Who Tied the Red String? Come Out and Take Your Beating

The Shi family’s young lady from Qingshuang Town is going to cultivate immortality.

When people in town bring it up, they only say she is too ashamed to show her face and is using cultivation as a cover.

Whenever her marriage seemed about to be settled, something would happen and the match would fall through. Everyone blamed her hard fate for ruining her chances of marriage.

Before long, the gossip grew nastier and nastier. People even went out of their way to avoid her, afraid of catching her bad luck.

She heard the rumors and simply smiled them off.

Before setting out, she went to bid farewell at an old friend’s wedding banquet.

The wedding hall was packed with guests, bustling with noise and excitement. Amid the hubbub, a smoldering, heavy gaze pierced her back.

She turned around and saw a young man in white with a crane-shaped hairpin standing beneath the eaves. His fingertips trembled slightly where they gripped his sword. He stared at her without blinking, a torrent of intense emotion pressing down on her.

No one could have guessed that in her previous life, this young lady of the Shi family had been the cultivation partner of Yun Zixian, a prodigy of the Kunlun Sect.

Back then, the sect leader had declared them a match made by heaven, forcing them to become cultivation partners.

After he gained a partner, his once quiet and austere days of cultivation were thrown into an uproar.

She went everywhere looking for new things to try, giving the usually proper and composed him a headache. At first, he thought she was unbearably noisy and troublesome.

The two of them were constantly bickering, at odds in their thoughts and in everything they did.

Yet as they spent time together, they gradually glimpsed another side of each other.

He saw the sincerity beneath her playful antics; she saw the tenderness and sense of responsibility beneath his hard exterior.

Their feelings quietly grew through every quarrel and reconciliation. But pride stood between them, and though their hearts were full, they only dared to test the waters, never to speak their feelings aloud.

They entrusted their feelings to lanterns and hid their affection among the flowers, keeping their genuine tenderness tucked away in these little things.

But their cultivation trials were about to begin, and a demonic calamity was looming. With the situation growing urgent, the two parted ways.

Afterward, Yun Zixian was trapped on the battlefield amid the demonic tide. He narrowly escaped death time and again, traveling far and wide to hunt down demons.

She, however, encountered a demon that had broken free of its seal. She gave her life holding it off to protect her companions, then fell into the cycle of reincarnation after she died.

He had only to wait for the war to end before they could reunite. He never imagined that their parting would be forever.

A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. At last, while pursuing demons through the area, Yun Zixian finally found the person he had been separated from for so long: her reincarnation.

He remembered every detail of their past, while the cultivation partner before him knew nothing about him.

[An icy-faced man who can't resist teasing, but loves to tease others * An energetic, warmhearted heroine with a strong will]

[Reading Guide]

1. Cultivation levels: Profound Mystery, Borrowed Law, True Spirit, Spirit Wandering, Myriad Forms, Natural Realm, Great Luo, Supreme, and Heavenly Human. The cultivation ranks are mainly there to distinguish combat strength during fights.

2. There are some ensemble elements, and the supporting characters' storylines get a little angsty, but the main couple's romance is sweet overall.

3. To avoid confusion, here's some background: the heroine has reincarnated more than once, so she has different names. The blurb opens with the couple's reunion, while the main story begins in the life when they first became cultivation partners. To make the story flow more smoothly, and because I don't want to write too many flashbacks, the main story begins with the life in which they first met. All the events in the blurb will be revisited later.

Theme: Among the countless connections in this world, there was once a red thread of fate that fell into our hands.