[Two male leads, cultivation, immortals versus demons, love and hate, tragic ending]
Their first meeting in late spring on Mount Cangwu marked the beginning of Qi Nanli and Nan Hengzhi's tangled love and hatred. At the time, Nan Hengzhi was a gentle young disciple of an immortal sect. He rescued Qi Nanli, the young demon clan heir, from a hunter's net. Beneath the peach trees, he named him “Nanli,” gave him a piece of warm jade, and promised they would spend three years together.
But a bloodstained letter shattered the peace. The Nan family was slaughtered, and the evidence pointed to Qi Nanli's father, the Demon Lord Qi Zui. Nan Hengzhi left in hatred, while Qi Nanli was imprisoned. Five years later, Qi Nanli used a secret technique to seal away his demonic power, took the name “A Li,” and joined the Qingyun Sect. There he reunited with Nan Hengzhi, now a cold and aloof immortal venerable.
Concealed identities, Shen Nian's machinations, and Master Qingxuan's schemes dragged them back and forth between the divide of “immortals and demons follow different paths” and their blood feud. They protected each other when demonic beasts surrounded the mountain, entrusted their lives to one another in a secret realm's illusions, slapped each other in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, and saved one another in the wasteland after a tail was severed. Love grew wildly amid suspicion, while the truth slowly emerged from the fog: the Nan family had been wiped out because Qingxuan wanted to seize power and frame someone else.
When the conspiracy was exposed, Qingxuan and the fallen Shen Nian set up a deadly formation. To protect Nan Hengzhi, Qi Nanli exhausted the power of his nine tails, and his soul returned to the heavens and earth. After avenging the Nan family, Nan Hengzhi relinquished his title as immortal venerable and built a fox tomb in the peach grove on Mount Cangwu. He spent the rest of his life guarding the gravestone and his memories.
Through nine cycles of tribulation and reincarnation, love and hate turned to ashes. In the end, only the peach blossoms on Mount Cangwu remained, blooming year after year as they watched over one tomb and two souls, continuing a profound promise that transcended immortals and demons, life and death, and would never end.
