“The Fate Immortal Lord wants me to win over that cold-faced demon hunter.”
“But no one told me that the day I succeed will be the day I die.”
A green snake demon who spent five hundred years cultivating before taking human form has barely left the mountains when Du Heng, the foremost disciple of the Demon-Slaying Sect, pierces her heart with his sword and takes her inner core.
As she lies near death, the Fate Immortal Lord appears with a smile and hands her a script for a tribulation of love:
“Your mission is to make this Crown Prince of the Ninth Heaven fall for you, then cruelly abandon him so he can overcome his tribulation and ascend.”
“Once the task is complete, your inner core will be returned, and you’ll earn a place among the immortals.”
Xiao Qing stares at the demon hunter before her, his features stern and his sword stained with demon blood, and trembles all over:
“...Is it too late to run?”
◆ The long road to winning his heart ◆
She gives him a purse she embroidered by hand. He burns it to ash: “Filthy.”
She takes a fatal sword strike for him. He watches coldly: “Stay out of it.”
She gets drunk and forces a kiss on him. He scrubs his lips until they turn pale: “Disgusting.”
Xiao Qing: Forget this mission. I’m done!
At last, the destined heroine appears, and she packs her things and runs in the middle of the night.
But when she sneaks back to retrieve her inner core, Du Heng pins her against the door. His bloodstained fingertips trace her brows and eyes:
“I’ll give you anything you want…”
“But you mustn’t think of leaving me.”
Oh no, the target has gone dark!
Reader’s guide:
✓ Cold-hearted, scheming demon hunter × sly, self-preserving snake demon
✓ He chases her after she leaves
✓ The tribulation-of-love script goes off the rails
✓ Dual HE/BE endings
