The demon forces were powerful, and eight of the twelve immortal mountains had fallen.
The eight Immortal Lords had all been captured by Dongfang Huan, the demon king among demon kings. Seven had their golden cores dug out and were thrown into the Soul-Refining Cauldron, while the last one... was imprisoned by Dongfang Huan and subjected to "merciless" torment.
That Immortal Lord was Bai Qingqi of Niaoyun Immortal Mountain.
"Dying would be too easy. This Lord will play with you to his heart's content before letting you die." The demon king forced Immortal Lord Niaoyun to become his servant girl.
Colleague: Does the demon king have some kind of grudge against you? Why humiliate you like this?
Bai Qingqi, lounging like a lazy fish: A grudge is putting it mildly. I once stepped over his corpse.
Colleague: ??
Bai Qingqi: Uh, I also married his sworn enemy.
Colleague: ?!!
Bai Qingqi: Oh, right, I don't mind telling you. We were childhood sweethearts once. He loved me to death. We cultivated immortality together, and when we ascended, he took a lightning tribulation for me. He even willingly dug out his golden core for me. He had two back then, anyway. He also drank the water I washed my feet in.
"..." At last, her colleague couldn't listen any longer. "Stop making things up."
Bai Qingqi turned her head and gazed at the deep blue sky above.
She wasn't making anything up.
They really had once been passionately in love.
Like phoenixes flying together, sharing life and death, never parting or abandoning each other...
*
On the day Changsun Xuan'er, Dongfang Huan's beloved disciple, dug out Bai Qingqi's golden core, blood trickled from Bai Qingqi's lips, yet she smiled brilliantly and called him by the pet name known only to her: "Feifei, I don't regret it. I don't regret having... betrayed you."
Only when Bai Qingqi's soul scattered did Dongfang Huan realize that everything had been a deception.
Bai Qingqi's betrayal had never been real. She had done it to redeem him.
The life they were living was not this life, but a previous one.
*
Dongfang Huan spent a hundred years recreating Bai Qingqi's body.
He spent two hundred years gathering Bai Qingqi's soul fragments.
Then he spent another five hundred years refining the Changming Lamp, transmigrating to the third life, the fourth life, the fifth life... until he restored Bai Qingqi's soul.
"Honghong, do you still remember me?" On the day Bai Qingqi finally awoke, Dongfang Huan lowered his head and kissed her brows and eyes, the beauty mark at the corner of her eye, and the veins in her slender neck...
Honghong was a pet name known only to him.
Reader's Guide:
1. The female lead transmigrates into a book.
2. The male lead pursues his wife after losing her.
3. This is a sweet romance, very sweet. It starts getting sweet when the male lead begins his quick transmigration journey to win back his wife.
(Copy of the blurb saved on 2020.10.24)
Theme: Redeeming each other in a previous life
