Yellow Immortal: He Gives Me His One and Only Favor

On a stormy night, a pale hand grips Su Li by the ankle.

Through the curtain of rain, the gravely injured man looks up. Her face is reflected in his amber eyes. "Don't look back."

After that, he keeps appearing by her side. Only she can see him. He says his name is Huang Jiuming, and that he has been waiting for her for three hundred years. He says she belongs to him, and no one else is allowed to touch her.

Su Li thinks this is a special favor bestowed on her by the gods.

Until she discovers that three hundred years ago, there was a girl exactly like her. She, too, believed in his tenderness and thought she was the exception. Then she died.

"Have you protected me for three hundred years to redeem yourself, or to wait until I become a sacrifice?" Su Li's voice trembles.

Huang Jiuming falls silent. Under the shackles of Heaven's will, if he reveals the truth, she will vanish into nothingness.

Heavenly lightning descends, strike after strike hitting him. For three hundred years, every punishment from Heaven meant for her has silently fallen on him instead. He never explains.

Su Li watches him kneeling in a pool of blood, his back still straight, and suddenly no longer wants to ask.

All this time, he has protected her and kept her safe. From now on, she will protect the god for the rest of his life.

That day, white mist fills the air. He is surrounded, his cultivation sealed, and ready to die. She runs against the crowd to his side, clutching an iron bar, trembling all over but refusing to yield.

He freezes.

"Huang Jiuming," she says, eyes red, "you've protected me for so long. It's my turn to protect you."

Theme: Cooperation and mutual protection are the only way for two people to survive.