Main characters: Xu You and Ling Qingxue
(Single heroine + cold and beautiful empress + unexpected contrast + sweet romance + secretly protecting her husband + doting on his wife + looting the fallen + sweet everyday interactions)
A slow-paced cultivation progression story in the vein of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. The male lead isn't invincible and doesn't have any powerful abilities.
Xu You's daily cultivation routine: making pills, doting on his wife, growing spirit herbs, and raising spirit pets.
Xu You is hit by a sludge truck while saving a little girl. Two and a half months after transmigrating, he narrowly escapes being possessed by his master and unlocks a System, but can't use it until he finds a cultivation partner with a score of at least 90…
After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Xu You's Partner System crashes because it can't find a goddess with a score of 90 or higher. With no other options, the poor young man takes his three spirit stones, his entire fortune, and heads straight to Drunken Immortal Tower, the biggest establishment in Giant Immortal City, to hunt for a bargain.
Everyone laughs at his wishful thinking, until he points at the “worn-out furnace” who's lost all her spiritual energy but still has peerless beauty. “Boss, will you sell her at a clearance price?”
Xu You buys a cold beauty for three spirit stones and only hopes to get a few System rewards. He makes pills while she tends the fire, and he farms while she waters the plants. Their little life together is pleasant and fulfilling.
But gradually, he realizes something is off… His enemies show up and mysteriously drop dead; danger strikes in a secret realm, and a legacy falls from the sky. His soft life of living off his wife is getting less and less soft!
Until one day, the Ten Great Demon Lords come for him, intent on refining his soul. His wife, who has silently followed behind him all along, finally opens her cool, clear eyes and takes one step forward. The world freezes over.
“Who do you think you are, to lay a hand on my man?”
Xu You stares at the figure before him, wreathed in immortal light and exuding pressure that has endured for millennia, and is stunned. The wife I bought for three spirit stones is actually the Ice and Snow Empress?!
“I'll be gentle. Tell me if it hurts.”
