The Half-Immortal Bride

Li Weilan is the Li family’s once-in-a-century “half-immortal.” She may be frail, but she’s stubbornly hard to kill. The Li family is cursed by an absurd ancestral rule: once every hundred years, a half-immortal is born, and that child won’t live past five unless they’re sacrificed to the family god in exchange for a chance at survival. Li Weilan is this generation’s unlucky chosen one. Being a half-immortal is a lousy job with terrible benefits and endless rules: 1. She must produce an heir before turning twenty and pass on the “divine genes,” or she’ll drop dead on the spot. 2. She has to earn merits and nurture a demon blade every day, or she’ll die anyway. To stay alive, Li Weilan earnestly starts making a “life plan,” with the emphasis on making a life. Step one: Find a handsome guy. But he runs off before the wedding. Step two: Set her sights on someone even more handsome. He dies before she can confess. For now, living to a hundred is out of the question. Her twentieth birthday is fast approaching, she still hasn’t earned enough merit, and she still doesn’t have a husband. Li Weilan looks at her “won’t live long” face in the mirror and sighs. Is being this generation’s half-immortal really supposed to be this hard?