Su Yan transmigrates into an early-era tragic xianxia novel as a doomed minor character who doesn't survive past the midpoint.
To avoid the original plot, and even more afraid that her family will discover she has possessed someone else's body, she pretends to be timid and uses a quest for immortals as an excuse to flee her homeland. All she wants is to find a remote mountain and lie low for the rest of her life.
Instead, she accidentally stumbles into a thousand-year-old secret realm and wanders into the secluded mountain home of Yun Heng, a powerful immortal who has withdrawn from the world.
Everyone else seeks the Great Dao and eternal life. She only wants peace and seclusion.
Watching this young woman, whose only aim is to run away, the immortal sovereign, who has been indifferent for a thousand years, slowly feels his heart stirred.
Later, two prodigies from immortal sects come calling again and again to the mountain, seeking pills.
Yun Heng: ...This mountain does not receive guests.
【Short Scene】
Su Yan: You don't seem to like them very much.
Yun Heng lowers his eyes, hiding a flicker of bitterness: This is your refuge from the world. Others shouldn't come here and disturb you.
Theme: Fate is not impossible to escape. Compared to the Great Dao and eternal life that the whole world pursues, a peaceful, carefree life is the rarest kind of fulfillment.
