The Lovesick Celestial Venerable Pursues Me into His Arms

Aloof, lovesick Heavenly Venerable x Gentle, shy young man

She pursues him / Protecting the weak / Lost and found again

This isn't angst for angst's sake.

Mu Xuanshuang always prided herself on leaving nothing to chance, but she made one mistake: she thought pushing Shen Mobai away would keep him clear of a fatal predicament.

She confined him and called him a burden. He cut out his own spiritual roots and fell into the Abyssal Rift, asking someone to bring back just one message: Give them back to her.

For years afterward, she used his spiritual roots to break through, becoming one of the Four Heavenly Venerables, yet she was no more than a walking corpse.

Then, on the Cangwu Plains, the sky split open and a waterfall of blood poured down. That man hovered in the fissure, Yin and Yang energies coiling around him like dragons, his body covered in blood from beyond the realm. He called to her indifferently: "Venerable Mu."

Shen Mobai had returned.

With Yin and Yang energies of unknown origin coursing through him.

He treated her with distant restraint, seeing her only as an ally who had to stand by his side. But Mu Xuanshuang didn't see it that way.

This time, she would protect him, watch over him, and keep him by her side.

Mu Xuanshuang straightened his fox-fur cloak and said calmly, "You belong to me. You did before, and you will from now on."

She pursued him not out of guilt or to make amends.

It was because she finally understood that without Shen Mobai, even the highest cultivation and the greatest realm in the world would be nothing but a wasteland.