As the most handsome and hardworking young man in Lu Family Village, Lu Yingzhou's greatest wish was to work hard, earn money to support his family, then find a man he liked and settle down to a steady life. But he never imagined that he would slip and fall into the river while washing clothes. When he woke up, he had arrived in a completely unfamiliar place.
The old master took his hand, tears streaming down his face. "Xiao Zhou, Xie Ling Temple offered us two hundred dan of foundation spirit stones as your betrothal gift. They're a wealthy household, too. Now that you're going there, I can finally rest easy."
Utterly bewildered, Lu Yingzhou was sent to Xie Ling Temple. Looking at the ramshackle temple halfway up the mountain, a place not even dogs would visit, he fell into deep thought...
Fortunately, his so-called cultivation partner seemed honest enough and was quite handsome, too. He was tall and powerfully built, even more impressive than Brother Da Niu, the most popular man among the young men in Lu Family Village.
Lu Yingzhou was reassured. They might be poor, but with hard work, they could get rich!
But why did his cultivation partner always refuse to go hunting...?
If they didn't hunt, how were they supposed to feed the several "little beggars" living at the temple...?
Before his master died, Shang Huaige was summoned back to Xie Ling Temple. His master insisted that he marry a disciple of Chaojin Sect as his cultivation partner, claiming it was the wish of their founding ancestor as well as his own. He even used all of Xie Ling Temple's possessions as the betrothal gift.
Shang Huaige had no choice but to humor this cultivation partner for now, then find an excuse to divorce him.
Who could have guessed that although this partner was frail and hopelessly weak in cultivation, he was simply too... good at making a living?
He took a sickle to the wasteland behind the temple and began clearing it...
He fixed up the collapsed buildings behind the temple and started raising chickens and ducks...
He carried stones to repair the broken steps in front of the temple...
He even urged Shang Huaige to go hunting every single day!
After all, he was one of the few mighty Deity Transformation experts in this late age of cultivation (a powerful cultivator hiding his true strength).
Later, spiritual plants appeared in the cultivation world, which had been growing increasingly desolate as spiritual energy dried up.
Seeing the lush, spiritually abundant mountain around Xie Ling Temple, the cultivators cried out,
"The age of decline is over! Cultivators shall once again rule the world! Ancestor of Xie Ling, we bow to you!"
By then, Lu Yingzhou, the one who had brought spiritual plants back to life, had gone missing.
Shang Huaige nearly turned the entire cultivation world upside down before finally finding him.
But Lu Yingzhou pulled out the divorce papers Shang Huaige had prepared long ago...
Yet instead of the divorce papers, Shang Huaige noticed his belly.
"Your belly's so big. Are you sick?" He rolled up his sleeves. "Come on, let me take your pulse first."
[Hardworking, earnest, occasionally lazy, optimistic and cheerful bottom
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Lazy, unambitious, occasionally fired-up, taciturn cultivator top]
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