Yan Sheng, the most beautiful goddess in the Peach Blossom Realm, is notorious and haughty, always carrying herself with impeccable poise.
The immortals are furious with her but dare not say so.
They can't beat her, and they don't dare provoke her.
After all, this lady once proved her Dao by killing her husband, and the husband she killed was the Heavenly Dao.
A thousand years ago, the mortal Yan Sheng stabbed the Heavenly Dao eighty-one times at their wedding banquet, watching him perish in a pool of blood.
Then she flicked her sleeve and ascended to immortality on the spot.
*
The Heavenly Dao has been gone for a thousand years, and Yan Sheng has been a widow for just as long.
Everyone around her has their own agenda, and they all urge the "old lady of heaven" to remarry.
Yan Sheng rested her chin on her hand and nodded. "All right. Who should I pick?"
Her eyes landed at random on the mortal Lu Xi.
Lu Xi looks exactly like the Heavenly Dao, and he seems to hate her.
Yan Sheng thought: What a coincidence. I hate the Heavenly Dao too.
*
Lu Xi has lived in seclusion in the back mountains for years, faithfully following his master's teachings and keeping away from women. Every day, he devoutly worships the statue enshrined by his sect.
One day, a goddess walked out of the statue. This goddess kept pestering him and insisted on taking him as her kept man.
Lu Xi sighed deeply. He would never fall for it.
After all, he had accidentally acquired the Heavenly Dao's memories.
In the Heavenly Dao's memories,
Yan Sheng was an empty shell who couldn't love anyone and only knew how to use people.
But as he spent time with her, he realized that the woman in this life was different.
He began to waver, to doubt, and even to entertain a dangerous, audacious thought:
"Could she perhaps like me too?"
Not long afterward, Lu Xi and Yan Sheng became the model couple everyone envied.
*
Lu Xi thought he had made it through the darkness and finally seen the moon.
The next day, the goddess summoned him and coldly said just one thing:
"You're no longer useful to me. Go collect your breakup money and get lost."
Lu Xi: ???
[Author's Notes]:
1. This idea grew out of my first story. The broad setting is the same and the leads have the same names, but the story and supporting characters are completely different.
2. The title "Consort Duan" means someone who always carries herself with dignity and style.
(Here's a preview of another story: The Disgraced Chancellor's Widow's Survival Guide: A corrupt chancellor who held power over the court dies. Before his widow, Pei Roujia, can even change out of her mourning clothes, she learns a piece of devastating news: to appease public anger, the Taoist emperor intends to exile her entire family. To save them, Pei Roujia turns his own weapons against him and carefully weaves a deception. But now that her lie has reached the emperor's ears, can she escape unscathed?)
Theme: She wants it, she gets it.
