This is not a transmigration story | Fictional cultivation setting | The story is told from the shou’s perspective
A gloomy, withdrawn junior disciple who becomes clingy later × a shamelessly warm senior disciple
No group adoration, no one-allergic-to-everyone setup, both leads are virgins, younger gong, healing romance, a little bit of secret-identity content, and a secondary couple later on
[Early on]
Wan Wusheng: Junior, come on a mission with me!
Chi Gui'nian: I don’t want to play with an idiot.
Wan Wusheng: Junior, cover for me while I skip alchemy class!
Chi Gui'nian: Do I even know you?
[Later on]
Chi Gui'nian: Senior, senior, let’s go on a mission together.
Chi Gui'nian: Senior, senior, I don’t know how to do this…
Chi Gui'nian: Senior… I want…
Wan Wusheng: No! You don’t!
After finishing a three-year mission, Wan Wusheng returned to Qinghu Sect and learned that his master had taken on a new disciple, Chi Gui'nian.
This junior had a special background. He was said to possess the rarest ghost spiritual root in ten thousand years, and others considered him an ill omen. When Wan Wusheng stood up for his junior after a bullying incident in the dining hall, the sect leader punished him by sending him down the mountain on a mission. Not wanting to owe anyone a favor, Chi Gui'nian applied to go with him.
The longer Wan Wusheng spends with this junior, the more he feels something is off. Chi Gui'nian’s spiritual root shouldn’t be like this. He isn’t the ill omen everyone says he is.
Theme: Don’t judge people through a biased lens.
