The day before I was to forge a divine bond with the Heavenly Emperor, my mother suddenly tried to strip me of my immortal status.
She said I was the daughter of a lowly orchid fairy, while my maid Tingxue was the true heir, with phoenix blood in her veins.
My loving father personally drove 999 soul-devouring nails into me, demanding justice for all the years Tingxue had suffered.
Barely clinging to life, I made it to the Hall of Elysium, hoping the Heavenly Emperor, with whom I had shared a thousand-year bond, would defend me.
Instead, he cut out my core with his own hands and offered it to Tingxue, gazing at her tenderly as he said:
“You’ve suffered so much over the past thousand years. Only you deserve to be my empress.”
Even after my cultivation was destroyed, they were not satisfied. They continued to rip out my immortal bones and ruin my divine nature.
In the end, unable to bear the humiliation, I leapt from the Execution Platform, the phoenix blood in my body burning hot.
Even as I died, I couldn’t understand why I had been beaten and forced to become the daughter of an orchid fairy!
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my mother was going to declare my identity.
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