[Dual rebirth + alluring, lovesick white moonlight + double-standard, love-struck villain]
In Lin Hanji’s brief twenty-five years in his previous life, every word he wrote and every stroke of his brush was filled with regret. His loved ones turned against him, his old friends were gone for good, and the person he loved most sent all the Nine Continents and Six Realms, himself included, down the road to ruin. At fifteen, Lin, the Immortal Master, had risen to the top among his peers in the cultivation world. He had saved countless people: friends and foes, strangers and common folk, even the humblest of creatures. Yet he could never save himself.
Shen Lishuang imprisoned him in the Spring Night Hall for 417 days. Each day felt like a year, and the pain was worse than being slowly carved apart. Yet he desperately wished he could simply drown in every long night lit by burning red candles, because those 417 days were when Shen Lishuang hated him most, and loved him most.
Everyone across the Nine Continents said Immortal Master Lin was a good man who fought demons, defended justice, and helped the weak. But Lin Hanji knew all too well that, like Shen Lishuang, his path had been paved with mountains of corpses and blood-soaked fields. What kind of gentle, merciful sage could such a past possibly make?
He was nothing more than a repressed, self-restrained madman.
And Shen Lishuang had been mad from the very beginning.
In his previous life, Lin Hanji was slow-witted and foolish, a puppet on someone else’s strings for twenty-five years. Reborn, he refused to keep watching others destroy his life while he hid behind a false mask of kindness and gentleness. If fate decreed that you and I would meet again, only to retrace that old path piled high with hatred and corpses
Then in this life, I will be the one pulling the strings. I will be the obsessive, unrestrained Demon Lord of the Ghost Realm, who can topple the world and destroy realms. I will be your mortal enemy and beloved, the one who holds life and death in his hands amid the depths of the endless night and the Spring Night Hall, as we sink into a sea of desire
