Li Shaoshi was a simple farmer in the village, with a miserable and broken past. He kept to himself and was known around the village as a poor old bachelor.
During his bachelor years, he met a young man who seemed like an immortal descended from heaven.
The youth was aloof and noble, looking down upon the world with pity. Yet when he first met Li Shaoshi, he was in such a sorry state that he spat blood.
To repay him for taking him in (?), the youth tied a red thread of fate, then married into Li Shaoshi's family, wanting only to spend their lives together, just the two of them.
Li Shaoshi: "Is something wrong with your head?"
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In a world of monsters and strange happenings, the youth drew his sword to defend the village.
He never expected that the person he had never truly held in his heart, the one who was supposed to be with him for life, would offer his life to the sword and move the youth's heart.
He waited thirty years without returning to his sect, all for the chance to find a fragment of that soul and restore its body.
But the heavenly river was no longer as it had been, and the long road made it impossible to trace his whereabouts. In the end, the youth's obsession spawned a heart demon, and he was cast out of his sect.
On a snowy mountain peak three thousand li away stood a sect.
It had a renowned master, known as Master Shaoshi.
During his thousand years of closed-door cultivation, he experienced seven extraordinary lives. In his final life, carrying the memories of his past lives, he became a rough countryman in a certain village.
What he never expected was that after he sacrificed himself, the disciple beneath his tutelage, a flower growing on a high mountain, would fall to demonic cultivation for his sake.
A sinful bond, a sinful bond. He could only sever it with his own hands.
But when their secret identities were accidentally revealed, his young disciple, now fallen to demonic cultivation, asked him with red-rimmed eyes, "Master, did you always know it was me?"
He choked for a moment, then nodded.
To his surprise, the young disciple laughed. "That's good. I thought I had fallen for someone else... I never expected it had always been Master..."
Li Shaoshi: "Wait, what? What are you saying? I don't understand!"
As a master, it's perfectly normal to have a secret identity or two, right?
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*A few stories about a high-mountain flower and his master
Just for fun. Updates whenever.
Making fried rice for myself to eat.
Theme: No shortcuts, just keep your feet on the ground
