When Destiny Brings the Demon
Modern-day office drone Zou Yan accidentally stumbles into the world of cultivation and wakes up as Liao Tingyan, a disciple of the Qinggutian Sect. She's soon selected to serve the reclusive Grandmaster Sima Jiao, a powerful cultivator who's been secretly sealed inside a mountain for 500 years. Twisted by isolation and rage, he's cold, hot-tempered, and bent on revenge. Liao Tingyan doesn't know that "her" original identity is a demonic assassin. But to his surprise, she shows no ill will, no ambition, and no desire at all. Her nature fascinates him. Thus begins an unlikely romance between a villainous immortal and a healing-type "slacker," a connection that defies fate and spans lifetimes.
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- Language
- Mandarin Chinese
- Network
- Youku
- Runtime
- 45 min
- First air
- 2025-08-16
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Season 1
Season 1
After meeting Sima Jiao, the master of Gengchen Immortal Mansion, who has been sealed in the mountains for five hundred years, and Liao Ting Yan, who unexpectedly came to the world of immortality, he was overcome by his "salted fish" (a term used to describe people who are self-deprecating and have no pursuits) instinct of wanting nothing. From then on, Liao Ting Yan began to guide Sima Jiao to be good step by step and became the person who changed him. During the process, they fell in love and experienced a love-hate entanglement spanning three lives in the fairy palace, the demonic realm and the human world. In the end, the two chose to protect their love and maintain peace in the three realms. (Source: DramaWiki, MDL) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Xiang Shi Zu Xian Shang Xian Yu" (向师祖献上咸鱼) by Fu Hua (扶华).
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