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Shen Yu was a young demon goddess feared throughout the world, violent and ruthless by nature, cruel and dark-hearted.
At the height of her power, she led countless demons in a rampage, flew into the celestial court, and slaughtered her way through it. With one sword, she crushed the Emperor's soul, massacred the immortals, and turned the Ninth Heaven into a river of blood.
Rong Qi, the young lord of the celestial realm, was born of the dragon god's lineage and possessed immense power and status. To save all living beings, he gave himself up to accompany the demoness through the cycle of reincarnation, hoping to rid her of her murderous rage.
He appealed to reason, moved her with emotion, and guided her toward kindness and a sense of right and wrong.
But Shen Yu killed him every time. Each time, she awakened as the demon goddess and went on another killing spree, repeating the same cycle.
Until one day, the celestial realm's Fate Official finally discovered that the demon goddess's destined weakness was love.
"Only by using love to draw her in can you break this cycle."
"Why not play along with the demoness for a while?"
Rong Qi refused.
He had already had enough of being pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows eight times over.
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"The gods and demons fear me and see me as a calamity, an evil creature. They don't know that gods and demons share the same origin: demons were once gods, and gods were once demons. If the heavens seek to destroy me, then I will destroy the entire Heavenly Dao."
Shen Yu's hatred was etched into her mind. It made her awaken to her demonic power time and again, slaughter immortals in the upper realm, and wreak havoc.
In her first life, she was an ambitious regent princess, consumed by schemes and political machinations. She ensnared an upright, aloof minister, made him exhaust himself for her, and left him to die without a grave.
In her second life, she was the daughter of a borderland high priest, offered up as a living sacrifice to the mountain god. To escape, she betrayed the young general who loved her, leaving him to die beneath a rain of arrows.
In her third life, she was a nine-tailed fox demon who bewitched the world, and drove a righteous young cultivator who sought to save all living beings step by step into becoming the hated Demon Lord of the Ten Thousand Ghosts' Den.
Cruel and violent by nature, without heart or feeling, she took pleasure in destroying the world's beautiful things in life after life. She stopped at nothing to get what she wanted, killing her senior brother, fiance, ministers, master, friends...
Her fifth life, her sixth, her seventh...
Later, she learned that they were all reincarnations of the same person.
To save all living beings, that aloof, spotless deity had acted out countless tales of mortal joy and sorrow with her, and developed feelings he should never have had. He had come to feel compassion for her, the demon goddess.
He endured the Discipline Whip, the agony of being burned alive, and a fall into the realm of evil spirits, all to help her complete her accumulation of merit.
So she could abandon, use, or kill anyone. Anyone, except that self-righteous dragon from the celestial realm.
-- She wanted to hide him away.
Strip him of his immortal powers, cover his eyes, and hide him in her palace, where he would belong to her alone.
For that, she feigned ignorance time and again, bewildering him, tempting him, then cutting off every path of retreat.
Until there was no one left by his side.
Cruel, enchanting, heartless demon goddess x righteous celestial realm's unattainable ideal
Reader's Guide:
Happy ending! (In bold, in all caps.) The male lead can come back to life.
The early part takes place in the mortal realm, the later part in the celestial realm, with a bit of an ensemble cast.
Past and present lives, old love and old grudges. A bittersweet, over-the-top melodrama.
Theme: The righteous ideal: Have I been giving myself away again?
