My Phoenix husband and I were the people each other hated most.
He hated me for sending the woman he loved to marry into another clan.
I hated him for treating me with respect all his life, yet never giving me his heart.
For a thousand years after we bonded, we were constantly at each other's throats.
But on the day the Phoenix Clan's barrier was breached, he risked his life to send me out of the clan, then stood alone before the countless enemy troops:
"A-Yao, go!"
As his life and cultivation faded away, he sent me one last message:
"The ties of this life have run their course."
"If there is another life, let me... have what I wish for."
By the time I broke free of the restraints and rushed back, he had already descended to the underworld.
From that day on, I never smiled again, shouldering the burden of the entire Phoenix Clan alone.
A thousand years later, with nothing left to hold me back, I severed my own heart meridian and followed him.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day the Tengshe Clan delivered its proposal for a political marriage.
Before the Empress, I declared with unwavering resolve:
"Your daughter is willing to marry into the Tengshe Clan and share Mother's burdens."
In this life, I would be the one to leave home and protect the Phoenix Clan, fulfilling the obsession he had carried all his life.
