Nontraditional cultivation: the early story focuses on the mortal world, while the later story enters the world of cultivation.
This book is also known as "After Being Reborn, I Was Targeted by the Mad Demon Venerable, Who Stole My Heart."
By the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, the flowers of the other shore bloom in a blazing profusion.
Shen Zhijin returns from another world and swears to take control of her own fate, beholden to no one. Yet the Demon Venerable who stands above all living beings fixes his gaze on her: "Your life belongs to me."
She sneers. "I am the one moving the pieces."
He replies, "I've been setting up this game for you for a thousand years."
She plots across the Nine Provinces, and he slaughters countless enemies for her;
She avoids love as though it were a calamity, but he forcefully cages her in his arms.
"Your heart," he says, cutting off every escape, "I will have it, for all eternity."
She tries to sever their karmic ties, but he binds himself to her with his life and locks her within the abyss of his heart.
They seem to be fighting each other, but in truth, they are conspiring together.
A thousand years ago, by the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, he planted a sea of flowers stretching for thousands of miles with his own hands and guarded her fading soul, waiting for the moment she opened her eyes.
And in the end, she will take up her brush and stand beside him, painting the rivers and mountains together.
Dreams painted in the underworld, a fleeting life like a dream.
All the things of the past pass before the eyes like drifting clouds.
Only he is the one unchanging road home she crosses life, death, and reincarnation to find.
