Tears Of The Smiling Exorcist: Innocence & Identity
Life needs only two things to go on:
an obsession strong enough to live for,
and a reason that refuses to stay buried.
Lingxiao, the smiling exorcist, walks through the cultivation world like a wandering soul—saving common people from curses, demons, and ghosts, while carrying a truth darker than any spirit he has ever fought.
He witnessed his father die by his own hands.
He didn’t mean to.
Yet the world believes he did.
Lingxiao doesn’t know how to cry.
He doesn’t know how to be angry.
He only smiles.
A smile that brightens or darkens the sky itself—
to some, a curse;
to others, an enchanting mystery.
He never stays in one place. Every village is a temporary home.
Until one cursed town begs him to return.
His hometown.
The place where everything began… and where something still waits for him.
And there, he meets him—
the red-robed ghost, the groom spirit,
who first marks Lingxiao as prey…
and then falls in love with him.
This ghost becomes the first to teach him emotions—
how to cry without shame,
how to be angry without fear,
how to feel loved even by something that has no heartbeat.
But love with a ghost is still a haunting.
A devotion that can neither live nor die.
And the truth that awaits them in this cursed town
is only the end of one journey—
the moment where the threads of fate break open
into the true beginning of Lingxiao’s existence.
A beginning carved before breath was ever borrowed…
beyond flesh, beyond fate—
in a realm where souls are not born, but rewritten,
and destinies bleed upon stone.
There, in the world called System Tearstone,
the truth of his existence waits…
older than life, and hungrier than death.
The tears he finally learns to shed
become the first raindrops of a much deeper origin.
Genres & Themes:
◆ Slow-burn devotion
◆ Forbidden soul-bond
◆ Morally gray lovers
◆ Ghost × Exorcist romance
◆ Tragic localities
◆ Cursed intimacy
◆ Sect betrayal
◆ Heavy fate themes
◆ Reincarnation
◆ Dark cultivation