The Night Before I Abandoned the Male Lead, I Was Possessed

Ji Chan was an utterly ordinary mortal.

The only unusual thing about her was that she was the child bride chosen by Xie Zhuchen's parents to bring him good fortune.

After the Xie family died, Ji Chan followed Xie Zhuchen out of their famine-stricken village and joined Qinglu Mountain, the greatest sect in the cultivation world.

Their natural talents were worlds apart. While Ji Chan was still struggling among the ordinary disciples, Xie Zhuchen was already soaring to great heights. She watched the young man in his fluttering robes climb the clouds, slay demon dragons, and ascend to the heavens. Then she watched helplessly as he met the Holy Maiden of the demonic path through a fight, fell for her, opposed his sect for her sake, and was punished until he coughed up blood.

Their story was so passionate and dramatic that it became a legend.

Ji Chan looked at the Holy Maiden, then at herself, so forgettable she could disappear in a crowd, and silently admitted defeat.

The agreed wedding date drew closer. Ji Chan remembered that once, during a mission down the mountain, Xie Zhuchen had made a hasty marriage vow with her to save her life.

Once made, the marriage vow was binding. If either party broke it rashly, they would suffer a backlash and lose cultivation.

They couldn't keep dragging things out like this. After thinking it through, Ji Chan decided to break the engagement herself. It would be a way to repay the Xie family and give Xie Zhuchen and the woman he loved their chance to be together.

Her spiritual roots were terrible anyway, and she was never cut out for cultivation. She had joined Qinglu Mountain simply because, from childhood on, she followed Xie Zhuchen in everything he did. Losing a cultivation level was no big deal; she could always find some other work.

Who could have guessed that the night Ji Chan went up the mountain alone to dissolve the marriage vow, something unexpected would happen? A bolt of heavenly lightning struck, and a stranger transmigrated into her body.

Ji Chan's soul was forced out of her body, drifting to a distant human realm, where she became the descendant of a declining cultivation family with no connection to Xie Zhuchen whatsoever.

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She didn't know that from the very day her soul vanished to parts unknown, Xie Zhuchen went mad.

[Blurb written on 2023.3.28]

[Male lead: Xie Zhuchen. The title, names, and details may change.]

Theme: To be determined