After Mistaking a Black-Hearted Lotus for Medicine

[Beautiful, gloomy junior apprentice brother x sickly, proud young lady]

[The evil spirit who hates me confessed to me]

As the only direct descendant of the foremost cultivation clan, Lan Wan was born with a flaw in her immortal bones. To stay alive, she needed the heart's blood of a living medicine as a catalyst.

Hua Jin was the “medicine” her family raised for her.

Over the years, the Lan family took his heart's blood seven times, carved out his spine three times, and severed his spiritual meridians countless times, all to keep Lan Wan's faint spark of life from going out.

One day, Lan Wan had a prophetic dream.

Once her treatment was complete, her health would be restored. But at her wedding banquet, the entire Lan family would be wiped out. Her husband would bleed to death in the wedding hall, and she would be locked in a dark cell until her blood ran dry.

Just before closing her eyes, Lan Wan finally saw the killer's face.

It was Hua Jin.

When she woke, the young man was kneeling quietly at her feet, dressed in plain robes, his slender lashes lowered as he presented her with a bowl of medicine.

Lan Wan was so startled that her hand slipped, and the bowl overturned.

To stay alive, Lan Wan began treating Hua Jin well. She tended his wounds, tied up his hair, let him cultivate alongside the clan, and even took his hand and introduced him to the man she intended to marry.

Watching his gaze grow more and more docile, Lan Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She had probably... tamed him by now, right?

On her wedding day, Lan Wan took the initiative to undo their life bond, paved a bright future for Hua Jin, then climbed into her bridal sedan without looking back.

That night, a pale hand reached in from outside the red wedding curtains.

The young man's clothes were soaked with blood, and even the sinister energy filling the Forbidden Abyss could not suppress the dazzling beauty of his face. But his eyes had darkened, turning into two bottomless abysses. Something was growing down there, bit by bit, growing wild.

Hua Jin stood amid the blazing flames, holding her husband's head. His long lashes hung wetly, and he murmured as tenderly as before, “Senior Sister, I've come to bring you your medicine.”

Lan Wan: ?!

*

Hua Jin hated Lan Wan to the core.

He hated her for being spoiled and willful, for constantly changing her mind, for pretending to care, and for promising to stay by his side only to wear another man's wedding dress.

So he would make her pay.

He kept her in a golden cage, binding her feet with bell chains.

He pressed medicine mixed with his own heart's blood to her lips, his breath damp as moss on a rainy night. “Senior Sister, does today's medicine still taste bitter?”

*

Lan Wan had thought she would meet the same end as in her dream.

But at the very end, Hua Jin cut open the left side of his chest and held his still-beating heart out to her.

“Come on, eat it, Wanwan.” The evil spirit spoke slowly and softly, while blood coiled around his fingers like a poisonous snake. “Eat it, and you'll live for a thousand years.”

“Then take my life with you, and hate me for a long, long time.”

#DidSeniorSisterTakeHerMedicineToday

#GloomyPuppy: I'm very obedient. I'm just pretending.

#HeHatesHerSoMuchHeOnlyWantsToLockHerUpAndHateHerAlone

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced, happy ending. The prophetic dream depicts a past life.

2. The heroine is only putting on an act, and she'll eventually get into trouble.

3. The hero has twisted values and a black heart. There was a misunderstanding in their past life, and from beginning to end, all he wants is to get his senior sister. He pretends to be obedient, goes mad, then confesses by trying to end his own life.

4. My own worldbuilding, with plenty of original details. Please don't nitpick.

Theme: Time moves forward, and an instant can last forever