He Was the One Who Insisted on Making Me His Cultivation Furnace!

Everyone in the Six Realms knows that Pei Xianyun, the Immortal Venerable Who Crosses Tribulations, and Si Fuli, the Demon Lord, are sworn enemies who will fight until one of them is dead.

Five hundred years ago, Pei Xianyun gave his life to prevent a calamity from engulfing Heaven and Earth, dissolving into dust and smoke.

Everyone in the Six Realms mourned him. Only Si Fuli, upon hearing the news, laughed three times, threw open the city gates, and hosted a feast for demons from far and wide, celebrating for half a month straight.

Five hundred years later, Pei Xianyun's soul reassembled and ended up inside Si Fuli's body.

Their souls stared at each other, both wondering if they were dreaming.

Si Fuli: Didn't you die? Why are you inside my body?

Pei Xianyun: Because we're cultivation partners?

Si Fuli: What kind of joke is that? We broke our bond eight hundred years ago!

Pei Xianyun: ...Huh? We did? Sorry, I forgot.

When she realized she couldn't get rid of him no matter what she tried, Si Fuli grew furious, Si Fuli lost her mind, and Si Fuli decided to exploit the amnesiac Immortal Venerable as free labor.

Pei Xianyun was good at everything: reviewing paperwork, doing laundry and cooking, vanquishing demons and upholding justice.

While lying flat, Si Fuli sometimes wondered if this guy was being so obedient because he coveted her body.

After a few tests, she did indeed find some clues.

Pei Xianyun didn't just covet her body. He was also brazen enough to sneak a kiss on her soul while she slept.

Just as Si Fuli finally caught him in the act and was debating whether to chop him in half, a golden, glittering door appeared in midair.

The good news: the door said that if she completed the tasks, she could force Pei Xianyun's soul out of her body.

The bad news: all the tasks were far too intimate. And the ultimate goal was to merge their souls and make Pei Xianyun her cultivation partner.

Si Fuli (" ﾟﾛﾟ)｣: No way!

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Pei Xianyun knew he wasn't the Immortal Venerable Who Crosses Tribulations that Si Fuli talked about.

His memories were still stuck a thousand years in the past, when he and Si Fuli had just become cultivation partners.

He remembered them as senior and junior fellow disciples, childhood sweethearts who had grown up together, a perfect couple blessed by the heavens.

But now Si Fuli told him that the plum trees had long since been chopped down by people from the foot of the mountain, and that the white bamboo grove had been reduced to ash by heavenly lightning.

They weren't any kind of perfect couple, either. They were sworn enemies who beat each other up whenever they met.

Why? Pei Xianyun couldn't understand.

He had worked so hard to win his marriage to Si Fuli and bound them together with his own hands.

How could he bear to let go? How could he stop resenting it? How could he ever stand against her?

To get to the bottom of things, he quietly made a door in a corner.

He watched as Si Fuli came to see him every single day, cursing and grumbling.

Pei Xianyun (^ー^): Hehe, rewarding myself again today.

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The tsundere, sharp-tongued heroine who says one thing but means another × the love-struck Immortal Venerable who pretends to be aloof to hide his social anxiety, but is secretly a scheming black belly

Si Fuli × Pei Xianyun

Enjoy reading.

Blurb written on August 17, 2026

Theme: Chase your dreams bravely and don't be afraid of hardship.