Su Xi sometimes thought her luck was truly terrible. She had just ascended from the mortal world to the Heavenly Court, where she became a junior official in the Thunder Division, and before she had even settled in, she was sent off to the Underworld to serve as its powerless acting ruler. Still, she was happy to take it easy. Her days had been peaceful enough, an uneventful life for a minor deity.
That was until the day she encountered an assassination attempt by the Demon Realm. A man appeared... and, more or less, saved her. Afterward, he fell unconscious.
In the end, Su Xi brought out the treasured Clear Profound Mirror of Heaven and Earth, left behind by the Goddess Nuwa, and used it to defeat her enemies. She also saved the man's life.
They were even, more or less.
With the Underworld expanding and short on staff, Su Xi recruited him.
And so, her peaceful life of idling away the days finally began to ripple.
But she never expected that this man was a spy sent by the Demon Realm, and that he would leave her gravely wounded, with injuries that would not heal for a thousand years. Sometimes, unable to sleep in the middle of the night, she would ask in her dreams, "Qi Yun, you hurt me so badly. Was it all to get the Clear Profound Mirror?"
One day, as she lay in bed flipping through books, she happened to discover that the Demon Realm grew medicinal herbs capable of healing her. So she resolved to sneak into the Demon Realm and "steal" some.
She never expected Qi Yun's secret identity to be exposed the very first time he met her…
Su Xi: "…Uh, this is really tough."
