This story is also known as The Evolution of a Dork or A Loser’s Comeback: Winning the Heart of a Rich, Beautiful Heiress.
A cold-faced, sweet, easily flustered beauty as the recipient, and a truly clueless, wildly flirtatious, family-oriented, illiterate poser as the pursuer.
Forever illiterate, forever showing off his half-remembered poetry and literary knowledge.
Blurb:
One way to spur someone to grow is to witness, with your own eyes, the breathtaking heroism of the person fate has chosen for you in a life-or-death situation. Once you recognize your own weakness, a blazing passion surges up from within.
You Wen experiences “a hero saving a beauty” for the first time in his life when he nearly gets swallowed by a tiger. After twenty years as a loser, he decides to turn his life around.
He never planned to ascend, but his “hero” is gravely injured while rescuing him again, this time from a trap. Then he is told:
“Saving him is no problem. You just have to ascend to Tianjian.”
You Wen agrees without a second thought.
Fortunately, he has an extraordinary gift for cultivation. Ascension isn’t some far-off, empty boast, and after taking a few “shortcuts” he has no choice but to use, he becomes Tianjian’s youngest ascended immortal and takes first place on the Ascension Rankings.
But no one expects him to be inexplicably assigned as the full-time caretaker of a celestial bird. He fumes, “Isn’t this just being a bird’s slave?”
But with the threat of “helping the hero heal his injuries and cure his chronic illness” hanging over him, he backs down and obediently starts caring for the bird.
The two lovers live at opposite ends of Tianjian, sending messages of longing through the bird. You Wen earns a living for them, while his “hero” stays beautiful.
[P.S.: This story is entirely fictional and made up.]
