He Mu has had a secret crush on Yan Tongchao for a long time.
Unfortunately, one is an ordinary outer sect disciple, while the other is an unparalleled genius. There are enough people with a crush on Yan Tongchao to form a line from the mountain gate all the way to the foot of the mountain.
Later, the sect fell into chaos when demons invaded, and He Mu had the bad luck to die.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back at the sect...
Yan Tongchao, the sect's foremost disciple whom he usually couldn't even catch a glimpse of, was standing by his bed, cursing him as a heartless man.
The good news: He's been reborn, and the sect has handed him a wife.
The bad news: He has to win her back himself.
Except it was all a lie. He hadn't been reborn at all.
On the day the sect descended into chaos, a demon soul entered He Mu's body and fell dormant. Only intense grief or joy could rouse it, but He Mu had grown up in a wealthy family, wanting for nothing. His family sent him up the mountain to cultivate only to improve his health.
But the sect discovered through mind reading that He Mu had a crush on Yan Tongchao.
A hopelessly devoted one, too.
The whole sect saw it: Wow.
So everyone played along, first telling He Mu that he and Yan Tongchao had long since become Dao companions, then telling him that the two had fallen out.
That should give him both intense grief and joy, right?
Who knew that after hearing this, He Mu would feel nothing but joy?
To him, wasn't this perfect? It let him skip the hardest part of courting someone and jump straight to winning back his wife.
To keep the demon soul from causing trouble, the whole sect had no choice but to help him stage an elaborate wife-winning-back drama.
An aloof, proud beauty X an easygoing young master with a love-addled brain
Theme: Even an ordinary dream can be great.
