Who does Wang Ling marry?

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Sun Rong. That is the answer, and the reason it needs a page is that almost nothing in the main series delivers it.

The short version

Wang Ling marries Sun Rong. They have a son, Wang Shu. The marriage and the child are established in the side story that follows the couple to War Gate University, not in the main high-school arc, and not on screen in the animation at all.

That last point is what generates the search traffic. The donghua is what most people in English-speaking markets meet first, it adapts a small portion of a novel that has run past 2,200 chapters, and its first season ends with a reset that erases the relationship from everyone's memory except Wang Ling's. A viewer who finishes that season has been told, quite deliberately, that the answer is unresolved.

It is not. It is just in the book, in the extras, and much later.

Who she is

Sun Rong is the young lady of the Flower Fruit Water Curtain group, a major cultivation conglomerate, and she is introduced as the kind of student the school notices: talented, wealthy, confident, and used to being the most important person in a room.

Her entry into Wang Ling's life is a snub, which is the plot of about a third of all school cultivation comedy. He does not react to her the way people usually do, and the curiosity that produces is the beginning of everything. The series runs that joke for a long time, and it is a genuinely unusual use of a dao companion in this genre — the most powerful being in the setting is the only person not impressed by her, and she cannot leave it alone.

The wiki entries give her an arsenal: the sword Ao Hai, techniques called the City-Toppling Sword and Absolute Zero, and a hidden constitution as a void child, which lets her do things with space that most cultivators cannot. She also carries a condition planted in childhood, the yin-yang death calamity, which is the plot's loaded gun for most of her arc.

The fight she does not lose

The single most important thing about Sun Rong is that she dies.

During the Spirit Sword Assembly she is assassinated by the master of Shadow Stream, and her soul goes down to the underworld. The judge there, Yan Xiaoluo, works out from her surname and a bloodline test that she is descended from Sun Wukong, decides not to rule on the case, and edits the register of life and death to send her back.

Wang Ling, for his part, does what an overpowered teenager does when someone he loves is killed: he tries to reverse it himself, and nearly takes the world apart doing so. The show and the novel both use this as the moment where his power stops being funny.

That is the accurate shape of the relationship. It is not a courtship. It is a boy discovering that the one thing he cannot fix by hitting it harder is the thing he most wants to fix, and then being bailed out by an underworld bureaucrat with a soft spot for monkeys.

The son

Wang Shu exists, and this is the detail that settles the marriage question for anyone who has read past the main series. A marriage destiny in this genre is normally an allotment made before the couple meet; this one is a marriage two people chose, which is a different thing and a rarer one.

Wiki entries based on the original text describe Sun Rong and Wang Ling marrying and having a son named Wang Shu, and later side-story chapters show the couple as parents, with the baby travelling with them while Sun Rong runs her businesses and Wang Ling hovers over both of them in a way that is not remotely subtle.

A word of caution on timelines: the source is a novel that has been running since 2017 and has been extended by side stories and a university-era sequel, so different fan pages describe the family at different moments. The marriage and the son are consistent across them. The details of when and how are not, and should not be quoted as if they were a single scene.

Why the novels handle it this way

Because the premise does not survive a conventional romance. The genre's usual solution is a political marriage — 联姻, a treaty between houses that neither party chose — and this cast has no houses to treat with: the Sun family runs a business, not a sect.

Wang Ling's whole character is that he does not want to be seen. A love story in a book like that has to be about the cost of being seen, and the series knows it: every step forward in the relationship is paid for by the risk of exposure. The side story can be a romance because the high-school arc is over and the secret is cheaper — by then he has a dao companion, a house and a son, and the talismans are the least interesting thing about him.

That is also why the show's first season ending lands the way it does. Time resets, the tournament is won, and the feeling between them is put back in a box along with his power. It is not a cliffhanger. It is the thesis, stated as a joke: the strongest person alive gets to keep the ordinary life, and the price is that nobody remembers the day he had it.

The answer in one line

He marries Sun Rong, in the side story, and they have a son called Wang Shu. If you have only watched the animation, you have seen the version where that has not happened yet, and where the show is careful not to promise that it will.

The questions people ask

Who is Sun Rong?

A cultivator from a wealthy family, nicknamed the Sunflower Fairy at ten for her talent, and the first person at No. 60 High School to take a serious interest in Wang Ling. Her weapons are the sword Ao Hai and techniques including the City-Toppling Sword and Absolute Zero. She also carries a hidden condition, the yin-yang death calamity, planted in childhood.

Do Wang Ling and Sun Rong have children?

One son, Wang Shu, in the side story. Wiki entries based on the original text describe Sun Rong marrying Wang Ling and having a son by the name of Wang Shu, and the later side-story chapters show the child as a baby while the couple travel and work.

Does the donghua show them getting married?

This is the part readers miss.

No. The animation adapts a small slice of a very long novel and stops long before the side story, and the first season's ending deliberately resets their relationship so that nobody remembers it. Anyone who has only watched the show will think the answer is no, or that it is unresolved.