Ashes Fall Through the Ninth Heaven

[War God revealed + shared pain + groveling pursuit + unstoppable heroine]

In her previous life, she was the sharpest sword in the Ninth Heaven. She burned through her divine power for him and became a crippled phoenix, only for him to crush her spirit core with his own hands! She heard him coldly say, “You’re useless to me,” but didn’t hear “Stay alive,” drowned out by the tolling bells. She never saw his shattered knuckles or the blood hidden in his sleeve.

Reborn as the timid legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, she’s dumped by her fiancé, who then shows up with his white-lotus sweetheart to humiliate her? She grabs his wrist, finds his pulse, and kicks him into the brazier. “Breaking off the engagement will cost you a million taels. Pay one coin less, and I’ll cripple your hand!”

Just as she’s tearing through scoundrels and slaughtering her way to victory, the man who killed her in her previous life appears as a chancellor with power over all under heaven. “I’ll pay twenty million to bring Miss Shen into my household.”

She thinks he’s found another way to kill her. Then the ancient black mirror awakens, and she discovers that they share pain: when she’s wounded, he bleeds; when she cries, he tastes salt; when she lies awake at night, his heart beats in sync with hers! Then she discovers he’s kept fragments of her spirit core beside his heart, enduring ten thousand years of backlash just so she can return to life whole someday.

All of the capital laughs at the chancellor for marrying an untalented country girl. That is, until a string of heart-stealing murders leads to the power of the Dragon God, and the Ghost King appears with a lantern through the rift to the Guixu! The phoenix-feather mark on her forehead bursts into flame!

Xiao Handu kneels on one knee to welcome her home. Mo Li has waited a thousand years, while Yin Wuyi weeps blood as she begs her to remember.

And before all the gods, Pei Yan slowly falls to his knees. “Zhaonian, take my life.”

She plucks a black lotus and smiles as she steps on his spine. “Pei Yan, the tribulation is only just beginning.”