Demon Venerable Lu Tinglan was cold and heartless by nature. He cultivated the Heartless Dao and wielded the Sword of Slaughter.
One day, he was gravely injured and on the brink of death when a scholar came to his rescue.
Lu Tinglan promised him a thousand taels of gold in thanks, but the scholar refused, saying only that fate was precious and worth more than a thousand taels.
Lu Tinglan had never owed anyone anything in his life.
He thought that no matter how deep a mortal bond might be, it could last no more than a mere hundred years. So he simply concealed his cultivation and accompanied the scholar into the mortal world. Amid life's ups and downs, he insisted that his feelings were all a lie, yet he grew accustomed to bringing home a box of the scholar's favorite mung bean pastries after work every day.
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Later, when the scholar was in danger, Lu Tinglan hurriedly placed his protective jade pendant on him, then exhausted his cultivation to save his life.
Utterly spent, he leaned on his sword and panted. A flash of cold light pierced through his chest, chilling him to the bone.
Yuan Suifeng, the leading cultivator who had posed as a scholar for five years, caught his swaying body and looked down at him expressionlessly. "Your cultivation is too powerful, and you have treasures protecting you. If we don't drain your cultivation, the Immortal Dao's hope of successfully eradicating the demon is nothing but a pipe dream."
Lu Tinglan's gaze grew unfocused. He faintly sensed dazzling celestial light gathering from all directions, while a cold voice reached his ears from afar: [Thanks to the Immortal Lord, the demon has been purged from the world. From now on, a new fellow cultivator will be added to the ranks of the immortals.]
He understood what this meant and thought: Look, the bonds between people in this world really are just like that.
He gave one last smile and raised a hand to touch Yuan Suifeng's face. "My newly ascended immortal husband... Have you ever thought about how deceiving someone's heart is something that gets you struck by lightning?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a tribulation of lightning descended from the heavens.
Yuan Suifeng set him down and leaped up to face it. When the final bolt fell, he was too weak to resist, but a familiar warmth pressed close to him and shielded him from the full force of the lightning. Someone crouched behind him and kissed his ear. "You saved me once, back then. Now... I've repaid you..."
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Yuan Suifeng could not sever his worldly ties, and his ascension failed.
He searched every corner of heaven and earth, his devotion worn down to nothing, and finally found Lu Tinglan, who had vanished during the lightning tribulation. Just as he reached to take his hand, the other man mercilessly thrust a sword through his chest, leaving him to collapse helplessly.
Lu Tinglan pulled the protective jade pendant from his neck. "Why is my protective charm on you?"
Yuan Suifeng froze.
"Could it be that I gave it to you?" Lu Tinglan said. "Let me tell you, I, Lu Tinglan, cultivate the Heartless Dao. There is no way I would personally give this to you."
"The Heartless Dao?" Yuan Suifeng murmured. "But you and I were married..."
Lu Tinglan stared at him for a moment, then suddenly sneered. "I almost forgot. Not long ago, I went through a peach blossom tribulation. The tribulation is over, and the Great Heartless Dao is complete. If you still try to cling to me, don't blame me for taking action."
Yuan Suifeng looked up in disbelief. "Everything you did before... Was it all a lie?"
Lu Tinglan smiled. "What else? 'The Demon Venerable was born heartless, with a heavy burden of slaughter.' Those were your own words when you hunted me down back then. What, have you forgotten them?"
[Reader's Guide]
1. In the first half, an outstanding figure of the Immortal Dao who wins the world but lets him down. In the second half, a devoted husband who follows the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, doting on his spouse without restraint, top × [a lofty flower who fell into the mortal world], a Demon Venerable who seems cold but is actually deeply devoted and true to his heart, bottom.
2. Contains lots of groveling-chasing-the-wife scenes, but the author is a plot-focused writer, so this should be a story with some melodrama but a plot that hopefully doesn't fall apart (laughs). It won't be too long.
3. One-on-one, happy ending, both are virgins.
One-line summary: Ascending to immortality can't be as important as falling in love!
Theme: Deceiving someone's heart is something that gets you struck by lightning.
Synopsis screenshotted on 2024/2/2
Theme: Deceiving someone's heart is something that gets you struck by lightning.
