[Younger male lead | semi-raising | semi-healing | ensemble cast | slow burn | not a substitute | 1v1 HE]
An outwardly warm 🔥, inwardly cold 🧊 nonhuman gong x an outwardly cold 🧊, inwardly restless 🔥 people-pleasing trauma shou
A pathological bond of fused identities and shared existence
The shixiong who had grown up with Lin Heng defied convention and caused a great disaster. Lin Heng cleaned up the mess, diligently guarded the mountain, founded a sect, and took in children as disciples.
Just as life was getting back on track, he found another young man. The boy had a strange personality and an unknown background, and yet he had exactly the same face as his shixiong!
Without another word, Lin Heng tied him up and brought him home. It turned out the boy really did only look like someone dear to him.
Since meeting was fate, Lin Heng decided to keep him and raise him.
No spiritual roots? He could stay as an unregistered resident in the sect. 👌 Unexpectedly, he could absorb evil energy.
Raise him quietly in secret. 👌 Unexpectedly, he showed off his strange abilities in front of everyone.
Taking the child along to a trial was fine, too. 👌 Unexpectedly, the child was stolen and taken away for experiments. That was absolutely unacceptable! ✋
Lin Heng went to great lengths to bring the child back, only to discover that the child had turned bad and could no longer bear to be apart from him. (Internal monologue: Kid, you don't have to imitate everything!)
On the way home, they traveled together, rediscovered the world, and came to understand their feelings for each other.
A few years later, the Ascension Assembly was approaching once more, and strange things were happening throughout the imperial court, the sects, and the streets. With disaster looming, they had to do something about it.
Lin Heng: Whose responsibility is all this, anyway? Will someone please step up and take responsibility?
The gong cannot cultivate immortality and has a constitution similar to a vessel.
This is not a substitute story. There is no unrequited love, no new love, and no old love.
Planned sections: Sect arc → Court arc → City life arc → Ending arc
This story is guaranteed to be completed. 👋 (I swear on my head.) On days without updates, I'm organizing the detailed outline.
Theme: Don't take on too much responsibility
