Summary
“Su Jingzhen, you’re not getting any younger. Your sister-in-law’s here to talk serious business—are you going to find a Dao partner or not?”
“…And who exactly would that be?” Su Jingzhen asked, bewildered.
In the vast world of cultivation, Su Jingzhen had once envisioned a quiet, uneventful path—one filled with study, alchemy, and long hours refining pills. But fate had a different plan. Somehow, he became the ideal test subject, the one everyone wanted to surpass, the grindstone that sharpened others’ swords.
Thrown into a tangled mess of blind dates, family pressure, and strange sect politics, Su Jingzhen finds himself constantly pulled into awkward romantic setups—usually arranged by well-meaning but nosy elders. Behind the scenes, schemers manipulate destinies, alliances are forged over cauldrons of spirit pills, and secrets linger in every sect hall.
He’s cautious, a bit cowardly, and entirely uninterested in grand heroics. Yet with every batch of pills he refines, every teaching he absorbs, and every misadventure with a dazzling female cultivator he narrowly escapes, Su Jingzhen grows stronger.
It’s a slow climb—one filled with conspiracies, reluctant friendships, awkward romance, and subtle transformation. But in a world where immortality waits only for the most persistent, even the quiet ones can end up at the top.