Life Is But a Dream: What Is There to Grieve?

Strong female lead + cultivation + no angst + no contrived misunderstandings

Hundreds of dried corpses appear in Yuncheng. An ancient forbidden art resurfaces, and a figure beneath the mountain who looks just like a person: it all points to a person in black.

Escaping one trap only to be pulled into the next, he enters the story as a hunter but ends it as the prey.

He knows she’s dangerous, yet willingly loses himself in her.

She knows she shouldn’t keep loving him, yet she presses on without hesitation.

Who is the person in black?

Are they behind the turmoil in the four kingdoms and the chaos engulfing the world?

When peace finally returns, is the person in black dead?

No.

The true mastermind behind it all turns out to be…

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At their first meeting: “Wow, so this is my fiancée, the one I’ve never met.”

Underling: “Uh, when did you get a fiancée?”

After they marry: When the male lead is slaughtering his way through enemies and sees his wife arrive, he throws away his sword. “Darling, save me!”

Assassins: “…”

Female lead: “…Don’t be afraid, husband. I’ll protect you.”