I Picked Up a Broken Immortal and Married Them

My husband is blind, lame, has completely severed meridians, and has lost his memory.

Someone threw him down from an immortal mountain. He lay on the ground, barely clinging to life, while hungry wolves and stray dogs watched him hungrily.

But he was terribly handsome.

I watched him for three days. When no one came to take him in, I snuck into the mountains at night and secretly carried him home.

I married him, then lied and told him I was the most beautiful and kindhearted woman in the whole village.

Immortals are all proud, and I was no exception, even though I used to be an immortal's husband.

But he wasn't an immortal anymore. He was only my husband, the ugly girl Chou Gu's.

He had to give me a child.

If he wouldn't behave, I'd train him.

Then one day, the immortal sect came to reclaim him. I saw him again three months later. He was dressed in white Yunfu brocade, passing through my village. The eyes that once couldn't see me now shone like stars.

I hid outside my house and watched him from far away. After a year together, I knew the look of restrained anger on his face all too well.

Now the immortal's face held no restraint, only fury that would have me dragged out of the ground and ground to dust.

I took off running and fled the village with my dog.

Many years later, I too began cultivating immortality, and heard the name of Immortal Su Jue.

It turned out that a hundred years ago, his family and the immortal sect had betrayed him. More than a thousand cultivators joined forces to hunt him down, tear out his immortal bones, blind him, and break his legs...

Now he had returned, standing once more atop Cloud Peak. His hands, once as white as jade, the hands of a banished immortal, were stained with who knew how much blood.

The cultivation world said that Immortal Su Jue was just one step away from falling to demonhood.

He was also just one step away from ascension.

No one knew why he had been stuck at the same cultivation level for decades without ascending.

Perhaps he wanted to live long enough to see all his old enemies die.

I was terrified. I touched my new face, free of the birthmark I'd lost after beginning my cultivation. It was so plain and unremarkable that I'd disappear in a crowd. He would never recognize me.

Although I hadn't hunted him down, and had given him food and new clothes, I'd seen him like a dying dog, slapped his face, kicked his lame leg, mocked him for being a cripple... and forced him to give me a child.

I might well be on his list of people to kill.

That wouldn't do.

But one day, when I entered a trial realm along with a thousand disciples from my sect, he still found me.

At nightfall, his teeth sank hard into my collarbone, drawing blood.

How strange. How had he recognized me?

I'd changed my face and my name. I wonder if it's too late to apologize now.

Note:

1. The main text is in third person.

2. The mortal heroine is an ugly girl at first. After she begins cultivating immortality, she changes her face, but does not become a great beauty.

3. The heroine is a thoroughly mortal woman from ancient times, and her thinking is limited by the era she lives in.

Although she is ugly, she isn't insecure. She isn't a good person, takes any advantage she can get, and runs as soon as things look bad.

Blurb screenshotted on June 6, 2026.

Theme: The human heart is the world's most precious treasure, worth its weight in gold.