Xu Fuyue transmigrates into a book, landing in a xianxia novel she only read two chapters of. Apart from knowing who the male and female leads are, she has no idea what happens in the story.
To make matters worse, she is an ordinary mortal with no spiritual aptitude, whose ten fingers have never touched spring water. Everyone knows the cultivation world is a dangerous place, and without cultivation, death is never far away. And with no spiritual roots, her situation is even more hopeless.
Just as she thinks she is destined to be useless for the rest of her life, she suddenly awakens a System called Become a God Through Luck. As long as she has intimate contact with a Child of Fortune, she can increase her cultivation.
Figuring that a sheep's wool might as well be plucked while it's there, she latches onto the male and female leads as soon as they appear.
"Immortal, you're amazing."
"Thank you for saving my life, Immortal."
"Immortal, can I come with you?" She always looks at him with clear, admiring eyes.
At first, Gu Xuefeng doesn't give the mortal a second thought. She is so weak he could kill her with one hand. Then one day, she abandons him and runs toward a cliff, trying to find someone certain to die. In that moment, he can only think how foolish she is.
"Do you know what you're doing? You're throwing your life away."
But she replies, "You're an immortal. In your eyes, mortals are like ants on the ground, as insignificant as dust. But to me, he is a person, a living, breathing person, and a companion who has journeyed with me this far. No matter what happens, I won't abandon him." Perhaps what she is doing is foolish. Perhaps she will die. But as someone raised under the national flag, she cannot stand by and disregard a life. All she wants is to be able to face her conscience without shame.
Later, he watches her endure countless hardships and teeter on the brink of death, yet still manage to save that person. Her face is dirty and battered, but she smiles brightly and says, "See? He's alive." At that moment, he thinks that mortals are strange. They are pitifully weak, yet sometimes they make him feel they are not entirely useless.
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From Luo Yuanju's perspective, no one has ever chosen him wholeheartedly in his life. His family abandoned him, and he wandered from place to place. Even after embarking on the path of cultivation, he spent his days narrowly escaping death. Reborn once, he returns to the moment when two immortals abandoned him, and he cannot understand what purpose there is in getting another chance.
Not until a gentle young woman reaches out to him from atop the cliff does he realize that someone once did choose him wholeheartedly. He simply didn't survive long enough in his previous life for her to arrive.
At that moment, for the first time, he truly looks at the face he had never paid attention to before. Her weakness becomes endearing, and her gentleness stirs his tenderness. Perhaps he has found the meaning of being reborn: her.
Later, he sits high upon the throne as the supreme ruler of the demonic path. Everyone hates him and wants him dead, but she alone stands beside him and tells him, "Kill those who deserve to die, and save those who deserve to be saved. As long as you don't kill innocent people indiscriminately, you haven't done anything wrong."
Yes, she is kind, but not foolishly kind. In this world, she is the only one who is different.
Where Xu Fuyue cannot see him, the demon king feared by all gazes at her with smoldering intensity, watching her intently and wanting nothing more than to devour her whole.
Unfortunately, he can't scare her.
A flower belongs in a greenhouse, where it can be carefully tended. No one else is allowed to lay a hand on her. His gaze falls on that so-called immortal, his eyes brimming with murderous intent.
The other man returns his gaze without backing down.
Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.