The Greatest Swordsman, Best at Being Spoiled

Xie Zhao, the senior disciple of Qingxu Peak, sold himself to Shen Yan, the Shen family's founding ancestor.

Rumor had it that the Shen family's ancestor was a notorious womanizer. When Xie Zhao came to stay, he was in a perfectly good mood. It was just a change of place to sleep, no big deal.

He took off his sword, smiled, and briskly started undoing his belt.

Unexpectedly, Shen Yan pressed a hand against him, looking even more flustered than he was. "W-wait! I've been... cultivating my heart lately!"

Xie Zhao blinked and smiled. "Sure. Then how about we have a chat, senior?"

Shen Yan was a transmigrator, once a staunch champion of pure love. Forced to play the role of a womanizer, he also had to hand over his conjugal dues from time to time.

As it turned out, the person he was keeping was even more straightforward than he was. Every few days, Xie Zhao would sit on his bed with a bright smile and chat about whatever trouble his junior disciples had gotten into that day, or whom their master had brought home this time.

Shen Yan: "...Don't you feel even a little guilty?"

Xie Zhao thought it over and answered seriously, "I do. I'm quite curious: when did you get past the heart-cultivation stage?"

Shen Yan: "..."

He thought he was here to be a sugar daddy. Later, he realized he'd become a live-in caretaker who paid out of pocket. The kind of sucker who spent money just to have someone to talk to.

Until one night, he saw Xie Zhao carefully polishing the long sword called Frost Chill by lamplight. That sword protected Qingxu Peak and bore the weight of Xie Zhao's responsibilities, but it didn't protect him.

Suddenly, Shen Yan didn't want to keep up the act.

He wanted to protect him.

Xie Zhao kept an account book listing every debt he owed.

At last, one day, he placed the spirit stones he'd saved up, along with the account book, in front of Shen Yan. He wore the same smile he'd had on the day he first arrived.

Shen Yan looked down, then reached out and tore up the account book.

"I'm yours, so of course the money's yours too. Why would you need to pay me back?"

Xie Zhao's smile finally faltered. He looked at Shen Yan for a long moment, then his eyes curved into a smile.

"All right. Then let's introduce ourselves again. Xie Zhao, senior disciple of Qingxu Peak, first in the sword path, good at raising children, and very good at being taken care of. Will you keep me?"

Shen Yan: "...Say that last part again. I'll record it on a memory stone."

Later, someone asked Xie Zhao how Qingxu Peak had gotten rich.

Xie Zhao smiled and said, "I found a cultivation partner."

"How much of a bride price did they give you?"

"Everything."

The visitor was stunned. Xie Zhao lowered his head, unable to hold back the smile at the corners of his mouth.

"He moved the entire Shen family over here, then said: 'I'm yours, and so is my money.'"

[Reading Guide]

1. A wealthy transmigrator, a pure-love champion forced to play a role, and the top sugar daddy, gong × an unmatched swordsman who knows how to talk himself through anything, a confident and easygoing senior disciple, shou

2. Shen Yan (gong) × Xie Zhao (shou), 1v1, HE

3. A sugar daddy who pays for conversation, and an unlucky genius who sold himself and is still all smiles. A goofy, sweet story about two people finding each other and healing one another.

4. Also known as About My Swordsman Kept Bringing Kids Home and The Top Sugar Daddy of the Cultivation World: A Guide to Paying Out of Pocket

Theme: Standing up to fate