· A righteous, brilliant, beautiful, and tragic senior brother who is actually obsessive at heart x a hot-tempered, slow-witted junior brother who seems universally disliked
Wu Yuan is reborn. The first thing he does is imprison his senior brother, Ji Wangyan, and trick him into dual cultivation with him.
In his previous life, Wu Yuan was considered the Tianxing Sect's most useless disciple. An orphan with no parents, he was dull and slow, and was once mistaken for a mute.
His kind master took him in and entrusted his care to the universally admired, noble, and brilliant genius senior brother.
Everyone thought Wu Yuan was a burden to his senior brother: strong but stupid and fat, with no talent for cultivation.
His senior brother even suffered a serious injury to his left hand protecting him from a demon beast, and nearly died.
People looked at Wu Yuan with strange, twisted gazes. They excluded him openly and secretly, and spread slander about him.
As time went by, even his senior brother seemed to believe the rumors and grew increasingly distant.
Wu Yuan was deeply disappointed. So his senior brother was no different from everyone else after all.
Later, his senior brother died unexpectedly. The people who had always stared at Wu Yuan strangely dragged him away from the mourning hall.
At last, Wu Yuan understood that he was no useless fool, but a rare innate medicinal body.
If he willingly practiced dual cultivation with someone, he could cure every illness, boost their cultivation, and help them break through their bottlenecks.
His senior brother had always protected him, so no one else could get near him.
Without his senior brother, Wu Yuan was fought over by countless people and died a miserable death.
In his final moments, he regretted not recognizing his senior brother's goodness sooner.
After being reborn, Wu Yuan decides to become medicine for his senior brother, and for himself.
But his senior brother is aloof and virtuous, and scorns relations between men. Faced with an unidentified captor, he would rather die than give in.
With no other options, Wu Yuan scours the romance stories he bought at a market for ordinary people at the foot of the mountain, trying every trick he can think of to offer himself to his senior brother.
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On the eve of the sect tournament held once every ten years, Ji Wangyan is suddenly imprisoned by a mysterious person who forces him into dual cultivation.
Ji Wangyan secretly swears that once he escapes, he will find this shameless, despicable villain and rid the cultivation world of him!
Deep in the mountains, days and months pass without notice. When he is suddenly released one day, Ji Wangyan discovers that a whole year has passed. He has missed his chance to compete in the sect tournament, rumors are spreading throughout the cultivation world, and his master is deeply disappointed in him.
In front of everyone, Ji Wangyan cleaves open the entrance to a secret realm with a single strike of his sword, and, without anyone knowing, leaps straight to the peak of the Golden Core stage, just one step away from the Nascent Soul stage.
Ji Wangyan immediately begins searching the entire world for someone, no longer even paying attention to his cultivation.
No one knows who he is looking for. Seeing the senior brother's fierce sword intent, everyone assumes it must be an enemy he hates to the core.
Hidden in the shadows, Wu Yuan silently drinks a bottle of shapeshifting potion and rubs his aching lower back.
He absolutely must not be found, or he'll be chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs.
Ji Wangyan: I must find the person who practiced dual cultivation with me and helped me cultivate, then form a bond and become their cultivation partner.
You think you can sleep with me and run away? Dream on!
* The recipient has the body of a ginseng doll, a powerful tonic. Later, after practicing dual cultivation with his senior brother, he will gain his own power-ups, and together they'll become the strongest fighters around.
* The attacker is not a perfect person and has selfish motives. He is already formidable early on, despite being held back by an old injury, and becomes even stronger later.
* The setting has many original elements in service of the plot, and is not a rigorous cultivation system.
* One-on-one romance. Neither lead has a romantic storyline with anyone else, though other characters have unrequited feelings for them.
Theme: Be proud of yourself