* Low-magic cultivation / all-female world / mountains of headcanon
* A powerful slacker streak vs. excessive possessiveness
If you were to ask who the unluckiest immortal in history is, Shi Heng would be the obvious choice.
Alone for over a thousand years, she finally couldn't bear the loneliness anymore and found herself a partner, hoping to taste the sweetness of love.
Every day, her partner clung to her sleeve with tears in her eyes, fretting that her life would be short and she couldn't stay by Shi Heng's side forever. Shi Heng wore the same sorrowful expression, but inwardly she was perfectly content with her partner's insecurity.
Sweet. Love really is sweet.
After savoring a few decades of life with love, she could return to being alone and go back to being a fine, long-lived immortal.
Who could have guessed that her time had come and death was near?
With a boom, tribulation lightning split her in two.
Unable to survive the tribulation and reduced to a wandering spirit, Shi Heng floated in the air, worrying that her partner would be heartbroken by her death.
Then, with another boom, her partner fell to the demonic path.
Only then did Shi Heng learn that her poor partner, Wu Qianzheng, had already begun cultivating the demonic path of her own accord so they could stay together forever. She'd kept it secret only because she was afraid Shi Heng wouldn't like it.
Well, that's that. Shi Heng died, and her partner went completely dark.
Shi Heng, who had devoted her life to the righteous sects and only wanted to attain the Dao, ascend, and become a righteous heavenly deity who upheld justice: See you around.
True to Shi Heng's fervent hopes, many years later, after surviving by the skin of her teeth, she really did meet Wu Qianzheng again, now a Demon Lord.
Theme: Study hard and don't entertain crooked ideas
