The Universally Hated One Goes with the Flow

1.

Xuan Zhitan knew he was universally disliked. Nobody liked him.

So he had every right not to like anyone either.

If his family wanted him to marry someone, he did.

If his husband's family wanted him to be sacrificed to the mountain god, he did.

As long as he stayed alive, that was enough.

2.

He had it all figured out. The person he married wasn't a husband but a lord, and they should live together like master and servant.

He would serve his lord devotedly while he was alive. When his lord died, they would part ways, one in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. His first lord had barely died before he started thinking about remarrying. His second lord died not long afterward, and he began considering a third marriage. But just after he married for the third time, his third lord also passed away.

After all, three was the limit. He scratched his head.

A fourth marriage? There didn't seem to be anyone left.

Go home? He didn't seem to have a home, either.

He was tired of marrying, and had nowhere to return to.

So he decided to wander, going wherever the road took him, drifting with the current and making the best of things.

That night, the moon was dark and the candles in the mourning hall had gone out. Traveling light, he left without looking back and covered four hundred kilometers in a single night.

3.

As soon as Xuan Zhitan left, his birth family and the families of his first and second lords all sent people to bring him back. The family of his third lord refused to let them.

They couldn't reach an agreement, so they decided to let Xiao Tan choose for himself. If he couldn't decide, he could live with each family in turn.

But when they went to look for him, he was nowhere to be found.

They searched high and low, and found what appeared to be Xuan Zhitan's bones in a desolate wilderness four hundred kilometers away.

4.

Xuan Zhitan found a little dog on the road.

The dog said, "I'm not a dog. I'm the mountain god."

All Xuan Zhitan heard was barking. He patted the dog's head and said, "All right, all right."

The mountain god wagged its tail, thinking, Fine, fine.

Looking at the human who had fallen from the sky for the second time, it decided that this time it wouldn't let go... wouldn't let go of him with its paws.

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