The Original Wife of a Dragon-Pride Protagonist

[The main story is complete. Extra chapters will be updated whenever inspiration strikes. Come and enjoy!]

As the fiancée of the young master of the foremost cultivation family, Wen Ling was confined to a high tower from childhood. Everything he was taught was meant to prepare him to marry Yan Quwu.

Through countless lonely days shut away in the tower, Wen Ling's only hope was that his unseen fiancé would marry him and take him away from this lightless world.

It was no surprise, then, that Wen Ling gave his whole heart to longing for Yan Quwu. The sole purpose of his existence was to become Yan Quwu's wife.

But on their wedding night, beneath the drooping red silk, his fiancé held a sword to his throat. His gaze was icy, his tone disdainful, and his thin lips parted to say, "A monstrous thing."

Wen Ling's fiancé looked down on him.

Wen Ling looked at the husband fate had chosen for him, slowly reached out, and lightly touched the cold blade. With an innocent expression and a coaxing voice, he said:

"Husband, then would you like to elope with me?"

Yan Quwu despised people like Wen Ling.

He was soft, fragile, and without ambition, like a butterfly trapped in a glass case as an exhibit. Apart from his beauty, he was good for nothing.

It seemed he needed someone's undivided attention and wholehearted love just to survive. If neglected for even a moment, he would wither away with ease.

He was a burden to Yan Quwu.

And yet this burden kept Yan Quwu company, and those slender, pale hands had given him so much steadfast, tender comfort.

Yan Quwu let himself kiss Wen Ling's soft, cool cheek, silently thinking that next time, he would surely find another chance to break off the engagement.

They say Yan Quwu, the greatest man under heaven, was born a prodigy, with a mastery of the Dao unmatched by anyone. His followers and admirers were as numerous as carp crossing a river.

The only person in the world whose cultivation could rival Yan Quwu's was Wen Ling, the grandmaster of illusion. Wen Ling was dazzlingly beautiful and gentle in temperament, and he had even more admirers than Yan Quwu.

They say no one ever dared confess their love to Grandmaster Wen, because every bold soul who did was ambushed by some unknown peerless master and beaten within an inch of their life.

They also say that Yan Quwu, the greatest man under heaven, proposed to Wen Ling, the grandmaster of illusion, at the Immortal-Slaying Platform, vowing to spend his whole life with him and him alone.

A butterfly hovered at my fingertips, and from then on, I dreamed of you every night.

A ruthless, taciturn, elite male lead x an utterly innocent, naive, adorable sweetheart who only wants to be a doting wife

Content warnings:

1. Handsome gong, beautiful shou. The shou falls for the gong from the moment he appears. He can't help it, he's got a wife-brain.

2. My tastes run dark, so the shou gets sick and injured, but he is not a weak shou.

3. The couple go on adventures and fight monsters together. The story has a light plot focus, not a relationship-only two-person drama.

4. More to be added if I think of anything.

Theme: The pros and cons of arranged marriage versus free love