Before she turned eight, she was the Jade Radiance Heavenly Maiden, the pampered and beloved commandery princess of Qingyao Mountain in the Demon Realm.
After she turned eight, her mother was murdered, her master severed the tendons in all four of her limbs, and she was imprisoned in a lightless place.
On a high cliff, her senior brother, jealous of her extraordinary talent, abandoned her in the Ten Thousand Beast Cavern, a forbidden Demon Realm wasteland teeming with ferocious beasts.
Ten years later, she escaped certain death and returned to the Demon Realm, her sword pointed at Qingyao Mountain. She would avenge her mother, seize the mountain lord’s position, and investigate the truth behind her mother’s murder. But with a Soul-Binding Curse inside her, she had little time left.
Meng Qinghe, the young lord of the ancient Meng clan three hundred years ago, was born with divine bones. At twenty-five, he survived his tribulation and ascended to godhood, becoming the only High God in the Spirit Realm. But on the very day he became a god, he sacrificed himself to strengthen the seal on the Demon God, offering up the Xuantian Pillar and perishing.
He was also the only person in the world who could break her Soul-Binding Curse.
Zhe Li: “How am I supposed to get a dead man to break my curse?”
As it turned out, Meng Qinghe wasn’t dead. On the day he gathered his soul and was reborn, he accidentally formed a blood pact with Zhe Li, binding their souls together and making them share life and death.
Zhe Li acted sweet and obedient, hoping to win Meng Qinghe’s trust. Little did she know that the blood pact let them sense each other’s thoughts, and Meng Qinghe had known her true nature from the start.
The day they fell out, Zhe Li said coldly, “Meng Qinghe, I’m only using you.”
Meng Qinghe’s lashes trembled slightly. He took her hand and healed her wounds.
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Only later did Zhe Li learn that everything Meng Qinghe had done for her was to lessen her karmic burden.
