Liu Fanyin died on her wedding day.
She had sacrificed herself to save the world and had no regrets. If she had one lingering sorrow, it was the partner she'd left behind.
So, with a fragment of her soul, she was reborn in the mortal world. After a hundred years of arduous cultivation, she returned to the immortal realm, and the first thing she did was seek out the one she had loved in her previous life.
But she was too late. Lingyu, the Immortal Venerable who had loved her to the point of death, had vanished without a trace.
All the immortals of the Thirty-Six Heavens said that this beloved figure of the entire immortal realm had died for love, clutching the tattered wedding dress she'd left behind before casting himself into reincarnation.
Liu Fanyin sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I knew that little fool would do something stupid again."
After escaping the immortal realm, she found Lingyu's reincarnation in the mortal world, his memories of their past life long gone.
By pure coincidence, his current identity was the husband the matriarch of the Liu family had chosen for her before her death.
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But Liu Fanyin never imagined that the partner who had been so deeply in love with her in their previous life would feel nothing for her in this one. He agreed to the marriage only to obey his parents.
Just one year into their marriage, an old enemy from the immortal realm came looking for revenge.
Song Lingyu protected his young brother and saved his childhood sweetheart, his junior sister. Only as he was leaving did he turn back indifferently to glance at his wife lying in a pool of blood.
Badly wounded and close to death, Liu Fanyin desperately wanted to see something in those familiar eyes. But blood blurred her vision, and all she could see was his figure walking farther and farther away.
After narrowly surviving once again, she resolved to let go of the past and ascend as soon as she could, leaving this heartbreaking mortal world behind.
So when the man who had saved her life came to propose, claiming he wanted to help her cultivate, she agreed after only a moment's hesitation.
Unexpectedly, on her wedding day, Liu Fanyin didn't get to see her bridegroom. Instead, Song Lingyu arrived, covered in blood.
His face was pale as a ghost, and bright red blood spattered his cheek. "We're even now. Can't we part on good terms?"
Song Lingyu's eyes were red, and the tip of the sword pointed at her trembled slightly.
He suddenly smiled, his hoarse voice heavy with obsession. "You wish."
Probably the final version, June 4, 2023
[Reading Tips]
1. The female lead is full of cheeky remarks, but calm and decisive. She was incredibly powerful in her previous life, but has to level up in this one.
The male lead is cold on the outside and lovesick and obsessive underneath. He occasionally pretends to be weak and acts like a scheming green tea.
2. First attempt at the classic groveling-after-a-breakup trope. Expect melodrama.
3. Lots of original worldbuilding.
Theme: True love comes without debts
