Hua Zhenmian was reborn.
In her previous life, on her wedding day, her kind-faced older sister suddenly turned vicious. Together with Hua Zhenmian's husband, she took the blood from Hua Zhenmian's heart, then threw her into a furnace and burned her alive.
Amid the laughter of a man and a woman, Hua Zhenmian learned that her true form was a rare Netherworld Spirit Plant, seldom seen in the Three Realms.
A Spirit Plant thrown into a furnace and forged into a sword would make it sharp enough to cut through iron like mud.
A Spirit Plant refined into a pill and consumed would make a person the greatest under heaven.
Given another chance, Hua Zhenmian escaped the bridal chamber and broke into a forbidden area. Using her blood as a catalyst, she undid the seal on the Demon Venerable, whose name had terrified the Three Realms.
Even if it cost her true form, she would make sure those hypocritical orthodox cultivators never knew peace!
But no one had ever told her that the sealed Demon Venerable would be gentle and handsome, patiently listen to her request, and then bury her in the soil.
"You were going to sacrifice yourself for me, weren't you? This will dispel your resentment and lessen the backlash against me after your true form is used to make medicine and forge a sword."
Hua Zhenmian's eyes brimmed with tears. She fought back the urge to tremble, her body stiff with fear as she dared not move.
But that day, for the first time in her life, Hua Zhenmian felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth flowing. After emerging from the soil, she broke through several cultivation levels in a row.
Later, the two great immortal sect families were beaten back again and again. Furious, they cursed Hua Zhenmian for shamelessly climbing the ranks by using her looks to seduce a man. The Demon Venerable gently stroked the leaves of the Spirit Plant perched on his head, his eyes still warm with a smile.
"But I have never laid a hand on you."
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Everyone in the Demon Realm knew that their leader was obsessed with exotic flowers and rare plants, a true plant fanatic. But this time, something seemed different from before.
In the first month, the Demon Venerable replaced the spring water used to nourish the Spirit Plant with strawberry juice.
In the second month, he replaced its soil with the feathers of Rainbow Cloud Birds.
By the Nth month, winding flower vines were draped all over the Demon Venerable.
A subordinate from the demonic sect lowered his head, afraid to look too closely. "My lord, is this still gardening?"
The Demon Venerable gently took a vine from around his neck.
"Mm. Gardening."
[A suspicious, sensitive, foolish biting flower x a gentle Demon King who acts as her life mentor]
One-on-one, happy ending. Revenge and romance.
[Blurb written on 2021.9.16, revised on 2022.5.5, screenshot saved]
Theme: People need to learn to love themselves.