[Sweet and angsty healing xianxia + comedy + raising a boy + endgame 1v1]
Tan Yao is the cultivation world's infamous lunatic elder. She robs righteous sects left and right, leaving mocking notes behind, while the sect master cleans up after her.
Then her spiritual sense is clouded, and she falls into the mortal world, where a boy finds her.
He feeds her porridge, teaches her to read, and gives her a name. Then he dies in her place.
She spends three months pulling his soul back from the Yellow Springs. After reviving him, she tucks him inside a pearl and hangs it from her waist.
From then on, the pearl contains a boy who grows radishes, raises rabbits, and gets pooped on by spirit sparrows.
Outside the pearl is a madwoman who watches his heart rate on a projection crystal every day.
She calls it raising a kid.
The sect master looks at the pearl, then at her, and says nothing.
Until the boy forms his Golden Core and grows a head taller, then whispers in her ear:
“Choose me when you're clearheaded, when I'm the only one in your heart.”
She smiles.
“You don't even dare touch my clothes. What makes you think I'll choose you?”
The boy's ears turn red.
