Never Cross

When Xie Xuan was alive, she was wicked to the core. Even in death, she became an evil spirit. Unworthy of reincarnation, she was condemned to languish in the Blood Sea of the Underworld. Just before her soul dispersed, she was rescued by Feng Xun, the King of Ghosts in Fengdu. Feng Xun was a young deity from the upper realm, born noble, yet he had come to this filthy land of the dead, hoping to save every last one of its countless evil spirits. He gave Xie Xuan her first set of human clothes and taught her about ethics and proper conduct. He taught her to read, and the first word she learned was "Feng Xun." He was innocent and kind, and always believed he could redeem her. Feng Xun had read so many books with her and taught her so many truths, yet all she learned was how to pretend. Xie Xuan was sly. She acted like an obedient, ordinary girl in front of Feng Xun. Somehow, she had also picked up a few tricks for beguiling people, and wanted to try them on him. One day, with uneven rouge on her cheeks and a crooked hairpin in her hair, she went to see Feng Xun. Xie Xuan had planned to use this ploy to trick Feng Xun into letting her go. She never expected him to gaze at her for a long time, trying to decipher her meaning from the tiny, awkwardly forced expression of seduction on her face. "Is this all?" he asked, leaning closer. Xie Xuan furrowed her brow, thinking her scheme had been exposed. But a slightly warm kiss landed between her brows. "I've taken the bait," he said. Xie Xuan didn't understand what he meant by taking the bait. Later, she found an opportunity to return to the human world and take her revenge. She cut off the imperial bloodline, set the capital ablaze with war, and personally drove a dagger into the Crown Prince's chest. But to her shock, the fallen Crown Prince's face slowly transformed into Feng Xun's. Cradling his lifeless heart, Xie Xuan licked the blood from her lips and suddenly remembered those absurd rumors. A god can only be killed by someone they love. According to the romantic tales of the human world, she should have turned white-haired and red-eyed, torn out her heart, given up her life, slaughtered the mortal realm, and trampled the Nine Hells in her quest to bring Feng Xun back. But years later, she led the Underworld in an assault on the upper realm and captured the divine king rumored to look almost exactly like Feng Xun. To be Feng Xun's stand-in. ★Please add my upcoming novel, I Accidentally Wooed the Male Lead's Uncle, to your reading list. Visit my author page to see the full blurb: Mingming is an ancient snake demon who has survived from antiquity. To obtain a treasure that will break through the limits of her cultivation, she binds herself to a romance System. The System gives her information about her target, then falls asleep. Following the portrait, Mingming successfully finds the male lead. She pulls him out of a chasm in the savage wilderness, saves him from his grievous injuries, and accompanies him in his cultivation. Whenever she feels like it, she wraps her chilly tail around him as a show of friendship. And so they spend a hundred years together in the lonely wilderness. Mingming thinks winning him over is easy. The male lead is already devoted to her and is waiting for her to take human form, ready to spend his life with her. But! Just as Mingming is about to complete her transformation, finish the System's mission, and claim her merit, the System wakes up and gravely informs her that she wooed the wrong person. The hapless fellow in the chasm only looks like the male lead. Mingming runs away that very day, returns to her lair, and falls asleep in an egg. When she wakes, she has a human body. With the System's guidance, she goes to find the real male lead. The real male lead is much more difficult to deal with than the last hapless fellow. He has a beloved woman, and he comes from the most traditional and exclusionary sect in the immortal realm. Rumor has it that the head of the family despises demons and forbids any of them from approaching his territory. According to the plot, Mingming will be seriously injured saving the beloved woman, then taken back to the male lead's clan, where she will be made to bear the family's hostility in the woman's place. "Please resist temptation from here on, because in the story, the male lead's uncle, who loathes demons, will offer you five million spirit stones to leave him," the System reminds Mingming. Determined to cultivate, Mingming nods firmly and goes to meet the head of the family. The night is bright with a full moon. The head of the family, whose face bears a striking resemblance to the male lead's, looks at her with a coldness that seems to have severed all ties of affection. He tosses five million spirit stones at Mingming. Mingming: ? He looks familiar. "Demons are deceitful and have no integrity. I don't want any of them in my territory. Take the five million spirit stones and leave him..." Mingming realizes that this is the hapless fellow she once saved and turns to leave, but it is the night of the full moon. And so, as she meets the hapless fellow's gaze, she transforms back into her true form right in front of him Σ( ° △ °|||)︴ Theme: Face your true self