After My Husband Abandoned Me to Pursue the Dao

On the night Shen Yuan married, snow blanketed the capital, and he waited all night in his wedding robes. At last, the groom arrived. He stood in the doorway, looking at Shen Yuan as if he were a stranger. Then golden light flooded over him, and he ascended to immortality. Only later did Shen Yuan learn that his husband, Lin Changye, was merely a wisp of Changming Immortal Venerable's love soul, descended to the mortal realm to undergo a tribulation. Once the tribulation was complete, the love soul vanished, and the Immortal Venerable returned to his true self. And Shen Yuan was nothing to him. Everyone said Shen Yuan had gone mad. They were right. He went berserk, lost himself to demonic cultivation, and an exorcist struck through his heart meridian with a single palm. As he hovered between life and death, he fell into a familiar, warm embrace. It was Lin Changye, the mortal love soul who should no longer have existed. He had torn through the Immortal Venerable's consciousness and forcibly seized control. He held Shen Yuan tightly against his chest, trading his own life for Shen Yuan's. "A Yuan, I'm sorry." Before the love soul vanished, with the last of his soul power, he placed a curse of shared fate upon himself: When Shen Yuan is hurt, he is hurt. When Shen Yuan dies, he dies. So the aloof and indifferent Changming Immortal Venerable had no choice but to take Shen Yuan back to the Heavenly Realm. On that noble, cold face, so identical to Lin Changye's, there was only distance. Shen Yuan lived in the Heavenly Realm for three hundred years. The Immortal Venerable shielded him from tribulations for three hundred years, drove away countless groups of troublemaking immortals, and warmed his hands and feet, which were perpetually cold due to his frail health. Shen Yuan said calmly, "You don't have to do this. I know you're not him." The noble, haughty face was silent for a long time. At last, he spoke humbly: "I can be him, too." Deep in hell, the owner of that same face clawed his way back through the gnawing souls. His obsession kept him going as he swallowed every resentful spirit that tore at him, carving his beloved's name into his flesh and bones. The moment his heart began to beat again, he lifted his head and gazed toward the light, across the distance between hell and the Heavenly Realm. His wife was still waiting for him. _ ❶ A frail, beautiful, strong, and tragic bottom ❷ The top's setup: Heng Changming, the Immortal Venerable's true self, is aloof at first but later falls hard. Lin Changye, his mortal persona, is obsessively devoted and later turns demonic, becoming a Demon Venerable who fights for his beloved's affection. ❸ The ultimate love-triangle showdown: I'm jealous of myself, Plus upgrade ❹ The love tribulation is hard to overcome, and the bottom may have a higher identity Theme: The love tribulation is hard to overcome