The Heartless Path, Yet the White Moonlight

Zhu Huaiyue transmigrates into a crematorium novel as the scum gong.

According to the plot, he will grow cold and heartless, kill his wife to prove his Dao, and go mad with grief after the protagonist shou fakes his death. After a series of physical and emotional ordeals, the protagonist shou will kick him to the curb, making way for the proper gong to take his place.

Zhu Huaiyue doesn't want to suffer physically and emotionally, and he doesn't want to cultivate the Heartless Dao.

Before transmigrating, he was an ordinary modern boy. After transmigrating, all he knows is how to fool around, get into mischief, and shirk his responsibilities every day.

Today, he draws a fan comic pairing the Sword Pavilion's head disciple with the Dao Pavilion's elder. Tomorrow, he uses the Blade God's treasured sword to chop vegetables. The day after that, he carefully plots to secretly dye the Dao Lord's phoenix tail feathers white...

Everyone says this sword cultivator is bound to bring disaster upon the region one day.

Then the abyss sweeps across the world, and the Heavenly Dao collapses.

The rebellious boy of old turns white-haired overnight, attains the Great Dao of Heartlessness, and cuts down countless demonic seeds with his sword.

Only then do people learn that

what is called the Heartless Dao is, in truth, the Dao of Deepest Affection.

Those born cold and unfeeling gain little from cultivating the Heartless Dao. Only cultivators who love all things in the world, and feel joy at the sight of a flower blooming, can sever their worldly ties and attain the Great Dao of Heartlessness.

That year, calamity struck the cultivation world, and only one person died because of it.

To save all living beings, the young sword cultivator Zhu Huaiyue resolutely killed the deeply affectionate person he was and proved his Dao.

From then on, the world would never again see that spirited young man in fine clothes, riding proudly on horseback.

All that remained was the Qingxuan Sword Venerable, sitting alone atop his high platform, protecting the Nine Provinces and all living beings.

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Zhu Huaiyue prepared himself to be put through the crematorium.

But before the protagonist gong and shou, along with their friends and family, could come within fifty kilometers of him, the Sword Pavilion's head disciple, the Blade Pavilion's elder, and the usually easygoing Dao Lord all slapped them a thousand kilometers away.

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[First draft, October 8. Posting the blurb for now. I'll revise it before the novel officially begins, but the core premise won't change.]

[I want to write a story about a Heartless Dao sword venerable who truly deserves to be a leader of the cultivation world: he kills himself to prove his Dao and save the world, only to be saved and healed by the world, and learns to love and be loved again.]

Theme: You deserve to be loved by the whole world.