Lan You always lived uprightly and kept to the right path.
To defeat the Demon Lord Jing Yan, she was forced to enter a cultivation bond with Senior Brother Tian, and forged the Xuanqing Sword Bone.
When the Demon Abyss trembled, she dug out the Xuanqing Sword Bone she had just forged and used it to suppress the demons, so the Demon Lord could not escape.
Without her sword bone, she could no longer wield a sword, so she was sent to guard the Sacred Treasure Pagoda.
Not long afterward, she heard that Senior Brother Tian had fallen for a newly arrived junior sister.
Rumor had it the junior sister was extraordinarily talented and had been hidden away by the sect master in Qiong Yu Pavilion, where no one could easily see her.
By then, Lan You's soul had been damaged. But, faced with everyone's criticism, she had no choice but to forcefully dissolve her bond with him, worsening her injuries.
Later, she was accused of violating a taboo and dragged to the execution platform, where she was about to undergo the punishment of bodily disintegration.
Until the moment she was about to die, she only knelt there quietly, convinced it was all her fault.
At last, she met the junior sister who had been so carefully protected.
The girl wore an expressionless face, but the aura of the Xuanqing Sword Bone about her was unmistakably familiar. It was Lan You's own sword bone.
"Senior Sister Lan, you forged your sword bone beautifully. It suits me perfectly. I only need one more thing: your Golden Core."
As the flames consumed her, Lan You remembered the Qinglian Glazed Lamp she had once acquired by chance. Legend said that if you opened its cover, you would see an immortal who could grant three wishes.
At death's door, she used the last of her strength to turn the lamp's lid. Black qi instantly swirled around her.
A familiar figure appeared in the sea of fire: the Demon Lord Jing Yan, who had been suppressed beneath the Demon Abyss.
The demon carried a contract seal and walked toward her through the flames, smiling brightly.
She'd been fooled again!
Lan You was so furious she spat out a mouthful of blood.
The demon crouched down and teasingly lifted her chin, wiping the blood from the edge of her lips. "Tsk! So the Sword Lord You Lan can look this miserable. You were quite the fighter when you suppressed me!"
She looked at the Demon Lord surrounded by contract seals and asked in a faint voice, without much hope, "Three wishes?"
The demon looked at her outstretched fingers, grabbed her hand, and smiled delightedly. "You have to grant my three wishes."
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Jing Yan had never met anyone as easy to fool as Lan You.
The Wuji Sect had done no more than give her a bowl of rice, yet she chased him around and fought him for twenty years.
As he lay dying, he played a little trick and disguised his Soul-Lodging Lamp as a magic lamp that could grant wishes.
He thought no one in the world could resist the curiosity to touch it.
But in reality, he was trapped for a hundred years.
For all those years, he followed her every day.
He watched her lose the ability to wield a sword, watched everyone misunderstand her, watched her lose everything.
Later, he watched her stand alone in front of the Sacred Treasure Pagoda, sometimes for an entire day.
This woman was both terrifying and pitiful.
Thinking that he might never get out in this lifetime, he deeply regretted his choice.
If only he'd known Lan You was so easy to fool, he should have tricked her into becoming the Demon Lord's wife.
Note: One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending
Theme: Have the courage to stand by your convictions
