After Being Offered to the Immortal Venerable as a Cultivation Furnace

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Su Heng had nothing but a handsome face. He had neither a spiritual root nor cultivation, and was an ordinary person who didn't fit in with the cultivation clans.

At some point, he began hearing the thoughts in other people's hearts. They would pretend to help him, while inwardly plotting how to drag him into the abyss.

Su Heng thought this was all his life would amount to, until the head of the Su family offered him to Immortal Venerable Ling Qing as a cultivation furnace.

Rumor had it that Immortal Venerable Ling Qing lived in the greatest sect under heaven. He was noble and radiant, compassionate toward all living things, and his Moon-Slaying Sword had won humanity a hundred years of peace.

But Su Heng didn't believe it. He couldn't believe anyone like that existed. All he wanted was to survive carefully within the sect.

But then...

Immortal Venerable Ling Qing didn't look down on Su Heng for being a cultivation furnace without the qualifications to practice. He taught him the path, cleansed his meridians, and remade his spiritual root...

When someone secretly wanted to kill Su Heng, an insignificant cannon-fodder character, Immortal Venerable Ling Qing came to his aid.

When a System from beyond the heavens tried to secretly eliminate Su Heng in order to help the so-called protagonist of this world seize its fortune, Immortal Venerable Ling Qing sheltered him behind his back.

What a wonderful person the Immortal Venerable was!

Each time Su Heng drew closer to him, his wariness faded a little more.

When Su Heng said he didn't want to be a cultivation furnace and wanted to practice, the Immortal Venerable agreed.

When he said he wanted to become the Immortal Venerable's disciple, the Immortal Venerable agreed.

Su Heng would rest his head on Immortal Venerable Ling Qing's lap and say in a trembling voice that the Immortal Venerable treated him so well, and that he wanted to repay him. The hand stroking Su Heng's hair paused, and Immortal Venerable Ling Qing smiled meaningfully.

Immortal Venerable Ling Qing was distant and cold to everyone, but uniquely indulgent toward Su Heng. Su Heng's gratitude toward him gradually changed into something else.

He wanted to give the Immortal Venerable the best of what he had, but he had so little to offer, so little that all he had was his status as a cultivation furnace.

So one day, he went to the Immortal Venerable and, nervous and clumsy, began, “Immortal Venerable, I'm a cultivation furnace. Dual cultivation can...”

The Immortal Venerable chuckled, his gaze dark, and accepted him once more.

Overjoyed, Su Heng pressed close to Immortal Venerable Ling Qing's chest. Then he heard a different voice: “He's so obedient. I wonder if he'll cry when I put him in shackles and lock him up on Falling Snow Peak.”

Su Heng: ???

*

In his previous life, Immortal Venerable Ling Qing considered himself cold-hearted and unfeeling. He spent year after year cultivating in seclusion on Falling Snow Peak. He wanted nothing to do with other people, and outsiders didn't dare approach him.

Until one day, a figure entered his field of vision, disturbing the long-standing quiet of Falling Snow Peak. He had long since forgotten when this person had suddenly appeared there. He only thought that the little one's constant chatter on the mountain was rather amusing.

One day, the little thing came to him with eyes red from crying and said the Ascension Ceremony was about to begin, begging him to secure a few places for disciples from his family.

He agreed, casually sketched a few lines on a piece of paper, and sent it to the sect leader. The little thing was so grateful that snot and tears nearly ended up all over him.

It was as if the little thing had filled a hole in his heart.

Later, the little thing died, and he went mad from cultivation deviation.

In this life, the moment he saw those same damp eyes again, his first thought was to destroy the young man's body and imprison his soul in his own sea of consciousness forever. But the thought of no longer hearing his constant chatter irritated him.

So he planned carefully, successfully drawing Su Heng into his arms, and thought he could settle for keeping him confined on Falling Snow Peak.

He hadn't expected to see Su Heng's expression change from happiness to surprise.

Hm? Had he been found out? What should he do now?

Former aloof beauty gong goes mad after his lover dies x slow-witted, sweet, delicate shou

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[Transmigrated-into-a-book, fun-loving Proud Dragon gong x beautiful, cool, devoted shou]

Jiang Qingyue was famous in Luoshui Town for his beauty, good nature, and fine family background. But his spiritual root was damaged, leaving him unable to cultivate.

Jiang Qingyue's parents promised him in marriage to Ling Zhaoge, a talented but impoverished young man, hoping the match would bring them the resources to restore Jiang Qingyue's spiritual root.

Jiang Qingyue accepted this without complaint. He had known since childhood that this was his fate, so he learned household management, accounting, etiquette, and proper conduct, determined not to bring shame on the Jiang family.

Who could have guessed that on the day of the betrothal feast, his parents would publicly break off the engagement because Ling Zhaoge's cultivation had declined, making him unable to enter a major sect?

Jiang Qingyue saw the young man's restrained expression and the ruthlessness concealed in his eyes. He thought that this was no different from humiliating the Ling family, and felt a vague sense that something was wrong.

That very night, flames suddenly blazed into view and the demon clan invaded. The Jiang family was thrown into chaos. Just then, the “stray dog” the Jiangs had looked down on sat calmly on the courtyard wall, sneering as he watched the family fall into disarray.

Jiang Qingyue's parents begged Ling Zhaoge to save the Jiang family and take Jiang Qingyue away.

Ling Zhaoge raised an eyebrow, pointed at Jiang Qingyue, and smiled playfully.

“Sure. Promise him to me as my wife.”

Jiang Qingyue: ?

*

Ling Zhaoge transmigrated into a book, where he became a cannon-fodder character.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he had to provide three years of cultivation to a crashed System.

Three years later, the System finally woke up and gave him a script. “Host, follow the plot and you can return to your original world.”

Ling Zhaoge took one look and grinned.

In the script, he was just a cannon-fodder character.

The kind whose wife was stolen by the protagonist, and who was then killed by him.

The original book barely mentioned the cannon fodder, but devoted plenty of detail to his wife, describing just how beautiful and slender he was, with a face like powdered jade.

In short, he was the most beautiful person in the protagonist's harem.

Ling Zhaoge grew curious about what this wife looked like, so during the betrothal feast, he climbed onto the courtyard wall and took a distant look at Jiang Qingyue.

Ling Zhaoge: That description really wasn't exaggerated.

System: Correct.

Ling Zhaoge: Is that kind of guy even worthy of him? He should be my wife!

System: ?

*

After they married, the two moved out of Luoshui Town and joined a larger sect. During this time, Ling Zhaoge felt as though he were living in a dream. He had already fallen for Jiang Qingyue, and after spending time together, he discovered that his beautiful wife was perfect in every way.

Then, on an entirely ordinary day, his wife discovered that he had transmigrated!

Not only did he insist on divorcing Ling Zhaoge, he even ran away from home!

It took Ling Zhaoge ages to find his wife again. Afraid he would run away once more, Ling Zhaoge simply locked his beautiful wife inside the house.

But just two days later, he saw his wife pierced through the heart by an arrow shot by the maddened protagonist.

Ling Zhaoge was about to go mad and kill the protagonist, so the System thought it should warn him.

System: This world can't exist without the protagonist, or it will collapse.

Ling Zhaoge thought it was time to get a new protagonist.

Content warnings: The gong falls in love with the shou at first sight, while the shou falls for the gong over time.

The shou is old-fashioned at first.

The gong becomes obsessive after the shou dies.

The shou really is killed by the original protagonist midway through the story, but comes back to life later.

The gong has transmigrated into a book, but has no attachments to his original world and wants to stay here once he gets together with the shou.

Theme: Freedom, kindness, truth, and beauty in this world.