[Female lead: swordsmith; male lead: sword cultivator]
[Female lead's perspective]
After her clan was wiped out overnight, Yue Chihong encountered all kinds of strange people while fleeing in disguise with her Daoist partner.
When her injuries flared up and she passed out, her partner went searching for medicine and accidentally entered a secret realm.
Sword cultivator: Holy crap, Sword Venerable Zhuanzhu!
Sword cultivator: This is definitely the first year of Dingguang. How did he enter this place ten years ago?
Sword cultivator: Is he all right? Why take useless medicinal herbs instead of white wax gold?
Her partner took the herbs and the white wax gold without hesitation.
When they passed through a mortal city and stopped to see the lanterns:
Wandering Daoist: Ying Longyuan? Why hasn't his sword bone been extracted yet?
Extract his sword bone? Are they trying to kill her partner?
Yue Chihong was so furious that she beat the man half to death.
While traveling, they came across a group looking for a fortuitous opportunity and accidentally overheard them talking.
Buddhist cultivator from Zizaitian: This is the only secret realm the male lead left without getting what he came for. We'll wait for him to activate it, then each of us can try our luck.
Five-Tailed Fox Demon: Weird. He should have come alone. Why did he bring a woman?
Female cultivator from Ruyimen: Maybe she's one of us, too, trying to get with the male lead. Tsk, what a schemer.
Disciple of Nanhua Academy: So what if she's by the male lead's side? Ying Longyuan is cold and aloof, with nothing in his eyes but his sword. How could he fall for someone else? His wife is his sword!
Yue Chihong: ...?
What do you mean, one of us? What male lead?
His wife is a sword? Then what am I???
[Blurb screenshotted and archived on 2024.05.24.]
[Male lead's perspective]
Ying Longyuan was born with a sword bone. His eyes held nothing but the sword in his hand and the childhood sweetheart he'd grown up with.
They were in love and had already chosen an auspicious day, waiting only to enter into a bond.
But then disaster struck. After gathering the remains of his beloved's parents, Ying Longyuan quickly took her away. They used three different identities along the way before finally settling temporarily in a small city.
Before leaving the city, he spotted a green jade hairpin displayed by a wandering cultivator on the roadside and decided to buy it for his Daoist partner.
But the cultivator looked as if he'd seen a ghost and pointed at the two of them, shouting:
"Y-y-you... Nan Liujing!"
Ying Longyuan: ...?
I don't think I'm using that alias right now?
While he was still thinking it over, the cultivator had already cried out another line:
"A heart free of women makes your sword skills divine!"
"How can you keep a woman by your side!"
Ying Longyuan: "..."
He put down the hairpin, took his Daoist partner's hand, and left, planning to carve one for her himself another day.
But less than two days after leaving the city, Ying Longyuan's nightmare began.
They encountered several groups of baffling people. Before each group was driven away, every one of them shouted at him just like that wandering cultivator:
"Your sword heart is naturally flawless. You mustn't indulge in women!"
"Your sword is the most important thing to you!"
"Your wife is your sword!"
Ying Longyuan: What is wrong with all of you???
[The following was added on 2024.06.16 and screenshotted for the record.]
[Transmigrators' perspective]
No. 1: We failed to intercept the Sword Venerable on his way down the mountain.
No. 2: I got there too late and missed out on the spirit herb.
No. 3: I was crazy to mention the white wax gold, and why is there a woman by the Sword Venerable's side?
No. 4: I found out that the Lord of the Year Yin, who was supposed to be locked in a love-hate relationship with the Sword Venerable later on, has entered into a bond with that woman!
No. 5: She even has a furnace clone from the Cangshan Sword-Washing Manor!
(Countless discussions omitted.)
The transmigrators: Damn it, this one's definitely a transmigrator who knows the plot too!
Yue Chihong and Ying Longyuan: ...The cultivators we've met in recent years all seem to have some kind of ailment.
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[Immortal cultivation ranks]
Qi Refining -> Foundation Establishment -> Golden Core -> Nascent Soul -> Deity Transformation -> Void Refining -> Body Integration -> Great Ascension -> Ascension
Premise: People should always hold on to hope
