[Xianxia + ensemble cast + obsessive demon lord’s coercive love + 1v1 romance + regretful pursuit + faking her death to escape]
Ning Yao has no one to rely on and no one to call family. All she has is an ancestral long-handled sickle, a heart set on the Dao, and a stubborn streak that won’t turn back even when she hits a wall.
To slay demons and uphold the righteous path in her heart, she travels far and wide before joining Hengxian Sect, home to more gifted cultivators than any other sect in the world. She expects to devote herself to cultivation and smoothly ascend to immortality, never realizing that the lofty senior brother has had his eye on her all along.
The senior brother is aloof and noble, with swordsmanship that has reached the divine. The sect’s disciples all praise him as someone untouched by worldly concerns, with all living beings in his heart.
She asks him, “What do you really want?”
Then, one day, she stumbles upon a shocking secret:
Deep within his dantian lies a dormant memory of his past life as a demon.
The beacon of righteousness she admired so deeply had once been a decisive and ruthless lord of the demonic path. And the demonic seed within him is beginning to awaken. That all-consuming obsession and possessiveness was never the fixation of a cultivator,
but a coercive love engraved in the very bones and blood of a demon lord.
From the moment she stepped into Hengxian Sect, she had already fallen into his inescapable trap.
And her only way out is to fake her death and flee.
