At fifteen, when Yue Zhou joined the Yunlan Sect, he fell hopelessly in love with someone.
Just brought back from a heap of corpses by the Immortal Venerable Chang Heng, Yue Zhou ran into his eldest senior brother, who had come to pay his respects to their master.
Gu Yu Zhi, the eldest senior brother, was the foremost disciple of the immortal sects across the Nine Provinces. He was aloof and decisive, with no regard for anyone beneath him.
Covered in blood, Yue Zhou quietly peered at him from behind a pillar in the hall. From that moment on, his heart belonged to him.
Through immense determination and hard work, Yue Zhou finally rose to stand alongside his exceptional senior brother. He then asked their master to arrange a marriage for them.
Their master came down from the dais and refused.
Gu Yu Zhi also told him coldly, "Yue Zhou, I don't like you."
Yue Zhou knew. He also knew that his senior brother loved someone else, someone born into a prestigious family. People were always pairing their names together.
But Yue Zhou refused to give up. A few years later, after exhausting every means at his disposal, he finally got his wish and married Gu Yu Zhi.
On their wedding night, the red candles burned down, but Gu Yu Zhi never showed up.
The next day, Yue Zhou forced himself to stay calm as he went to see their master, only to hear that the whole Yunlan Sect was talking about how Gu Yu Zhi had gone on an adventure in a secret realm with the person he loved.
Looks of scorn and pity fell upon Yue Zhou. He thought he wouldn't care. After all, he had become someone at his senior brother's side.
All he had to do was love his senior brother more.
In the thirteenth year of their marriage, Yue Zhou searched the Nine Provinces far and wide before finally obtaining a spiritual medicine that could let him bear a child. His heart filled with joy. He thought his fortunes had finally turned, that a new opportunity had come, but not long after he became pregnant, he died for reasons no one could explain.
When he opened his eyes again, Yue Zhou had been reborn in the year his master had first brought him back.
At last, he understood that he was no more than a despised, pathetic villain in a tale, someone who demanded what he could never have.
Gu Yu Zhi and the person he loved were the story's destined protagonists.
And Yue Zhou was nothing but an overconfident stumbling block in their romance.
Remembering everything from his past life, having lost both his true heart and his first child, Yue Zhou expressionlessly tore the storybook in his hands to shreds and threw himself into his master's arms.
His master gathered him close, tenderly holding Yue Zhou even tighter.
Yue Zhou remembered the day he first entered the Yunlan Sect. Back then, his thought had been clear: he would always be above everyone else.
If true love was useless, then he was better off abandoning it.
Still, he pitied his first child.
The child had never even seen this world, yet was buried with him in his past life.
Reading and Content Warnings:
1. The two love interests have no romantic involvement. In his past life, the gong also loved the shou deeply, but realized it too late.
2. The former husband will regain the memories of his past life.
3. Many people love the shou and are lining up, waiting for his favor.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.