(I’m going to quietly dig myself a hole, then make things difficult for myself.)
*
The Su family has flourished for nearly five hundred years, guarding a secret known only to its head: they have hidden a little immortal who can ensure the family’s prosperity.
The little immortal is as innocent and naive as a blank sheet of paper. Tricked into being imprisoned by the Su family, he has his fortune siphoned away, keeping them wealthy and safe for hundreds of years.
When the ninth head of the family takes power, the Su family is in danger because of a disastrous decision. The new head, a girl who often sneaked into the forbidden grounds as a child and whom he watched grow up, blames him for everything and casts him out into a world where demons and monsters roam, claiming he has been draining the Su family’s fortune.
From then on, the little immortal becomes a little vagabond, wandering for more than a decade through a world where no one knows him, chased and beaten by people.
One day, he steals a steamed bun from someone and, for the first time, gets caught and pinned against a wall.
The woman in Daoist robes gently hugs him when she sees his filthy face, surprise written across her features.
Then she asks him, “Come with me... little immortal?”
That is how he begins to have a home again.
*
Xie Rong is a laid-back but formidable Daoist, so talented that no one of her generation can rival her. The day she defeats her own master, she is driven down the mountain to experience the mortal world.
One day, on her master’s orders, she visits the Su family. While staying with them, she helps them subdue a demon and accidentally trespasses into the forbidden grounds, where she finds the little immortal they have hidden away.
Beneath the moonlight, he stands on a rock beside a lotus pond, dressed in flowing white, with his hair loose and his feet bare. His gaze is calm and pure as he looks at her.
All she can think is: Ancestors above.
The next time they meet, Xie Rong has just been expelled from her sect for attacking and defeating its leader. She is at the foot of the mountain, wondering where to go next.
When she realizes that a little beggar has stolen her food, she plans to show mercy and let it go, but the familiar figure makes her chase after him.
Years later, she sees those calm eyes again, and the thought that took root at their first meeting suddenly grows wildly.
Even though the divination says this thought will lead to a perilous future,
she still reaches out to him: “Come with me... little immortal?”
*
You are the only thing in this world I cannot control.
A carefree, unrestrained, worldly big-shot female Daoist × a seemingly powerful and composed, but actually naive and delicate male immortal
Note 1: The woman dotes on the man. Female-dominated world. I happened to watch a lecture on the development of Buddhism and Daoism recently, and the idea of a story about a Daoist and a delicate little immortal suddenly came to me...
2. To be added
Theme: Love is beautiful.
