Eight thousand years ago, Jiu Niang, master of the Xuanmen sect, slew demons, read fates, and suppressed evil. She had once slaughtered an unfaithful man's entire family over a doomed romance. She thought she'd killed them all, until a lightning tribulation split open a sealed lifetime and sent her back into He Miao's body after the accident at her wedding.
This wasn't a body snatching.
He Miao's concern for her mother, her love for her husband, and the shame and desire in her body were all pieces of her emotional soul that Jiu Niang had cut away herself. Now that her main soul had returned, she had finally become a complete person, and continued to love Xu Jiajun just as completely.
Xu Jiajun had been poor and had suffered. He had sold his motorcycle to pay her wages, and he knew best how to hold her, how to kiss her, and how to say, "We're a family," just as she was about to refuse. But after He Miao woke up, she discovered that only 68,000 yuan remained in the accounts of Hehuan Wedding Celebrations. The clients, equipment, and suppliers were being transferred to her husband's new company. Her mother's property deed was tied up in an old loan, while her name had already been written on the guarantor's form, which was still blank where the borrower's name belonged.
Jiu Niang could kill him.
Her Soul-Cutting Blade had only one strike. Once it fell, his soul would be severed and his life ended. Killing Xu would break the evil pact fastest, and she could keep her eight thousand years of cultivation, her foundation for ascending to immortality, her voice, and her spiritual sight.
If she didn't kill him, she would have to pull the "need to be needed" from her soul by its roots.
She would lose her divine powers, her path to immortality, her voice, her ability to see ghosts and gods, and even the ability to understand the old Hu who had been by her side for eight thousand years when he spoke human words.
The blade was already in her hand.
This time, Jiu Niang chose to let Xu Jiajun live.
Live to pay back the money, live to answer the phone, live to face every contract and every responsibility he'd pushed onto women.
At last, she refused to use a man's life to settle his debts.
