A beautiful, seemingly delicate girl who's as unyielding as a blade, and a scheming black lotus who takes wild flights of fancy
Yin Congling had no idea what she'd done to deserve this. The tangled fate of an imperial prince and a woman who had transmigrated had somehow dragged her, a goddess punished with guarding the Southern Heavenly Gate, into their troubles.
Not only did she have to descend to the mortal realm to protect their souls from demons, she also had to play the vicious elder sister and make the transmigrated woman take her place in an arranged marriage. Then came their drama: they ran, she chased, and she couldn't escape even with wings. In the end, she was supposed to suffer their face-slapping, too.
What a joke. Yin Congling had earned her ascension last time by proving her Dao through killing. She drank the strongest liquor, rode the fiercest beasts, and conquered the four corners of the world.
Be someone else's stepping stone? Sorry, her blade is too sharp. She can't do that.
So Yin Congling defied the fate written for her by the Department of Destiny, abandoned her assigned marriage in the mortal realm, and went off to become a bandit on Fuhu Mountain.
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Yan Jing was the bandit chief of the neighboring... Jianglong Mountain. He looked like a refined gentleman who burned incense and brewed tea, but in truth, he was a villain who had lived by the sword.
Rumor had it that he was both a friend and a sworn brother to the former crown prince. When the prince's coup failed, Yan Jing went off to become a bandit.
One day, he rescued a delicate, beautiful woman by the Huai River. She insisted on repaying him for saving her life.
Did she think he couldn't tell she knew how to fight?
Yan Jing was convinced Yin Congling was a spy for the imperial court, sent to use her beauty to seize the mountain stronghold.
So he pointed at his sworn enemy's stronghold on Fuhu Mountain and said offhandedly,
