Can a Straight Sword Cultivator Love His Wife?

Hua Family-style receiver vs. Dian Family-style attack

Xie Changran has been pampered since childhood. He is beautiful, adored by his parents, and the young master of the Swordcasting Manor. Three young prodigies treat him well, and he lives freely and proudly. Then his family is wiped out. The kind uncles, the three childhood friends who treated him so well, and the various sects all turn out to want the Minglong Sword from his family. He is nothing but a tool for obtaining it.

Xie Changran coughs up blood. He is weak and untrained, with little cultivation. At eighteen, he is still in the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Childhood Friend A: "Just give me the Minglong Sword, and I'll marry you. You'll have wealth and status beyond your dreams. As for revenge, you're too weak to even think about it. Just settle down and live a peaceful life. That's what your parents would want, too."

Childhood Friend B: "Young Master, why put yourself through this? I won't hurt you. I don't want the sword. I just want you to fall with me. I'll still take care of you, because without me, you can't do anything."

Childhood Friend C: "Come back to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect with me. This time, I'll protect you. I won't let you get hurt again."

Xie Changran trusts none of them. He suddenly understands that all these years, beyond his looks and his status, he has been nothing. He has learned nothing at all.

He has to run. He doesn't want to be controlled by anyone. He doesn't want to become like this.

Xie Changran runs as hard as he can, but only makes it to Lovesick Cliff. His three childhood friends and the hypocritical uncles all urge him to return: go back to being a caged songbird, go back to a comfortable life and forget his hatred, and spend the rest of his days in a daze. He thinks about jumping.

At the foot of Lovesick Cliff, an ordinary-looking man saves him. This man changes his life, showing him the vast world and helping him grow resilient and capable, instead of telling him to stay in his arms like a caged bird.

From then on, the greatest sword cultivator in the world has a weakness, a little shadow trailing behind him, and a lover.

Mo Xuanxun transmigrated into a cultivation novel. He no longer remembers the book's contents, only that the protagonist, Xie Changran, eventually becomes the leader of the Joyful Union Sect, and that he himself is a talented sword cultivator and one of the protagonist's lovers. Mo Xuanxun doesn't want to get involved. He's obsessed with cultivation, and became the youngest Soul Transformation cultivator at two hundred. After working so hard, it's time to lie flat, right? His lazy side finally takes over.

While he is lying flat and living as an ordinary mortal at Lovesick Cliff, someone falls from the sky.

Elder Mo of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, Mo Xuanxun, is handsome and refined, like a jade tree among orchids, but utterly clueless about romance. He never meant to take Xie Changran in, but Xie Changran insists on staying. Fine. He'll have the young master chop wood, cook, and do laundry. Surely he'll leave once he can't take it anymore.

Later...

Xie Changran is knocked to the ground by Mo Xuanxun again.

Xie Changran shouts indignantly, "Can't you be a little gentler?"

Mo Xuanxun calmly replies, "Your enemies won't go easy on you."

He has already gone easy on Xie Changran. Otherwise, one strike would have reduced him to dust.

His enemies won't go soft on him or give him room to grow, but Mo Xuanxun will. He will teach him how to become strong.

Scene

Mo Xuanxun: "Go fry me two dishes, and bring me a hundred spirit stones while you're at it."

Xie Changran: "Sir, I don't have any spirit stones."

Mo Xuanxun: "Then just fry me two dishes. You can't eat and drink for free and expect me to teach you."

Xie Changran has never cooked before. He fries a few dishes and sets them on the table.

Mo Xuanxun's eyes light up. He can't believe the protagonist is such a good cook. The food looks delicious. He takes a bite and passes out from the poison.

Reader's Guide:

1. At first, they are both teacher and friend to each other.

2. Not recommended for readers who are extremely possessive of one character.

Theme: Loving someone means letting them see the wider world and helping them become a better person.