After I Broke Off the Engagement, My Archenemy Regretted It Too Late

[Complete] [Follow-up to After I Was Hit with a Love Curse now open for advance follows] Qin Daidai was the eldest daughter of the Taixu Sect. From childhood, she had been engaged to Cen Wang, a heaven-blessed prodigy. For over a decade, she heard how stunningly handsome and exceptionally gifted her betrothed was, how he slew demons in the Cang Mountains and drank wine in Kunlun, and how a few years of cultivation for him equaled a century of practice for anyone else. He seemed to have everything going his way. To be worthy of such a man, she spent over a decade playing the gentle, refined young lady. But on the day she came of age, Cen Wang looked at her before a crowd and shook his head. “I, this young master, will not marry someone so utterly ordinary.” Their engagement was annulled then and there. Everyone said that the eldest Qin daughter was both beautiful and clever, and took being rejected with admirable composure. Only Qin Daidai knew that beneath her gentle exterior was a heart that never let a grudge go unanswered. On the day Cen Wang advanced to a new realm and faced his tribulation, Qin Daidai secretly attached a top-grade lightning-attracting talisman to him. She was determined to leave him bruised and battered, his spirit unsettled. She never expected the lightning tribulation to spiral out of control, its power capable of destroying heaven and earth, and reduce Cen Wang to a three-year-old child. Even more unexpectedly, just before he was turned into a child, the scoundrel used the last of his spiritual power to cast a pain-sharing curse on her. If he hurt, she hurt. If he died, she died. The curse could only be lifted once he returned to his original form. Qin Daidai: ... And so began Qin Daidai's miserable life raising her sworn enemy. * As the young lord of the Shenxuan Palace, Cen Wang had possessed a golden core from birth. He was truly the favored child of Heaven, unique in the world, and naturally believed that the woman worthy of him had to be the most beautiful and wonderful in the world. There was no way it could be the dull, mediocre Qin family's eldest daughter. Later, he never imagined that the two things he would regret most in his life were: First, going to the Taixu Sect to break off his engagement. Second, forgetting what happened while he was in his younger form. So when he watched Qin Daidai, freed from the pain-sharing curse, happily traveling far and wide with someone else, his spirit was wracked with pain and he nearly succumbed to demonic corruption. Yet he had no right to stop her. Content notes ● One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only partners. ● Raising him while he's young in the first half, face-slapping in the second half. ● Many personal worldbuilding details and my own logic. ● If you dislike the heroine, that's down to the author's limited skill! Feel free to criticize the author, but don't attack the heroine. The blurb doesn't reveal everything; the story will explain the hidden circumstances. Advance follows open for After I Was Hit with a Love Curse During a demonic uprising, the young demon Hua Xun, not yet a hundred years old, broke into the Demon Palace and rescued her benefactor, the Demon Lord Baili Sheng. After three years together, Baili Sheng promised her, “When I return to the Demon Palace one day, I will not let you down.” Hua Xun believed him. But Hua Xun forgot that a demon is still a demon. The moment Fairy Qingjiao appeared before Baili Sheng, eyes red as she said, “You're still alive,” Baili Sheng forgot his promise. To prove his devotion to her, he even planted a love curse on Hua Xun. The other person bound by the curse was the one he hated most, the Divine Lord Jiuqing. - Those afflicted by a love curse must see the person they desire every day, or they will weep blood and die. The aloof and otherworldly Divine Lord Jiuqing, who cherished all living beings, sighed softly and granted Hua Xun's request to cultivate by his side, teaching her methods to calm her heart. Hua Xun was grateful. She worked hard at her cultivation and did her best to please him every day. Whenever her heart fluttered, she blamed the love curse, and felt deeply guilty for harboring such irreverent thoughts about the Divine Lord. Until the elders of the Immortal Realm came one after another to see him, bluntly declaring, “The Three Realms are all saying the Divine Lord is keeping a little demon.” The Divine Lord Jiuqing frowned faintly. Then, at the cost of injuring his own spirit, he forcibly lifted Hua Xun's ancient love curse and silently put distance between them. Hua Xun knew when to take a hint. Though disappointed, she left without hesitation. - Later, the Demon Realm's army invaded the Ninth Heaven. At its head, the Demon Lord held a bridal gown in his hands and demanded only one little demon. To prevent war across the Three Realms, and also to repay Baili Sheng for lifting the curse, Hua Xun agreed to leave with him. But as she put on the bridal gown and climbed into the wedding sedan, dark clouds rolled across the mist-shrouded Ninth Heaven, and lightning flashed everywhere. The aloof Divine Lord appeared beyond the heavens. His voice was gentle, echoing again and again: “A Xun, you dare marry him?” Theme: Strive to grow into a better version of yourself.