The Village Girl Who Took Her Sister's Place: Falling in Love While Cultivating Immortality

Past and present lives + two powerful leads devoted only to each other, with outspoken protagonists and no melodrama

The irreverent version:

A thousand years ago, the Immortal Lord of War declared, “There are three kinds of male immortals I would never marry. I won’t marry anyone with a higher status than me, because no one outranks me. I won’t marry anyone with greater cultivation, because no one is more powerful than I am. And I won’t marry anyone entangled with mortals, because their mortal wives aren’t as beautiful as I am.”

After saying this, she asked the Matchmaker to read her destiny.

“What about someone who surpasses you?” “There’s no such person!”

The Matchmaker glimpsed a thousand years into the future through the Stone of Fate and smiled as he shook his head.

This is the story of an immortal whose outrageous arrogance brought her a karmic reckoning a thousand years later.

The original synopsis:

The daughter of the Minister of Personnel kicked the sedan chair’s door to pieces on the very day she was to marry into a general’s household. Everyone was in an uproar, but the general only smiled and said, “Don’t frighten my new bride.” The crowd, already frightened by her, was stunned.

Su Wanqing, a concubine-born daughter sent to marry in someone else’s place, had done nothing but menial chores at home. She had only enjoyed a few days of a wealthy life after getting married when she was sent north to serve as an army medic. Before she could lament how hard life was, she realized that beyond her immediate hardships, something deeper and more tragic was hidden. By day, danger lurked everywhere; by night, she was haunted by nightmares. Her only happiness was that she could see the person she longed for, both in dreams and in waking life.

Later, she realized she might have made the wrong choice. Later still, she could no longer take it back. And eventually, in the Ninth Heaven and the Netherworld Prison, she found the riddle and its answer that she had set for herself.