Burning Lamps to Carry on the Day

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--Blurb--

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They say that somewhere on the Lancang River, there is a small boat.

No one knows when it will appear. They only know that when it does, you can climb aboard and ask for one thing.

Liang Yi thought he must have gone mad to believe the rumor.

Until one night, the little boat with its canvas canopy appeared on the Lancang River.

Inside the pleasure boat sat a woman with a cool, ethereal beauty.

Before Liang Yi could ask anything,

the woman looked at him and said, her lips barely moving, "Someone tricked you into becoming a scapegoat."

The woman was the boat's owner.

"I deliver people into life, and I deliver them into death," the woman said calmly. "You have no children in this life, so I can't deliver you into life. That leaves death."

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Liang Yi had spent the first twenty years of his life carefree and unrestrained.

Perhaps he had lived too freely, and that was why Heaven visited a devastating disaster upon him on his twentieth birthday.

It should have been a day for the whole family to gather.

Liang Yi opened the door and saw blood spread across the floor, and his parents' bodies lying in the pool of it.

In the early autumn of that year, a massacre took place in the small city of Liangzhou.

Anyone walking down that street could hear people chatting about it.

--I heard the child's car was late, so they escaped the disaster. Otherwise, not a soul in the old Liang family would have survived.

--If you ask me, that child would have been better off going with them. Now they're alive, but they owe someone a life...

As it turned out, there had been a little girl in that small home that day.

She was the child of Liang Yi's maternal aunt, visiting her aunt's home in Liangzhou for the first time.

But no matter how many times the police reviewed the surveillance footage, they couldn't find any sign of the girl.

She seemed to have vanished into thin air.

From then on, Liang Yi had only two things left to do.

First, find the murderer who had killed his parents. Second, find the missing little girl.

--Advance Blurb--

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As Chi Jiujiu gazed through the firelight at the man approaching her with a sword, she thought at an inopportune moment of her grandmother's praise.

--Ordinary foxes can take a thousand years or more to grow nine tails, but our Xiaojiu cultivated nine tails in only four hundred years. She's truly a prodigy of the fox realm.

What prodigy of the fox realm? I was nothing but a fool.

She had actually believed the demon hunter before her, using her nine tails as an ingredient to refine a pill and give it to him, all so they could be together forever.

What a joke. What a ridiculous joke.

Before losing consciousness, Chi Jiujiu saw herself hanging outside the city tower, listening to the people curse her.

The man she had once loved with all her heart, the man who had skinned her and torn out her bones before hanging her here, stood atop the city wall, revered by all the people.

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Chi Jiujiu thought she would die, but to her surprise, she didn't. When she opened her eyes, she was in an immortal residence.

The profile of its owner looked nearly identical to that of the accursed demon hunter.

It turned out there were no demon hunters in this world at all, only Immortal Lord Peichen, who had descended to the mortal realm to undergo a tribulation.

How ironic. Back in the mortal world, all Chi Jiujiu had ever wanted was to marry the demon hunter.

But now the two had switched places. Immortal Lord Peichen said he wanted to marry her, while Chi Jiujiu only wanted to return to her fox den.

Immortaless Longji, whose residence adjoined Immortal Lord Peichen's, came to persuade Chi Jiujiu and showed her the fated bond between her and Immortal Lord Peichen.

Chi Jiujiu saw herself happily waiting to marry Immortal Lord Peichen.

After that, Immortal Lord Peichen would try to gouge out her eyes and take her nine tails to refine a pill for his young disciple.

That version of Chi Jiujiu would finally lose all hope and leave for the wilds.

Only then would Immortal Lord Peichen regret everything and tear out his immortal bones to pursue her into the wilds.

In the wilds, Immortal Lord Peichen would cut out his heart, tear out his bones, and gouge out his eyes to prove his devotion.

At last, "Chi Jiujiu" would soften, go through all manner of trials with Immortal Lord Peichen, and finally become his beloved.

"You and the Immortal Lord have endured a tragic love story and finally found a happy ending. Immortal Lord Peichen loves you deeply; he just hasn't realized it yet. Little fox, don't let appearances deceive you."

Immortaless Longji gave the clearly moved Chi Jiujiu an earnest word of advice.

Chi Jiujiu took her advice and married Immortal Lord Peichen.

But on their wedding day, in front of all the immortals, Chi Jiujiu personally severed one of Immortal Lord Peichen's immortal bones.

"Who said I'd act out some tragic love story with you?"

Chi Jiujiu's face was cold. She clearly felt no love for Immortal Lord Peichen at all.

Theme: Forge your own happy life through your own efforts.