[A rotten person’s sincerity + a saint’s selfish heart + mutual redemption + taming a dog + BE]
Lu Chiye was once a notorious playgirl among the wealthy in the capital, flirting with countless people but never giving anyone a shred of genuine affection.
Only after her former lover stabbed her in the heart did she understand, as she lay on the brink of death, that the sincerity she owed had to be repaid with her life.
Reborn, she becomes Su Jinyao, a menial disciple with a worthless mixed spiritual root, whose life is as insignificant as a blade of grass in the cultivation world. She is also bound to a death countdown System. All she wants is to stay alive and go home.
But amid the chaos of a world on the brink, she meets Ling Shuangci.
A hundred-year-old Nascent Soul cultivator, burdened with a blood feud and pushed by the Heavenly Dao into the role of savior, she has severed her ties to love and is as cold as a sword devoid of joy or sorrow.
All revere and look up to her. Only for Su Jinyao, covered in mud from head to toe, does she make exception after exception, knowing full well that she is a calamity and still dragging her back from the brink of death.
To stay alive, Su Jinyao takes up her sword and defies fate.
Together, they travel across the Three Realms in search of the Five Elements Divine Artifacts, punish traitors, unravel conspiracies, and uncover the secrets the saints have concealed.
One is burdened with old debts, the other with all living beings.
What she fears most is not dying, but failing to repay, with interest, everything she owes her before she dies.
Yet this vast world can hold all things under heaven, but not two sinners in love.
Content warnings: not a first-time couple + flawed characters
The third book supported 😘 Chasing to the Death