Five thousand years after the Ancient Empress Yan Wuci blew herself up, she awakens in a Spirit Spring Pool. The God of War who once swept across the Three Realms has become a junior sister at the Qi Refining stage. Even stranger, the twelve Celestial Domain Venerables who once followed her have all become candidates to be her favored consorts: the cold-faced guard Qingluan closes his eyes and helps her change clothes, the Demon Venerable Xuanlin sneaks her spirit fruit while sporting beast ears, and the sharp-tongued physician Bai Jue pricks her with needles while using his life-bound artifact to drive away her chill.
As her memories return, old bonds become romantic entanglements: the Sword Immortal’s tassel turns into a love-knot, the Demon Emperor’s tail feathers reveal a dual-cultivation contract, and even wisps of her hair wind around the wrist of the aloof Buddhist monk Fanyin. Yan Wuci crushes her eighth jade slip urging her to marry and ties the bell from her ankle around the Ghost King’s wrist. “I could command twelve divine artifacts at once back then. Now...”
