[Sunny, carefree genius boy x proud, reserved, versatile fallen immortal beauty]
Xie Huai was urged by his family to find a master and learn a trade. On his way to the Shadow Sword Sect, where he had been invited to seek a master, he ran into Su Xuyi, who had lost all his cultivation.
After a lot of fuss, he finally learned that Su Xuyi was the very Immortal Jingshuang he'd always wanted to take as his master.
But what he hadn't expected was this:
He had a heavenly-grade spiritual root, coveted by everyone in the cultivation world, and over the years countless elders had fought to take him as their disciple.
So why was his own master always trying to hand him over to someone else?
When his master brought it up for the umpteenth time, even Xie Huai's good temper finally snapped. He cornered him against the wall, standing so close that his eyes held only his master.
“Master, do you really like handing your disciple over to other people? Can you bear to part with me?”
He didn't understand. Was he really that bad in his master's eyes?
So bad that his master kept trying to throw him at someone else?
Until one day, he actually became someone else's disciple.
Only, whenever he practiced his sword, he could always glimpse a familiar figure flashing past somewhere nearby.
Xie Huai smiled. His childhood friend's idea had been a good one. He knew his master couldn't bear to let him go.
Everyone said Su Xuyi had fallen from his divine perch and was a useless cripple who couldn't cultivate, an ordinary man with nothing but the empty title of immortal.
Yet one night, a black-robed figure lured him to the back mountain, pulled a sack over his head when he wasn't looking, and beat him up mercilessly!
Looking back on it afterward, Xie Huai thought: Heh. What do you mean, a useless immortal who lost his cultivation? He's a scheming little actor who plays the pig to eat the tiger!
Theme: Kindness endures, and great love knows no bounds
