Ping Yu transmigrates into an unfinished old-school cultivation novel. To return home, she has to win over the sickly young man who is the light of the righteous path early on and rules the world later.
In the original story, the young man is the male lead's sworn friend. He helps him deal with his many romantic rivals and gets him out of danger on his adventures. It is no exaggeration to say that the young man is the protagonist's human golden finger.
Who could have guessed that one day, while practicing, he would suffer a cultivation deviation, slaughter half the elders and disciples of the sects, and become a bloodthirsty demon hated and hunted by everyone on the righteous path?
While the sickly young man's villainous side has yet to emerge, and he's still an earnest, upstanding young man with big ambitions, Ping Yu decides to educate him with love.
Ping Yu: "I can't finish this. You have it."
Ping Yu: "I can't walk anymore. Carry me."
Ping Yu: "I want dresses and hairpins."
"..." Lan Fuyue felt his purse growing thinner by the day and looked at the cultivation space packed with jewelry and accessories. "Coming."
The System kindly reminded him, "Host, you're only going to push your target further away like this."
Lan Fuyue narrowed his long eyes. "Mind your own business."
*
Ping Yu is accidentally blinded after someone sets her up. Lan Fuyue takes devoted care of her and searches everywhere for a cure.
Just as she is moved by the young man's sincere devotion, she sees Lan Fuyue sitting majestically on the Demon Throne, casually scattering the ashes of a traitor.
The demons tremble in fear and kneel before their king.
Only then does she understand that his clear skies and bright moon, his image as a virtuous gentleman, are all false. Lan Fuyue has been rotten to the core from the very beginning.
The sickly young man bends down. His cold, shadowed eyes are reflected in the girl's trembling pupils as he scoffs, "Scared?"
"No..." After a long silence, Ping Yu furrows her brows. "I think my foot fell asleep."
*
The day the sickly young man falls to demonic cultivation, sand and stones fly, violent winds rage, and dark clouds unleash lightning. A bone-chilling rain of blood falls over Ruya Sect.
He cuts through the dragon veins, raises his sword to the sky, and slays the Heavenly Dao.
Ping Yu accidentally wanders into the scene of a massacre. The thick stench of blood weighs on her so heavily she can barely breathe.
The sect leader's head is hidden behind the young man, and severed limbs litter the ground. He lowers his head, concealing the savage expression on his face.
Ping Yu lifts her skirt and walks through the blood toward him. Her clear, bright eyes gaze at him as she says with unmistakable displeasure, "Remember to wash the blood off before you hold me."
Standing on a rise strewn with corpses, the young man wants, for the first time, to wash away the blood and sin clinging to someone for another person's sake.
[Healing troublemaker x Sickly, beautiful, strong yet tragic young man]
Dark male lead
Theme: Doing evil never ends well