Synopsis
Yue Yuanling opens her eyes and discovers that she has transmigrated after all.
Before she transmigrated, a glowing orb calling itself a System tried to trick her into working for it. It even agreed to all her wildly made-up wishes: to wake up every day to a handsome man, have money come rolling in while she lounged around, and own an entire mountain.
The bad news: it looks like her refusal didn't work.
The good news: there really is a handsome young man, carved like jade, sitting at the foot of her bed.
Only, the handsome young man in the bright red wedding robe isn't looking at her like a new bride. He's looking at her like she's his sworn enemy.
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Li Muye was born with a sword bone. He held a sword at three, formed sword intent at seven, and at fifteen sensed the Heavenly Dao during his master's ascension tribulation. Man and sword as one, he became the youngest Venerable of the Sword Dao.
But during a trial, a demonic beast wreaked havoc. While protecting his fellow disciples, his sword bone was broken and his spiritual sea destroyed, leaving him a cripple who could only sit in a wheelchair.
Even his relatives, whom he had trusted completely, took advantage of his unconsciousness after he was gravely injured to arrange a marriage for him, hoping he would sire another child with a natural sword bone and restore the Li family's glory.
On their first night as newlyweds, Li Muye put on a fierce act in front of the girl he'd just met. "I don't like sharing a bed with anyone!"
His new bride looked delighted and promptly lay down on the bed. "That's great! I don't like sharing a bed with strangers either!"
Li Muye: ?
That night, the boy sat outside in the cold wind until dawn. With no spiritual power to protect him, he sneezed several times before finally returning, dejected and sulky, to the cushion Yue Yuanling had tossed on the floor.
Three months after their wedding, the grand cultivation tournament brought together the greatest talents.
The crippled boy, his face dark, slowly tore to pieces a paper crane carrying a taunting message.
In previous years, he had taken part and won with ease. Now his former "best friends" all came to laugh at him under the guise of concern.
But after falling asleep, heartbroken, and waking up again, he found himself bundled into a donkey cart. Along the way, he was unwillingly drawn into trouble with every prodigy headed to the tournament.
Then, in the middle of a brawl, Yue Yuanling lost her sword and grabbed him instead, swinging him like one. She ended up beating every opponent before even stepping onto the arena, earning herself an immediate place in the final.
A year after the wedding, an elder of the Li family arrived in arrogant fashion and haughtily hinted to Yue Yuanling that anyone could take the position of young madam.
Li Muye was furious. Filled with righteous conviction, he rushed back, ready to blow up his primordial spirit if that was what it took to set her free. And though his thoughts wandered to the possibility that she might want him... that wasn't entirely out of the question either. But when he arrived, he heard her shyly announce that she already had a spiritual infant in her belly and would surely give birth to a peerless prodigy in ten months!
After the elder left, satisfied, Li Muye glowered. He spent three sleepless nights going back and forth between questioning her and questioning her, until at last he resolved to treat whatever she gave birth to as his own.
But ten months later, Yue Yuanling's sword embryo was complete. Her natal sword soul emerged, drawing down a double-nine tribulation that blasted the entire Li estate into ruins. As it rained destruction, she urged him to hurry up and grab all the spiritual treasures from the family vault.
Later, Li Muye had an epiphany overnight and cleaved through the heavens with his sword. The cultivation world marveled at this medical miracle.
The newly risen young Sword Venerable said only, in an even voice, "I have to thank my Dao companion for this."
Thank her for not looking down on him for being a cripple, but also for not treating him like a person.
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Later, the System that had brought Yue Yuanling here finally woke up. Before she could demand an explanation, it hurriedly told her that her bargain-bin Dao companion was destined to become a young demon lord. After years of humiliation, he would enter the Path of Ruthlessness, kill his Dao companion, family, and fellow disciples, then take down the entire cultivation world.
"So you have to win him over, heal him, and use love to change him!"
Faced with the System's earnest hopes that she would save the world, Yue Yuanling reflected on how she kicked Li Muye out of bed in her sleep, used him as bait when hunting monsters, and temporarily pawned him to a spiritual artifact shop when she ran out of spirit stones. Then she blurted out, "Wait, let me get a divorce first!"
System: ?
That night, Yue Yuanling got to eat roast chicken that usually required a two-hour wait, grabbed a popular storybook that had to be fought over, and acquired a heavy, useful whetstone.
Just as she was dozing off while Li Muye massaged her calves, she suddenly heard a low voice behind her.
"Still want a divorce?"
A female lead who's a jack-of-all-trades because she's broke, with a sword cultivator's mindset that's ahead of its time, x a male lead who keeps teetering on the edge of turning evil before eventually giving up and letting things happen, lying flat as he's pushed around.
Young cultivator couple, married first, fall in love later, with a lively everyday life.
Theme: Never give up, even in the face of despair
