[Cool-faced cutie x honest country woman]
Wen Shiyi is a low-ranking Qianyuan with no family or friends. Honest and down-to-earth, she was an ordinary countrywoman living a quiet, uneventful life.
One day, while gathering herbs, she accidentally stepped into thin air and fell off a cliff.
When she woke up, she was in a dimly lit cave, filled with the refreshing fragrance of orchids.
She was not alone. There was another person in the cave: a Kunze in the middle of her rut.
Wen Shiyi got up and approached. Before she could make out the woman's face, a long sword was pressed to her throat.
A voice as cold as ice came from the darkness. "Come one step closer and I'll kill you."
Pain stung Wen Shiyi's neck. "...Well, then. I'll do it myself."
The next second, she picked up a rock and smashed it against her own forehead.
*
The world spun. When she opened her eyes again, Wen Shiyi learned that she had wandered into an illusion. Aside from being unable to use spiritual energy, it was no different from anywhere else.
Life in the illusion was dull and monotonous. There was no one else there but the two of them.
As they spent day after day together, they gradually fell in love, marked and bonded with each other. They farmed and grew vegetables by day, and cuddled and made love at night, living as though they were wives. Before long, they had a child.
Wen Shiyi thought they would live this way for a long time, until the day the illusion shattered.
She held their newborn child in her arms, with the immortals pursuing her behind her, when a familiar, icy voice came through a voice transmission talisman: "Kill them. Leave no one alive."
After narrowly escaping death, Wen Shiyi later learned that the person who had been so intimate with her in the illusion was Ruan Feixing, a prodigy of the sect and a heaven-blessed genius.
And she was nothing but an inferior Qianyuan.
Ruan Feixing wanted neither her nor their child.
*
Ruan Feixing had been pursuing a great demon when she was ambushed and fell into the illusion. When she woke, her mind was blank, and she had lost all her memories of what happened there.
No one knew what had happened during that time. Everything in the illusion seemed like nothing more than a dream.
In the dream, there had been a faint, bitter scent of medicinal herbs, and a hazy figure had flashed past.
One day, three years later, she led her disciples down the mountain for training. As they passed through a village, a frail child suddenly darted out of the crowd and wrapped both arms around her legs. With wide, sparkling eyes fixed on her, the child cried out in a clear, sweet voice, "Mama!"
Ruan Feixing froze.
At that moment, a faint, bitter scent of medicinal herbs drifted through the air.
P.S.:
1. The worldbuilding is entirely made up; everything serves the romance.
2. A melodramatic, trope-filled story that is, at heart, a sweet little child-rearing romance.
Theme: Love can overcome every obstacle