After the Breakup, the Immortal Venerable Regretted It Too Late

[Don't read this! Don't read this! Don't read this! I messed it up! QAQ]

[My attempt at a groveling redemption failed. I didn't capture the essence, and the male lead didn't suffer enough. Reading this may make you angry!!!]

[If you insist on reading... Since I warned you, please don't curse me...]

The Venerable Wangchen, ranked first in the Immortal Realm's power and revered by all immortals, woke from a dream one day and, guided by the Heavenly Dao, became engaged to an ugly green caterpillar.

The Immortal Realm was in an uproar. Everyone agreed it was more distressing than finding bird droppings stuck to a flower.

Qing Sui's true form is that little green caterpillar.

Despite the immortals' open mockery, scornful looks, and contempt, she regards the peerlessly handsome Venerable, who always smiles gently at her, as the light of her life.

Even though he treats everyone else the same way.

Then one day, she breaks free of her cocoon and transforms into a breathtaking, exquisite, and alluring butterfly immortal. Her human form is even more stunning, with no one in the Immortal Realm to rival her beauty.

The Immortal Realm is in an uproar again, marveling at the Heavenly Dao's mysteries and subtle wisdom.

Qing Sui eagerly waits at a place the Venerable is sure to pass, hoping he'll see what she looks like now. From a distance, she hears him say calmly to the Jade Emperor

“What does beauty or ugliness matter? Apart from that heavenly decree, what difference is there between her and the dust beneath our feet, the ants in the mountains, or ordinary people?”

Only then does Qing Sui realize that Venerable Wangchen has no interest in this marriage at all. He has only been treating her as a tool to help him survive his tribulation.

The butterfly flies away.

Later, as Wangchen undergoes his tribulation, karma entangles him, and he learns that Qing Sui was born anew from the reunited spirit of a mortal woman whose beauty was destroyed ten thousand years ago, and who gave up everything to help him ascend.

He searches all three realms relentlessly, and at last finds her. But Qing Sui is leaning against a handsome man, smiling brightly, her eyes glistening.

When she learns why he has come, her smile never changes. “When I loved you, you were the snow cupped in my heart, so cold it pierced me, yet I couldn't bear to let go.

When I no longer care for you, you're a cloud in the sky... One more or one less makes no difference.”

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