Other people transmigrate: recruit underlings, seize cultivation techniques, cultivate to immortality, and reach the pinnacle of life.
Lin Zhou transmigrates: his System is incomplete, his spiritual power ranks dead last, and he has a task to fall in love with nine girls.
The System says that completing the task will let him go home.
Sounds wonderful, right?
But the System also says this is called "An Eternal, Torturous Romance."
In plain English: you have to have nine relationships with nine girls, and make every one of you miserable. Nine bad endings, nine knives to the heart.
Lin Zhou (smiling): So I'm dating, not undergoing a tribulation?
System: Tribulations are part of cultivation. Torturous romance is your problem.
Here's his situation:
🔸 Identity: a menial disciple of the Qingyun Immortal Sect 🔸 Cultivation: third level of Qi Refining (dead last) 🔸 Only skill: drawing construction plans
Oh, right. He also has a younger sister, Lin Yue, who has a Heavenly Spirit Root and was taken away by the Grand Princess.
And there's his buddy Lu Chen, also a transmigrator. He studied bridge engineering in his previous life and argues with Lin Zhou every day, saying, "Why is your bridge-pier face so hard?"
Then there's a spirit beast of mixed blood from three races, locked in a cellar and starved for seven years. It's a nationally protected animal, and raising one means your entire clan gets executed.
A typical day goes like this:
By day, he chops firewood for the kitchen. By night, the Xiao family hunts him down. In between, he has to flirt with the icy Second Princess Yao Shu. She's at the Golden Core stage, while he's only at the third level of Qi Refining. He doesn't even qualify to pin her against a wall.
His only consolation is that, though his System is incomplete, its snark function works perfectly.
Lin Zhou: System, I don't think this task is very reasonable.
System: Host, do you think the client changing the construction plans for the seventeenth time is reasonable?
Lin Zhou: ...Just shut up.
This is a goofy cultivation novel about a civil engineer cultivating immortality, an engineer falling in love, and a System whose job is to provide the comedy.
The author's imagination is good, it's funny, spiritual cultivation, sadomasochism and suspense. It has all these elements, the rhythm is very good, and it looks smooth.
The foreshadowing is wonderful, the small details in the early stage are all echoed in the later stage, and the supporting characters are also very vivid. If you are not a book reader, you can read it.
The heroine has her own charm, she is not a tool, every story is good, she is in love and has a career at the same time, it is very enjoyable to watch.
It's not a mindless novel, it's about love but not being able to tolerate each other, every relationship is heartbreaking, and it's well written.
This anti-routine story about cultivating immortals is really good-looking, the system is both deceptive and funny, there are nine episodes of sadomasochism, and every character is very touching.