In her previous life, the orphan Lou Xinyue was sold into a notorious brothel at the age of eight and given the name Meier.
At twelve, her beauty caught the eye of a young master of the Xie family, and she became a concubine in his household.
At fifteen, she stabbed her master and escaped the Xie estate, only to be rescued by a peerless immortal who descended from the sky.
Fang Canghai was twenty-five that year, the foremost righteous cultivator of the Qingming Sword Sect. Dressed in white and carrying his sword, he roamed the land, unmatched in his time.
Her heart had never raced so fast. Seeing him opened her eyes to the vastness of the world.
She hid the fact that she was an escaped concubine, just so she could stay by his side.
Fang Canghai took her to Qingming, climbed Penglai, entered the Star Tide, and finally crossed the sea to his Yingzhou.
It turned out that the refined, handsome man she loved was the master of an immortal island beyond the sea.
Perhaps even immortals had to marry within their station. All the celebrated women in his life were extraordinary, high-born ladies.
His soulmate, Ye Linghua, was the head of a prestigious clan. Luo Yunzhu, whose marriage to him had been joked about by their elders, was a princess. The spoiled and formidable Du Ruoyao was his childhood friend and junior sister.
As for Lou Xinyue, carrying the secret of her past as an escaped concubine, she spent every night staring at the ceiling, digging her nails into her palm until it bled, then acted sweet and carefree all day.
Until one day, she accidentally pushed Du Ruoyao off a cliff.
His gaze turned cold. Her past as a registered courtesan and an escaped concubine was exposed, ruining her reputation.
Fang Canghai said, “You should go.” He didn't even look back.
She sank into the filth of her own making. Using the techniques she'd learned from him, she became a demoness whom everyone wanted dead and took charge of her Plum Grove.
Everyone wanted her dead. But they failed, because the sword immortal and island master crossed the sea once more.
This time, he held out his hand. “Come back. I'll marry you.”
*
Lou Xinyue thought she was dreaming again, until he really did marry her and abandoned his immortal island to run a medicine shop with her in Linjiang Prefecture.
But she kept remembering the day he sent her away.
Fang Canghai couldn't possibly love her.
So she decided to kill all her love rivals, so he would be bound to her forever.
His gaze shifted from gentle to disappointed, then turned cold.
The Plum Grove was surrounded once again, and she thought it was all over.
Unexpectedly, Fang Canghai appeared again. Then she thought perhaps he had come to kill his wife in the name of righteousness.
But this time, he arrived too late. A young swordsman ran her through the chest.
*
When she opened her eyes again, she was eight years old, and she met Fang Canghai at eighteen.
Perfect. She was a clear-eyed demoness, and he was still a young, unpolished sword immortal. With her disarming face, she made the young Fang Canghai lose himself.
But who could have guessed that after she caught the attention of her ex-husband in his younger form, another white-haired island master would refuse to let her go and enter her dreams too, stroking her face as he murmured, “You will always be my wife.”
A high-martial-arts setting, not cultivation fantasy. A lovesick but controlled demoness x the refined, virtuous island master of Yingzhou.
Theme: Love yourself before you love someone else.
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[Covering face, laughing and crying] Why is the protagonist's pseudonym called Li Mei?
When the heroine met the hero, he still had black hair, and they were not much different in age. Looking at the introduction, I thought they were an uncle and a lolita.
[Covering face, laughing and crying] Why is the protagonist's pseudonym called Li Mei?
When the heroine met the hero, he still had black hair, and they were not much different in age. Looking at the introduction, I thought they were an uncle and a lolita.