The Sickly Moonlight Is Back

Xie Tingruo, Lord Changling of the Qilian Sword Sect, had peerless looks and the highest talent. He was the undisputed heir to Qilian. The only flaw in his perfection was his partner: a frail mortal.

Neither the sect leader's arguments, his friends' advice, nor the world's condemnation could shake him in the slightest.

When the mortal was accused of stealing a treasured immortal sect artifact and being a ghost cultivator spy, he even turned his sword against his fellow disciples to defend her innocence.

Until the mortal, hiding behind him, stabbed a knife into his spine.

Xie Tingruo turned back in shock and met her smiling eyes.

Only then did he learn she was no mortal at all. She was a wicked ghost cultivator, hunted across the land by the immortal sects.

She had used him to infiltrate Qilian, all so she could carve out his exquisite sword bones.

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At the critical moment, the sect leader summoned the founding patriarch of Qilian, who saved Xie Tingruo's life.

His ghost-cultivator wife fell into the Abyss, where she died a gruesome death.

From then on, the partner of Lord Changling, Xie Tingruo, became a taboo that could not be mentioned in Qilian or anywhere in the immortal sect world.

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More than ten years later, Xie Tingruo had reached the pinnacle of cultivation and become the greatest swordsman.

At a cultivator assessment, among the young disciples who came to pay their respects at the sect gate, there was a girl who looked exactly like his wife, dead for a hundred years.

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Zhong Yichi's soul was unstable, and she wouldn't live more than a hundred years. After seeking help from many doctors, she learned that exquisite sword bones might save her life.

And in the cultivation world today, the only person with sword bones was Lord Changling, Xie Tingruo.

So Zhong Yichi disguised herself as a mortal with no cultivation, then schemed to save him, get close to him, deceive him, make him fall in love with her, and become his partner.

Unfortunately, just as she succeeded, her plan was accidentally exposed, and she had no choice but to fake her death and flee.

Years later, she woke once more in the Abyss. She heard that Lord Changling had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, and it was now impossible to carve out his sword bones.

She counted the few days she had left and thought: I'm nearly dead anyway. I might as well get either his sword bones or my husband.

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1. The female lead is domineering, ruthless, and beautiful but tragic.

2. This isn't a groveling-for-forgiveness story. There's hidden context behind the female lead carving out the male lead's sword bones. Just go with my wild storytelling.

Theme: The snares of fate