[Blurb]
Yulou, young master of the Hehuan Sect and the cultivation world's number-one beauty.
He also has a fiancee: a genius from the greatest sect under heaven and the Sword Venerable's direct disciple. She's praised in every way, except for one little flaw...
When his fiancee comes to call, she is perfectly courteous yet firm. "This junior wishes to devote her life to the sect. I have no interest in love."
Yulou agrees readily. "Sure."
If she wants to break off the engagement, she can just say so. He won't cling to her. And bringing out the Sword Venerable to threaten him? Who does she think she's dealing with? Don't bully a young man just because he's poor!
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Two months later, after emerging from secluded cultivation, Yulou feels his still-empty dantian and can't help reflecting that he'd really had too much to drink on the day he broke off the engagement.
"A furnace cauldron can't cultivate or store spiritual energy."
Just as the incessant nagging is driving him up the wall, a blind man he'd casually picked up speaks coldly, an ancient sword in his arms.
How dare he make fun of him?
Yulou doesn't let it slide for a second. "Someone, throw him out and bury him."
The sword cultivator says calmly, "I have an eighty percent chance of helping you form your core."
Yulou replies briskly, "Master, when do we begin?"
They find a cave dwelling, and the sword cultivator sets up a barrier.
Yulou eagerly kneels on the stone bed and waits. The sword cultivator first sets aside the sword he never parts with, then covers Yulou's eyes with a warm palm, and then...
He was only pretending to be blind. Yulou is held down and made to dual cultivate for an entire day and night, cursing and begging for mercy until his voice goes hoarse.
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Yulou wants to kill Ren Qianshan for tricking him into dual cultivation, but he really did form his core.
After thinking it over, he decides to hold off on killing him.
Once his cultivation is great enough, he'll get his revenge. A gentleman can wait ten years!
Ren Qianshan remains as silent as ever. Yulou doesn't mind. After all, whenever this man speaks, Yulou can't help thinking, what a pity he's not mute.
Then one day, Yulou finally breaks through his bottleneck. In his excitement, he decides to consider Ren Qianshan's proposal that they become cultivation partners.
But the man who was always by his side has vanished without a trace, nowhere to be found even after the entire cultivation world is searched. He hasn't even left a letter.
Everyone in the cultivation world gossips, convinced that the young master of the Hehuan Sect has gone mad from cultivation deviation.
But it isn't long before someone even more mad appears.
As soon as the Sword Venerable emerges from seclusion, he prepares countless rare treasures and comes to ask for the young master of the Hehuan Sect's hand in marriage. He even infuriates the sect master into fainting. The commotion is so great that the whole cultivation world hears about it.
Yet Yulou points his sword at Ren Qianshan's chest, his expression blank. "The Sword Venerable and I are complete strangers. I wouldn't dare hinder your cultivation of the Heartless Path."
*Extra scene:
At the Immortal Alliance conference, Fu Zhao sits calmly in the seat of honor. He only gets up to greet the guests when he hears the words "Hehuan Sect."
The Sword Venerable's seat had been arranged long ago.
In the past, the Sword Venerable devoted himself to cultivation and never liked attending banquets like this. But now, for the sake of the Hehuan Sect's leader, he's willing to come.
Fu Zhao says respectfully, "This disciple pays his respects to Master."
Ren Qianshan nods, then follows Yulou without looking aside and takes the seat reserved for the Hehuan Sect's madam, using spiritual energy to warm Yulou's wine.
Everyone: "..."
So, Sword Venerable, are you still cultivating the Heartless Path or not?
Reader's Guide:
- The fiancee and the Sword Venerable are strictly master and disciple. She and Yulou are childhood betrothed who have never met.
- Pure in body and heart, 1v1, happy ending. Not a serious groveling-to-win-back-your-wife story.
- Also known as: "After His Identity Is Exposed, the Aloof Sword Venerable Shamelessly Pursues His Wife," "What Do You Mean My Former Fiance Became My Male Master-Mother?" and "Sure, Another One Failed the Heartless Path."
- More to come. Posting the blurb first to ask for a bookmark. Mwah mwah mwah!
[Blurb captured on 2026.5.11]
Theme: When someone is like a rainbow, my heart longs for them.
