Stop Loving Your Senior Disciple. Isn't Your Ex-Husband Better?

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Mu Xiwan had a senior fellow disciple. She had heard that he was handsome and refined, untouched by the ordinary world. He mastered his studies in a mere hundred years, left their sect, and spent his days guarding the mountains and rivers of the realm.

Her teacher said her senior was the best person in the world.

"If you meet him someday, don't be afraid. He'll surely treat you well."

Back then, Mu Xiwan was still young. Without realizing it, she quietly began to harbor a girlish admiration for this gentle senior she had never met.

But she waited and waited. Her teacher died, and with no family left, she was imprisoned and coerced by the immortals of her sect. Forced to marry far away in Baizhou, Mu Xiwan still never met the senior she had been waiting for.

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She entered a political marriage with Chu Fuyun, the ruler of Baizhou. People secretly cursed him, calling him a blood-soaked god of slaughter, a man who schemed across the land and bore countless sins. This immortal marriage had nothing to do with love. He married her only for the interests of their two lands.

Mu Xiwan hated this absurd marriage contract.

She hated the desolate, bleak autumn scenery of Baizhou, and she hated him.

But over the next hundred years, Chu Fuyun personally trained her in martial arts, accompanied her on journeys through the mortal world during the reunion festivals, and stayed by her side without sleep when she fell gravely ill.

Even when heaven and earth were overturned, when she became mired in a power struggle against her enemies and died in a great fire, leaving no remains behind,

Chu Fuyun was the one who slew her enemies for her, braved life and death for her, and remained in the underworld for twelve years, just to wait for a wisp of her ghostly soul and bring her back to life.

Now that Mu Xiwan had died by accident and become a ghost, she finally realized that behind the Baizhou ruler's cold and indifferent exterior lay a deep and precious kindness toward her.

He was even better than the "gentlest senior brother" her teacher had praised.

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Chu Fuyun bore the responsibility of suppressing all the violence, brutality, and injustice in the world.

When a man who had spent half his life steeped in blood and all of it in bleak solitude unexpectedly agreed to a marriage, none of Baizhou's civil and military officials could understand what he was thinking.

"Why did you agree to this immortal marriage? If you don't like her, you could simply refuse."

"...I do like her."

"Huh?"

Chu Fuyun smiled with his eyes closed. At last, a trace of warmth appeared in his usually aloof expression.

"She's the only little sister I'll ever have. How could I not like her?"

At first, he used marriage as an excuse to bring his junior sister to live by his side. He was simply carrying out their teacher's dying wish and caring for her like a younger sister.

Later, when he held his junior sister beneath him, spent day and night making love to her among the flowers, and greedily breathed in her scent time and time again,

Chu Fuyun finally realized:

He was the most despicable and shameless, selfish and hypocritical elder brother in the world.

Reading guide:

1. Happy ending, single couple, one-on-one

2. Quirky and spirited young palace mistress with a brother complex x bleak and aloof general with a fatherly streak

3. A world combining various ancient mythologies, with heaps of original worldbuilding

Theme: Those in love are like those who carry a torch.