On the surface, the male protagonist Zheng Nansheng is the son of an ordinary person who lost his parents in the war. In reality, he is the illegitimate son of a celestial being with noble blood.
How exactly does it exude nobility?
To use a rather provocative analogy: it's like a country dog that's actually a Shiba Inu mixed with a country dog but with champion bloodlines.
Zheng Nansheng was orphaned and bullied from a young age, living a life worse than a dog.
A dog can wag its tail to beg for food, but it doesn't have a tail.
A dog can fawn and flatter, but its bones are too hard to bend over.
He went hungry every day and even ate dirt.
Once, young Zheng Nansheng was so hungry that he stole half a steamed bun that the shopkeeper had thrown on the ground.
Calling him a thief wouldn't be unfair, because the shopkeeper threw the food on the ground for stray dogs, not for him.
Even a dog knows to wag its tail and roll over on its belly, but this little beggar is both foul-mouthed and stubborn.
It's really not a likable thing.
The shopkeeper swung a rolling pin and hit the child, showing no regard for whether the frail child could withstand it.
"You dare steal my dog food! I'll beat you to death today!"
One blow after another struck Zheng Nansheng's small body. He could only endure it silently, hoping that the shopkeeper would calm down and let him go.
If it were just an ordinary beggar, he would have been beaten to death on the spot.
But Zheng Nansheng is the male lead after all, so the plot will definitely arrange for a savior to come to his rescue.
This benefactor is the female protagonist's father.
Li Yueyun, the owner of Yueyun Manor.
Because of this life-saving grace, Zheng Nansheng could forgive whatever the female lead's father did afterward.
Zheng Nansheng had been a wanderer since childhood, had never practiced cultivation, and suffered from prolonged hunger, so his health was not very good.
At first, he was just a servant doing odd jobs at Yueyun Manor.
Everyone in the manor looked down on him, bullied him, and trampled on his self-esteem.
Aside from not starving to death, Zheng Nan's life was no easier than when he was a homeless person.
Only the female lead, Li Bing'er, shone into his heart like a ray of light.
Zheng Nansheng was pushed down the 180 steps of the villa and fell, his head bleeding profusely. Li Bing'er stole the family's holy medicine to heal him.
Zheng Nansheng was falsely accused of theft and was to have his hands chopped off. Li Bing'er worked tirelessly, day and night, to find the real culprit behind the theft for him.
Redemption in childhood is like a pure, holy light, sacred, inviolable, and irreplaceable.
Therefore, no matter how many beautiful women appear around Zheng Nansheng, he will eventually return to the female lead, Li Bing'er.
This is the only right thing to do, and this is the right way for humanity.
The more miserable the early stages are, the more enjoyable it will be after you start cheating.
After Zheng Nansheng's character gains extraordinary abilities and acknowledges his father, he takes revenge on all those who bullied him.
After he became stronger, he was surrounded by good people.
There's nothing wrong with this kind of plot; in fact, it's quite immersive.
However, perhaps in order to showcase Zheng Nansheng's charm and wisdom and to add depth to the character, the original work forcibly added a female demon cultivator as a supporting character to Zheng Nansheng.
In order to reclaim the secret treasure that was stolen by demonic cultivators a hundred years ago, Zheng Nansheng was willing to sacrifice his looks and pretend to be in love with Ye Wan.
After using all the tricks like rescuing a damsel in distress and playing hard to get, Ye Wan in the original novel fell head over heels in love with Zheng Nansheng.
To save the critically injured Zheng Nansheng, he forced the healer Luo Baixian to exhaust his cultivation to prolong his life;
He poisoned his master, who had raised him with great care, and stole the sect's secret treasure.
In order to elope with Zheng Nansheng and leave her sect, she seriously injured her junior brother who came to stop her.
Naïve Ye Wan, after doing all this, fantasized about spending her life with Zheng Nansheng.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Nansheng, having obtained the secret treasure, showed no mercy and stabbed Ye Wan in the heart with his sword.
Zheng Nansheng tore off his tender facade and told Ye Wan that his entanglement with Ye Wan was nothing more than a play.
Ye Wan should blame herself for being an utterly wicked demonic cultivator; she has no one to blame but herself.
The original text does not describe how heinous she was, nor does it even mention her indiscriminate killing of innocent people.
Just like Ye Wan ended up like this, simply because she was a demonic cultivator.
After returning to Moonfall Crow Valley, Chu Yiming learned that his master had been poisoned, his junior brother was seriously injured, and his junior sister had died tragically.
And all of this was caused by his beloved junior sister.
He was at a critical moment in his breakthrough to the fifth level of the Demonic Cultivation Devouring Stage when his mind was disturbed and he lost his senses.
Afterwards, Chu Yiming, who had lost his mind, went on a killing spree in both realms, only to be reduced to ashes by Zheng Nansheng and his fellow immortal cultivators.
Chu Yiming's enemies refused to let the matter rest and came knocking on his door, demanding that the blood debt at Moonfall Crow Cry Valley be repaid in blood.
Su Hanjiang, who was poisoned, sacrificed his own nascent soul to cover Ji Kongmeng's escape.
The junior brother, Ji Kongmeng, who had lost all hope, was completely corrupted by demons and eventually disappeared without a trace.
Moonlit Valley was also burned to ruins by a great fire.
Every night, eerie screams emanate from those ruins, sending chills down one's spine.
Ye Wan, the female supporting character, is not only the catalyst for the escalation of the conflict between the immortal and demonic paths, but also the most controversial character in the entire novel.
Some even say that Ye Wan, the female supporting character, threw mud at the male lead's brilliant life experience.
However, this ill-fated relationship was not started by Ye Wan.
She originally had a childhood sweetheart, her senior brother, who doted on her.
She has a proud and protective master who, although strict, always gives her enough freedom;
She has a junior brother who is cute and adorable to her family (but a yandere and perverted person to others). She likes to pinch his soft little face and watch him get angry.
Ye Wan could have avoided becoming a target of this mess.
She was like a chess piece, manipulated at will by the hand of fate, with no choice of her own.
If Ye Wan had known the truth beforehand, would she still have accepted this manipulation?
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