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After dying from overwork, college student Long Guang unexpectedly transmigrates to a cultivation world.
The good news is that he has struck it lucky: his new identity is the greatest person in the cultivation world, the Venerable Xuanxiao, whose cultivation has reached the late stage of Divine Transformation.
The bad news is that the luck he struck was a speeding truck. On the surface, the Venerable Xuanxiao is upright and impartial, but in reality, he is a wicked man who stops at nothing: he harms the innocent, forcibly takes demon cores, colludes with the demon clans, and frames his allies. Every crime is shocking.
His memories are incomplete, he cannot use all of his original body's cultivation, his original body's bonded sword refuses to acknowledge him as its master, and two demon-clan subordinates of the original owner are standing right beside him.
Long Guang: What a disastrous start!
Just as he is caught between a rock and a hard place, Yan Hongxue, an elder of the sect, appears before him.
Yan Hongxue is quite handsome and upright in character. More importantly, because he is not trusted, he knows nothing about the real Venerable Xuanxiao.
Long Guang decides to use Yan Hongxue to help conceal his identity.
As he spends time with Yan Hongxue, Long Guang discovers that the man is truly too good, almost unbelievably so.
So good that Long Guang resolves to tell Yan Hongxue everything once the time is right.
Unfortunately, before the day of his confession arrives, Long Guang discovers Yan Hongxue's secret.
...Good grief, this man is the one who hates the Venerable Xuanxiao most of all.
It turns out Long Guang isn't the only one in disguise.
Exhausted, Long Guang decides to fake his own death.
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Yan Hongxue spent eighty years undercover in Xuanxiao Sect, and at last earned the sect's trust.
He ate, lived, and traveled with the Venerable Xuanxiao, thinking he could uncover his true nature. Instead, he only wavered more and more, even developing feelings for him that he should never have had.
Those feelings disgusted him.
On the day his enemy's soul scattered and vanished before his eyes, Yan Hongxue returned to Taiqing Sect with a jug of wine.
The world gained another Divine Transformation cultivator. This cultivator founded no sect, left not the mountain, and took no interest in worldly affairs.
Until one day, a lost little demon knocked on his door.
The little demon saw him and turned to leave, but Yan Hongxue caught his wrist and asked quietly, "What is your name?"
[Bonus Scene]
Long Guang never knew how Yan Hongxue recognized him.
Only Yan Hongxue remembered how the Venerable Xuanxiao, who could barely hold his liquor, hiccupped and staggered over to him, then whispered like a thief, "Yan Hongxue, I have a secret to tell you."
Yan Hongxue: "Mm."
"Actually, I'm not the Venerable Xuanxiao, and I don't even look like this. Hehehe."
A portrait appeared in midair. The young man in it had striking, radiant features.
The drunk propped up his head and looked at the portrait. "This is what I really look like. And I'm not called the Venerable Xuanxiao, I'm called... called..."
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*Constantly pretending to be the greatest under heaven is exhausting, truly. Bottom X the top, who hates him at first and later goes after his wife.
*Happy ending / older top / both have secret identities / slow burn / pursuing the one who got away
*Many original elements, please don't overanalyze.
*Cultivation levels: Qi Refining -> Foundation Establishment -> Golden Core -> Nascent Soul -> Divine Transformation -> Great Ascension -> Tribulation Transcendence
Theme: There is genuine affection in this world
