While Gu Yu was recuperating in a cave on a cliff, she suddenly had a nightmare.
In the dream, a Celestial Venerable lived above the nine heavens. With a sweep of his sleeve, he scattered the clouds, revealing the layers of mortal life beneath his feet. He looked at them as if they were moss on a stone, washed away as soon as the rain came.
Yet he was ambushed, fell into a ravine, and was captured by a demon beast that had fallen into demonic corruption. It kept him imprisoned and toyed with him.
The Celestial Venerable was detached from worldly passions and compassionate by nature. Once his cultivation recovered, not only did he refrain from taking revenge on the demon beast, he even redeemed it and brought it up to the nine heavens with him, as his pure and beautiful...
mount.
Gu Yu woke up. "..."
Huh? A mount?
Me?
As she wondered, a celestial really did fall from above.
When Rong Lingzhi woke from his severe injuries, he found himself sealed off from his cultivation and trapped in a cramped, pitch-black, damp space.
The one holding him captive seemed to harbor a deep grudge against him.
Sometimes she claimed she was from the Hehuan Sect and insisted on draining his essence. Other times she said she had also been ambushed and begged him to take pity on her. Then suddenly she'd burst out laughing and say he was far too easy to fool.
At times, he felt a furry tail brush across his sweat-damp waist, sending a shiver through him. When they were forced to embrace, face to face, her scaly body, covered in barbs, would scrape and wound him.
She had fallen into demonic corruption and chained herself up. Sometimes he heard her groan in pain. Other times the chains wound around his neck, keeping him from breathing as he struggled and gasped for air.
He couldn't bear the humiliation, yet he kept piecing together an image of her:
a little injured monster who lied through her teeth.
He said, "Whoever you are, I'll help you. Please don't..."
She replied, "Then let's do it one more time."
After toying with the Celestial Venerable for several years, Gu Yu purged the demonic energy from her body, underwent a complete transformation, and left.
She frolicked in the mortal world. When she turned around, the immaculate celestial stood beneath a lantern, eyes lowered, inviting her to the nine heavens.
Gu Yu raised an eyebrow. "Didn't we make a pact to go our separate ways?"
She knew Rong Lingzhi had neither love nor hate in him. At most, he'd appeal to some greater cause to redeem her. What she didn't know was that in the years since she'd left, he'd missed her day and night, nearly driven mad.
Gu Yu was pulled into a narrow alley. The cool-faced celestial pressed close to her, whispering again and again, "Please. Please."
Overwhelmed by the heat of his affection, she turned her face away:
"...You really have an addiction."
Theme: Live a healthy, positive life as you pursue the life you dream of.