The day Ning Rou returned from her tribulation, the sky shimmered with radiant light, a dazzling spectacle.
Among the rows of people there to congratulate her, she saw Pei Xueyan gazing at her with fiery eyes. The man pressed his thin lips together, then slowly smiled at her.
It was like snowflakes drifting down from a branch.
Ning Rou's heart gave a flutter. His smile had stolen her very soul. But on her wedding day, as she sat in the bridal chamber in her wedding dress, brimming with joy, the thing waiting for her was the sharp blade in his hand.
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The immortal Xueyan, who had never been touched by desire, once went to the mortal realm to undergo a trial and fell in love with a demon woman living on a mountain.
The demon woman fell gravely ill, her life hanging by a thread. The only medicine that could save her was the blood from Ning Rou's heart.
So he seduced the immortal maiden Ning Rou, who had likewise never known mortal love. Only after taking her heart's blood did he learn that the demon woman was also Ning Rou, transformed during her tribulation.
Her blood would not stop flowing, and her vital energy was spent.
Everyone watched in astonishment as Pei Xueyan went mad, hair unbound, clutching Ning Rou's belongings as he leapt from the Immortal-Slaying Platform.
When they rescued him, he had only a breath left, but his hand was still tightly clenched around the golden hairpin he had once given the "demon woman."
Later, he held Ning Rou's ashes for a thousand years.
A thousand years later, he buried them beneath a tree that was on the verge of withering. That mound of earth brought the tree back to life, and kept his shattered immortal bones barely intact.
A thousand years later, he finally stepped out of his house. Suddenly, radiant light shimmered across the sky. Amid a wedding procession, he saw Ning Rou in her wedding dress.
She stood at the head of the crowd, a gentle smile on her lips, walking step by step toward her groom.
2021.8.15
1. The heroine fakes her death
2. The male lead gets his comeuppance, angst for the male lead, sc, happy ending
Theme: Cherish the people you have while you still can
