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Wb: Xiao Changjin
Blurb:
Song Huiyue is the daughter of the head of an immortal sect. She has been gentle and quiet since childhood, and is afraid of the cold and the dark.
She feels sorry for a young disciple who is bullied by the others. She gives him medicine when he's licking his wounds, brings him osmanthus cakes when he's lonely, and carries him on her back through the grueling journey to seek a cure, even though it should have been beyond an ordinary person's strength.
Blood stains the Spring Terrace, yet the other person knows nothing of it.
Song Huiyue meant to help him through the hardest days of his life, but in the end, he falls into the demonic path and becomes a feared Demon King.
For a long time, the cultivation world claims that he is selfish and cold by nature, incapable of empathy. When he tramples the cultivation world and runs his sword through her shoulder, Song Huiyue believes them.
Smiling, she crushes the jade he carved with his own hands, then slits her throat to power the formation. Her body sinks into the world's coldest sea, the Sea of No Return.
When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to her youth.
Back then, Lu Jinci was still an orphan, bullied by everyone. He swallows the metallic sweetness and humiliation in his mouth, then collapses to his knees in a pool of blood.
Seeing her, he hides the joy that flashes across his face and turns it into hostility.
Song Huiyue lowers her eyes to look into the same eyes the Demon King had in her previous life, without a trace of attachment. "I've given up on you."
She failed to persuade him to follow the righteous path in her previous life. This time, she will kill him. Her own death will be a small price to pay.
But in this life, Lu Jinci still becomes a demon, sweeps through the sword world, and surrounds the immortal mountain.
Just as Song Huiyue draws her sword, ready to die with him, the all-powerful Demon King makes a threat: "Hand over the sect leader's daughter, and I'll spare every one of you."
His greedy gaze follows her. It is as if he lost a treasure thousands of years ago, and now he digs out his own demon bones and lets ten thousand swords pierce his heart, just to win a trace of sympathy from her pale eyes.
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They say that after I died in my previous life, no one in the human world dared name their children with the character for moon.
The Demon King, feared by everyone, was so consumed by regret that day his insides were torn apart. He laughed and cried, unable even to hold his sword steady. He touched the repaired jade and guarded the Sea of No Return for thousands of years.
"Yueyue, I don't hate them anymore. Wake up. I regret everything."
"Yueyue, you're so afraid of the cold. I'll stay with you."
● Both reborn / wife-chasing crematorium / single-couple romance / happy ending
● The setting that demons can live after gouging out their hearts, and the Hundred Evils Demon-Sealing List, are inspired by "Investiture of the Gods," with original additions.
● Blurb revised on 2023.8.6
Theme: Keep one's heart on the righteous path
