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Yi Lan can't help bragging to everyone about the Daoist companion he picked up.
His companion is handsome, gentle, and considerate. He can raise chickens and grow vegetables, as well as slay demons and earn money. Though he's an immortal lord, he doesn't mind that Yi Lan is a demonic cultivator, and he's even more considerate of Yi Lan's frail health, taking care of all the housework himself.
Listener: And then?
Yi Lan: Then he didn't hesitate to burn through his life force to forcibly dissolve their Daoist bond, leaving me only some spirit stones and a letter.
Listener: ?? What happened after that?
Yi Lan: Obviously, I went to settle the score with him!
They say you shouldn't pick up men on the roadside. They might come with a nasty surprise.
Sure enough, his Daoist companion wasn't down on his luck at all. In fact, he was incredibly powerful.
When they meet again, his first words are: “Not enough spirit stones?”
His second: “Wasn't the letter clear enough?”
The letter said that immortals and demons could never coexist, and that he had made an exception only because Yi Lan had saved his life. The next time they met, he would surely uphold the righteous path and eradicate the demon.
His real name is Pei Huaihe. He's the senior disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect, a heaven-blessed genius, and the greatest swordsman of his generation.
Back then, he was seriously injured and had lost his memory when Yi Lan saved him, which was how this misunderstanding came about.
Being in love with a demonic cultivator was a disgrace!!
Facing the sword pointed at his chest, Yi Lan thinks: What the hell, this is worse than getting screwed by a dog. No, I was screwed by a dog.
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At the sect leader's succession ceremony, Pei Huaihe kills the demonic cultivator, but at that very moment, he goes mad.
In front of everyone, he proclaims to the world that he and the demonic cultivator are Daoist companions.
He leaves his sect and scours the Nine Domains, obsessively searching for signs that his companion survived.
He refuses to believe Yi Lan could be dead. How could someone so full of tricks possibly die?
As it turns out, Yi Lan isn't dead.
He immediately bonds with Yi Lan again, and in that instant, he is shocked to discover that Yi Lan's soul is already in tatters.
It turns out that when he forcibly dissolved their bond back then, his Daoist companion took the cost upon himself with his own soul. That's why Yi Lan's senses keep fading in and out, until his spiritual essence is exhausted and he vanishes completely.
Yi Lan smiles brightly. “You've got plenty of years left. Take your time living them. I'm leaving.”
His senses suddenly sharpen. He sees Pei Huaihe kneeling on the ground, desperately burning his own essence to extend Yi Lan's life.
Yi Lan: “Move aside. You're blocking the sun.”
Clear-eyed, radiant, sharp-tongued, sickly beauty bottom × obsessive, unstable top who both loves and hates him
[Redemption arc, no changing partners]
[One-on-one, both physically and emotionally pure]
Blurb dated August 12, 2026
Theme: Love yourself before you love others