[Not your traditional second-chance romance + angst and catharsis + devoted only to each other + happy ending]
[Male lead: outwardly noble and refined, secretly obsessive and unhinged, but unable to bring himself to hurt her × Female lead: emotionally oblivious, occasionally carefree and sunny]
Help! I descended to the mortal realm to undergo a trial, and a strange demon man says he's my ex and insists we get married. What do I do?
On the night of my stand-in wedding, I discovered my sickly husband was a demon. Well, pardon me! I'm getting out of here!
This is bad, I've been caught!
Chu Xuanjue: My wife ran off again. Heartbroken. Bring her back. (Closed-off-heart version)
Qing Li: I was wrong. I won't run away again. (Starry-eyed)
Chu Xuanjue: ...All right.
His thoughts: She must still love me. She can't bear to leave me. (Convincing-himself version)
She runs, he chases. She opens a cosmetics shop and earns the power of mortal devotion; he secretly crushes the business rivals and supports his wife's career with everything he's got. She cures a plague in the mortal realm; he turns the Immortal Execution Formation upside down in the celestial realm.
Until a blood decree descends from the Ninth Heaven:
“High Goddess Qing Li has willingly fallen from grace and sided with the demons.”
“Whoever kills High Goddess Qing Li will be granted divine bones.”
Chu Xuanjue tears apart the Immortal Execution Formation with his own hands. Battered and bloodied, he places a bloodstained hairpin in her hair:
“Even if the whole world stands against you, I'll be your last refuge.”
“I won't let you face it alone again.”
