Everyone praises the eldest young master of the Swordforging Sect as a prodigy: he slays demons, suppresses heavenly fiends, and is said to possess both a natural sword bone and an eye that sees through the Dao.
But the eldest young master has neither a natural sword bone nor an eye that sees through the Dao. Both belong to a guard in his courtyard.
The guard pants after every few steps and stays alive on medicine. He spends every day with white silk covering his eyes. There is not a trace of spiritual power in his body, making him no different from an ordinary mortal.
On the day the eldest young master marries the Demon Lord's younger sister, the guard is cast out of the Swordforging Sect.
The guard, Shen Zhuoyue, lies face down in the snow, his snow-dusted lashes trembling once.
He feels liberated.
Shen Zhuoyue has loved the eldest young master for ten years, so deeply that he would do anything the man asked.
Cut out his golden core, carve out his sword bone, gouge out his eyes: he would lay them all before the eldest young master.
He thought he would die somewhere, somehow, but everything seems to be going differently from what he expected.
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The eldest young master once briefly loved Shen Zhuoyue. What young man in white, sword in hand, would not be admired?
But compared to his ambition, such feelings were worth nothing.
He planted a Gu in Shen Zhuoyue, making him infatuated with him and devoted to him as if his life depended on it.
In the end, Shen Zhuoyue was of no use to him, so, out of pity, he did not kill him. He simply cast him aside.
The eldest young master never received word of Shen Zhuoyue's death. Instead, the reports his subordinates brought back grew more and more alarming:
Shen Zhuoyue put an end to a city's disaster. Shen Zhuoyue discussed the Dao with a Sword Immortal. Shen Zhuoyue was welcomed as an honored guest of the Immortal Alliance...
The men he sent to kill Shen Zhuoyue never returned. What's more, everything he had done was about to be exposed to the world!
And the one behind it all was none other than his brother-in-law, the Demon Lord Lou Yanyuan!
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Lou Yanyuan looks down on all others and acts as he pleases. Everyone fears the title of Demon Lord.
He stays by the person he loves every day, yet does not dare confess his feelings.
Because he was the one who helped the eldest young master of the Swordforging Sect remove his beloved's golden core and sword bone... leaving him bedridden and with only a few years to live.
[Reading Guide]
Happy ending. The shou will recover, and the gong is Lou Yanyuan.
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