You People from Miaojiang Are Such Good Actors

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Lin Xunzhi joins the Gengyan Immortal Mansion, seeking out Wei Ningtian, her childhood sweetheart and fiance.

On the way, she meets Qiao Zao, a young man from Miaojiang.

The timid, lazy young man is weak, but he makes up for it with emotional support and a loyal heart. He carries her across the deadly snowfields and the man-eating Flood Realm, and refuses to let go even when demonic cultivators chase them until they are fleeing in panic.

Lin Xunzhi is gradually moved by the young man's sincerity.

Until she sees him cleave a mountain with one sword, killing someone in a spray of blood.

Venomous insects writhe, silver snakes coil around him.

This is clearly Wei Ningtian's style.

The young man, discovered, says coolly,

"I was going to leave you with some good memories. But if that's how it is, forget it."

He tears away his illusion and transforms into a red-robed demonic cultivator with striking features.

After toying with Lin Xunzhi's feelings, Wei Ningtian leaves with careless ease.

He killed the person she loved, and he did it twice.

This isn't over.

But later, Wei Ningtian is about to die.

On a rainy night during the battle between immortals and demons, Wei Ningtian fails in his attempt to stab his master in the back. The Demon God drains his spiritual power and throws him into the Demon-Eating Abyss to die.

Lin Xunzhi bravely leaps into the abyss to find him. Amid the raging wind and rain, she looks at his face and finally manages to ask:

"Wei Ningtian, why were you willing to be the Demon Realm's lackey?"

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Wei Ningtian was precocious and gentle by nature.

But everyone said he was a bringer of misfortune, and that anyone who met him would suffer bad luck.

Lin Xunzhi's father didn't believe it and took him in,

delightedly declaring that he was now his adopted son and would one day be his son-in-law.

One rainy night, bodies covered the ground, and Lin Xunzhi was abducted.

Wei Ningtian braved the rain to pursue her, finally catching up with her downstream as she was swept along by the current.

The boy held the newly awakened Lin Xunzhi and cried for a very long time, repeating one sentence: "I was too late."

Just as he did then, the wicked Wei Ningtian lies in Lin Xunzhi's arms now, unconcerned that he might be dying, overwhelmed only by his heart-rending regret.

He sacrificed all the time he could have spent by Lin Xunzhi's side, yet still couldn't restore the spiritual root she had lost.

He was one step too late that night, and deserved to pay for it for the rest of his life.

One-on-one, happy ending.

For you, a thousand times over.

Theme: Seize the present and don't let it pass you by.