Dreaming of My Ascetic Daoist Partner After Death

Let me recommend my next upcoming story, A Beautiful Waste, but a Runaway White Moonlight. The blurb is below! Blurb for this story: After Ning Yi died, his soul was too weak for him to be reincarnated. The only way to strengthen his soul was to absorb yang energy, and the other person had to be willing to let him do so. After thinking it over, Ning Yi decided to ask Xu Yu, his former cultivation partner, for help. He swallowed his pride and appeared in Xu Yu's dreams. After explaining why he had come, he looked at Xu Yu's cool, composed face, feeling uneasy. Everyone knew that Xu Yu had been forced into an arranged engagement with him by his parents before they ascended. They had never had much of a bond as cultivation partners. To his surprise, Xu Yu readily agreed. And so, Ning Yi visited Xu Yu's dreams every night to absorb his yang energy. Perhaps because Xu Yu pitied him for becoming a broken-down ghost, he was especially gentle each time. Only on the final night, when Ning Yi happily told Xu Yu that he could be reincarnated and wouldn't be coming back, did Xu Yu act completely out of character and torment him until he almost "faded from existence." * Everyone said that Sword Venerable Xu Yu and his cultivation partner had been deeply devoted to each other. During the hundred years after his partner's death, Xu Yu had countless statues carved and temples built in his honor. Whenever he punished the wicked and helped the weak, he used his partner's name to accumulate good karma for him. Then one day, people noticed a young man standing beside the Sword Venerable. The Sword Venerable personally held an umbrella over him, let him spend the spirit veins and treasures in his possession as he pleased, and even gave him the treasured lifebound sword cherished by every sword cultivator to protect himself. People thought the Sword Venerable had been a widower for a hundred years and had finally forgotten his old love and fallen for someone new. Until someone discovered that the young man looked exactly like the Sword Venerable's deceased cultivation partner! * On the day Ning Yi was reincarnated, something went wrong in the underworld, and he had no choice but to return to the mortal world on orders. A ghost needed plenty of yang energy to remain in the human world for a long time, so Ning Yi had no choice but to shamelessly go to Xu Yu again and absorb his yang energy. It wasn't until Ning Yi heard that the Sword Venerable intended to marry again that he realized he couldn't keep staying by Xu Yu's side... A Beautiful Waste, but a Runaway White Moonlight Blurb: Shi Yu transmigrated and became a low-ranking lackey under the leader of a group of demonic cultivators. When he arrived, the demonic cultivators had just captured a righteous cultivator and were discussing how to humiliate him. Before Shi Yu could even understand what was happening, the leader pointed at him and shouted, "Ugly freak, go and sleep with him!" Shi Yu: What? You want me to do what?!! The demonic cultivators despised the righteous sect's lofty airs. To humiliate their captive, they decided to give him to the ugliest and most useless demonic cultivator as a plaything. Then they'd see how long he could keep acting so high and mighty! Knowing he was a weakling, Shi Yu didn't dare disobey. But he used a little trick to fool the leader and didn't actually sleep with the cultivator, whose glare looked as if he wanted to kill him. He even formed an alliance with the cultivator and planned to escape together. But in the end, their scheme was exposed. The leader flew into a rage, drugged both of them, and locked them in a dark room. Under the drug's effects, Shi Yu ended up taking the cultivator's virtue after all. But... why had their roles been reversed!!! After their night together, the cultivator regained his strength, split open the dark room with a single sword strike, and slaughtered his way through the demonic cultivators' lair. Watching the cultivator go on a rampage, Shi Yu woke up and hurriedly covered his swollen, aching backside before running for his life. * The Lin family, one of the most prestigious clans in the Immortal Alliance, had found their eldest son, who had gone missing as a child. Unfortunately, the young master had mediocre talent and little cultivation. He was nothing but a beautiful waste with a pretty face. The people of the Immortal Alliance paid him no mind. That is, until the Immortal Alliance competition, when the much-talked-about beautiful waste casually waved a hand and beat the second-best of the younger generation so badly he couldn't get back up. Shi Yu: Am I really that strong? But when he faced the first-place contestant, he was dumbstruck. Looking at the familiar yet stern face before him, Shi Yu's first instinct was to run. His second was to touch his face. Thank goodness he didn't look the same as before. Qi Heng looked at his opponent, who was striking poses and flaunting himself. Thinking of the rumors that the man had won through seduction, he found it absurd. Beauty and ugliness were only skin-deep. His beloved might have had an unremarkable appearance, but his heart was purer than moonlight. Qi Heng didn't waste words. He drew his sword and drove his opponent into a frantic retreat. Just as he was about to deliver the final blow and defeat him, a sudden radiance burst from his opponent's body, and their spiritual powers intertwined. Qi Heng froze. That was... After the Immortal Alliance competition, what people across the land cared about most wasn't who had taken first place, but how beautiful the Lin family's eldest son was. He was so beautiful that even Qi Heng, once the leading figure of the immortal sects and a man who had never been interested in romance, lost focus and was defeated. After the competition, he even started following the young man's every step... Theme: Human will can overcome fate.