The Years I Was a Savior

[This contracted work is still too rough, updates will be irregular]

[Carefree, love-struck male lead x resilient, determined-to-save-the-world, coming-of-age female lead]

Chang Li has three regrets in this life.

First, she couldn't protect her adoptive mother. From then on, she was like a broken reed adrift on the water, with no home to return to.

Second, she failed to save her closest friend and watched her die right before her eyes.

Third, she mistook an enemy for a friend and nearly brought about a catastrophe.

At six, Chang Li could knock Yan Chengfeng's sword away with nothing but a tree branch, then make faces at him and hide in her mother's arms to beg for affection.

At nineteen, Yan Chengfeng had become a renowned young genius across the Nine Provinces, while Chang Li, born without spiritual power, was being hunted.

By the day they met again, neither of them was the same as they had been in their youth.

"I don't believe in gods or Buddhas, and I don't cultivate for a next life. I only ask for this life."

Kneeling in the rain with blood covering her hands, Chang Li suddenly understood what it meant to save the world. She climbed the heavenly ladder and changed fate. When people asked what she wished for, Chang Li always gave the same answer.

"I want to change the future of this land."

No matter what she said or did, one person was always quietly by her side.

Sitting on the eaves on a summer night, Chang Li felt the warm breeze on her face. After drinking a cup of Thousand-Day Drunk, she asked the question she had always kept hidden in her heart.

"Why did you save me back then?"

Shao Hui tossed her a fortune stick. "Our good match was destined long ago, and we were made for each other. That day, I drew the best love fortune."

He had seen her at her most wretched, and he had seen the joy on her face after she shot her enemy dead and finally avenged herself.

He loved the mole on her earlobe, loved her tearful sobs and radiant smiles, loved her determination as she climbed the heavenly ladder one step and one bow at a time, loved her great ambition to save all living beings despite all the hardships, and most of all, loved the tenderness she hid beneath her cold exterior.

Theme: Only when the world is in turmoil do true heroes reveal themselves