Yuling was a flower spirit. After a thousand years of cultivation, she finally ascended to the Heavenly Palace and became a little immortal who served tea to the Queen Mother.
The Peach Banquet was a grand and solemn event in the celestial realm, and any immortal who behaved improperly faced severe punishment. The Curtain-Raising General accidentally smashed a glass cup and was banished to the mortal world. Marshal Tianpeng offended Chang'e while drunk and was banished to be reincarnated as a pig. The Great Sage Equal to Heaven caused a commotion at the banquet, was captured, and punished.
Just her luck: Yuling was scatterbrained and spilled flower tea on one of the Queen Mother's honored guests. She was supposed to have her soul shattered and scattered across the Six Realms. But the Queen Mother remembered how long Yuling had served her and showed mercy, banishing her to the mortal world to cultivate anew.
Though she was called a flower spirit, she was really just an ordinary peony that couldn't talk. Yuling loved excitement, and when night fell, she would turn into a flying insect and sneak into people's rooms to eavesdrop.
But the people in this courtyard never changed. They died and came back, came back and died, each time in a different way.
In her first life, she met a scholar who died a gruesome death.
In her second life, it was still the same scholar, and he died a gruesome death.
In her countless life, just as she saw the scholar about to die again, Yuling took pity on him and gave up some of her cultivation to save his life.
Defying fate was forbidden by the Heavenly Dao. From then on, Yuling became the unluckiest person alive. Every day's rain fell only on her head, every night's thunder struck only her leaves, her cultivation stopped advancing, and her return to the Heavenly Palace kept getting pushed back.
But that wasn't even the worst part. Why did this perfectly ordinary scholar insist on watering her with manure every day...?
Hey! I'm the one who saved your life! Manure stinks, you know!
Theme: Treasure the present
