Walking Corpses, Divine Lord, Do Not Long for Me

Younger love interest raised from childhood + a long road to winning back his wife's heart Two male leads. The divine lord is the calculating pursuer, while the walking corpse is the innocent pursued. Childhood nurturing in the early part, heartbreak in the later part, a long road to winning back his love, happy ending. Not a conventional cultivation novel. Shui Mingluan has terrible luck. For instance, he was born without a spiritual root, a lowborn beauty who was bullied by everyone. He nearly got sent to the beastfolk to bear their young... And when he was fifteen, he went to Corpse Mountain alone to seek help, only to be bitten by a vicious corpse and turned into a bloodthirsty walking corpse... Of course, he had his lucky moments, too. For instance, when he was seven, he was locked in the back hills. Starving and freezing, he ate grass and berries to survive, never imagining that he would end up eating the ancient Ganhua the Divine Lord had sought for a thousand years! As a result, he became... A corpse with a mind of its own! Sigh... Could anyone have it worse than him? Still, Shui Mingluan had his moments of happiness. For instance, he became the Divine Lord's first disciple... And the Divine Lord was kind to him, kinder than anyone had ever been to him as a lowborn beauty... So he fell in love. He gave his heart, something a filthy walking corpse and wretched beauty like him should never have had, to the heavenly god whom all beings looked up to. He knew he wasn't worthy of him... Yet he stubbornly thought that perhaps, just perhaps, the Divine Lord might love him too. And so, for those three years, he was happy... Until the day they parted, when Di Zhu personally cut open his flesh and tore out his spiritual root! Only then did Shui Mingluan realize that everything had been an illusion. The happiness he had kept hidden in his heart, the happiness he couldn't let go of, had been nothing but a trap set by the Divine Lord from beginning to end!