In the tenth year since Cang Heng abducted and claimed her, the righteous immortal revered by everyone in the cultivation world lost his memory. His memories only went back to the age of twenty.
Everything happened so suddenly that Xie Qiufeng, still locked up in Cang Heng's cave abode, hadn't even figured out what was going on before the elders of her sect threw her out in the middle of the night.
The elders wanted to get rid of her troublemaker self while Cang Heng no longer remembered her.
The reason was simple: back then, Cang Heng's wish to become Dao partners with Xie Qiufeng, an unknown minor cultivator, had left everyone stunned.
Nobody expected Xie Qiufeng to turn him down, only for Cang Heng to imprison her in his immortal abode.
From then on, Cang Heng, the sect's peerless genius who had once been looked up to by all, fell from his pedestal. The incident left an indelible stain on his reputation.
Finally free of his control, Xie Qiufeng let out a long breath of relief:
I've never thought those old men looked so pleasant.
With a blade of grass between her teeth and her sword on her back, she once again roamed the jianghu.
But Xie Qiufeng hadn't expected the jianghu to be so small.
She'd been wandering for only a few days when she ran straight into Cang Heng while out collecting demons.
The day they met again, they stared at each other in silence.
Cang Heng stared at her for a moment, then solemnly put a hand on her shoulder, making Xie Qiufeng jump.
"You have a Twin Spirit-Locking Gu on you..."
"Whoever did this is despicable, restricting someone's freedom like that!"
Watching Cang Heng's righteous indignation, Xie Qiufeng gave an awkward little laugh.
As expected of the leader of the righteous path.
But could it be that Cang Heng, leader of the righteous path, was actually the culprit?
Xie Qiufeng was fretting over how to remove the Gu, so she coaxed him: "Immortal Lord, help me."
Cang Heng declared indignantly, "I'll do everything I can to help you."
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From then on, the two set out to find a way to remove the Gu.
Whenever she looked at Cang Heng's face, Xie Qiufeng thought of the ten years she'd been imprisoned and felt a chill run down her back.
Unable to relax, she started picking her feet in front of Cang Heng and going ten days or half a month without bathing.
Every so often, she'd half-jokingly advise him:
A genius like you should cultivate the Heartless Dao.
Seeing how righteous and upright Cang Heng seemed, Xie Qiufeng felt reassured.
The day they found a clue, Xie Qiufeng searched the entire secret realm but couldn't find the spiritual treasure that could remove the Gu.
She turned around. Cang Heng stood behind her, smiling inscrutably:
"Looking for this?"
The next moment, the spiritual treasure in his hand turned to ash.
The male lead's perspective:
After losing his memories, Cang Heng felt as if a piece of his heart were missing.
That was, until he met Xie Qiufeng.
Cang Heng followed behind Xie Qiufeng, watching people come and go around her, watching her run off without warning. She'd spend a few days fooling around with other people, then come back to him with a smile.
In one fleeting moment, he seemed to understand why that "former self" had planted this inescapable Gu in Xie Qiufeng.
Later, he remembered everything.
Resentment surged within him.
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