After Ye Yuan transmigrated into the body of an unparalleled cultivation prodigy, he was sure he was destined to be the protagonist of a power fantasy. One day, he would become the supreme expert of his age and the youngest Immortal Emperor to ascend.
At sixteen, with his cultivation already astonishing, he entered a secret realm in search of fortune and encountered an extraordinary divine cauldron that could foretell one's destined partner. They said it could show you your future wife.
Then he saw a man.
He decided that the first thing he'd do once his cultivation was strong enough would be to smash the useless cauldron.
After all, his wife absolutely couldn't be a man.
At eighteen, he encountered an unparalleled beauty who had been injured in a secret realm. He saved him, and the two became a couple.
At nineteen, his partner suddenly betrayed him and pushed him into a pit of fire. Even worse, his girlfriend turned out to be a man, and, of all people, the very same man he'd seen in that useless cauldron.
He was shattered.
At twenty, he ran into the cross-dressing con artist again, being hunted. Just as he was about to ignore him and walk away, the damn liar shouted, "Husband, you've come to save me!"
Ye Yuan immediately declared that they didn't know each other. Who could have guessed that the damn liar would whip out a memory stone showing the divine cauldron's prediction of their destined bond? In an instant, most of the pursuers turned their attention to Ye Yuan.
After all, the divine cauldron's predictions never failed. Those two had to be a pair.
The damn liar seemed to realize how useful this trick was. Whenever he was chased, he'd come running to Ye Yuan and call him "Husband!"
From then on, everyone on the continent knew they were fated partners. No matter how many times Ye Yuan denied it, no one believed him. All his admirers fled, and the various forces hunting the damn liar put Ye Yuan on their kill lists too.
From the shou's perspective:
Shen Qianshu was the heir to an exceptionally powerful cultivation clan. Gifted from childhood, famous throughout the land, and doted on by his family, he had every cultivation resource at his fingertips. From the moment he was born, he'd already reached the destination everyone else was striving for.
He thought he would devote himself to the Great Dao and never take a partner, but the divine cauldron foretold that he would have one, and that his partner would be a man.
He, too, decided that the first thing he'd do when his cultivation was strong enough would be to come back and smash the useless cauldron.
Then one day, his entire family was slaughtered. After escaping by the skin of his teeth, he endured betrayal after betrayal and saw the coldest side of human nature.
The righteous and gentle young master Qianshu began to change, little by little.
From then on, he was hunted everywhere, badly wounded and drenched in blood. To stay alive, he had no choice but to disguise himself as a woman and evade his pursuers. That's how he met that man.
The wheels of fate began to turn.
Theme: Everyone is equal.