The #1 Pretty Boy of the Immortal Path

❤️ Main Relationship

Ling Fengxiao (凌凤箫) × Lin Shu (林疏)

✨ Introduction

The #1 Pretty Boy of the Immortal Path (仙道第一小白脸, print title Zhe Zhu (折竹)) is a completed JJWXC novel by Yi Shi Si Zhou of 651,701 characters. Lin Shu, a modern shut-in, transmigrates into a cultivation world with poor aptitude but one great fortune: a childhood betrothal to the famously fierce, beautiful, and devoted young lady of a mighty clan. Living comfortably under her protection, he becomes known across the immortal path as its number-one kept pretty boy — until he discovers his "fiancée" Ling Fengxiao is a man in women's dress, who in turn believes Lin Shu is a woman in men's dress. Beneath the comedy of errors lies the author's signature mix of philosophical whimsy, quiet sorrow, and cosmic tenderness, set in the same universe as C Language Cultivation.

🌏 Background

A high xianxia world of immortal sects, noble cultivation clans, and the heavenly dao — rendered with Yi Shi Si Zhou's characteristic dreamlike, slightly absurd logic. Published in print as Zhe Zhu (折竹) by China Overseas Chinese Publishing House (2020).

🎭 Themes & Tone

- Mistaken identities and cross-dressing on both sides

- A proud "kept man" comedy that turns into real devotion

- Social anxiety, loneliness, and learning to want company

- Fate, the heavenly dao, and the price of power

- Shared universe with C Language Cultivation

Tone: whimsical, witty, and quietly melancholic beneath the jokes

👥 Main Characters

- Ling Fengxiao (凌凤箫) — the domineering "young lady" of a great clan; in truth a man forced by bloodline duty to live in women's dress; brilliant, possessive, and devastatingly beautiful; the gong

- Lin Shu (林疏) — the transmigrator; a socially anxious homebody who only wanted to cultivate in peace and accidentally became the immortal path's most famous pretty boy; the shou

- Their sect mates and clan elders — the chaos-prone community around the engagement

✨ Iconic Quote

- Tagline（一句话简介）："真香。" / "So good." (lit. "Truly fragrant" — the Chinese meme of eating one's own words)

- Lin Shu（林疏，文案）："我有一个好师门，从不嫌弃我根骨不好，不逼我习武，甚至还给我订了一门娃娃亲。" / "I have a wonderful sect — they never minded my poor aptitude, never forced me to train, and even arranged a childhood betrothal for me."

- Synopsis（文案）："我就是饿死，死外边，从这里跳下去，也不会再吃他一口软饭。——真香。" / "I'd rather starve, die out there, jump off this cliff, than take one more bite of his kept-man rice. — So good."

- Lin Shu（林疏，文案）："兄弟，你把我的未婚妻弄到哪里去了？" / "Brother, where did you hide my fiancée?"

🎬 Adaptations

- Audio Drama: Two seasons on Missevan (猫耳FM), produced by Bianjiang Studio (边江工作室) with Moyu Team (魔渔队); Ling Fengxiao voiced by Bian Jiang (边江), Lin Shu voiced by Shi Zekun (史泽鲲)

- Manhua: A manhua adaptation is serialized on Kuaikan Manhua (快看漫画)

- Print: published in simplified Chinese as Zhe Zhu (折竹) by China Overseas Chinese Publishing House (2020)