Upright, righteous, wooden woman × gloomy, ghostlike nobleman
Mu Xiusheng's parents both died when he was young. He was far too handsome to have been raised in a poor, remote village. And sure enough, as his father lay dying, he told him that he wasn't his real son.
The night Mu Xiusheng escaped after the county magistrate's daughter tried to take him by force, he rescued a badly wounded woman and married her.
She was beautiful, honorable, and well-mannered. Their marriage was harmonious, and they even had a son.
Just as he was growing content with their happy life, even ready to spend the rest of his days in Shuiyue Village and give up on finding his family, his iron-willed wife told him that she had cultivation and was destined to slay demons and save a troubled world.
Then, with an excuse that she had no choice, she left him and their son.
Mu Xiusheng begged her desperately, hurt and resentful. In the end, he could only watch her retreating figure and silently vow that if they ever met again, he would make that faithless, heartless woman pay!
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Lin Zhaoyue was injured during a sect mission and rescued by a handsome young man.
One day after they married, Lin Zhaoyue suddenly remembered: she was a transmigrator! She had to help her senior brother, the male lead, vanquish demons and uphold the righteous path if she wanted to return home.
So Lin Zhaoyue decided to abandon her husband and child to cultivate the Dao, planning to make it up to them after completing her mission. But while rescuing someone, she suffered a dramatic bout of amnesia and forgot all about them!
During a demon-catching mission, she met a strange young nobleman. He always stared at her with a peculiar look in his eyes.
Lin Zhaoyue: “Do I know you, sir?”
When Mu Xiusheng saw her again, his heart was full of joy. But at her question, he only sneered. “I have no recollection of you, my lady.” Then he pulled back the child who had been reaching out for a hug.
Lin Zhaoyue believed him, missing the look in his eyes as he turned away, full of longing and resentment, love and hate intertwined.
After she regained her memories, he pinned her to the bed and trembled as he wept into her ear. “Yue Niang, how can someone like you call yourself a mother?”
“You abandoned A Bao and me for the sake of so-called peace. I will destroy your peace...”
“Why can't you keep your eyes on our little family alone?”
Notes:
1. Low-magic, lightly fantastical setting, primarily everyday life and melodramatic romance.
2. The male lead is a resentful, ghostlike husband. Warning: the child has an Oedipus complex.
Blurb written on 2026.7.30, screenshot saved.
Theme: The road is long and far, and I will seek high and low
