Reborn in the Sword Immortal Ex-Husband's Youth

In her previous life, the orphan Lou Xinyue was sold into a famous brothel at the age of eight and given the name Mei'er.

At twelve, her breathtaking 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 household, only to be rescued by an otherworldly immortal who descended from the heavens.

That year, Fang Canghai was twenty-five, the leader of the righteous path and head of the Qingming Sword Sect. Clad in white with a sword at his side, he roamed the mountains and rivers, unmatched in the world.

Her heart had never beat so fast. To see him was to see the whole wide 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 eventually crossed the sea to his home in Yingzhou.

It turned out that the elegant, otherworldly man she loved was the lord of an immortal island overseas.

Perhaps even immortals had to be well matched in status. All the women rumored to have shared a bond with him were extraordinary, high-born women.

His soulmate, Ye Linghua, was the sect leader of an illustrious clan. Luo Yunzhu, whose marriage to him had been jokingly suggested by their elders, was a princess. Du Ruoyao, proud and powerful, was his junior sister and childhood friend.

And she, burdened by the secret that she was an escaped concubine, spent night after night staring at the ceiling, digging her nails into her palm until it bled, then acting sweet and untroubled by 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, and she was ruined.

Fang Canghai said, "Leave." He didn't even look back.

She sank into the mire that was hers alone. Using the techniques she had learned from him, she became a demoness whom everyone wanted dead, ruling over the Plum Grove under her command.

Everyone wanted her dead. But they failed, because the sword immortal and island lord 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, abandoning his immortal island to run an apothecary 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 romantic rivals, ensuring that he would be bound to her forever.

His gaze changed from gentle to disappointed, then to cold.

The Plum Grove was surrounded once again, and she thought this time she was done for.

But Fang Canghai appeared once more. She wondered if he had come to kill his wife in the name of the righteous path.

But this time, he was too late. A young swordsman had run her through the chest.

*

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the age of eight. She also met Fang Canghai when he was eighteen.

Perfect. She was a clear-headed demoness, and he was still a young, inexperienced sword immortal. With a face that made people lower their guard, she made the young Fang Canghai lose himself.

But who could have known that after she provoked her younger, youthful former husband, the other, white-haired island lord would refuse to let her go too, entering her dreams and caressing her face as he murmured, "You will always be my wife."

A high-martial-arts setting, not cultivation. A sickly but controlled demoness x an otherworldly, virtuous island lord of Yingzhou

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[Old-school flavor + melodrama + each goes their own way at the end + unusual tastes]

After five years of marriage, the ordinary woman A Wu was handed divorce papers by her husband, Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao was elegant and otherworldly, no longer the village boy he once was. He told her, "Mortals and immortals are different."

As she watched him fly away on his sword, she steeled herself to sever ties with him. But her former husband came back and clung to her, forcing her to submit by every means.

She became the first mortal concubine to be forcefully brought into an immortal sect, with exquisite bones and intoxicating beauty.

Who could have guessed that one day she would be discovered to have... a naturally alluring constitution?

And Lin Zhao's gaze grew more and more unhinged, burning with possessiveness.

A Wu, who had this alluring constitution, neither understood nor cared to understand. Even the cultivator next door who practiced the path of dispassion was less cut off from emotion than she was.

Her coldness only drew a swarm of suitors, all vying to claim her.

Her crazed, possessive ex-husband: killed with one stroke.

The fallen god who seduced her and then abandoned her: sent flying.

The amorous playboy who treated her as his own and was bent on stealing his junior brother's wife: after she tormented him day and night, he lost all consciousness.

And then there was the sect leader who was the model of a proper, prestigious sect: a white-haired immortal in white, whose aloof exterior hid a man who clung to her and breathed against her again and again, tenderly and shamelessly whispering, "Master's wife, I've missed you for so long..."

She severed her ties, overcame her obsession, cut off her desires, and broke free of reincarnation. At last, on the eve of completing the Heavenly Dao, she glimpsed the cause and effect of her life.

It turned out that in her previous life, someone had loved her deeply and given up ascension for her. A gentle god had given that person a water spirit to protect her soul out of a moment of kindness, and in doing so had fallen into the mortal world.

It turned out that the entanglements of her life were all because she had profaned the cycle of the Heavenly Dao.

It turned out that to ascend in this life, she would have to kill the person she had loved in her previous life.

[The female lead is a cold, resilient little white flower. There are four male leads, but this is neither a one-to-many romance nor a team-picking story. She ends up alone.]

Theme: Love others only after learning to love yourself.