Seeking Wholeness

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[Story Description]

Everyone knew that when Emperor Xuan Jing was young and powerless, a snake demon had helped her, and she had honored the demon as her master.

After ascending the throne, she defied the opposition of her ministers and brought the snake demon into the palace as her consort. They spent their nights in blissful abandon.

But a ruler's heart is fickle. The one who had once shared her bed was cast aside.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

A disastrous year struck the human realm, and the demons launched a massive invasion.

As the capital was about to fall, the snake demon took a fatal arrow meant for the emperor and died with a smile. After death, her soul became a rain of spiritual energy that shielded the entire city.

The demons retreated, and the whole city celebrated. Only the emperor, bereft and staggering, knelt in the rain, screaming like a madwoman for the one whose name would never be answered again.

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Dan Que never imagined that after dying, she would return to more than ten years earlier, with a child curled up beside her, covered in blood, barely breathing, and clutching her sleeve with all her strength.

Staring at the young emperor who would later sweet-talk her into coming down the mountain to marry her, then neglect her in every way after the wedding, Dan Que gave her a cold look, wrapped her snake tail around the girl, and tossed her straight out of the cave.

Whoever wants to be this emperor's one true love can have the job!

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Only after her beloved master had perished did Emperor Xuan Jing realize that she had loved her deeply, and hurt her deeply, too.

Consumed with regret, she gave up the throne and spent countless years wandering in a daze, searching for her master's soul.

In the end, an expert told her, "Your fate together in this life has run its course. If you want to make amends, go to the next life!"

So she put on her master's clothes, lit her master's favorite incense, and went to the cave where her master had once lived. There, she stabbed herself again and again, carving up her own body with a thousand wounds. Her flesh and blood turned into spiritual energy, and she followed her master in the same way.

She refused to live in a world without her master.

Who could have guessed that after dying, she would be reborn as a princess in exile, badly wounded and at death's door?

Amid the agony, she felt a familiar coolness coil around her body, and familiar fingers pinch her cheeks.

She snapped her eyes open. The face she had spent countless years longing for had miraculously appeared before her.

Every movement was so vividly alive.

Watching her master turn into a little snake and flee in panic, Xuan Jing, half-conscious, resolved that in this life she would mend her ways and love her properly.

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Gentle fake ice queen (Dan Que) x lovesick, sweet-faced schemer (the emperor)

1v1, both reborn, happy ending

The cover features the main characters. Thanks to the artist Yu Gongmiao.

@Liu Chu Qing Lu will occasionally post illustrations of the main and side couples together. Search the characters' names to find them~

[Upcoming historical girls' love story]

"Failed to Fake My Death, and the Puppy Turned Into a Wolf"

Ji Ling's cultivation of the Heartless Way hit a bottleneck, so she volunteered to descend to the mortal realm and undergo a trial of love.

Taking her situation into account, the Clerk of Fate opened the "master-and-disciple romance" script that was least likely to go wrong.

Clerk of Fate: "You need to take in a helpless, down-on-her-luck young disciple and do everything you can to care for her, keep her company, and understand her. Give her everything she lacks. Ideally, just as she reaches the very top, you should suddenly die and become the one true love she'll remember for the rest of her life."

Clerk of Fate: "For example, the puppy demon from the Listening Bloodline in this script was born with the bearing of an emperor, but her clan was wiped out. More than anything, she wants to become a ruler capable of subduing all demons... You see what I mean, right?"

Ji Ling: I get it. Raise an excellent ruler for the demon realm, then fake my death.

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Di Guanxing's clan was massacred when she was young. Her spiritual roots were destroyed, her meridians shattered, and she was already halfway to the grave.

As despair swallowed her, in the bone-chilling wind and snow, a pair of clean hands carrying a soothing fragrance gently gathered her into their arms.

"Don't be afraid. From now on, I'll protect you."

Her master gave her a new name, restored her spiritual roots, pieced her meridians back together, and gently taught her everything she knew.

Di Guanxing carries the bloodline of the Listening Hound and can hear people's thoughts. She knows that everyone around her has their own motives.

Except for her master, she trusts no one.

But no matter how hard she trained, she could never hear her master's thoughts.

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Her master's death came too suddenly. With the demons attacking the city, Di Guanxing had no time even to grieve before responsibility forced her to turn the tide.

When everything had finally settled, the whole city was celebrating, yet she felt as if a piece of her heart had been torn away forever.

And nothing could ever fill the hole.

Especially when she returned to her chambers and saw the chair her master had once sat in, came across words written in her master's own hand, or even happened to notice that the maid had brought her master's favorite pastries. Memories of the past surged back like a tide, carving into her heart like a dull blade.

Every moment she stayed here, her longing for her master grew heavier.

Everything connected to her master reminded her that the person she loved most had left her forever.

Even if she had to make a pact with a demon, she would bring her master back to life and return her to her side!

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After faking her death, Ji Ling waited calmly to return to the upper realm. But when she opened her eyes, she was still facing her disciple, so overjoyed she was almost mad.

She didn't understand. Hadn't I followed the script all the way to the end?

The Clerk of Fate: ...Don't ask. It's punishment from the Heavenly Dao.

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A doting master who only wanted to break through her cultivation bottleneck, then faked her death and was punished by the Heavenly Dao by being sent back to her disciple x a loyal, puppy-like disciple, originally pure and harmless, raised by her master, who grew obsessive after losing her. A real puppy demon. 1v1, switch couple who spoil each other

Premise: In the end, find the one person who loves you, and stay together until your hair turns white.