The Phoenix Perches Not in the Paulownia Tree

[A modern world shared by humans and demons + groveling pursuit of the wife + angst first, sweetness later]

[Cool, delicate phoenix beauty × icy, scheming young dragon lord]

Shen Yuan lost both her parents when she was young, and her poor aptitude gradually pushed her to the margins of the Shen family.

Her older sister, Shen Yin, drew her out of her loneliness and helped her discover the world beyond.

But at some point, Shen Yuan developed a shameful desire: she wanted to make her brother-in-law, Lu Xunli, hers alone.

When her sister ran away from her wedding, Shen Yuan knelt before her grandfather and volunteered to marry in her place.

On their wedding night, Lu Xunli yanked off his tie and flung it at her face, sneering, “Shen Yuan, you disgust me.”

Two years later, she finally gave up and asked for a divorce.

But the cold, arrogant man began clinging to her instead.

“You want the title of Mrs. Lu? I'll give it to you. You want my life? Take it now.”

He pressed their bloodstained wedding ring to his chest and pleaded softly, “But can you take back the words ‘I don't love Lu Xunli’?”

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Two great rivers have always flowed side by side in this world.

One carries the reflection of a forest of steel and concrete; the other lies dormant in the scattered pages of the Illustrated Book of Mountains and Seas.

In the gaps between the histories written by humans, they have quietly lived for a hundred thousand years.