Qu Xiangying had read a book and become obsessed with the senior disciple of the male lead's sect in the early chapters.
The senior disciple was honest and kindhearted, and the strongest of them all. Whenever his fellow disciples asked for help, he never hesitated. Whenever the disciples faced danger during their trials, he was always the first to charge in.
Yet this model senior disciple, so admired by outsiders, was actually a total sucker.
Because he was a good-natured man with incredible strength, his fellow disciples secretly called him an idiot. He took the blows meant for them, covered for his junior brothers' mistakes, and even lent them the spirit stones he had worked so hard to earn, only for them to borrow them under one excuse or another and never pay him back.
In the end, when evil forces attacked the sect, the senior disciple sacrificed himself to save everyone. He offered himself to an ancient formation, repelled the invasion, and became everyone's unattainable ideal.
Qu Xiangying, who had transmigrated into the book as the senior disciple's mortal fiancée: Just you wait. You dare treat my husband like a sucker? I'll show you what I can do!
In the original story, the fiancée listened to other people's slander and decided to break off the engagement. To avoid being blamed, she demanded that the senior disciple be the one to call it off, making it look as though he looked down on his mortal wife. The honest senior disciple agreed.
When Qu Xiangying transmigrated into the book, she was holding their marriage contract. Standing before her was the senior disciple, who had hurried back after receiving her letter.
Looking at the handsome man before her, whose life had been spent being exploited by his sect, Qu Xiangying hid the marriage contract. Her cheeks flushed as she said shyly, "Husband..."
The senior disciple's ears turned bright red.
Qu Xiangying returned to the sect with the senior disciple, in the name of being his family.
Seeing their shabby, ramshackle home, the first thing she did was track down all the money the senior disciple had lent out and never gotten back, then fix up their cave dwelling.
Before long, the most dilapidated cave in the entire sect had become a luxurious home no one else could afford.
As the senior disciple's mortal fiancée, she became famous as his "pampered little wife": timid and clingy, demanding the best food, clothes, and comforts. A tiny scrape could make her cry until the whole sect gave in, and whenever she caught a cold or fever, she would have the senior disciple care for her day and night.
Even the sect leader shook his head when he saw them. "My disciple has such a hard life."
An elder fumed, "Only someone as patient as An Wu could put up with her."
Little did they know that the supposedly hard-pressed senior disciple was loving every minute of it, and had realized that the previous twenty years were what had truly been hard.
Compared to cuddling up with his soft, fragrant wife every night, hadn't his past life been that of an ascetic monk?
#She only acts like a pampered wife in front of others, but getting the money back is real
#An Wu is a courtesy name, taken from "a fragrant scent fills the sleeves"
#A story about a protective mortal wife and a cultivation priest who dotes on his wife
#Cultivation and romance, probably 3:7
#There is only one Qu Xiangying. The woman who breaks off the engagement is not the heroine
Theme: Rejecting moral coercion and daring to say no