[Novel Blurb]
Song Tingyu is the real deal: handsome, powerful, decent, and faithful. The line of people who've asked to marry him could stretch from the remote mountains to the bustling imperial capital.
But he has accepted no one's proposal. When asked why, he says, "I already have a beautiful and powerful, gentle and adorable, reserved yet straightforward cultivation partner..."
Good grief, listen to how sickeningly sweet that sounds. And yet, across the entire cultivation world and the land of the Nine Provinces, no one has ever seen the perfect wife he describes, a woman with no equal in heaven or on earth.
Asked about it, his eldest disciple, who has been by his side the longest, says, "Of course... I have no idea. None of us has ever seen that perfect Master's wife. We think Master, um, probably made up a cultivation partner to get people off his back."
Things took a turn when the master and disciples seized a puppet from the Demon Venerable.
As one of Song Tingyu's disciples who was there described it: "You should've seen it. Our usually imposing, cold, sharp-tongued Master was hugging that puppet, laughing and crying, one moment grilling it sternly, the next speaking to it tenderly... We were all stunned. Oh, right, I almost forgot to mention, the puppet Master's wife is actually a man."
Song Tingyu's youngest disciple added, "I think the puppet Master's wife looks a lot like my ancestor. My ancestor is Xie Jingyu, Daoist name Yijing. His portrait looks almost exactly like this puppet."
Xie Jingyu? Lord Yijing, Xie Jingyu? How could that be? There is only one Xie Jingyu in the world. Though he died nearly a thousand years ago, he remains an idol to countless sword cultivators today, a righteous and legendary figure, almost like an immortal.
Song Tingyu is only a little over a hundred years old. He has absolutely no connection to Lord Yijing.
So now you understand: there can only be one reason Song Tingyu refuses to take a cultivation partner. He's gone insane from idolizing someone!
Reporter Xiao Lan from the Nine Provinces Curiosities, Xianxia section, "A Hundred Reasons for Staying Single: Song Tingyu, the Righteous Path's Idol Might Actually Be My Cultivation Partner," will continue to bring you updates.
CP: Gentle, powerful, stuttering shou VS cold, ruthless, sharp-tongued gong
Note:
1. One-on-one, happy ending, ancient transmigration into an ancient setting.
2. Younger gong, age gap of over a thousand years.
3. There are quite a lot of flashback scenes.
4. Entirely fictional. Please don't overanalyze it.
5. The present-day story is told from the gong's perspective; the flashbacks are told from the shou's perspective.
Theme: Love that crosses a thousand years
What does it mean to receive a child in advance?
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
Who is the author Xie Qi? Please answer
It was quite disturbing to read the first chapter. Faced with the idea of drugging MJ, he also wanted to make a big fuss and become a Taoist monk. Such a person of low moral character, the protagonist would take the initiative to accept him as his disciple??? How does this logic work? Aren't you afraid of teaching the other party spells and martial arts, sharpening the other party's claws and fangs, and killing more innocent people? I have seen similar examples before, where I accepted the other person as my apprentice despite knowing that the other person had evil intentions. Later, the apprentice went behind his back and continued to harm people. After the incident, he died as the master, taking responsibility. The apprentice continued to defect, and continued to use the skills he learned to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
It's beautiful, ma'am. I think the portrayal of people is very good and fascinating. Come on, I hope I can keep following this article! ( ﹡? O?﹡ )
Congratulations on Kaiwen!! This theme feels so interesting hehe~