Shi Liuyu died in the Far North, shackles piercing her shoulders, blood seeping through her finger bones. She perished together with the Demon Lord who coveted her phoenix bone.
The Far North is bitterly cold all year round and scarcely inhabited. It is used to exile the most heinous criminals.
Shi Liuyu's crime was killing her husband and falling to demonic ways, a sin beyond forgiveness.
Winter snowflakes settled on her raven-black lashes. Before closing her eyes, Shi Liuyu remembered years ago
She was the eldest daughter of Phoenix Mountain Manor in the Southern Region, born with an ancestral bloodline and a phoenix bone.
But the Host of a phoenix bone must cultivate with another person before turning twenty.
Otherwise, her bloodline would turn on her, burning her alive in a bloody blaze.
So Shi Liuyu had been betrothed early to the heir of Wuling Immortal Sect.
But only after their marriage did she discover the truth.
The heir had a beloved suffering from a deadly poison, and he was waiting to use her phoenix bone to keep that person alive.
How absurd.
Shi Liuyu curled her lips. Lying on her blood-red robes, she actually began to laugh.
She thought:
If only she had known, she would have accepted the demonic dragon she met at eighteen. Even with its mind undeveloped and its nature beastlike, it would have been better than letting that sanctimonious hypocrite benefit from her.
Besides, he had died for her...
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The dragon was called A Yao, a name Shi Liuyu had given him.
He especially loved to bite people.
Yet he would only pant heavily and glare at her fiercely, like a giant dragon yearning for a hard-won treasure, never once crossing the line.
Sadly, later he was pierced through the heart by countless swords, his flesh torn open, his towering dragon body crashing to the ground.
Even as he died, he shielded her beneath his protective scales, leaving not the slightest gap...
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The phoenix bone underwent rebirth through nirvana.
When she opened her eyes again, Shi Liuyu had returned to the day before she was to enter Wuling Immortal Sect.
Dressed in a scarlet wedding gown, she beckoned a young attendant over and instructed him:
"Go find someone for me."
Then she stopped him, her red lips curving as a hint of amusement appeared in her eyes.
"No."
"A beast."
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A stunning beauty reborn from the phoenix's flames x a wild, untamable little dragon
Synopsis image updated 2024/7/15
Theme: Love makes us fearless in the face of storms and gives us a chance to be reborn.
