The story begins when Ye Su agrees to help an immortal banished from the heavens save the future villain in exchange for becoming an immortal herself.
The future great villain, Nie Feng, falls in love with Mu Yao, the woman the prince of the Xuanyuan Dynasty loved first.
Nie Feng stops at nothing to win Mu Yao, but she and the prince, Xuanyuan Yuanlang, are in love with each other.
Unable to have the woman he loves, Nie Feng suffers through a life of hardship before finally turning completely dark.
On the day Yuanlang and Mu Yao marry, Nie Feng leads his army to overthrow the Xuanyuan Dynasty.
The imperial capital of Xuanyuan burns for three days before the flames gradually die out.
Nie Feng captures Yuanlang with his own hands and has him cut to pieces, while Mu Yao takes her own life by throwing herself against a pillar.
Ye Su sets out to save the villain ahead of time, just as the banished immortal instructed.
But the process is full of twists and turns. The villain keeps ruining her plans, and Ye Su finally reaches her limit and decides to run away halfway through.
By the time the banished immortal brings her back, ten years have passed. Nie Feng has grown into someone "elegant and graceful, with a beauty to savor."
But no matter how Ye Su looks at him, she can't help feeling Nie Feng has still gone wrong. Just how wrong remains to be seen.
One day, when a seemingly harmless young man starts walking toward her, step by step, drawing closer and closer, Ye Su finally realizes that something is terribly wrong. Her heart has always belonged to that picturesque immortal, after all!
At last, after completing her mission and becoming an immortal, she skips happily toward her immortal lord, only for a "Cheng Yaojin" to appear out of nowhere. With a dark expression, he says, "Ye Su, let's settle our score."
Ye Su blinks. "Who are you, hero?"
Nie Feng: ...
This book was created with great effort by the author, and basically every point he thought of was written down.