Embrace

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Qi Jin was notorious throughout Liucheng as a spoiled playboy: rebellious, unruly, and carefree, with women in his life coming and going like passing clouds.

He thought he would spend his whole life enjoying himself in this gilded nest, but after going too far, he angered his old man and was tied up and sent overnight to Ming Village, a barren wasteland.

After going hungry for three days, he picked the richest-looking household in the village and decided to order a meal.

The woman inside opened the door. Red dress, snowy skin, dark hair, dazzling beauty. She gave him a sidelong glance and parted her red lips. "Get lost."

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To escape her family's power struggles, Zhong Qing had gone into seclusion in the countryside. She'd thought she could enjoy some peace and quiet for a while, but then a troublemaking playboy moved in next door.

"What would you like to eat? I'll cook it for you."

"Your cooking's awful."

"What do you want? I'll put it on your card!"

"Your card's frozen."

"Want to live together? I'll handle all the heavy lifting!"

"???"

It wasn't until Qi Jin stepped in and solved her family's problems that Zhong Qing watched from the sidelines and thought: Well, having a boyfriend isn't so bad.

Coming soon: Senior Brother, Hold Them Off. I'll Go On Ahead

In her previous life, Zhi Xia killed only one person, but the righteous sects of the world could not accept it.

The twenty-four great immortal sects joined forces and pursued her relentlessly, determined to kill her.

After more than a decade of slaughter, she despised the world and scorned the laws of Heaven. Once she'd wiped out twelve of the great immortal sects, she was tired.

With nothing left to hold her back, she lay down for her final sleep in that snowy prison of an icy sea.

When she woke again, Zhi Xia had become a "cripple" with her spiritual meridians completely destroyed?

All her fellow disciples in the sect could take a turn trampling her.

It was a life she'd never experienced before.

At first, she found it novel. But as time passed and the bullying piled up, even her clay-soft temperament couldn't take it anymore.

Before she could finally fight back, a carefree youth in green robes swept in, swinging his sword to cut through the crowd and shield her behind him. "You dare call yourselves an upright immortal sect, yet you bully the weak like this?"

In all her two lives, no one had ever stood in front of Zhi Xia before. This was another novel experience, so she decided to hide her true nature a little longer...

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Ye Tian had saved Zhi Xia's life, or so he believed.

He watched the frail girl carry a bucket of water, stumbling across the snow.

He watched the foolish girl fail to form a seal again and again, her expression dazed.

He watched the timid girl raise a barrier for him, blood at her lips, gritting her teeth as she said to him, "Go."

At first, he thought she was foolish and weak, and could be used. But as time went on, the girl found a place in his heart.

Then he saw another side of her.

And later, neither of them could tell who was using whom more.

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Zhi Xia didn't know what this feeling was.

She was a demon and knew nothing of love.

Others told her it was love.

But she knew that Ye Tian loved her obedient nature, pitied her frailty, cherished her clumsiness, and liked her gentleness.

He despised her sinister side, hated her baseness, and loathed her ruthlessness.

The side of her he hated was the real her.

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Fate bore down on them, as it had before. In the shadowy, snowy lands, the immortals gathered to carry out Heaven's punishment.

Amid layered shadows of demonic fire, the young man of the past, dressed in white as snow, his brows sharp as ink, walked toward her. As if it were yesterday, he raised his sword to shield her. "Demons may be ruthless, deceitful, foolish, and kind, but what have they done wrong?"

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"Why do you wield a sword?"

"Because I wield it for love."

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"Why is killing people wrong, while killing demons is called carrying out Heaven's will?"

Theme: For the women who fight against society's prejudice, their families of origin, and endless malice.