The Immortal Lord Once Practiced the Heartless Dao

Please don't let my story pile up unread, it's already plenty long >﹏< Check out my upcoming novel, Bury the Bones. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection! Blurb: As a promising candidate to ascend through the immortal path, Ming Zhou accidentally loses his memory after emerging from seclusion. Before he can even come to his senses, he acquires a new fiancé: a tough-as-nails man whose entire family is dead, who has traveled thousands of miles alone to seek him out. His fiancé is sweet and beautiful, and, more importantly, adores him. Ming Zhou loves him in return, but before the two can exchange tokens of affection, an accident occurs and his fiancé dies in the spatial currents. A widower before he even marries, Ming Zhou sits alone for half a month, then goes into seclusion again. Another ten years pass. He returns to the place where his fiancé died and makes an unexpected discovery. His frail fiancé, who couldn't even take care of himself, has survived just fine in the perilous spatial currents. In fact, he's hale and hearty, full of vitality. Ming Zhou: ...Huh? Fiancé: QAQ *sob* - Zhao Chen accidentally finds a token and comes to Canglang Mountain. Taking someone else's identity, he becomes Ming Zhou's fiancé and falls in love at first sight with the white-robed Immortal Lord. He thinks he has found true love and longs to marry Ming Zhou. Later, an accident leaves him trapped in the spatial currents for ten years. All that time, he keeps remembering the days he spent with Ming Zhou and hoping the Immortal Lord will come and rescue him. But for ten years, there's not a word from him. In the first year, he thinks, The Immortal Lord will come any day now. In the second year, he thinks, The Immortal Lord should be here soon. In the third year: The Immortal Lord must have been delayed by something. By the tenth year, he can no longer make excuses for Ming Zhou. His inner demon tells him the Immortal Lord has forgotten him, has discovered he's a member of the demon clan, doesn't want him anymore, and will never come. He begins to hate Ming Zhou, hate his betrayal, hate him so much that he wants to kill everyone on Canglang Mountain. Then one day, the barrier weakens, and the white-robed Immortal Lord crosses through the spatial currents to reach him. They meet again. Zhao Chen had planned to make the faithless man suffer the same ten years of imprisonment. But before he can act, the white-robed Immortal Lord sheaths his sword and, in the final moment before the barrier closes, brings him out of the spatial currents without hesitation. Looking into the Immortal Lord's familiar eyes, Zhao Chen quietly puts his weapon away. - Everyone knows that Lingxi Jun of Canglang Mountain suddenly acquired a fiancé. The two were deeply in love, but after they began discussing a wedding date, his fiancé was ambushed by demons and monsters and fell into the spatial currents, fate unknown. As soon as his fiancé fell, Lingxi Jun, who followed the Heartless Dao, passed his tribulation and became the youngest cultivator in the immortal path to reach the late Void Refinement stage. His prospects were dazzling. Ten years after his previous fiancé died, Lingxi Jun brought home another person and insisted on marrying him, against everyone's objections. Some believe he plans to repeat the same trick he used ten years ago, using a cultivation partner to improve his cultivation. Others think he did have some affection for the last one and couldn't forget him, so he found a replacement. Still others think he simply fell in love with someone else. There's not much more to it. But only those in the know realize that the person he brought back is exactly the same as the last one: the same face, the same jealousy and clinginess, the same nasty personality, even worse than before. A serpent's shadow often ripples across the seas of clouds around Wangqing Peak. The enchanting lantern light before the hall warms the snow, and often stays lit all night. By day, anyone who so much as looks at the white-robed Immortal Lord had better be very careful with their eyes. - The Sea of Sin stretches over forty-eight thousand qing, reflecting the myriad lives of the world and the rise and fall of their fates. Ming Zhou spent hundreds of years observing the world alone, until one day a snake insisted on standing by his side and refused to be driven away. The high mountains are bitterly cold, and a lone flower has no one to appreciate it. So that day, a ripple first stirred in the heart's sea, and could never again be stilled. Reading Guide: 1. A vicious, scheming, love-addled, unhinged, perverted, tearful top × an emotionally steady, dazed, innocent Immortal Lord bottom. They both pursue each other, and the pairing is locked in, with no switching or splitting them up. The top is extremely, ridiculously love-addled, though he seems more normal when he's putting on an act. 2. Naturally, they're both beautiful! 3. The Heartless Dao isn't a major element. Unorthodox cultivation, not a level-up story, with a mountain of authorial worldbuilding and both angst and sweetness. I have the final say on all interpretations. 4. At its heart, it's a pure-love story, hehe :-P 5. [Important] Not suitable for readers who favor either character, readers who genuinely bash one character to praise the other, or readers who can't accept the couple ending up together. Bury the Bones [Reborn from the dead, domineering, sharp-tongued, all bark and a soft heart, fatherly top × “The world is awful... Let's just destroy it. I'm a widower already, so go easy on me,” a melancholy, mute beauty bottom] Tentative blurb: Tentative blurb: A yellow bird lands by the creek, but the creek has no water flowing east. An old owl laughs on the long slope, where even ghosts are filled with dread. In the mass grave, white bones lie light; the people's blood and fat become golden robes for the powerful. - The world has been in chaos for over a hundred years. Ling Xian cannot bear to see the people suffer, so he practices medicine and treats the sick, while the person he loves dies young and without ceremony. After Ling Xian dies, a forbidden curse binds him. He becomes a mute skeleton living in a mass grave, longing day and night for his beloved's reincarnation to return to his side. The good news: he finds him. The bad news: the man he finds is cold toward him, dislikes his lack of a body, and turns around to fall in love with someone else. The even worse news: after Ling Xian waits for him a very, very long time and endures all the frustrations of being mute, he discovers he's found the wrong person. And the one he truly loves was pushed off a cliff by him not long ago, fate unknown. Ling Xian: . Oh no. I was fooled by a fake. - Everyone in the mass grave says Ling Xian is a beauty and once had a good husband, who died young. No one ever got to meet him. Later, her husband was reincarnated, but when she found him again, his personality had changed completely. What a pity. A skeleton obviously can't look like a beauty, but the scumbag deserves to die, so Wu Yue decides to step in and help this skeletal beauty escape his misery. Instead, the beauty turns out to be ruthless and chases him for ten miles that very night. - When they meet again, Ling Xian's beloved has already gone off in pursuit of glory, leaving him in the mass grave for a long time. The skeleton sits quietly beneath a tree, simmering medicine, and truly looks like a kind-hearted bodhisattva. He's nothing like the person who chased Wu Yue that night. Wu Yue approaches with a cold laugh and grabs the light, delicate skeletal beauty. He wants to mock him for his useless devotion and demand to know if he regrets mistreating someone who meant well. But the more he thinks about it, the more conflicted he feels. Just as he comes to his senses and is about to speak, a pair of arms reaches out and embraces him. The skeleton rests his head on Wu Yue's shoulder and nuzzles him. Begging forgiveness with a show of affection. Wu Yue: ...? - Much later, Wu Yue accidentally discovers a secret. The “husband” Ling Xian used to call out to soundlessly was him. The person Ling Xian worshipped every full moon was him. The person Ling Xian waited for with a lantern at a crossroads on the night of the Ghost Festival was him, too. As for that scumbag Heh... What scumbag? He's a despicable, freeloading, lying thief. - There are fools who study prescriptions for three years and claim there are no illnesses in the world left to cure. Then, after treating patients for three years, they realize there are no prescriptions in the world that can treat them all. A few tips: 1. 1v1, happy ending, with a mountain of authorial worldbuilding. 2. An explicit love story (nods). Please judge by the finished work. 3. Still more serious in tone, with both angst and sweetness, an old-fashioned flavor. Not suitable for readers who favor a particular character. 4. The final line is quoted from the Qian Jin Fang. Theme: I know you bear an immortal's bones, untouched by heat or cold. A thousand years apart, our meeting feels as if it were yesterday.