Xuan Ji, the foremost cultivator in the Immortal Realm, has practiced the Heartless Dao for a thousand years. His Dao heart is harder than ten-thousand-year-old ice.
Then, to undergo his love trial, he seeks out Jiang Nuan, the laziest slacker in the Joyous Union Sect: perfect in theory, hopeless in practice, and always looking to slack off and lie flat.
With a contract, she becomes his “love-trial instructor.”
She thinks it will be nothing more than going through the motions. But at their very first “lesson,” the aloof Daoist Lord hears his Dao heart crack.
From then on, everything changes:
She wants to slack off and clock out: “Today's lesson is over. We'll continue tomorrow!”
He sets aside the Joyous Union scriptures, his gaze burning: “There is also ‘spiritual resonance.’ We must practice day and night to stabilize my Dao heart.”
At the Immortal Sects Tournament, he carries her off to the Cloud Terrace in front of everyone, his voice hoarse and obsessive: “My inner demon was born because of you. You have to take responsibility for it all.”
Jiang Nuan is baffled: Wasn't he supposed to be a heartless Daoist Venerable? Why is he more obsessed with “cultivation” than the disciples of the Joyous Union Sect?
Only later does she learn that once this Daoist Lord, celibate for a thousand years, breaks his vows, all he wants is to turn her into his own personal “cultivation manual,” studying her day and night and never letting go.
The entire Immortal Realm is losing its mind: Can someone do something? That's Daoist Lord Xuan Ji! How did he end up chasing after a demoness?
