The System Cheats Its Way to Winning Her Heart

When a mysterious glimmer of spiritual light streaked across the night sky above Mo Village, seventeen-year-old Mo Chen had no idea that it would not only illuminate his ordinary fate, but quietly launch a fantastical legend of defying destiny and winning his beloved’s heart on his path to godhood.

When he first entered the world of cultivation, he was like a lonely boat adrift amid towering waves. With no background, resources, or backing, he had only the sliver of hope granted by the Spirit Illusion Heavenly Wheel System. He battled monsters in the Desert of Death and faced powerful foes in secret realms. Every breakthrough came through blood and fire; every step forward was a violent blow against the shackles of fate. But when he finally established himself at Lingxiao Pavilion, he discovered that the hardest trial was his gentle, water-like senior sister, Yun Shang, who was trapped by the constraints of her family.

The gears of fate began to turn. The System’s help sent him racing forward on the path of cultivation, but also brought countless greedy eyes and deadly threats. He once risked his life in a sandstorm to win back a spirit pet egg for her, and promised beneath the moon, “If I ever reach the summit, I’ll shatter every obstacle in your way.” But when he finally stood among the powerful, he discovered she had already been promised to another, a bright moonlight beauty made a pawn on the board of political intrigue.

The price was cutting away the tenderness of his past with his own hands. The turning point came when she looked back at him with a smile amid the flames and said, “I believe you.” And so he used his mortal body to defy the foundations of great clans, tearing apart the thread of fate with his defiant spirit, all to pull her from the whirlpool of coercion and claim her in his arms.

When a world measures love by family status and sincerity by strength, how should people choose? Should they submit to fate, or defy heaven, making a pact with their souls and wielding love as a sword?