[A Mad, Arrogant, Sharp-Tongued Yet Soft-Hearted, Fiercely Protective Top x A Cool, Resolute, Combat-Obsessed, Self-Sacrificing Peerless Warrior Bottom]
[Mu Guanlan (Jinglan) x Lin Qi (Qizhuo)]
Everyone in the cultivation world knows that Lin Qi is the fastest blade in the hands of Mu Guanlan, the new head of the Mu family, as well as his most abject "dog."
He is the son of Mu Guanlan's enemy, and the person the family head hates most.
Mu Guanlan hates him to the bone. By day, he tramples him into the mud and humiliates him at will. By night, he grips Lin Qi by the throat, forcing the cool, proud swordsman to bear bruised red marks.
Lin Qi has never uttered a single complaint.
He always obediently wipes the blood from his sword, then bows his head amid the wreckage, accepting all the hatred Mu Guanlan has nowhere else to put.
Mu Guanlan believes this torment, this so-called revenge, will go on without end,
Until the heavenly decree prophesying, "The Heavenly Demon shall descend and bring calamity upon all living things," is made public, and the sects march on the city in the name of justice.
To spare Mu Guanlan from having to choose between him and the world, Lin Qi, the man he has scorned and tormented for half his life, calmly turns his sword on himself before the eyes of the entire world, breaking his proud spirit before the Demon-Slaying Formation.
