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Blurb:

Ning Songwei, the second legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's family, is a noble young lady in Changning City, Central State, whose status rivals that of the princess herself.

Her father is the Chancellor, a man second only to The Outcast and powerful enough to command the entire court. Her elder sister is the Empress, cherished by the Emperor like a treasure. Spoiled since childhood, Ning Songwei has become the domineering young lady whom everyone in Changning City wants to curry favor with, yet is afraid to offend.

At twelve, suspecting her father of having an affair, she stormed into a brothel and met Xiao Ji, who had been sold there and forced into servitude.

From then on, the overbearing and arrogant Miss Ning had a taciturn young page named "A Mu" by her side.

She brought him openly into the royal academy and sent him to train in the army. When he returned years later, he had become a dashing young general, riding a fine horse and carrying himself with impressive bearing.

Ning Songwei asked her elder sister the Empress to grant them permission to marry. But on their wedding day, she received news that A Mu had left without a word. Ning Songwei cut her wedding dress to shreds and burned their marriage contract. A year later, she married into the Marquis's household in a grand procession of ten miles of wedding gifts.

Years later, Central State was weakened and its vassal princes rebelled. Ning Songwei was sent away from Changning by her husband, only to fall into the hands of a rebel general. That man was General Mu, who had abandoned her at their wedding banquet all those years ago. He was also the Prince of the rebel kingdom, a man highly valued by the vassal prince, and his name was Xiao Ji.

He held her captive, yet said, "Your Highness need only be yourself as you were before. You don't need to compromise for anyone."

When she nearly suffered an assault, he said, "Everyone in this world is filthy, except you."

Later, he tried to confine her in his manor, away from the conflict. But she insisted on siding with the new dynasty's Crown Prince, who regarded him as a thorn in his side. She lured him into a trap and sent him to prison.

The woman, no longer proud and haughty, stood before the cage, raised her delicate chin, and brought her hand down with a blade, severing every last hope Xiao Ji had.

Years later, in the Langhuan Pavilion of Jiangnan, Xiao Ji gazed through a gauzy veil at the woman before him. The corners of his eyes reddened as he gritted his teeth and demanded, "Ning Songwei, did you ever truly love me?"

Xiao Ji didn't know that when he stood beneath the city wall that year and picked up her fallen fan amid the endless yellow sands, the moment he looked up, the proud and pampered young woman had already become trapped in the cool smile reflected in his light-colored eyes.

Additional notes:

1. Happy ending, both leads are each other's only partners

2. They stand on opposing sides

Next novel: After Severing My Fate with the Divine Lord, I Became His White Moonlight

[Reanimated Mortal Girl x Divine Lord of the Celestial Race, feared by both light and dark]

-Male Lead-

Immortal Lord Cang Yao descended to the mortal world to sever his fate, where he met the girl destined for him.

She was shrewd and practical, sometimes warmhearted and sometimes cold. But as long as there was money to be made, she was willing to take risks for anyone.

At their first meeting, he discovered that this girl could return from the dead.

-Female Lead-

Bai Heng had only gone to Grasscry Ridge to pick a cloud fungus, but there she encountered a strange man who claimed to be an immortal.

She thought he was just a wealthy young master who had read too many supernatural tales and lost his mind.

Until one day, she heard a real immortal call him, "Immortal Lord Cang Yao."

[Main Story]

At first, Bai Heng took him for a deity from the Ninth Heaven. But the contract in her palm, bound by their intertwined bloodlines, drew her into the distant past of the ancient gods.

As someone from a later age, she relived those vivid memories, buried beneath the long passage of time.

By the river during the Lantern Festival in Shangjing, her eyes bloodshot, she stared at the handsome deity before her in despair. "Are you really not Xi Yuan?"

He closed his eyes. In his mind appeared the girl from the past, still knowing nothing, her clear eyes watching him in confusion. "Do you really not know Cang Yao?"

Was he a god, or a demon?

Even he couldn't tell.

[Later]

A new group of young immortals ascended to the Celestial Realm, and the Divine Lord, who had slept for tens of thousands of years, severed his ties to love and awoke in silence.

The Night Wanderer asked him, "Do you still remember her?"

The silver-haired, aloof Divine Lord simply replied, "Our fate has been severed. As long as she is safe, that is enough."

One day, the Divine Lord caught sight of a little immortal who had lived for only three hundred years asking Divine Lord Daoji, "Did you once form a bond with me in the mortal world?"

The next day, Divine Lord Daoji was sent to guard the Wushang River for five thousand years.

Before departing, he was baffled and asked the Night Wanderer why he had been given that order. The Night Wanderer smiled leisurely. "It's because you wore the wrong clothes."

Theme: Freedom is worth more than anything