all his sins is Li Wangke.
Back then, when the black tide swallowed the sky, the stern-faced sect leader who was always scolding him used his life-bound sword to carve a path to safety. Only when the sword broke did Xiao Guanyi understand: Li Wangke had fused his emotional soul into his sword intent, protecting him for a hundred years.
“Now it's my turn to protect you.” Xiao Guanyi ties a soul-summoning bell to a white bone, his fingertips brushing the icy, snow-pale face in the coffin. A thousand years of ghostly energy condenses into red silk and winds around the corpse's ring finger. “They say ghost cultivators are the best at bringing the dead back to life. Senior Brother, guess how many mighty cultivators' bones I'll need to piece together the soul scattered across heaven and earth?”
Later, a rumor spreads through the Three Realms: the unhinged ghost cultivator who loves wearing red has roamed all the way to the Yellow Springs. In his left hand, he carries the shovel he used to break into the Hall of the King of Hell; in his right, he grips the waistbands of the founding patriarchs of every sect. “What's wrong with borrowing a little spiritual power? Once I bring my Dao companion back to life, I'll repay you all with twice the paper money!”
We agreed we'd both be workaholics, so why did you go and sacrifice yourself first? My secret crush comes true, only to find out my wife had a crush on me too #StillFindingWaysToMakePureLove Happen in the Underworld
(Pseudo-villain, actually a rabid-dog ghost cultivator junior brother x cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside, secretly passionate sword cultivator senior brother. Mutual secret crushes + salvation through life and death + absurdist cultivation comedy)
