They Were Enchanted by Him

Jin Xi was a wicked woman who had committed every imaginable evil. She betrayed her master and ancestors, slaughtered everyone in the Zhuyun Sect, and even cut off her master's head and hung it in the main hall.

She had killed countless people in her life, so she had long been prepared to go to hell. Sometimes she wondered what kind of retribution awaited her.

Would the righteous sects join forces to hunt her down?

Or would the men in her household turn against her out of jealousy?

As she pondered this, she found that Zhen Yue had arranged her funeral beneath a grove of crabapple trees.

Falling blossoms drifted through the sky, light as a dream. Her blood mingled with the petals scattered across the ground, staining them with a sorrowful crimson.

She had met Zhen Yue in the late autumn of one year.

Her master had ordered her core cut from her body and given to her beloved junior sister. Hated by everyone, she was imprisoned on Siguo Peak and left to suffer at the hands of others.

If living meant being treated worse than a dog, she might as well die.

But just before she drowned in the deep spring, Zhen Yue's voice sounded over the rippling water.

“Do you want to live?”

“I don't want to die.”

“Then live.”

After that, he helped her take revenge, and she helped him rise to power. They stayed by each other's side for seven years, relying on one another. In the eighth year, he killed her.

Jin Xi was tired of killing at last, and finally got a good night's sleep. It was a very long sleep, but when she woke, she was still the same carefree, radiant eighteen-year-old girl.

Wait, eighteen?

When she looked up, her master's severed head had somehow been put back in place.

“Jin Xi, if you keep acting so recklessly, I'll remind you whose disciple you are.”

“Master, I had a dream. I dreamed that I slaughtered everyone in the sect and even cut off your head.”

[Angst + from universally hated to universally adored + reborn + romantic rivalry and a redemption arc]