Arc One: Urban Metaphysics After Coming Down from the Mountain
The male lead enters the city with a wealth of metaphysical skills. He plans to make his name through fortune-telling, divination, warding off evil spirits, and suppressing malignant forces, but he runs into a privileged young master from a prominent family.
Not only does the other man come from a wealthy background, he also exudes an air of refinement in everything he does. Even his metaphysical skills far surpass the male lead's, effortlessly stealing the spotlight.
Watching the young master surrounded by admirers, the male lead thinks of himself running around desperately to make ends meet. The pride he had only just begun to feel is instantly crushed by jealousy.
He loathes the other's cool, unruffled demeanor from the bottom of his heart, convinced that it is a silent mockery of him. He secretly vows to outshine this shining pearl at all costs.
Arc Two: Broken Engagement in a Fantasy World
The male lead arrives with the broken engagement papers, hoping to part on good terms, only for his fiancée's entire family to point at him and call him a good-for-nothing. They don't even let him through the door.
Burning with anger, he simply tears up the engagement papers and uses connections left behind by his master to enter the best academy in the imperial capital.
But just as he gets settled, he runs into the academy's young master: handsome, the headmaster's personal disciple, and adored by all the junior brothers and sisters who gather around him with starry eyes.
The male lead watches the other man bask in everyone's adoration and remembers how coldly he was treated at the door. An inexplicable fury surges through him.
The young master's gaze occasionally passes over him with cool indifference, which only makes the male lead feel even more looked down on.
