After the Most Hated One Returns, the Entire Sect Loves Them but Can't Have Them

[From everyone’s least favorite to everyone’s beloved / the pursuit of a wife after the crematorium / all the men compete for him]

Until the age of sixteen, Yu Xuehe was the beloved junior disciple of his entire sect, adored by everyone.

At his sixteenth birthday celebration, everyone joyfully welcomed back the cultivation world’s most beautiful woman, who had been asleep for many years.

Yu Xuehe was told that he was nothing but a substitute, a fake created to ease someone’s longing.

Overnight, everyone changed their tune. Desperate to return to how things had been, Yu Xuehe practiced forbidden arts. When the truth came out, he was branded the shame of his sect and confined to a secluded courtyard for ten whole years.

Once he had outlived his usefulness, Yu Xuehe was run through the heart with a sword. He fell in the frozen snow, watching them use his body as a vessel for their beloved white moonlight. He died unable to rest in peace.

When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to his sixteenth birthday celebration.

Yu Xuehe gave up chasing what he could never have. He stopped pushing himself to cultivate and became a lazy good-for-nothing, content to eat and wait for death.

But the people who had once scorned him had all changed their tune.

His master, several senior disciples, the young lord of the demon clan, and even the white moonlight they had all yearned for now turned their attention to Yu Xuehe.

At his sixteenth birthday celebration, Yu Xuehe left the sect without looking back.

From then on, they would never meet again, in this life or the next.

But

Yu Xuehe stared in shock at the man who had climbed into his bed that night.

The man took hold of his ankle, his tone languid yet leaving no room for refusal. “Where do you want to go, Xuehe?”

Yu Xuehe was speechless.

Can someone tell him why this man is clinging to him like a ghost?