Ancestor, Please Get Down the Mountain with Some Dignity

The metaphysics world’s old ancestor comes down the mountain to find her fiancé. The whole mountain celebrates, and the entire city suffers. Su Jiangli, a living ancestor of the metaphysics world, sacrificed herself a thousand years ago to save all living beings. Her soul shattered, leaving behind only a wisp to be reborn through the cycle of reincarnation. Eighteen years later, her master finds her in the snow and raises her on the mountain. Mischievous and unruly, she does whatever she pleases. The ghosts on the mountain take detours to avoid her, and the animals tremble at the sound of her footsteps. The ghosts in the mass grave ask themselves three times every day: Has that ancestor tormented us again today? At last, her master tells her, “It’s time for you to go down the mountain and find your fiancé.” The entire mountain erupts in celebration! The wild ghosts see her off in tears. “Safe travels, Ancestor. Come back in a few hundred years!” The mountain animals spread the word: “That demon is finally gone!” Only her master, watching her cheerful figure disappear, silently frets for the metaphysics community in the capital. Shen Yanqing, a powerful man in the capital and the sickly beauty of Kyoto’s foremost family, has paralyzed legs and a delicate constitution. With asthma and heart disease, he seems destined to “not make it past chapter three.” But his aura is so powerful that he naturally attracts demons and monsters, and he is always surrounded by a pack of nonhuman creatures watching him hungrily. Only he knows he isn’t short-lived. He is being punished. A thousand years ago, he defied the heavens and exhausted his power to preserve a wisp of her soul. The price was to reincarnate with his memories in every life, never meeting a good end and always plagued by illness. He is waiting for her. He has waited a thousand years, through ten lifetimes. In this life, they finally meet. She thinks she’s here to “protect the weak.” He smiles from his wheelchair and gives a weak cough: