[Sickly Beauty Bottom + Boyish, Nurturing Top + 192/179 Height Difference]
After Huaxu bound himself to the Death-Feigning System, he transmigrated into an adults-only xianxia novel from Huashi.
In the original story, he was a beautiful cannon-fodder character. Born into the Hehuan Sect and sickly by nature, he was offered up as a cultivation furnace to the coldhearted male lead, a man of lofty bearing.
The more desperately he clung to the male lead, the more the man loathed him. In the end, he cut the gaunt Huaxu down with a single stroke before ascending to immortality.
Huaxu: Tsk.
Now he had a Death-Feigning System. Throwing himself at someone just to get killed? Not happening.
Before the Hehuan Sect could sell him off, Huaxu went straight to the sect of the heartless cultivators himself.
Under the male lead's utterly disgusted gaze, Huaxu appeared in a red robe, revealing his sickly yet breathtaking beauty. Smiling, he said, "Husband, I've come to form a bond with you."
The entire Heartless Dao Sect: ??????
Even the male lead, whose manner was as chaste and aloof as frost, froze.
The male lead coldly refused the cultivation furnace. "Young Master Hua, don't joke around."
He was the distinguished senior disciple of the Heartless Dao Sect. How could he possibly marry some mere cultivation furnace from the Hehuan Sect?
Huaxu coughed a few times. "Marry me, and I guarantee you'll ascend within three years."
And so, Huaxu, a lowly cultivation furnace from the Hehuan Sect, was carried into the chambers of Jiang Lin, the Heartless Dao Sect's senior disciple, in a grand bridal sedan, with red candles and wedding pastries.
Three years later, Jiang Lin killed Huaxu with his own hands, proved his Dao through the death of his wife, perfected his Heartless Dao, and ascended.
Twenty years passed, and a remarkable young disciple appeared in the Hehuan Sect.
He was exceptionally handsome and talented, though frail and haggard. According to some rumors, this junior bore a striking resemblance to Huaxu, who had died beneath the sword of the Heartless Dao Sect's leader all those years ago.
A fragile smile appeared on Huaxu's face.
I'm exploiting a bug to feign death over and over again. Why bother cultivating immortality?
I'll just start a "Hehuan Sect x Heartless Dao Graduation Project Partnership" and make a fortune!
Huaxu brought the Hehuan Sect's disciples to dual cultivate with disciples of the Heartless Dao Sect.
The Heartless Dao Sect paid ten thousand spirit stones to anyone who could help them overcome their tribulation of love.
They paid a hundred thousand spirit stones to anyone who could help them survive a heavenly tribulation.
And if someone proved their Dao through the death of their spouse, the Heartless Dao Sect handed over all its assets.
Fifty years later, the Hehuan Sect's leader passed the position on to Huaxu, the junior with the sharpest business mind.
With a few clever moves, Sect Leader Hua made the Hehuan Sect the richest sect in the cultivation world.
But don't ask how they made their money.
Huaxu was rich beyond measure. Though he was frail and usually went out in a wheelchair, he lived a life of splendid luxury.
The Hehuan Sect's people were radiant every day, while the Heartless Dao Sect's disciples all ascended, leaving their sect deserted.
One day, a small Heartless Dao sect on the verge of collapse came knocking at Huaxu's door.
A gaunt old man led in a boy who was young, yet handsome and striking.
The old man got straight to the point. "Sect Leader Hua, our sect is nearly finished. He's the last remaining cultivator of the Heartless Dao. If you help him ascend, we'll give you every last thing we own."
Huaxu's phoenix eyes lowered as he took in the boy's fair skin and frosty expression. The child reminded him a little of his former husband.
Huaxu crouched beside him and asked with a smile, "What's your name, child?"
"Jiang Xuanling."
How strange. Even his name was a little like his former husband's.
Huaxu cheerfully accepted the money and took Jiang Xuanling's small hand.
"Young man," said the foxlike beauty with a smile, "from now on, I'll be your future wife, and you'll be my husband. When you turn eighteen, we'll form a bond."
Three years later, you'll kill me again.
Far above the clouds, thousands of miles away, the male lead watched the Hehuan Sect grow ever stronger in the mortal world.
The sect's leader looked exactly like his wife, who had died so tragically all those years ago. He smiled radiantly, holding the hand of a boy who was nearly grown.
Jiang Lin: ...
The ex-husband, who had already ascended, was devastated.
[Your ex-husband looks down at you from the heavens, disappointed] [So why didn't you love me back then?] [Was I nothing but a means to an end to you?] [Darling, let's make up...] [Darling, could you look at me too?]
[Both leads are each other's first and only] [The top is split into two incarnations: Jiang Lin and Jiang Xuanling are the same person]
[Sickly, seductive beauty bottom x outwardly cold, inwardly warm, swoon-worthy split-incarnation top]
Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else
