Why Hasn't the Heartless Curse Taken Effect Yet?

Qiao Youxi is famous across the neighboring villages as a hopelessly silly girl. She ruins crops when plowing the fields and nearly burns down the kitchen whenever she cooks.

Everyone in the village says that whoever marries Qiao Youxi is in for a lifetime of bad luck. Now that she has reached marriageable age, all the girls her age have either been promised to someone or married off. She is the only one still waiting for a match.

This has her parents terribly worried.

Qiao Youxi, however, isn't worried at all, because she already has someone she loves.

Her beloved fell from the sky. When she found him lying in the woods behind the mountain, he was covered in blood, his white clothes stained red.

She secretly hid him in a thatched hut. With the fairly attentive care she gave him, he recovered in no time.

As soon as he was well, he asked how she wanted him to repay her for saving his life.

Qiao Youxi stared blankly at his immortal-looking face. After a long while, she blushed and said,

"I don't want anything. I just want to see you every day."

Her beloved was silent for a long time, then nodded and said, "All right."

Later, Qiao Youxi somehow ended up meeting a scholar, then somehow got talked into accepting his proposal. With her parents' endless advice and the villagers' blessings ringing in her ears, she was carried off in a bridal sedan.

Just as the ceremony was about to be completed, her beloved came to steal her away.

With a power so mysterious it seemed almost divine, he froze everyone in place, then lifted her red bridal veil with his sword.

"Qiao Qiao, the only people who see each other every day in this mortal world are husband and wife. When you said that, what you really meant was that you wanted me to marry you, wasn't it?"

Qiao Youxi: "...Huh?"

"Oh, yes, yes, of course!"

Shen Yue was a cultivation genius the Shen family, and even the entire cultivation world, had not seen in a thousand years.

Born with a sword bone and an innate Daoist body, he was destined to reach the pinnacle of the immortal path.

But his talent was too exceptional and his cultivation too smooth, and that became an obstacle to his ascension.

To become an immortal was to follow the Dao, and the path to immortality was the path of the Dao.

The road was long and fraught with obstacles. Only by breaking through and rebuilding could one cultivate the Dao.

If there were no obstacles, he would just have to make one himself.

But when it came to cultivation and the Dao, he understood everything at a glance, and his Dao heart was as firm as a rock.

The one thing Shen Yue knew nothing about was love. He had no idea where to begin, because there was no love tribulation in his destiny.

So the elders of his clan sent all kinds of beautiful women to his room, hoping he'd come to understand love and encounter a tribulation soon.

Worried that a hero might fall to a beauty, turning the love tribulation into a deadly one and ruining years of cultivation, they then invited the Heartless Dao Venerable of the Qingyun Sword Sect to place a heartless curse seal on him.

The day he fell in love would be the day the curse took effect.

Shen Yue did not disappoint. He returned from the mortal world with a young woman and announced that she would be his wife.

The iron tree had finally blossomed. Everything was ready, and all that remained was for the curse to take effect.

But a year passed, then ten years. Qiao Youxi's belly grew larger and larger, and she was about to give birth to the young master...

Wait, why hadn't the heartless curse taken effect yet?

Theme: Turning the unpleasant into something beautiful