After My Husband Ascended to Immortality

[Complete] When Zhaozhao was fifteen, she found a handsome young man in the snow and brought him home. He had lost his memory and looked like an immortal, with the grace of an orchid and the beauty of jade. When he smiled, he was like a gentle breeze and bright moon. He was also exceptionally clever: he could master anything at a glance and learn anything in an instant. On the night of her hairpin ceremony, Zhaozhao crept to his window and asked if he would be willing to marry into her family and spend the rest of his life with her. The young man smiled and agreed. After two years of marriage, Zhaozhao and her husband lived in perfect harmony, their love as sweet as honey. She thought their life would remain peaceful and warm like this forever, until her husband vanished without warning and Zhaozhao had a dream. In her dream, she saw that her husband was the ruthless Dao Lord of the Kunwu Immortal Realm, who held the power of life and death over the cultivation world. He stood supreme in heaven and earth. But he was also the villain in a storybook, destined to fall to demonic cultivation and be slain by the male and female leads and their companions, leaving not a trace of his remains. After waking, Zhaozhao traveled a thousand miles from home and climbed an immortal mountain beyond the reach of ordinary mortals, all to tell him of her prophetic dream and save him from his destined death. After enduring countless hardships, Zhaozhao was told by an exalted immortal: "The Dao Lord says that everything between you was merely a tribulation. The tribulation has passed, and worldly ties must be severed. From now on, you and the young lady need never meet again, for all eternity." Zhaozhao accepted the parting gift from the Dao Lord, a longevity pill, and finally understood that the happy marriage she'd cherished had been no more than a fleeting glance in the thousand-year river of an immortal lord's life. Zhaozhao: Damn it! Why did I even try to save him? May that scumbag die! Zhaozhao turned to the enemy's side, joining the sect of the storybook's female lead. She decided to get stronger, cultivate diligently, and live until the day the male and female leads ran her husband through with a sword. But who could have guessed... She'd come too early. The sect that would one day become mighty was still weak, one step away from closing down. And the male and female leads who would one day kill her husband were only five years old: skin and bones, just one breath away from death. Zhaozhao's revenge plan: Live until the scumbag gets stabbed to death. (Crossed out) Zhaozhao's new revenge plan: Keep the impoverished, tottering sect afloat and make sure the male and female leads survive long enough to stab the scumbag to death. - After returning from his tribulation, Xie Lanshu's cultivation had greatly increased. He received the congratulations and homage of the great lands from all directions at the Ascension Platform. No one mentioned the little wife Xie Lanshu had married during his tribulation in the mortal world. To cultivators, a mortal's lifespan was over in a flash. Everyone thought Xie Lanshu would soon forget his two years among mortals and become the sovereign of the immortal realm once more. Even Xie Lanshu thought so. Until they met again. His wife was now as graceful as an immortal, with outstanding cultivation, and had become the sect master of a great sect. Countless male cultivators admired her. Two adorable children stayed close by her side, affectionate and inseparable. Their faces... Looked rather like his. #Why Is My Master's Scumbag Ex-Husband Looking at Me and My Junior Brother Like He Wants to Say Something?# #Never mind, it's not important. Master said we just have to kill him# [Little ray of sunshine x Gentle wolf in sheep's clothing] [Reader's guide] 1. This is not a power fantasy, not a story about a female lead who dominates everyone, and not a story about a strong female lead. It's a healing story about a growing ray of sunshine. 2. The plot serves the romance. There is a groveling-redemption arc, and the male lead will not be changed. 3. The female lead is not pregnant during the main story. She won't get pregnant in the main story, and probably won't in the extras either. 4. The main story has an open ending, suitable for readers who don't want to see the male and female leads get together. The extras have a happy ending, so buy with care. 5. This is my take on cultivation. The story itself is the authority on the setting. - Please check out my upcoming story: After Awakening, She Became Everyone's White Moonlight Everyone under heaven knows Zhuoying is a black-hearted lotus. She is scheming and power-hungry. After being sent to the Desolate Sea as a hostage in her youth, she focused on helping the young lord so she could fulfill her ambitions, resorting to every sort of trickery to do it. So when she died for the Desolate Sea, everyone under heaven thought it was a good thing. Even the Desolate Sea itself felt little regret. After her death, Zhuoying returned to the year she was sent to the Desolate Sea. That was the year the ambitious Human Emperor suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the immortals. According to the arrangements from her previous life, Zhaocui, the noble princess from her mother's clan, would be sent to the Shangqing Heavenly Palace as a hostage, while Zhuoying, of low birth and sickly constitution, would be abandoned in the Desolate Sea, then the lowest-ranked territory among the immortal clans. But on the night before they were due to leave, Zhaocui found Zhuoying and tearfully confessed that she had fallen in love with the young lord of the Desolate Sea and would marry no one else in this life. She was willing to give up the comfortable life awaiting her at the Shangqing Heavenly Palace and begged Zhuoying to switch places with her. But according to what Zhaocui had said herself in her previous life, the Shangqing Heavenly Palace was inhumane. She had spent ten years there as a hostage, living a life worse than death. Zhuoying: Could anything be worse than death? Maybe being cast aside after devoting a hundred years to the Desolate Sea, even more than being cast aside after a life worse than death? The two reached an agreement and switched lives, each convinced she had a bright future ahead. After arriving at the Heavenly Palace, Zhuoying gradually realized that things weren't quite as she'd imagined. The so-called inhumanity meant that no romance was allowed before reaching godhood. Marriage alliances? Don't even think about it. The so-called strict laws meant that the Shangqing Heavens provided the best resources for food, clothing, shelter, travel, and cultivation. She wasn't allowed to use any of the shabby things she'd brought with her. The so-called harsh demands meant that the great powers of the immortal realm taught her everything they knew. She only had to focus on her cultivation and didn't need to deal with any chores. Zhuoying: A life worse than death? Thanks, this is unbelievably great. Meanwhile, the legitimate daughter who got her wish and married into the Desolate Sea discovered that life was nothing like she'd imagined. The Desolate Sea never grew stronger as it had in her memories. Her husband, who had finally fallen in love with her, became a gigolo for his country and filled the household with one concubine after another. She went from being his principal wife to a consort, spending every day either fighting for power in the harem or trying to keep her pregnancy safe. At last, the remorseful Zhaocui remembered the Shangqing Heavenly Palace, whose people had treated her like their own daughter in her previous life, and awakened their memories of that life. But... The Celestial Emperor Haotian, who had once taught her everything he knew: "If you found life in the Heavenly Palace stifling, I won't force you to stay. Zhuoying is worthy of becoming a pillar of our Heavenly Palace." The Empress, who had once cared for her as tenderly as a mother: "My daughter Zhuoying knows how to repay kindness. I am most pleased with her." The crown prince of the Heavenly Palace, who had once treated her like a younger sister and stood up for her: "Sister Aying is devoted to serving the Heavenly Palace. I want to see which fool dares to stand in the way of her immortal path!" Even her husband returned, when no one was around, to the room her half-sister had once occupied, stroking the things she had left behind. Only then did Zhaocui realize that her sister, once despised by everyone, had somehow become everyone's white moonlight. Theme: Overcome life's hardships and misfortunes through self-reliance