[Dual female leads, insubordination, ascending to immortality, reincarnation, redemption]
Above them, the Nine Heavens Mystic Mirror observes Shen Fuguan's past and present lives, weighs her sins and merits, judges her crimes, and sentences her remnant soul.
"All things rise together; I observe their return. Though all things flourish, each returns to its roots. Returning to the root is stillness; this is called returning to one's destiny."
[Shen Fuguan, a renowned minister of the Great Liang, was born into the Shen clan of Jiaoling and inherited a marquisate. During Emperor Zhao's reign, she was Princess Shengping's study companion. Later, she accompanied the Crown Prince as a hostage in Western Chu, then returned and led an army to destroy Chu. She was made a prince of a different surname and granted We Hai, a territory stretching for ten thousand li.]
[In the spring of the second year of Yancang, the traitor Shen was subjected to the five punishments, executed by waist-slicing in the marketplace, and sunk in Jiaoling.]
Can even a traitor become an immortal? And become a disciple of the very deity she worships?
Shen Fuguan had clearly imagined it all too beautifully. Her master had come to take her away.
"Master, you cursed me to meet a miserable end in this life, suffer in the next, and never be reborn, all to atone for my crimes."
"You want me to observe all living beings, stay clear-minded, and see the nature of life. After enduring all its ups and downs, I must still hold on to hope?"
"Master, in your eyes, am I a rebellious disciple and a wicked woman?"
