Gu Yan was born in a cultivation world where magic flourished and cultivators were everywhere, yet she was born with a useless spiritual root. With a life span of only a hundred years, she was destined to live an ordinary life.
She refused to accept that fate. Traveling the Nine Provinces with her sword, she once took shelter at a mountain temple and rescued a gravely wounded man on the brink of death, who had lost all his memories.
He had skin like ice and jade, and an extraordinary, ethereal bearing, as if he were an immortal beneath the moon.
They lived together in the mountains for three years, brewing tea in a bamboo pavilion and keeping each other company day and night. They vowed never to part, until their hair turned white.
Then one day, a group of cultivators descended from the sky, and Gu Yan learned that her gentle, devoted husband was Li Muheng, the Sword Immortal of Yunyan Sect, the greatest sect under heaven.
His memories had returned. He said he would be gone for three days to take care of some sect affairs, then come back for her.
Gu Sheng gladly agreed, but after he left, she left him a letter of divorce and went far away.
She had spent years living deep in the mountains for one purpose: to await the immortal opportunity that would let her defy fate.
Now, she had already obtained what she wanted.
From then on, mountains and seas lay between them, and each went their separate way.
Several years later, a peerless prodigy appeared in the cultivation world. With a useless spiritual root, she defied all expectations and rose to the top, dazzling the Nine Provinces.
Everyone praised her and the man who had stayed by her side when she was still obscure, saying their love had never wavered. Only the usually aloof and upright Sword Immortal, Li Muheng, abandoned his composed and dignified manner and came to loathe this newcomer, who had only just begun to make her mark.
He turned his back on a hundred years of cultivation nurtured by his sect, step by step sinking into demonic cultivation. He grew more deranged by the day, becoming a madman feared throughout the cultivation world.
Captured and covered in blood, Gu Yan sighed softly. "You can hate me and blame me all you like. Our grievances and who's right or wrong are between you and me. But could you stop dragging my innocent, pitiful husband into this?"
Li Muheng wiped the blood from his sword with a fingertip and replied casually, "He's the one who deserves to die most."
"And you... You'll never repay what you owe me in this lifetime. In every lifetime to come, don't even dream of escaping me."
[A cold, heartless, universally adored genius swordswoman x her deranged ex-husband, a sinister current lover, a green-tea junior brother, a proud rival...]
[Reader's Guide]
* The female lead is a genius swordswoman and an irresistible heartthrob.
Core Theme: No matter how hard fate is, keep moving forward
