[Plot-Focused], [Romance], [Cultivation], [A Vast World], [No System]
Bones of Oblivion (by Ling Yuan)
She is a snow fox who has cultivated for five hundred years on Spirit Mountain. On the day she takes human form, heavenly lightning strikes her down. She tumbles into his apothecary and falls into a doomed romance from which there is no return.
He is an immortal who cultivates the Way of Supreme Detachment, with a heart as still as water, free of love and desire. He should never have fallen in love.
After spending day and night together, she develops mortal feelings and falls hopelessly in love with him. He knows that humans and demons belong to different worlds and that Heaven’s way forbids their union, yet he still breaks his vow of detachment and gives her his heart.
The immortal sect holds him to account, and Heaven punishes him. To protect her, he defies Heaven’s way, betrays the immortal sect, shatters his own immortal bones, and leaps from the Execution Immortal Platform. Before his immortal essence is exhausted, he can only weep blood as he implores her: Forget me. Live well.
How could she forget him? To find even a wisp of his soul, she sheds her demon bones and destroys a thousand years of cultivation. From a spirit fox, she becomes a lonely mortal girl. Clutching half of his cold immortal bone, she wanders the mortal world, waiting for him for a hundred years.
They meet again in a rainy Jiangnan alley. He has forgotten love and dust, and no longer recognizes her at all.
She clings to memories that belong only to her, loving him so humbly it cuts to the bone, hurting until she can barely breathe. Though he has lost his memories, when he sees her cry, his heart still twists with inexplicable pain.
I can forsake the immortal path, shatter my demon bones, and let my immortal bones grow cold. But you are the dust I will never forget, in this life or any other.
In this life, love is a death sentence, and passion cuts to the bone. Even if it means my soul is scattered and I suffer eternal ruin, I will never let go. “The world belongs neither to demons nor to humans, but to all living beings!”
Highly recommended, the plot is ups and downs and fascinating.
The author's writing is good, and he is patient and not too slow. This has surpassed many Tomato authors, but it's a pity that he is not very popular.