Selling Blood and Running into My Former Daoist Partner

One vial of blood medicine can cure every illness, regrow severed limbs, and bring the dead back to life. The rich pay one low-grade spirit stone per vial; those without money pay a few spirit stone fragments. Su Yumian survived an execution by a stroke of luck. To save up spirit stones for a fake identity that would let her leave the city, she works days at a small apothecary for one and a half low-grade spirit stones a month, then goes to people's homes at night to sell blood medicine. She never expected to sell it to her former Daoist partner. Su Yumian had deceived her former partner, her former junior sister, terribly back then. It's fair to say that Su Yumian's spiritual root being ripped out and her golden core destroyed had as much to do with deceiving this partner as anything else. Her former Daoist partner, once a little phoenix, has since become the head of the Phoenix Clan. Seeing that the woman is even more beautiful than she remembers, and her cultivation far more powerful than before, Su Yumian can only think that now that her former partner knows she's still alive, she'll surely kill her. But to Su Yumian's surprise, her former partner doesn't kill her. She seems to have forgotten her, too. “My name is Yu Qing, my lady,” Su Yumian says. “Good.” “Physician Yu, I'll be relying on you for my spirit medicine from now on.” Her former partner not only buys all of Su Yumian's blood medicine from then on, but also forcefully claims Su Yumian as the one who shares her bed. But her former partner isn't as fair and honorable as she appears, and her touch is no longer gentle. She grows more and more rough, leaving an increasing number of marks on Su Yumian's body. Rather than pleasure, it feels more like torment. Eventually, Su Yumian finally manages to escape from her former partner. But Su Yumian is far too weak. She has no cultivation, suffers from cold poison, and has been losing blood for a long time. So barely two days after she runs away, she's caught. Her former partner holds Su Yumian tightly and says all kinds of frightening things to her. “Run again, and I'll break all four of your limbs.” “Maybe I should put a parasite in you.” “No, better to cut out your heart and refine you into a puppet.” … Just as Su Yumian is relieved that her former partner hasn't actually done any of it, the woman suddenly kisses her. When the kiss ends, she says in a brooding voice, “Dear senior sister, ever since I saw you again that day, I have had only one thought.” “No matter which grave you crawled out of, or how you got out, from now on, you're mine.” Theme: Even in the hardest circumstances, never give up. One day, you'll emerge from your cocoon as a butterfly.