(Tsundere, overpowered hero bottom × evil great villain top. Bad ending. A couple who are always at each other's throats. If you're really a couple, settle it with live ammunition: blow up each other's butts like fireworks, then set off firecrackers and blast each other into bloody chunks to send the loser home. Whoever loses gets to be the great-great-great...grandson. The sort who would celebrate their enemy's death by setting off fireworks and firecrackers all night for three nights straight. Warning: The protagonist spent some time in the modern world! The two worlds merge!)
Pei Xuanyi is a classic underdog hero. He rises from an unknown little beggar to become the foremost immortal cultivator on the Wuyan Continent, a tireless worker in the cultivation world's unpaid labor force, a faithful believer in the overpowered hero's script, and a staunch defender of the dark, cool, aloof, and celibate aesthetic.
He thought that once he made it big, he could live a life of drunken revelry, show off and act cool, with fine wine and beautiful women in his arms.
At least, that was before his own disciple sealed his throat with a single sword stroke and suppressed his soul...
“Seriously, friends, can someone give me a reasonable explanation? Do you have no respect for the protagonist?” Pei Xuanyi asked in confusion.
“Sorry, Master. For the villains' ultimate goal, please die for a little while, okay? (⸝⸝•‧̫•⸝⸝)”
At that moment, his sworn enemy Xie Xing was gloating. “Pathetic. If you were my wife, I might just avenge you. How about it?”
Pei Xuanyi silently rolled his eyes...
A few years later
With his sword drawn and the mountains and rivers trembling, Pei Xuanyi clutched his butt and shouted through his tears:
Everyone, remember this: an overpowered hero must never, ever sell out his dick!!!
People with similar fates can meet different ends because they make different choices.
The setting is quite novel