His Love Trial: He's a Hopeless Romantic

The Chronicle of Empress Mingzhao says: “Ming means bright as the sun. The empress was graceful and gifted, with a gentle and radiant bearing. The emperor longed for her.”

Xie Yuqing stared at the woman who had just been dug out of the ground not far away, said to have been buried for three hundred years, and fell silent.

Mu Qianying gritted her teeth and cursed:

“That bastard sealed me away for three hundred years and still dares to call himself my ex-husband? Pah! I survived that disaster, and I’ll have my revenge!”

She loudly proclaimed this to the circle of little demons and mortal children around her:

“First I’ll kill his descendants, then destroy his country, and finally dig up his ances...”

She was a far cry from the “graceful and gifted, with a gentle and radiant bearing” described in the chronicle.

Xie Yuqing finally couldn’t take it anymore and stepped in front of Mu Qianying.

“Sorry, my wife... has some issues.”

Then he turned around, facing Mu Qianying’s murderous glare with an unchanged expression.

“We can discuss revenge later. First, let’s eat.”

Mu Qianying picked and chose, then settled on Xie Yuqing as her new trial of love.

“I’m going to destroy your Great Qian.”

Without even looking up, Xie Yuqing replied, “Be my guest.”

“I’m going to marry you, then kill my husband to attain the Dao and ascend to godhood.”

Xie Yuqing didn’t so much as blink. “As you wish.”

He sat on the ground, his white robes as brilliant as snow, while a faint blush crept up behind his ears.

Mu Qianying: Wait, no. I’m going to kill you. Why are you blushing?

Xie Yuqing, thinking: Kill my husband to attain the Dao. The important part is “husband.” She loves me.

Much later, when Xie Yuqing, the new lord of the Netherworld, was asked about the spirit immortal who had killed him in the mortal realm, this pale, handsome, taciturn demon lord simply smiled tenderly.

“Revenge? She and I have no grievances, only a marriage contract.”

“You wouldn’t understand. She killed my mortal body because she loves me.”

The others of the Netherworld, watching the show:

“Really? But Lord Wangchen, the revered Human Emperor, not only claims to be that spirit immortal’s ex-husband, he says they grew up together and share an unbreakable bond. That makes you the other man, doesn’t it?”

Theme: Love yourself, love the world