The Master Chased His Wife and Ended Up a Widower

Zhu Yu is a nobody in her sect. Although she has a master, her senior brother accepted her as a disciple on his behalf. In ten years, she's seen her aloof master fewer times than she can count on both hands.

Until the day her master personally brought back a new junior sister.

Zhu Yu was no longer invisible. She became the junior sister's foil.

The junior sister is a treasure, praised and adored by everyone.

Zhu Yu is a weed, unwanted and uncared for.

The rare medicines and treasures Zhu Yu risks her life to obtain are handed over to the junior sister with just a few casual words.

Zhu Yu works hard at her cultivation and surpasses the junior sister. The junior sister puts on a hurt, aggrieved expression, and her fellow disciples all blame Zhu Yu, saying she's ungenerous and deliberately picking on her.

Even her lofty master favors the junior sister. When Zhu Yu is gravely wounded, he chooses to look the other way.

Zhu Yu admires her master, who seems like a celestial being, but always remembers her place as his disciple.

One time, her master is badly injured. Zhu Yu secretly cuts out her own spiritual bone to treat him, but her master loses control after going berserk and does something unspeakable to her.

The next morning, he mistakes her for someone else and believes the junior sister was the one who saved him. From then on, he treats the junior sister even more specially.

Later, the junior sister comes down with a strange illness, and only Zhu Yu's blood can save her.

Cultivators can quickly recover even after every last drop of blood is drained from their bodies. But Zhu Yu cannot, because she has lost her spiritual bone.

Zhu Yu refuses to trade her life for the junior sister's. Her fellow disciples accuse her of being cold-hearted and malicious, and her master's gaze turns even colder.

Later, ignoring Zhu Yu's protests, her master forcibly drains her blood to save the junior sister.

When the junior sister wakes, the room is packed with people. They fuss over her and congratulate her on her recovery.

Zhu Yu lies in her desolate little courtyard and slowly closes her eyes.

After Zhu Yu dies, her aloof master goes mad and searches everywhere for one person's soul.

By then, Zhu Yu has returned to the Immortal Realm, having completed her trial in the mortal world.

She was once a blade of grass growing in the mortal world. By chance, she gained awareness and found an opportunity for immortality, becoming... a blade of grass growing in an immortal garden.

As Zhu Yu flourishes on wind and dew, someone accidentally pulls her from the garden, damaging her roots. Just as she is about to wither away, an immortal passing by kindly replants her and gives her a drop of immortal dew to save her life.

A hundred years later, Zhu Yu takes human form and must undergo a tribulation. As it happens, the immortal who saved her has also descended to the mortal world to undergo a trial. She packs her things and heads down as well, to face her tribulation and repay her debt of gratitude along the way.

Later, the immortal returns from his trial and finds Zhu Yu, wanting to rekindle their old relationship.

Zhu Yu... Well, I've repaid my debt. If this immortal wants a partner, he can go dig around in that grave in the mortal world. Maybe he can dig up a bone or two.

#I wanted to write a story about a man chasing his wife after losing her, only for her ashes to be scattered in the end#

Theme: Plants and trees have their own nature. They do not yearn to be plucked by a beauty.