(Only later did I learn that he hated me to the bone.) Told in third person.
Everyone has long forgotten that I was once a brilliant young genius, famous throughout the world.
That year, I went with my sect to exterminate demons and monsters and keep the three realms at peace.
As I left, I rescued a human infant from the Demon Palace.
That was the beginning of all the malice.
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My master withdrew from the world, and I took responsibility for raising my junior disciple.
His talent was unremarkable, but I could find all the rare treasures of heaven and earth to pave his way to immortality.
But during one trial, I was injured protecting him and could never wield a sword again.
So he turned to other senior brothers for support and protection.
I didn't blame him.
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Rumors spread through the immortal sects.
They said countless people had fallen for him, including the heirs of the great clans and sects.
He was a true heartthrob, the one everyone adored and vied for.
Back then, I punished the disciples who spread such absurd lies, but was maliciously pushed into an ancient battlefield.
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He saved me.
He traded his life for mine.
As he died, he said that everyone else was but a fleeting reflection, and that only with me had he shared a sincere heart.
From then on, I once again became famous throughout the three realms, and his admirers would have loved to tear me apart and devour my flesh.
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Until I was offered up to the Demon Palace, as if it had already been decided. On the throne was a familiar face.
As the silk garments were stripped from my body, revealing the wounds beneath that had never healed, he smiled just as he always had.
"Senior Brother, this still isn't enough."
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Later, the person on the throne tried every means to mend the shattered spiritual roots and meridians of the man he'd lost.
The people of the three realms also remembered the young genius once more.
But behind the thin gauze of the red bed curtains, the man, naked, spoke in a clear voice: "I never loved you. How could we have loved each other?"
The king, no longer able to tell love from hatred, knelt on the ground, eyes bulging with rage...
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