Blurb:
Before she turned fifteen, she was inseparable from him, accompanying him as he practiced martial arts, left the mountains, sought revenge, and retired from the world. They studied together and shared a bed.
After she turned fifteen, she was alone, wandering, drifting, scheming, and plotting. She was driven into a dead end, only to find a way to survive.
When she returned,
she would turn mountains and rivers upside down and set the stars in motion.
She would remake heaven and earth and take over the martial world.
She would make the world blind to the difference between good and evil, and grind her enemies to dust.
Oh, right.
She would also make the man she once called Young Master kneel in the dirt, fall into the mire, and bow his head in submission.
[I forge a cage of black gold, and you become its prisoner.]
"Young Master, look. The golden flower rouge, which the owner of Suzhou's Yanhua Pavilion spent ten years perfecting; the golden hairpin with dancing phoenixes in a mirror, one of a kind made by the imperial court's finest craftsman; the long robe woven from black-crowned crane feathers, not a single strand out of place... Even the most celebrated courtesans of Huajing's Xiuyan Pavilion could only envy these ornaments. And now I'm giving them to you. Are you happy?"
PS:
An original-world wuxia story, childhood friends, two strong leads, happy ending.
Their characterizations differ quite a bit between the earlier and later parts. I don't know how to sum it up... orz
Maybe just: "tender, devoted young man" x "sinister, cunning black lotus."
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