[Fantasy / Angst]
Villainous male lead, righteous female lead
A thousand years ago, Luo Qiuyuan was sealed beneath Qingming Peak by the combined might of the gods of the Nine Heavens.
A thousand years later, he broke free of the seal and fell at the foot of the mountain.
The one who saved him was Shen Ran, the goddess who had guarded the seal for three hundred years. Cool and aloof, she was also kind and gentle.
Thinking he was merely a mortal who was gravely wounded and close to death, she brought him back to her wooden cottage, brewed medicine, and treated his injuries. For the first time, he, despised by all three realms and consumed by cold, obsessive thoughts, felt warmth and peace.
In the wooden cottage, a thousand years of hatred quietly gave rise to something it never should have.
Until the day she was gone.
Just one day.
He broke the seal, reclaimed his divine soul, and subdued the Nine-Bend Pearl.
Using the pearl, steeped in his resentment for a thousand years, he devoured her soul.
Only when she fell did he realize that the goddess who had said, “I accepted the duty of protecting this place long ago, so I no longer fear fortune or misfortune,” had somehow become the only person he could not bear to lose.
He denied that he loved her, intent only on gaining enough power to destroy everything. He hated everyone but her, while she cared only for all living beings… She wanted to kill him…
The more he ran from it, the more it hurt
At last, he finally understood.
He had escaped a thousand years of captivity, only to imprison himself for all eternity within her name.
