Lin Yi was the illegitimate son of the Heavenly Emperor and a demon. After his birth, the so-called righteous gods abandoned him in the Cangming Void, where he barely clung to life and grew up wild.
In the Jade Pool Immortal Realm stood a crystal lotus pod. Eating its heart could grant someone ten thousand years of power.
On the first day after stealing it and bringing it back to Cangming, the crystal lotus pod began to wither and die in its new surroundings. Lin Yi used his own power to keep it alive.
On the second day, Lin Yi tended it with care, waiting for it to grow a lotus heart...
On the seventh day after returning to Cangming, Lin Yi went back to his cave and found a beautiful young woman soaking in the water vat where the crystal lotus pod had been. His brow twitched. "...Turn back!"
The girl leaned over the rim of the vat, silently staring at him with glistening eyes.
Lin Yi: ...Fine. A human heart will do, I suppose.
Later, after being steeped in his constant malice, the girl grew a black heart. Lin Yi reassured himself: Its color may be a little ugly, but it should work just the same.
Until the day he went to dig out her heart, he saw large drops of bloody tears fall from her eyes as she collapsed to the ground, about to wither away...
After the girl disappeared without a trace for a long time, he finally found her in the mortal world. But by then, a proud, imposing man stood at her side, sneering at him with haughty disdain. "You're a little late, Brother Lin. Your fiancee is already more than three months pregnant."
His gaze fell, and sure enough, he saw the slight swell of the girl's belly. Pain in the left side of his chest became unbearable. Only he understood that this time, it was his own heart that hurt...
Theme: Everything is suffering, but you are my salvation.
