Instinctively amorous and innocent, a bewitching little demoness x a cold and aloof Immortal Venerable who says one thing but means another
A Li is a demon who feeds on love and hatred.
Born bewitching and passionate, she is instinctively drawn to all kinds of love and hatred. She roams about, chasing lovesick couples and filling her belly with their feelings.
Over time, she learned from those lovesick men and women three surefire steps for stirring up intense love and hatred.
Step one: seduce the other person and make him fall in love with her.
Step two: abandon him and make him hate her.
Step three: when he is torn between love and hatred, burning with anguish, appear and pretend to take him back, then abandon him again, driving him mad with love and hate.
Once she had mastered these steps, she no longer needed to chase after lovesick people and their feelings just to eat her fill.
She only had to go down the mountain when necessary, find some hapless fool, and put her plan into action. That would keep her fed for the next thirty to fifty years.
One day, she woke from a dream with hunger gnawing at her. As she pondered going down the mountain to find another hapless fool, she spotted a handsome Immortal Lord with an icy demeanor.
He stood outside her cave dwelling, frowning as if deep in thought.
Clutching her wildly pounding heart, A Li decided without a moment's hesitation.
She would seduce him.
After Qing Yi emerged from two hundred years of seclusion, he heard that one disciple after another in the sect had been bewitched by a demoness and driven mad.
According to the disciples, the demoness was utterly seductive. One look from her was enough to make them lose their souls and fall helplessly, desperately in love.
They also said that, going by her usual pattern, it was about time for the demoness to descend the mountain and wreak havoc again.
So he cast a divination and went to the demoness's cave.
A graceful, bewitching demoness emerged from within.
Just as he wondered whether this demoness seemed different from ordinary monsters,
she stopped in front of him, rose onto her toes, and hooked her arms around his neck.
She chuckled in his ear. "Immortal Lord, I like you so much!"
Ever since A Li learned those three tricks, she had not known hunger for a long time.
The Immortal Lord she had seduced always watched her coldly. No matter what she tried, she could not seem to stir his feelings.
If the mountain would not turn, the river would. A Li had never been one to dwell on things, so she simply abandoned the cold-hearted Immortal Lord and went into the mortal world to look for another handsome young man.
At the night market, she was eyeing the young men passing by.
Suddenly, an overwhelming surge of tangled love and hatred struck her from behind.
Puzzled, A Li turned around, only for the cold-hearted Immortal Lord to seize her wrist.
For some reason, his eyes were red. He asked through gritted teeth, one word at a time, "You're already planning to dump me and find someone else?"
Reading notes:
1. The heroine is rather fickle and passionate, with a romantic past, and has a fairly weak sense of morality. The hero is an emotional blank slate. If that bothers you, don't force yourself to read.
2. This cultivation setting is very much whatever I feel like making it, and the cultivation is not at all rigorous. Please don't overanalyze it.
Theme: Whatever you do, stay focused and don't get distracted
