Sword and Snake

Ming Sui spent sixteen years without seeing another human. She knew nothing of the world or human relationships. The only things around her were endless demons and a master who was always on the verge of death.

Before dying, her master told Ming Sui to head north and retrieve the Longevity Swords. If she got all three, she would be able to see him again.

Ming Sui thought it would be easy, but then she met someone. He was handsome and spoke sweetly, always staying by her side. He said he would become her best friend and help her get the swords, but then he suddenly became her enemy. Not only did he obstruct her, he locked her up.

Then he spent every day talking in her ear about love and romance. What a liar. Ming Sui regretted ever trusting him, and thought day and night about how to kill him.

Shen Heng was born with an extraordinary talent for controlling demons, but he believed people were easier to control than demons. As long as you knew their weaknesses, you could manipulate them with ease.

That was until he met a young woman. She was powerful yet naive, pure yet merciless, never bound by anyone or anything, carrying an untamed wildness that cleaved open his heart with a single sword stroke.

To claim this precious sword as his own, he went to great lengths to get close to her. He raised her in fine clothes and finery, fed her delicacies, and filled her eyes with rare treasures, but the sword's heart never wavered.

Shen Heng not only failed to obtain the sword, he willingly became her blade in her quest to claim the Longevity Swords.

But even in this increasingly mad love, she continued to look at him with the same calm, pure gaze, as if nothing had changed.

Only then did Shen Heng understand that neither a life of gold and jade nor his love meant anything.

The only thing heavy enough to keep her there was a chain.

[Reading Guide]

1. A strong, wooden heroine x a possessive, scheming hero

2. Episodic story. The romance develops alongside the plot and is a little slow to warm up.

3. The leads aren't conventionally good people. Read with caution if that's not your thing.

Theme: Cherish life and keep growing