The Sandalwood Blossoms Fade

After being expelled from his sect and sent down the mountain following the first Sect Tournament, Cheng Xianyun had no choice but to return home and take over the family business at the foot of the mountain: selling tofu pudding. He was three parts more beautiful than a woman, and people called him the "Tofu Pudding Beauty." One day, his family was so poor that he rented a haunted house to save a few copper coins. He never expected the assassin to return that very night, laying a cold blade against his neck.

The people of Sheng were bold and open-minded. The second time he met the assassin, his family was so utterly destitute they could barely afford to eat. The matchmaker said he was handsome, then conspired with his elderly mother and sold Cheng Xianyun as a live-in son-in-law. On Redlight Street, he met his buyer, but that buyer was a man.

He asked the matchmaker, "Why did you find me an assassin? (One who almost killed me, at that! (>人<;))"

The matchmaker replied, "Young master, there's something you don't know. Qi Lang doesn't kill anymore. He's bold and spirited, able to take things up and let them go. Isn't he a true hero among men?"

Cheng Xianyun: "..."

With swords sticking out of his body, he walked alone through the wind and rain. Blood seeped across the vast white snow. Tight black clothes, a startling scarlet red, and pure, bleak white.

Qi Xiao lay in the snow and murmured, "Through more than a decade of spring and autumn, I slaughtered every wicked person under heaven. The only thing I could never bear to do was betray your heart."

"Do we have to be certain of victory before we do anything in this world?" Cheng Xianyun said with a smile.

"Whether it's the way of martial arts or the way of the sword immortal, breakthroughs come only when you're pushed to the brink. A cultivator learns from every strength, but in the end, cultivation is about defying heaven's will."

"I only want to be an ordinary hero, not a great one."

"Immortal or demon, it all depends on a single thought."

(BL + short story + marriage first, love later + reunion after a long separation + calculated scheming) (past and present lives) (both lose their memories) (mutual unrequited love)

A doomed-beauty tofu seller x a cold, powerful assassin

(Content warning: not a passionate, pure wish-fulfillment story. The male lead is just an ordinary little hero.)

Theme: A humble romance in the bustling world of ordinary people