After the Universally Hated One Kills Their Way to the Dao

Going premium on 9/25, with two chapters dropping at a time. Please add my upcoming novel, “The Male Courtesan Ran Away After Successfully Climbing to the Top,” to your library. You can add it directly from the announcement ´∀` Lin Qingwei is delicate and beautiful, and everyone at the Taiyi Sword Sect knows him as a dependent vine. Though he has only an ordinary three-element spiritual root, his pretty face earned him a place at the side of Venerable Xuanhui from childhood. Venerable Xuanhui personally raised and taught him, and the moment he came of age, he was formally wed to him as his cultivation partner. Everyone wondered why. They asked whether Venerable Xuanhui had been bewitched by him, whether Lin Qingwei had cast some spell to make him fall in love. Lin Qingwei wondered the same thing. From the moment he was chosen, he was told that he would be Xuanhui's one and only cultivation partner. Xuanhui cared for him in every way, cherished him like a treasure, and never let him suffer the slightest grievance. Xuanhui was Lin Qingwei's whole world, and Lin Qingwei loved only him, with all his heart. But Lin Qingwei knew that although Venerable Xuanhui truly loved him, that favoritism was mixed with a calculated plan. He was the tribulation of love in Venerable Xuanhui's Heartless Dao, destined to be cut down. Later, the sword bearing the tassel Lin Qingwei had woven pierced his heart. The eyes that had once brimmed with love were now cold. . A hundred years later, Venerable Xuanhui had become the foremost figure in the immortal world, while Lin Qingwei was a nameless corpse who had just clawed his way back to life from a mass grave. He changed his name and started over, only to discover that without Xuanhui, he could do nothing. No one had ever taught him how to survive in the perilous cultivation world. Fortunately, a wandering evil spirit stayed by his side. The evil spirit was fierce, yet it respected and protected him, accompanying him as he stumbled through the cultivation world and shielding him from every storm without asking for anything in return. Everything the evil spirit did made it plain that he loved Lin Qingwei. Knowing he had nothing to repay him with, Lin Qingwei asked, “Would you be willing to become my cultivation partner?” He thought the evil spirit would be overjoyed, but instead, the other man stared at him with an expression dark and impossible to read. The evil spirit asked, “Qingwei, if you marry me, will you regret it?” Lin Qingwei didn't understand the question, but he had no regrets. He married again. It wasn't until Xuanhui reclaimed the evil spirit and fused with him that Lin Qingwei learned there had never been an evil spirit at all. It had always been Venerable Xuanhui, wearing a false face and playing him like a puppet. All that unreserved love had been no more than a flower reflected in a mirror, a moon on the water. He had never escaped Xuanhui's control. Lin Qingwei turned and left without hesitation. This life, he would live for himself alone. . Later, the sword venerable who had stood high above the world like a god descended from his altar, nearly swallowed by jealousy and regret. Again and again, he asked Lin Qingwei, “He and I were originally one. Why could he do it, but I couldn't?” Lin Qingwei simply smiled, finally at peace. “No. You could never measure up to him.” They may have been one, but they were different all the same. Content warnings! Please read! 1. This novel is not for anyone with strong preferences about particular characters or pairings. 2. No redemption arc, no change of love interest, and this is not a typical groveling-ex story. 3. No self-insert fantasies, character favoritism discourse, or writing advice. 4. The characters' actions and beliefs do not represent the author's values. Please do not make personal attacks. Theme: Break free of constraints and find your true self