The Soul Lamps Went Out

The once-renowned Shen Clan of Lingxi was wiped out overnight, leaving only Shen Jixue, its legitimate daughter, frail and sickly, with no talent for cultivation. To survive, she was forced to marry Xiao Jin, the Xuanti Sect's ruthless leader, rumored to have personally destroyed her entire family. Everyone thought she was a helpless lamb waiting for the slaughter, unaware that beneath her delicate exterior burned a fierce heart bent on revenge.

Murderous intent lurked beneath the festivities on their wedding night. Shen Jixue carefully laid her plans, playing the fool while keeping her wits about her as she searched for evidence beside her enemy, vowing to make him pay in blood. Yet as they spent day after day together, she discovered that this cold, merciless man seemed to have secrets of his own. He risked his life to protect her time and again, and his tenderness and domineering nature drew her ever deeper. Torn between love and hatred, she was consumed by agony.

At last, when she had gathered all the “evidence,” she struck the most lethal blow at the very moment he loved her most. Only then did she learn the shocking truth from the true mastermind: he had been the one secretly protecting her and paving the way for her all along. His identity, his love, and everything he had borne turned to dust in the death she had brought about with her own hands. With the truth exposed and remorse eating away at her heart, Shen Jixue embarked on a blood-soaked path of atonement, determined to defy fate and change her destiny.