Can Falling in Love Really Lead to Ascension?

Other people transmigrate: recruit followers, seize cultivation techniques, cultivate immortality, ascend, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Lin Zhou transmigrates: his System is broken, his spiritual power ranks dead last, and he’s assigned a task to fall in love with nine girls.

The System says he can go home once he completes the task.

Sounds great, right?

But the System also says this is an “eternal tragic romance.”

In plain English: he has to have nine relationships that make both people miserable. Nine bad endings, nine knives to the heart.

Lin Zhou (smiling): So I’m dating, not undergoing a tribulation?

System: Tribulations are for immortal cultivation. Tragic romance is your problem.

Current situation:

Identity: handyman at the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect. Cultivation: Qi Refining, third level (dead last). Only skill: drafting construction plans.

Oh, right. He also has a younger sister, Lin Yue, with a Heavenly Spirit Root, who was taken away by the Grand Princess.

And there’s his friend Lu Chen, also a transmigrator, who studied bridge engineering in his previous life and argues with him every day about “why your bridge-pier face is so hard.”

There’s also a spirit beast, a protected species and hybrid of three races, locked in a cellar and starved for seven years. Raise one, and your whole clan gets executed.

Daily life:

Split firewood for the kitchen by day, get hunted by the Xiao family at night, and flirt in between with the frosty Second Princess Yao Shu. She’s at the Golden Core stage, while he’s only at the third level of Qi Refining. He’s not even qualified to pin her against a wall.

The only upside is that, although his System is broken, its ability to make snarky comments still works perfectly.

Lin Zhou: System, I don’t think this task is very reasonable.

System: Host, do you think it’s reasonable when the client asks you to revise the construction plans for the seventeenth time?

Lin Zhou: Just shut up.