[The previous title can no longer be used, so this one will have to do for now]
Yun Lianshen's cultivation partner was her junior fellow disciple, Qing Song. He had carried her out of a pile of corpses, and they had joined the greatest sect under heaven together.
Yet the last thing Yun Lianshen did before ascending was run her sword through him.
Looking into Qing Song's confused, stunned eyes, she remained calm. "You were a wonderful lover, but I want to become an immortal more."
Qing Song died then and there.
From that point on, Yun Lianshen cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness and became the only cultivator to ascend in three thousand years.
Sometimes, alone in the middle of the night, Yun Lianshen would think of her junior's bright, carefree nature and smiling eyes, as well as the boundless hatred in his gaze the last time he looked at her.
But only once in a while.
Being an immortal was so wonderful that Yun Lianshen rarely had any spare time to think about Qing Song.
Until she was injured while descending to the mortal world to capture an evil demon, and a young man saved her.
The young man was kind and innocent. He brought her tea and water, massaged her legs and shoulders, and loved to joke around. He was always smiling, his eyes curving into crescents.
His every gesture was just like her junior fellow disciple.
She also saw the demonic aura on him.
Something was amiss, so Yun Lianshen did not slay the demon right away.
She planned to observe him in secret, but after getting drunk, the young man broke down and demanded answers first. "Why is it that when 'he' is a demon, you don't kill him, but when I'm a demon, you kill me, Senior Sister?!"
...As expected, it was still this guy.
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Qing Song thought he hated Yun Lianshen to the core.
To fight his way up to the Ninth Heaven and demand an explanation from her, he had willingly fallen into demonic cultivation and practiced forbidden arts.
But when he saw her surrounded by enemies, his first thought was still:
"No one is allowed to bully my Senior Sister."
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Qing Song hoped Yun Lianshen would kill him one more time.
Then it would prove that she had killed him because she upheld the righteous path, not because she didn't love him.
Path of Ruthlessness x Dao of Freedom
[A Few Notes]
1. One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are each other's first and only.
2. The heroine had her reasons for killing the hero. It wasn't simply to ascend, nor was it because he had demonic blood. But she did kill him, and readers who mind that should run.
3. As the blurb says, the hero is a hopeless romantic of the highest order. Readers who can't accept that should run.
Theme: A thousand times over, for you