Divine Tribulation

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[Blurb]

Zhaohua must undergo a trial of love, so she carefully schemes to get close to the arrogant Emperor Linyuan.

She attends to Linyuan, doing everything she can to please him. When danger strikes, she even throws herself in front of him without hesitation.

With her deliberately feigned love, she brings Linyuan down from his lofty altar, making the high and mighty god fall for a mortal.

Yet on the day her trial comes to an end, she vanishes into nothingness before his eyes, never once looking back at him.

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Two hundred years later, Zhaohua finally returns from her trial, once more an unorthodox high goddess.

She often spends her time at taverns, drinking and carousing with a crowd of handsome men.

One day, when an infatuated demon lord pursues her relentlessly, she grows so annoyed that she blurts out, "Do you know that Emperor Linyuan of the Ninth Heaven is deeply in love with me? He pursues me relentlessly and has even threatened to kill himself, but I still wouldn't spare him a glance."

"And you think you have a chance?"

At her words, tears fill the demon lord's eyes. He covers his face and runs off.

Watching him leave, Zhaohua lets out a long sigh of relief, only to hear a cold voice behind her: "Pursuing you relentlessly? Threatening to kill himself?"

"So everything you said back then really meant nothing."

She turns back in shock, just in time to see Linyuan sweep away.

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A few days later, the tavern Zhaohua often visits closes for good, and all the handsome men scatter.

Looking at the tightly shut door, the little immortal beside her asks, confused, "Your Divinity, do you still remember what happened between you and the Emperor?"

"Not clearly. I vaguely remember deliberately provoking him a few hundred years ago."

"So it was love turned to hate." The little immortal asks curiously, "Did you ever fall for him?"

"Perhaps." Zhaohua's eyes show not the slightest ripple. "But he never truly loved me, so how could it have turned to hate?"

"How can you be so sure, Your Divinity?"

"Because the Heart-Testing Stone, which was supposed to prove his feelings, never lit up."

[Reading Guide]

1. "Ning An" at the beginning is the female lead. She changed her name while undergoing her trial, and will change it back later.

2. The story has a complete plot, and there's quite a lot of plot. [Highlight!]

3. This is an original xianxia setting with many original elements. Please don't overthink the details.

4. If you see a note saying the text was edited, it's usually just to correct typos. Any changes that affect the plot will be noted in the author's comments.

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Everyone knows that Zhou Shubai, a gifted disciple of Biluo, is clever and levelheaded for his age, and is destined to lead the immortal sects in wiping out the demonic path.

One day, he rescues a badly wounded young woman while away from home.

The woman's name is Xiaoxiao. She seems frail and delicate, hides behind him when danger approaches, and sheds tears of concern when he is hurt.

Moved by her pitiful background, Zhou Shubai asks his master to let her stay at the sect.

At first, everything is peaceful.

Then strange incidents begin to plague Biluo.

Many clues point to Xiaoxiao, yet Zhou Shubai continues to defend her.

Until that night, when chaos engulfs the sect, its greatest treasure is stolen, and Xiaoxiao disappears without a trace.

Worried for her safety, he goes to find her despite his injuries, only to see a crowd of demonic cultivators bowing behind her beneath the hazy moonlight.

Seeing his bloodstained clothes, the young woman shows not a trace of concern. "It was all an act. I didn't expect you to be so easy to fool."

She never drew a blade that night, but his heart was torn to pieces.

-

Xiao Wan never imagined that anyone in this world would heal her wounds and purge her poison with their own life, without asking whether she was good or evil, or where she came from.

Nor did she imagine that, though she had deliberately approached him and filled his ears with lies, someone would believe every word.

She thought Zhou Shubai liked her.

But the young man had clear, pure eyes and spoke with sincere candor: "I saved you for no selfish reason. My sect taught me to put all living beings first."

In his heart, she was just one among countless people.

Xiao Wan gave a self-mocking smile and returned to the demonic path.

Later, the righteous sects joined forces to attack her, intending to use the blood of a demoness like her to appease the spirits of the dead. She knew she was doomed, but never expected the young man to shield her with his own body. Even under brutal torture and the agony of shattered bones, he refused to insult her.

"Go save all living beings. Why are you bothering with me?"

"I will save both you and all living beings."

Theme: Your life should be in your own hands