Zhu Xiao descends to the mortal realm to investigate a case, only to have a grass spirit latch onto him.
She smiles sweetly and wants to share a little romance with him.
Zhu Xiao upholds the law. Romance is beyond him, but he’s very good at being cold and ruthless. The grass spirit’s first attempt at seduction nearly costs her her life. The second gets her thrown out. She tries again a third time, and just as she’s about to succeed, the audacious little grass spirit suddenly backs down.
When her escape fails, he grips her face to stop her from turning away. His voice is husky. “What are you hiding from? Isn’t this what you wanted?”
*
Jiang Wei’s first half of life was, to put it mildly, eventful.
She burst onto the scene as a gifted imperial princess and shone brighter than anyone else in Yujing, a city where gold seemed to lie everywhere. Yet she always ended up losing to Zhu Xiao.
He came from a powerful family and was arrogant by nature. He showed others a modicum of courtesy, but toward her, he was openly malicious and never forgave a slight.
They went from fighting as fellow disciples to battling after ascending, from brawling in the upper realm to fighting in the lower realm. All the immortals lamented that their old grudge would never be settled, and that one of them would have to die.
Their words proved prophetic.
The once-beloved daughter of Heaven fell to demonic cultivation overnight. Beneath the royal city, he personally ran her through with his sword, destroying the last remnant of her soul.
But she didn’t die.
When she opened her eyes again, she discovered she had become... a blade of grass?
*
A hundred years later, the grass spirit Jiang Wei meets her old nemesis again. She resolves to give the man who once stabbed her to death a truly shocking surprise.
She’ll seduce him into a night of passion, increase her cultivation, reveal her true identity, and humiliate him thoroughly.
Jiang Wei’s fantasy:
Use him! Humiliate him! Ruin his plans, then kill him!
But in reality, she’s left weak-kneed by the time he’s done with her. Before she can even process what happened, there’s a jade ring on her finger.
He brushes aside her sweat-damp hair and bends down to kiss the tip of her nose.
“I’ve given you everything. Be good.”
Staring at the heirloom ring from his family, Jiang Wei is speechless...
Wait, what?!
#Tragic Beauty, Theatrical Demoness x Love-Struck, Scheming Obsessive#
[Reader’s Guide]
· Nemeses reveal their identities, told chronologically but with lots of flashbacks
· The heroine makes the first move but doesn’t realize her feelings; the hero is utterly devoted, in both lifetimes!
· Older man with a strict hand over his wife, a little pursuit of the husband, slow burn
Theme: Life’s long regrets flow east like the river.
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