After a car accident, the otome game player Ling Li transmigrated into the only daughter and heir of Linghua Sect's leader, the top sect in the Nine Provinces.
Unfortunately, Miss Ling was born without a spiritual root and was a good-for-nothing. At eighteen, she still couldn't even reach the Qi Refining stage.
On top of that, she'd been afflicted with a chronic illness since birth, and her life force was fading day by day. Everyone said she wouldn't live past twenty.
Fortunately, after years of staying up late to grind monsters and surviving on food delivery, Ling Li was used to the young lady's frail body. Always one to accept fate and take things as they came, she settled into an easygoing life in the cultivation world...
At a talent selection tournament, the man everyone had dismissed as a mere peasant suddenly shone brilliantly.
The young lady of Linghua Sect pouted and, for the first time, acted like a spoiled young mistress, begging her father to make him her personal bodyguard.
Facing the taciturn man, Ling Li simply thought her dull life had gained an NPC to win over. She acted cute and obedient, flirted with him, and pouted coquettishly.
But he always kept a strict distance between a young lady and her bodyguard, and was completely unmoved.
She'd thought he was an emotionless blockhead.
Until she suddenly fell ill and hovered on the brink of death.
Her normally dutiful bodyguard, eyes red, held her in his arms and knelt outside Windbreak Valley all night, pleading for help.
The young lady of Linghua Sect ultimately survived. That same day, the Goddess returned to her place, and life returned to the Nine Provinces.
The young lady he'd held in his hands now sat upon a lofty divine throne. She would never again belong to him alone...
Theme: You journey forth for all living beings. I came to protect you.
